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The Streaming Maturation Effect: What It Means For The Music Industry
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HypeBot
What do Netflix and music subscriptions have in common? They both experienced slowing growth in 2014 in the US. Subscriptions are the monetization focal point of streaming but there have long been signs that the market opportunity is far short of the mainstream. Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog Reports suggest that Spotify may (finally) be about to launch video, as a means of differentiating in an increasingly competitive marketplace that is about to get a whole lot more ...
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YouTube's Ultimatum and the Economic Survival of Musicians
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HypeBot
By copyright and intellectual property attorney Wallace E. J. Collins III, Esq.. YouTube announced that in a matter of days it may begin blocking the videos of some independent record label artists who have refused to sign licensing terms for the platform’s new service. Moreover, indie labels and other content creators who do not sign up to the paid tier will be kicked out of YouTube's ad-supported monetization scheme. In other words, YouTube will no longer pay unless you accept ...
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Brian Culbertson's Napa Valley Jazz Getaway Maturing Into A Stellar Vintage
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
Single-day tickets go on sale as the festival partners with Bay Area radio station KBLX-FM Los Angeles, CA: Eager wine and jazz enthusiasts voraciously scooped up all the multiday VIP and Silver ticket packages for the second edition of Brian Culbertson’s Napa Valley Jazz Getaway, the flourishing festival slated for June 5-9, 2013 in Napa, CA, but single-event tickets are now on sale for concerts featuring a luminous lineup of performers. San Francisco Bay Area’s R&B 102.9 FM KBLX has ...
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K'Jon's Soul is Back, and It's Mature
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Michael Ricci
No signifier of sincerity is left unexplored in the fantasy of domesticity that is K’Jon’s “This Time”: soft, pensive piano; light, Spanish-inflected guitar; muted horns; pliant strings; and, at the song’s end, a children’s choir.
“Last night tried to get some snooze/Dreamed we was breaking up, we were through,” he sings. “When I looked around you was gone/Found that a house is really not a home/When you’re alone.”
“This Time” is the second single from K’Jon’s major-label debut, “I Get ...
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Guitarist Clay Ross Celebrates His New Release "Matuto" at Joe's Pub on August 25
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DL Media
Guitarist, Vocalist, and Composer Clay Ross Celebrates the Release of His Forthcoming Album Matuto With an Evening of Brazilian Carnival Meets Appalachia at Joe's Pub on August 25“Clay Ross thinks like a poet, writes like a novelist, and plays the guitar like a master." - JambaseMatuto (ma-two-toe) is Brazilian slang for country bumpkin. Imagine the sound of a Brazilian Carnaval in the Appalachian Mountains. A sound where exotic percussion instruments rumble beneath blues drenched vocals, Telecaster ...
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Esperanza Spalding Charismatic and Soulful Maturing Star of Jazz
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Michael Ricci
Esperanza Spalding carried herself like a worldbeater at Central Park SummerStage on Sunday afternoon, and resistance was largely futile.
In her ebullient singing and her agile bass playing, Ms. Spalding radiated a cyclone-force charisma, along with the fresh-faced self-conviction that only precocity can bestow. But the hourlong show was more than a reminder of her talent. It was heartening confirmation of her recent growth: as an artist, a bandleader, a vocalist and a star attraction, if not always in that ...
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A Mature Salsa from Victor Manuelle
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Michael Ricci
A Mature Kind of Salsa, More Tender Than Tough If Victor Manuelle wanted to get half the crowd at Central Park SummerStage whooping on Sunday afternoon, he need only have performed the tiniest of gyrations with his hips. If he wanted both halves to make a ruckus, he need only have waved a Puerto Rican flag. For weeks before, the show had been plugged on the New York Latin radio station La Kalle 105.9 -- “Completamente gratis!" the commercials screamed. ...
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Belinda Underwood: Portland Based Composer, Bassist and Vocalist Displays Depth and Maturity beyond Her Years
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All About Jazz
One of LA's most captivating Brazilian trios will join Portland-based jazz Vocalist, Bassist and Composer, Belinda Underwood for a night of enchantment. The nubile songstress has been wowing audiences across the nation with her vocal maturity and seemingly effortless scatting. Often described as “sultry," seductive," and “charming," Underwood's voice transports the listener through various story lines. The stories are impeccably crafted original compositions, and skillfully interpretive renditions of the classic standards. You will be convinced by her blend of precision ...
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