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Tunecore Founders Jeff Price and Peter Wells Launch Audiam to Help Artists Make $'s on YouTube
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HypeBot
TuneCore co-founders Jeff Price and Peter Wells today launched Audium, an online service that helps D.I.Y. artists make money on YouTube. Many indie artists don't have time, skills or the YouTube plays to collect payments. Audium helps those artists make money. For labels, the startup provides a way to monetize fan cover versions. Price and Wells each exited TuneCore more than a year ago. And to date, the popular flat fee digital distributor has not offered a justification for their ...
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Mary Wells: 'Something New'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
For nearly four years—from 1960 to mid-1964—Mary Wells was Motown's first female solo star. Her singing voice was strong and conversational—mysteriously effortless in its sing-talk delivery. Unlike most African-American R&B singers of the period, Wells wasn't a church belter or a teen in heat. Rather, she had a cooler, understated sound that combined doo-wop and girl-group sensibilities prevalent in the late '50s and early '60s. As you can hear on Mary Wells: Something New, 1961-1964 (Hip-O Select)—a new two-CD set ...
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Tunecore Co-Founder Peter Wells Speaks out on Jeff Price Exit and Company's Seismic Shift [exclusive]
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HypeBot
In May, co-founder Peter Wells exited TuneCore followed earlier this month by CEO and co-founder Jeff Price. Since then, the company has not named a successor, issued a statement or responded to inquires regarding these seismic changes to their executive team. For the first time, one of the co-founders, Peter Wells, speaks out in an exclusive Hypebot interview. HYPEBOT: You co-founded Tunecore in 2005 with Jeff Price. What was your position in the company when you left? PETER WELLS: I ...
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UMG Global Digital Chief Rob Wells Loves Spotify, Calls Pandora "Dumb" [video]
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HypeBot
On a new episode of This Week In Music, Ian Rogers interviews Rob Wells, Universal Music Group's President of Global Digital Business. Wells was an early champion of Spotify and streaming services: “its incremental revenue not cannibalistic revenue." He sees them able to monetize younger fans and create scale to generate significant revenue. “They provide an opportunity to monetize the 95% of music that is consumed without licenses." But Wells is strongly critical of Pandora: “It's a very dumb service...they ...
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Junior Wells, with Buddy Guy - Hoodoo Man Blues (1965, Reissue)
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Something Else!
For Junior Wells, there was just something about working with Buddy Guy. On Hoodoo Man Blues, a spark-filled mid-1960s Chicago blues album, Wells stops on more than one occasion, while letting loose these flying shards of harmonica blasts, to issue a pleased grunt. So very in the moment, his vocals start with an unguarded joy, a sexual power, then move all the way into open-hearted distortion. At the same time, Buddy Guy—called “Friendly Chap" (get it?) on the original back ...
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Bassist Jair-Rohm Parker Wells Summer 2011
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Jair-Rohm Wells
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is a bassist who knows no limits. From ground-breaking slap bass on pop hits to avant-garde electronica to Jazz and Blues. He literally covers all basses. Jair-Rohm rounded out last year with a new quartet release as well as a residency at the Lima Lima club in Pattaya, Thailand with other former members of the Dr. Alban touring band (of which he's been a member since the mid-nineties). This autumn, the bassist will host a series of ...
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Junior Wells and the Aces - Live in Boston 1966 (Delmark, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Harmonica ace and singer Junior Wells had recently recorded his classic blues LP Hoodoo Man Blueswhen this live set was recorded (possibly originally a bootleg or radio broadcast) featuring him with the crack band known as The Aces: Louis Myers on guitar, Dave Myers bass, and Fred Below on drums. These musicians were very familiar with each other and it shows throughout the performance, as they are tight as can be. Highlights of the album include “Man Downstairs" where they ...
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Junior Wells/Buddy Guy - Southside Blues Jam (1970)
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Something Else!
By Nick Deriso Several of Muddy Waters' great sidemen—Junior Wells, Buddy Guy and Otis Spann—appear on the loose and funky “Southside Blues Jam," originally issued by Chicago's Delmark Records. Funny, for all their marquee value, Wells and Guy—Buddy was born in Lettsworth, Louisiana—are very nearly overshadowed by the intricate, intelligent playing of the shoulda-been legendary Spann. In this, his last studio appearance, Spann's fecund blues genius is writ large. Even as Junior Wells (ever the showman) chicken-legs through each song—"I ...
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Wells Fargo Exec Used Malibu Colony Home Lost by Madoff-Duped Couple
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Michael Ricci
A top bank executive was seen spending weekends and hosting parties in the $12-million beach house. The bank says it will 'conduct a thorough investigation of the allegations' by neighbors.
The Malibu Colony home formerly owned by Lawrence and Linda Elins is a sleekly modern, 3,800-square-foot, two-story structure built in the early 1990s by clothing designer Nancy Heller. Its huge glass windows look out on a patio, deck and the Pacific. The home's value was recorded at $12 million when ...
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Jazz Singer Ronnie Wells Dies at Age 64
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All About Jazz
The Washington Post Jazz Singer Ronnie Wells-Elliston, 64 Friday, March 9, 2007; Page B07 Ronnie Wells-Elliston, 64, a versatile jazz balladeer and educator in the Washington area for more than three decades who co-founded the East Coast Jazz Festival in Montgomery County in 1992, died March 7 at Holy Cross Hospital. She had lung cancer. Mrs. Wells-Elliston formed the East Coast Jazz Festival with her husband, pianist Ron Elliston, in response to area schools' reducing or ...
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