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Heightened Awareness of Legal Sites Won't Steer Fans Away from Music Piracy [interview]
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Recently, I spoke with Joe Cox, who is an economist at of the University of Portsmouth. He recently published a paper titled Seeders, leechers and social norms: Evidence from the market for illicit digital downloading and proclaimed that file-sharers see themselves as the Robin Hoods of the digital age. In this interview, Cox talks about issues surrounding file-sharing and how fans value the MP3 format. Hypebot: Do you believe that the current music consumption system accurately reflects music fan behavior? ...
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Latin Jazz Conversations: Paquito D'Rivera (Part 4)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
When a musician moves into the mature stage of their artistic development, they carry a responsibility to themselves, their listeners, and the great musical community. After committing so many years of their lives to the art form, they need to make a significant statement that reflects their own personalities. At the same time, they need to show the world the musical possibilities inherent in unknown artists or young musicians. If they don't take these simple steps, the world will be ...
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An Interview with DFTBA Records Co-Founder Alan Lastufka on the Culture of Youtube
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This is part two of my interview with Alan Lastufka. He's co-founder of the digital label DFTBA Records with Hank Green and author of YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts. He's also a successful musician, graphic designer, and YouTuber, among many other things. After news broke that DFTBA Records had cleared $1 million in sales in two years, Hypebot got in touch with Lastufka. In this segment, he talks about the culture of YouTube and how it evolved. He also provides details on their contract ...
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Tony Bennett, San Francisco and Me
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
A week before Christmas I was in San Francisco to interview Orrin Keepnews for the Wall Street Journal. While I was there, I stayed overnight at the Fairmont, which has to be the city's most stately and grand hotel. Perched high atop Nob Hill overlooking the city and bay, the Fairmont opened in 1907 and has been restored to its original grandeur. Of all the hotels I've checked into in the U.S., the Fairmont ranks at the very top in ...
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Latin Jazz Conversations: Paquito D'Rivera (Part 3)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
An artist's drive to bring their musical vision to fruition can be a powerful force, often moving them to make drastic changes in their life. Early ventures into musical expression build an artistic foundation and focus their attention upon a single stylistic direction. Most environments allow an individual to make these strides towards a musical career, but at some point, an artist will reach a breaking point. Then they need to seriously look around them and find another route to ...
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How Oversaturation Hurts the Touring Industry
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In an interview with Subba-Culcha, Jim Root of Slipknot and Stone Sour got asked his opinion on the state of the music industry and the devaluation of recorded music. As someone who hasn't left the road in almost 11 years, Root knows all too well that touring is the only way to make money from music. He also foresees the ongoing and upcoming oversaturation of act on the road that will plague the concert business for years to come. Root ...
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An Interview with DFTBA Records Co-Founder Alan Lastufka on Running a Digital Music Label
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HypeBot
Recently, I spoke with Alan Lastufka, who is co-founder of the digital label DFTBA Records with Hank Green and author of YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts. He's also a successful musician, graphic designer, and YouTuber, among many other things. After news broke that DFTBA Records had cleared $1 million in sales in two years, Hypebot got in touch with Lastufka. In this interview, he defines what it means to be a full-time musician and why the artists ...
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Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Master
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
What makes Orrin Keepnews special? As I point out in my Wall Street Journal profile today here, the 87-year-old former Riverside Records producer is arguably responsible for some of jazz's greatest recordings. Through his vision and encouragement, Riverside recorded many of the finest jazz works by Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Wes Montgomery and so many others in the '50s and early '60s. Not to mention his work on his Milestone and Landmark labels in the years that followed. ...
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