SonicLiving Announces License Agreement With Pandora

Posted by on March 31, 2009

SONICLIVING ANNOUNCES LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH PANDORA
SonicLiving to Provide Personalized Concert Listings for Pandora Listeners’ Favorite Music Artists

EMERYVILLE, Calif. – March 31, 2009 – SonicLiving, the Internet’s leading concert discovery service, today announced a licensing agreement with Pandora, the Internet radio service, that will bring SonicLiving’s personalized concert calendars to each of Pandora’s 20 million-plus registered listeners. SonicLiving is the only service of its kind to integrate with Pandora.

SonicLiving (sonicliving.com) connects music fans online and in-person through communities created around the live shows their favorite bands play. Users can purchase concert tickets as well as connect and communicate with friends and other members of the SonicLiving community. The powerful SonicLiving API provides Pandora (pandora.com) listeners with localized alerts about upcoming live performances that match the artists they’ve identified in their favorite Pandora radio stations, have given a “Thumbs Up” to or bookmarked. In addition to Pandora, SonicLiving works seamlessly with several other platforms and as a standalone service.

“This agreement confirms SonicLiving’s place as the Internet’s leading concert discovery service,” says Gabe Benveniste, president, CEO and founder of SonicLiving, Inc. “Users will find SonicLiving to be a useful feature that complements and enhances their Pandora experience.”

“Pandora is dedicated to providing the best music experience possible, whether recorded or live, which is why we’ve chosen SonicLiving to power our concerts mini-site,” says Tom Conrad, chief technical officer for Pandora.  “SonicLiving has made it much easier for our listeners to find out where and when their favorite bands are playing.”

SonicLiving’s API, which powers Pandora’s concert calendar, is available for commercial and non-commercial use. To find local concerts matching Pandora stations and bookmarks, users can go to www.pandora.com and follow the concerts link, or www.sonicliving.com for more information.

SonicLiving, founded by former Pixar Animation Studios employee Gabe Benveniste in 2006, was started to provide music lovers with a better way of finding out in advance when their favorite artists were touring, a convenient way to purchase tickets to those shows, and a place to meet up with friends attending those shows. SonicLiving has quickly become an indispensable resource for live music nationwide, providing music fans with a unique online destination that offers locally tailored listings, access to tickets and a community comprised of users’ friends and other concertgoers.

About SonicLiving

SonicLiving is the Internet’s leading concert discovery service, connecting music fans online and in-person through communities created around live shows of their favorite bands. Through the SonicLiving Wishlist, which seamlessly integrates with iTunes, Pandora, Facebook, Last.fm, and Lala, fans can track bands, receive automatic concert alerts and purchase tickets to shows when they’re announced.

The SonicLiving API enables music sites and other online services to bring the live music discovery experience to their users. SonicLiving also offers musicians, music labels and promoters the ability to reach fans through special promotions, presales and packages, resulting in increased visibility and ticket sales. SonicLiving derives revenue through ticket sales, on-site advertising and partnerships.

SonicLiving was founded in 2006 by Gabe Benveniste, formerly of Pixar Animation Studios, and is headquartered in Emeryville, California, and on the Internet at www.sonicliving.com

 

 

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BSG: Starbuck.

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Posted by on March 29, 2009

When BSG began, i fell for starbuck as a femme superhero but needed the entire story to pan out before i declared the distinction. Lo and behold, with the finale of BSG: I have a new femme superhero.

I’ll try to be brief with this one….

A scene i can’t shake from the BSG finale is the one to which i feel the most connection. I think about this scene daily. I write about it in my diary. I actually did re-watch the scene and jot it down word for word, as it was nowhere to be found on any of the wiki quote databases. Without knowing why other bloggers and reviewers aren’t honing in on this scene, i can only imagine that we all connect to different stories. Maybe life is just this simple and this is mine. A toast to Starbuck, one of our new modern femme superheroes. the beautiful, strong and lonely swan song Kara Thrace, fierce enough in the end to remain true to the core of her being. Fearless enough to stay true to herself, to know who she was, to embrace challenge and stay true to her core. I will remember. I never forgot. Focusing on the what of Kara Thrace is the wrong angle. I suggest focusing on the how, who and why – I have found solace in my passion for her character. I am inspired by Kara Thrace as i am Beatrix Kiddo. Staying true to one’s self is not the popular path, but we carve our best futures by knowing who we are and honoring our core selves, even if lonely, challenging and painful. Starbuck’s jungian plight is the balance of light and dark.

I would rather be whole than good.

I am not afraid of who i am. I am not afraid of being alone. I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of disappearing. I am the breakfast club incarnate. I am the girl who makes snow from dandruff. Don’t you forget about me. As you walk on by. Will you call my name?

And thus, the scene from BSG which resonates with me more than any other moment in the entire finale:

LEE ADAMA: “youre tempting fate”
KARA THRACE: if i have a fate then it is set. and thinkin about it isn’t gonna make it happen any faster
LA: “flying when you’re thinking about dying isn’t a great way of doing business. you’re gonna get scared, you’re gonna start second guessing yourself”
KT: i’m not scared
LA: “BUT…you said you think about dying everytime you get into a cockpit”
KT: uh huh
LA: “welll…hello…”
KT: it doesn’t scare me Lee, that’s what you don’t get.
LA: “what, so it’s Kara Thrace: fearless warrior …right?”
KT: No. I know fear. And i get scared, just not in that way
LA: “so what does scare you?”

KT:
(pours drink)
(apologizes for pouring drink)

…being forgotten.



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ComeTogetherRightNowOverMe

Posted by on March 2, 2009


Visit SXSW ’09 Insider’s Guide

carpools, restaurant picks, music picks, film picks, panel picks, online chat, photos, video & sxsw. uh huh.

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microblogposting and pimping together at last

Posted by on March 1, 2009

::begin self pimping session::

Today I’m working my ass off. Pumping out four new proposals before midnight and catching up on a ridiculous amount of work. Harnessing a new level of productivity.  And so in my journal of “to do lists” i assigned myself a quick blog post.

To Do: list current projects in a blog post.
To Do: pimp self out on blog for speaking engagements
To Do: write a real microblog – something longer than 140 characters but shorter than a Mashable post

So here it is.
My narcissistic microblogpost: what i’m working on, some clients, speaking engagements etc…in no particular order b/c they are all badass.

conferences/ lectures

  • Stanford University February, 2009
  • Noise Pop Industry Noise February 2009
  • SxSW interactive March 2009

If you have any questions about any of these projects, or speaking engagements please contact me at coreydenis[at]gmail[dot]com.
::end self pimping session::

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