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Clear Channel Radio Has Efficiently Eliminated Your Position...
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Digital Music News
Ah, that authentic, local radio flavor, as only a highly-efficient programming restrategization can deliver. We're not sure exactly what the retooled strategy is, though we do know that Clear Channel Radio is now chopping hundreds of station positions, according to early estimates. “It looks like a huge rank-and-file chop across radio stations' personel," one source told Digital Music News on Wednesday. It seems like one of those dreary days, or weeks. “They simply told me that programming would be delivered ...
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Canadian band Clear builds bridge between folk, jazz, and rock
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Lauren Rogers
The recent buzz over Canada's indie music scene, taken to dizzying heights with the Grammy coup from the Arcade Fire, has neglected to shed light on the country's jazz offerings. Considering that jazz hasn't stirred the imagination of young music fans in decades, that isn't such a shock. However, Clear might be the band to build a bridge between the graying temples of the jazz crowd and the adventurous tastes of collegiate hipsters. A trio featuring vocalist Sue Johnson, guitarist ...
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Clear - Never Falling Again (2011)
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Something Else!
With Never Falling Again, Clear explores the devastation left behind as relationships end—yet somehow comes away with a collection of songs that's startlingly beautiful. That's no easy feat. But the Canadian band's deft blending of pop, folk and jazz styles ensure that no matter how dark the subject matter, this album never falls into lonely crepuscular clichés. Instead, Clear—led by singer Sue Johnson and guitarist Christian Patterson—are as empathetic as they are musically adventurous. Take the lithe pop number “Maybe ...
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The Echo Nest to Help Power Clear Channel's Pandora-Like iHeartRadio
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HypeBot
In what may be the music intelligence platform biggest deal to date, The Echo Nest today announced an agreement with Clear Channel Radio to help power their iHeartRadio digital music platform. Some in the industry believe that iHeartRadio—which allows listeners to build custom radio stations—is the biggest threat yet to slow or even reverse Pandora's meteoric rise. The Echo Nest platform maintains 5 billion data points on 30 million songs, including understanding of artist connections, song similarity, mood, style and ...
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Clear Channel Remains Ignorant of Pandora Appeal
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HypeBot
Pandora is the most well-known and loved online music brand. At a time when many services are struggling to gain recognition among listeners, Pandora has established itself as the Google of music, i.e. the easy-to-use, go-to place for personalized radio. Clear Channel, having recently acquired the subscription service Thumbplay, has since announced plans to compete with Pandora. Chairman Bob Pittman believes it can create a better product than Pandora. According to him, what makes radio better than Pandora is that it's “curated ...
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Why Clear Channel's Web Radio Will Fail
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HypeBot
Clear Channel has made it evident many times over the years that it's not in the business of music or news. No, it's in the business of consumer marketing. If Clear Channel's attempt at a web radio service can't sell the masses cars, beer, and fast food while still doing nothing to compete with its regular programing, it will fail. And that's the point, by design it should fail. If by chance it's wildly successful, Clear Channel will kill it off. ...
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Clear Channel Buys Thumbplay at Bargain Price
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HypeBot
Early Monday, news broke that subscription music service Thumbplay is getting sold. After less than one year in the sector, its burning money and in need of a lifesaver. Hypebot has since learned that Clear Channel Radio is buying Thumbplay at a bargain price. And no, it is not entering the subscription sector. Instead, the company is looking to leverage Thumbplay's technology and staff to build out its existing Web radio service, which places them in competition with Pandora. Clear ...
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Christopher Campbell, Sound the All-Clear
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
Composer Christopher Campbell and six other musicians do something on Sound the All Clear (Innova 750) that, while not being brand-spanking-new in concept, is done very musically and convincingly. They create 12 vignettes, some short, some in the ten-minute range, that use a variety of instruments to create a sound that incorporates world and home-made elements into an aesthetically vibrant whole. Alan Sondheim did something like this on several albums in the sixties and the DIY tradition continued with such ...
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Finally, Wireless Headphones with Clean, Clear Audio
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All About Jazz
Wireless headphones used to be perfect for head-bangers: The constant static and dropouts made you want to bang your head against the wall. But it's a different ballgame now, and cruising around the house sans wires doesn't have to cause any audio-induced migraines. Sennheiser's RS 180 is part of a new line of wireless headphones that use Kleer technology, a 2.4-GHz-band wireless system that transmits CD-quality audio over (reasonably) long distances without interference. The RS 180 setup is pretty simple: ...
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Is It Clear?
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The Augmented Ear by John Patten
The last few weeks' performances have been scrambled by the weather -- a special event planned by John Bianculli has been delayed, possibly until April, and the Jazz Celebration Big Band February show at the Temperence House in Newtown, Pa., was called off.And to top it off, the launch of a new jazz jam in Hopewell, led by Jim Popik was pushed back to this week. But get over the Hopewell Valley Inn, at 15 E. Broad St. ...
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