Tom Petty in web partnership with Chicago Tribune Co.
***6/14: "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, whose first album since 2002's "The Last DJ" is due out this week, have gone into business with Chicago Tribune parent Tribune Co. on an Internet venture.
Visitors to the new site can play a trivia game and register for a chance to win a trip to Los Angeles and front-row seats for the band's Oct. 1 show at the Hollywood Bowl. A download of the band's new album comes with purchase of tickets for the "Mojo" tour. Ticket buyers will also will get eight live tracks recorded during the tour....
- A new Web hub, in partnership with TomPetty.com, will link off Tribune Co. Web sites -- including the Chicago Tribune's -- to provide access to aggregated and unique content; music videos and tracks from the new release, "Mojo." In select markets, it also will offer access to concert tickets and merchandise from the "Mojo" tour, which began June 1 near Denver.
- "As MTV has faded and FM radio has become more and more musically limited, there’s no clear promotional vehicle for musical artists of this stature," Lee Abrams, a longtime radio consultant who's now Tribune Co.'s chief innovation officer, said in a statement. "We think we can offer a new and different way for the greats of the music industry to connect with their fans."
- The arrangement with Tribune Co. is notable at least in part because Petty has long been circumspect when it comes to commerce and his music. As the Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot
- noted in 2007, "He has never allowed one of his songs to appear in an advertisement (and) has refused to tour with corporate sponsors."
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