Developer friends! Check out this sweet contest!

HackLolla 2012 – Lollapalooza is challenging software developers to create cool festival apps that help music fans get the most out of the Lollapalooza experience. The Best Overall App and the Popular Choice App will each receive 2 VIP passes to Lollapalooza plus promotional exposure. The Best Overall App will also receive flight & 4-night hotel stay for two, and designation as The Official Fan App for Lollapalooza 2012. Submission deadline: June 25.

Register to enter: http://hacklolla.com

I had a great time chatting with John Luchetti from the Blog “Backstage Business”.

Check it out here when you get a chance!

http://backstagebiz.com/2012/05/music-tech-and-marketing-with-todd-tate/

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Where are you going to be during SXSW Music? I may be at these places below, or not! I do know I will be at my clinic that I am putting on:

Social Media Best Practices for Musicians (Twitter)
Thursday, March 15
1:30PM – 2:30PM
Austin Convention Center
Artist Central in Ballroom E

Check this link for more info:

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_MP990441

I wrote the music and the lyrics for this tune and really enjoyed playing with this singer and bass player. He wrote most of the songs for this group. I totally forgot his name! He was/is a really funky dude! He was really into Level 42 and Steely Dan. The keyboardist was named Marshall and was/is pretty damn good in retrospect. I used to yell at him when he did solos. I’d say “more fire more fire boy!”. I was kinda mean; sorry dude! He had a sweet Rhodes Piano. I wanted to be exceptional. That’s what I have always striven for in my music; otherwise why do it? The drummer is a dude name Chris and was always a steady-freddy groove and really mellow.

I think I am playing a beat-to-hell 67′ Telecaster with a humbucker pickup in the lead position through a
Marshall 50-watt 2-12″ speaker Combo. Still kick myself for selling that guitar.

Enjoy, please excuse the 10 seconds of silence in beginning:

Sit in on my vibe girl and take a look inside
Deep inside
You will see the colors the colors of my love
Oh my love

Colors oh colors
Colors of my love
Colors oh colors
Colors of my love

Yellow is a friend and now this will will never end I said
Yes a flower
Blue I’d be blue oh life without you
Counting the hours

Colors oh colors
Colors of my love
Colors oh colors
Colors of my love

Red in my head only me thinks of your lips
They’re so hip
Orange is thorn oh lover how you scorn me
Ya scorn me good

Colors oh colors
Colors of my love
Colors oh colors
Colors of my love

Love

Sit in on my vibe girl and take a look inside
Deep inside
You will see the colors the colors of my love
Oh my love

Colors oh colors
Colors of my love
Colors oh colors
Colors of my love

I’ve always led a double life of music and technology which serves my clients well. On the music side, I co-owned and operated San Francisco’s Blue Room Studios and served as an audio engineer for countless CDs including a Grammy-nominated Latin jazz release, assisted in the production of a double platinum album, and served as a guitarist, keyboardist and singer for various bands.

On the technology side, I served as co-founder and Chief Operating Officer for Angry Coffee.com, which launched the first publicly-available web-based interface to Napster and Napster-like networks just as the Internet emerged as a musical force. We made the front page of the Wall Street Journal due to how dangerously close we came to developing a “Napster-killing application” in close conjunction with an EMI executive.

Today I am able to bring my technology, business and music experience to my clients and other professionals as both consultant and industry expert, including but not limited to, serving as Community Architect for The SF MusicTech Summit, where I’ve also facilitated a panel.

I enjoy keeping up to speed on the latest and greatest ways for musicians, bands and brands to implement a strategy of communication via the Web, Facebook and Twitter, which enables fans to find, listen, share, buy, and engage the artists’ music via the Web or live in local venues. WordPress is my platform of choice to support a maximum-impact Web presence. My clients include bands and brands seeking visually exciting and effective Websites, incorporating permission-based marketing which drives calls to action and tangible, commercial results. Please do not hesitate to contact me today.

Until then, my goals as a business development professional are to connect Web music technology developers and founders with the appropriate business relationships to help their companies thrive.

Please continue on to my LinkedIn Profile to take a look at my qualifications.

I am always open to joining new or existing companies as a team member or advisor. Please feel free to reach out to me.

The start-up is immortalized on Wikipedia and reads as follows:

Angry Coffee, led by Adam Vincent Powell, Todd Tate and CTO Jeff Burchell, deployed the first publicly available web interface to P2P networks when they launched Percolator in June of 2000. When Napster denied Angry Coffee users access to their database, the story appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal.

On June 27, 2000 Angry Coffee made this statement: “Napster has shut us out of their network. We think it’s lame that a company that built its business through unauthorized distribution would consider Percolator to be an unauthorized use of their resources, but they’re entitled to their opinion.”

Soon after this event Angry Coffee went on to assist EMI and Capitol Records with the marketing and promotion of internationally famed band Radiohead, with the release of Kid A in 2000.