I’ve been guilty linking to Twitter posts from bands as a source of news, which it can be considered, but it gets old seeing it as the sole source of data being “reported”. The reason? Frankly, anyone can follow these artists and labels making these announcements. For the sake of providing an answer to something that wasn’t a question, I’ve put together some Twitter lists which will help you follow bands that get talked about here so everyone can be on the same page.

Twitter Lists

• Bands/Artists
• Interesting music related people

Frankly music news can get pretty boring, not to mention an overload which is why I can’t keep up with it all and won’t try. If you have bands that should be added to our Twitter lists, leave them in the comments and I’ll add them.

This story of Justin Bieber [some teen pop artist] not Twittering and thus landing the Def Jam label VP in jail was too interesting not to post.

An album signing scheduled Friday for teen sensation Justin Bieber at Roosevelt Field mall was canceled because a crowd of 3,000 young girls and their parents started aggressively pushing and shoving, police said.

“We asked for his help in getting the crowd to go away by sending out a Twitter message,” Smith said. “By not cooperating with us we feel he put lives in danger and the public at risk.”

Police arrested a senior vice president from Bieber’s label, Island Def Jam Records, James A. Roppo, 44, of Hoboken, N.J., saying he hindered their crowd-control efforts by not cooperating.

He was in custody Friday night, pending charges that could include criminal nuisance, endangering the welfare of a minor and obstructing government administration, Smith said.

There’s a lot you could say about this, but in the end, “Seriously?”

Source: Newsday

There are a lot of places to find out what is going on with your favorites bands on the internet but what are some of the good ones? We’ll let you in on some the secret and not so secret places around the web. This time around we’re focusing on actual music news and not so much new music, reviews, or downloadable content.

5) Digg.com/Music

Digg, as a source for music news tends to be very mainstream in nature with the not so news items like stupid “top 5″ lists thrown in for good measure. This is a good place to get an overview of what is going on as well as a lot of stuff dealing with the DRM and industry side.

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Randomly I came across Volcano!, a band that was following us on twitter at twitter.com/thealbumproject. Now this may seem like an advertisement to follow us and it very well may be that but it is also about Volcano! who are a rough mix between Ted Leo and Bloc Party, weird combination, I know. Give the band a listen and leave your comments below.

Song to start with: “Africa Just Wants To Have Fun”

According to Trevor’s recent Twitter, he is in the studio recording the new FM Static album. There had been an announcement prior stating that it would be happening but it looks as if it is currently underway.

Do you use Twitter yet? If so, you can follow The Album Project at twitter.com/thealbumproject. With Twitter you can follow bands, people, and sites to see new updates on what they’re doing. We update it with new posts from the site and occasionally new music we’re listening to.

We have updated our Muxtape which contains a lot of good music for you to sample and find new artists. We’ve also updated our Virb page.

Follow us on Twitter and get updates about when new review are posted.

You can check out this hilarious video about packing a trailer from Mute Math. The band is also recording their new album and have a studio tour video as well.

Prediction: Best album of 2008 (or whatever year it gets released)

Have you heard of the instant messaging program, “Twitter”? Well this will let you keep in contact with friends or, in this case, get updates from The Album Project. When we post new reviews we’ll post a Twitter message letting you know something new is up.

If you already have an account go ahead and follow us at twitter.com/thealbumproject