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IROCKE has just confirmed that Tomorrowland 2013 set a world record with 16 million live stream viewers over 3 days. Tomorrowland 2014 just kicked off minutes ago with over 200k concurrent viewers. Welcome to a new era in live music.

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"What would you say" if you could watch tonight's #DMB show from virtually anywhere? Well you can! Yahoo! Live presents An Intimate Evening with Dave Matthews Band streaming LIVE in concert with Live Nation. #DMB2sets #DMBsummer #YahooLive #LiveNation #webcast #couchtour #DMBlive #music #tech

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Did you know Phish broke the record for live online viewership when they performed on the award-winning webcast series Live On Letterman at the world famous Ed Sullivan Theater in New York?

Now you know!

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After feeling the warmth from people on every corner of the planet from last year's streams, we wanted to give an even closer insight into what happens inside Space Ibiza when we take over every Thursday. As electronic music continues to develop around the world it becomes more important to invite people into its very core, where music, technology and ideas interplay to create unique and wonderful new worlds.

Richie Hawtin, creator and founder of ENTER.experience

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Boiler Room, the world’s leading underground music show, in partnership with SKYY Vodka, still has an amazing selection of artists from New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco coming to underground music lovers around the world.  http://bit.ly/1z2wHOV

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LA UMphreaks! Come out to Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach on Tuesday night for the first listen of the latest release from Umphrey’s McGee - Similar Skin.

Joel will be there to sign autographs, chat about the album, and suck down $1 tacos and $2 brews with you while you listen to the melt-your-face-rock-album releasing on Nothing Too Fancy Music, June 10.

Doors open at 5, listening starts at 8. CD’s for sale, $14 — see you there!

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By Kathy Savitt, Chief Marketing Officer

Yahoo will launch a new Live Nation channel on Yahoo Screen. Beginning this summer, Yahoo and Live Nation will begin producing the largest collection of U.S. concert live streams on the web: one live concert, every day, 365 days a year.

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You don’t know fuck about the music industry.

Lady Gaga said regarding her critics during her SXSW Keynote Speech

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TriCaster and 3Play allow us to bring the magic of SXSW to the world stage, far beyond Austin’s city limits, with relative ease and affordability. It’s the biggest thing we’ve done on the live webcasting side by a mile

Russ Hull, SXSW Pro Media.

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Icona Pop's live in-studio performance from B96 in Chicago is live streaming today at 1pm CT / 11am PT.  

Tune in: http://bit.ly/1hU0QaU

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"Purchasing music — no matter the form — can never compare to watching a musician create a sound and tell a story in real time,"

Rachel Black, director of NYC's Greenwich House Music School (GHMS) and veteran NYC concert producer

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We're stoked to partner with Team B3 & announce the 2014 edition of their B3SCI PRESENTS: SXSW Day Party in Austin, TX, kicking off SXSW Music on Wednesday, March 12th at Red Eyed Fly (located at Red River & 7th St) with a full day of live sets from the best/coolest/need to know emerging talent right now.

Austin not in the cards for you?  No sweat, got you covered too.   Tune into the live Hi-resolution Audio Stream powered by Spacebar and IROCKE for select live sets from the showcase.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/1fCv78W

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At this juncture in history, the music industry is like the Wild West; we’re all trying to figure out how to exist in a volatile new place that is constantly changing. Artists, label owners, producers, all of us have to look forward, not backward, and try to learn how to exist in a streaming world.

Ron Pope (independent musician, producer, songwriter, and label owner)

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Apple today announced the first iTunes Festival to be held in the US, featuring an amazing lineup of global superstars, running from March 11-15. Taking place at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, home of Austin City Limits, the iTunes Festival at SXSW will feature iTunes chart toppers including Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Pitbull, Keith Urban, ZEDD and more to come. All five nights of the iTunes Festival will be available to enjoy for free as a live and on-demand stream via the iTunes Store® on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC. Performances can also be seen in the iTunes Festival app on your iOS device or with Apple TV in stunning HD. 

For more info:  www.itunes.com/festival

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Our March issue featuring Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson of The Roots hits tablets and the web today, newsstands next week.

Check out this preview!

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Questlove drops some advice on how to find music that you love:

We did it one way in the past; now we have to figure out how to do it in the present, which, in so many ways, is the future. 

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Check out the latest issue of WIRED (wired) and "follow these geniuses to the Best Music on the Internet" --> http://wrd.cm/N7scOW

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