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Can Tokens Usher In A New Era of Price Flexibility for Artists?
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HypeBot
Could bitcoin and tokens be way for artists to better control the sales of their work? In this piece, Adam Levine, Founder & CEO at Tokenly, explains that embracing new technology can help artists forge deeper connections with fans and make money based on what they think their work is worth. By Adam Levine, Founder & CEO of Tokenly Throughout the history of recorded music, the cost purchasing songs has remained remarkably inflexible. The cost of vinyl records, cassettes, and CDs ...
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5X Grammy Winner Calls YouTube "Criminal Racketeers" In Open Letter To "Pushers Of Piracy"
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HypeBot
In an “Open Letter to YouTube, 'Pushers' of Piracy" composer, bandleader and five-time Grammy winner Maria Schneider leaves no stone unthrown as she goes after Google and its YouTube subsidiary: "...for the vast majority of the artistic community, including me, and every musician I know (and I know thousands), YouTube is a resounding disaster." Here is the full text of the open letter first published on Chris Castle's Music • Technology • Policy: Open Letter to YouTube, “Pushers” of Piracy By ...
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Ushering In Virtual Reality 2.0: Why The Music Industry Must Work Together In 2016
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HypeBot
Here Todd J. Alexander discusses the challenges of implementing new technologies like Blockchain and, in particular, VR, and the need for those operating within the music economy to work together to develop a foundation on which to build these technologies in the coming years. Guest Post by Todd J. Alexander on Medium In early 2015 I attended an academia discussion at the University of Colorado Law Center that was arranged by the US Copyright Register, Maria Pallante, and Silicon Flatirons. Everyone ...
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Music Industry Leadership 101 is Latest Educational Initiative from Usher's New Look
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HypeBot
This week Usher's New Look nonprofit officially announced their new “Music Industry Leadership 101" program for high school students. It's currently being piloted in a number of schools. Recent news coverage gives a nice sense of how the program will both introduce kids to career paths in the music industry and connect what they're learning to finding one's passion and building a career plan around that passion whether or not it's in music. Usher's New Look, a non-profit founded by ...
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Golub’s "Pusherman" Goes No. 1
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Great Scott P.R.oductions
First single from the soul-jazz guitarist’s “Train Keeps A Rolling” album tops the Billboard chart. New York, NY: If “It ain’t no. 1 until it is no. 1 in Billboard,” guitarist Jeff Golub can justifiably claim to have a no. 1 single with his ripping retelling of the gritty Curtis Mayfield street chronicle, “Pusherman.” The first single from Golub’s newly released “Train Keeps A Rolling,” which he recorded with jazz-rock keyboard pioneer Brian Auger,” “Pusherman” pulls into the no. 1 ...
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Terry Adams Ushers in New Era of NRBQ with New CD, 'Keep This Love Goin''
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conqueroo
“NRBQ is a living, breathing, ongoing sound," says Adams as he begins historic band's next chapter. NEW YORK, N.Y.—Terry Adams, visionary, driving force, and “untamed genius of the keyboards" for the great American band NRBQ since its inception more than 40 years ago, resumes his life's work with the release of a new studio album, Keep This Love Goin' by NRBQ, due out July 19, 2011. Recorded with the band he formed in 2007—Scott Ligon on guitar and vocals, Pete ...
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Avatar Soundtrack Ushers in Return of New Age Music!
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Michael Ricci
It used to be the stuff of the '60s and '70s. A magical mystery tour express, where rock stars and alternate religion advocates converged on the same track New Age Music. Free flowing, free form melodies inspiring introspection and what was called Universal Awareness. If you thought this trend went underground, you'd be right. But underground didn't mean gone. The original proponents merely entered conventional society: Cutting their hair, getting jobs, marrying and starting families. But throughout it all, their ...
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Mike DiRubbo Quartet Live Ushers in HD Live Concerts.com
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Two for the Show Media
Mike DiRubbo and his Quartet will be performing at The Kitano in New York City on September 25th and 26th, 2009. This concert is being featured on a brand new Web Site Concert experience called HDLiveConcerts.com. HD Live Concerts ("HDLC") was established to bring consumers the thrilling experience of watching their favorite performers’ live concerts when they can’t be there in person. HDLC events are professionally produced using the latest audio/visual technology and broadcast in stunning, high definition, high quality ...
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digimusicbids.com Ushers in Music Industry First Online Marketplace
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Just Roots PR
DigiMusicBids.com, the music industries first online marketplace and auction site, now gives independent musicians and music industry professionals these same benefits and opportunities to purchase high-quality goods, plus professional services, such as music lessons and studio time.
Additionally, DigiMusicBids.com’s robust platform helps musicians and industry professionals connect, network and collaborate to advance the careers of independent musicians, producers and labels, and help them effectively compete with major corporations.
In recent years, many musicians and music industry professionals have utilized sites ...
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Jazz St. Louis Seeks Part-Time Employee, Volunteer Ushers for Jazz at the Bistro
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Via this week's email newsletter, there's word that Jazz St. Louis is hiring a part-time Guest Relations Assistant for Jazz at the Bistro. The job will require 5 to 10 hours per week on evenings when there are performances at the Bistro. Interested applicants should email a cover letter and resume to operations director Bob Bennett at [email protected] also is looking for volunteer ushers to work at the Bistro. These volunteers help seat guests before and during shows, ...
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