Those pranksters at Shoe Fest have done it again. Sure, some festivals can just announce their lineup. Shoe Fest hid the first 11 artists revealed for their Labor Day Festival in Manteno, IL via a Word Search puzzle.  What's more, the offered a free ticket to the first person to identify and tag all eleven...

Here's an interesting way to fill out your March Madness bracket.CBS Sports' Matt Norlander interviewed every coach in the field of 68 teams in the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament about their favorite band.The results teeter on the edge of enlightening and bizarre. A lot of Bruce Springsteen (or course), some Pearl Jam and one...

Who listens to online radio? If it's not you, take a look to your right or left... it's probably that guy.A new studyfrom Edison Research shows that 136 million Americans over the age of twelve have listened in the last week.Check out the growth from this chart that they published.Since I've never been...

We've spent considerable amount of time on this site sorting through performance statistics and band minutae and making sense of it all through visuals.So it's kind of nice when bands go ahead and do it themselves.Lotus just finished a 25 show winter tour and has used create-your-own-infographic service Infogram to summarizewhat went down.Nice...

One of these days, we'll put together our own statistical breakdown and visual analysis ofthe music of Joe Russo's Almost Dead, but for now there's some excellent work being published from an unlikely place. David Kay, a JRAD fan from Manchester UK, has packaged up some tidbits about the band's first 50 shows into a tidy...

I love Neil Young, but he really made a mess of things yesterday by taking to Facebook to complain about, of all things, streaming music. "Old Man", indeed. This is coming from the guy who recorded an album in a early 20th century phone booth.I don't deny artists the ability to take a...

Spotify takes a lot of heat from artists, competitors, even fans, these days. Mostly for lack of payouts... but in taking the long view, and from a consumer perspective, I've always been a defender.But perhaps a little chalk-talk could get others on board?In this under three-minute video, they deflate the myth of "Free...

It's June 1st, meaning it's the anniversary of the release of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.Yes, it's a great and important album.  But there's plenty of places you can read about that.How about this Hall Of Fame worthy Phish / Beatles photoshop job by Reddit user 555--FILK that...

Though nobody considers hit radio singles to be the most intelligent form of music, a recent study by Andrew Powell-Morse aims to show exactly how dumbed down the last decades chart-toppers can be.Powell-Morse formulaically analyzed the reading levels for 225 songs that spent at least three weeks atop Billboards Pop, Country, Rock and Hip-Hop song...

No surprise here... young people.This is a graph put together from a study conducted via a partnership between musicbiz.org andAudiencenet and their Audiomonitor research platform.We've always advocated on-demand streaming (e.g. Spotify) over "radio platforms" that are being measured here (Pandora, iHeartRadio, iTunes Radio), but it's clear that teens either see "curated"...