 RAIN 05/06: S.F. Music Tech event to feature SoundExchange webcaster panel ·May 6, 11:42 AM KURT HANSON WILL LEAD OFF SESSION WITH “STATE OF THE INDUSTRY”SoundExchange, the organization that administers digital sound recording performance royalties, is organizing a educational panel session geared towards webcasters for the San Fran Music Tech Summit event May 17th at San Francisco’s Hotel Kabuki.
RAIN publisher Kurt Hanson will begin the session with his “State of the Industry” presentation. Pandora founder Tim Westergren is the first confirmed panel speaker, with others to follow. SoundExchange will be represented by VP of New Media and External Affairs Bryan Calhoun (who participated in our RAIN Summit East last fall in Philadelphia) and Licensing & Enforcement Manager Kyle Funn (whose “pecha kucha” presentation at the recent RAIN Summit West can be seen here). The San Fran Music Tech Summit is a semi-annual gathering of “developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations” in the music and technology space. Read more about it and register here. “We definitely want it to be interactive and as useful as possible in addressing the concerns of licensees,” SoundExchange communications director Following the panel, SoundExchange will also host a more “informal and roundtable-ish” lunch meeting with webcasters at the Kabuki. [See Kurt deliver his “State of the Industry” speech at RAIN Summit North in March here and at RAIN Summit West last month here (videos hosted by RTTNews).] JACAPPS TO PRODUCE MOBILE APPS FOR ENTERCOMjacAPPS, the mobile application division of Jacobs Media, was chosen by Entercom to produce mobile apps for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices for 78 of its 110 stations. The first apps are scheduled to hit this month.
WEEI.com VP/GM and Entercom Digital Manager Tim Murphy commented, “The Jacobs Media family has had a long partnership with Entercom on the radio programming side of the business, so it made sense to continue the partnership in this exciting new way to get our brands into this emerging marketplace.” Entercom is the U.S.‘s fifth-largest radio broadcaster, with stations in 23 markets including San Francisco, Boston,
PEARL JAM, LEXUS OF VEGAS NOW HOSTING THEIR OWN NET STATIONSTo kick off the 2010 installment of their official Bootleg series, Pearl Jam have launched “Pearl Jam Radio,” an online stream of concert and studio recordings and interviews with fans. It’s available at PearlJam.com here.
Meanwhile, RFC Media has produced “Lexus Radio Driven by Lexus of Las Vegas. The Live365-hosted stream is available on the Lexus of Las Vegas website here. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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Full-concert soundboard recordings of shows from Pearl Jam’s 2010 world tour will be released as official bootlegs, beginning with four Philadelphia shows from October. Fans can buy the recordings on CD, lossless 
