In the recent past, bands who were anyone (and even those who are not anyone) needed to have a myspace page, a facebook group and a last.fm page. Well, lately there has been a new kid is on the block, and it’s now obvious that if you’re a band and you want to be cool, you need to be on Twitter.
Twitter is now all the rage or social networking (you can follow NoiseAddicts on twitter here) and a ton of bands are starting to market themselves, provide updates and talk to their fans by tweeting.
Here is a list of a few bands and musicians who are currently active on twitter. This list is obviously not meant to be complete, so please let us know what favorite musician of yours that we’ve missed.
- ?uestlove (The Roots)
- AC/DC
- Lily Allen
- Band of Horses
- Andrew Bird
- Bjork
- Bloc Party
- Bonde Do Role
- The Cardinals
- Nick Cave
- Coldplay
- Common
- Rivers Cuomo
- Dananananaykroyd
- Duke Special
- Snoop Dogg
- Funeral For A Friend
- Josh Haden
- Hadouken
- Calvin Harris
- Imogen Heap
- Hot Hot Heat
- Jimmy Eat World
- Dave Matthews
- Muse
- Oasis
- Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls)
- Pearl Jam
- Jack Penate
- Peter, Bjorn and John
- The Raconteurs
- Q-tip
- Jay Reatard
- Trent Reznor
- Soulwax
- Britney Spears
- Regina Spektor
- Guy Sebastiam
- Sonic Youth
- The Streets
- The Subways
- The Teenagers
- Tokyo Police Club
- Timbaland
- Tom Waits
- Lil Wayne
- Weezer
- Patrick Wilson
- The Wombats
Ingrid Michaelson is also on Twitter. Her tweets are usually pretty amusing.
Nightmare of You (band) – http://twitter.com/nightmareofyou
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