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TuneCore Paid $36 Million To Indie Musicians In First 3 Months Of 2015
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HypeBot
Earlier this month, Believe Digital acquired flat fee D.I.Y. digital music distributor TuneCore, in a move that reshuffled the indie music distribution deck. Today, Tunecore shared its most recent payouts to indie artists. TuneCore announced today that it paid $36 million to artists in the first three months of 2015. That's a a 5% increase versus the same three months last year. The earnings represent income from 2.8 billion downloads and streams. Since 2006, TuneCore Artists have earned over $541 ...
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Jazz Bridge Opens "Kwame Hall Fund" For Saxophonist With Brain Tumor
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Suzanne Cloud
Starting today, Jazz Bridge opens the tax-deductible “Kwame Hall Fund" for Kwame Hall, an alto saxophonist and composer born and raised in Philadelphia who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. Tomorrow is a big day for Hall. He'll undergo a 12-hour surgical intervention at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania for a condition only diagnosed two months ago when he started having hearing and balance problems. Son of drummer George Hall, young Kwame studied piano at the Settlement Music ...
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24 Jazz Heroes in 22 cities Announced by Jazz Journalists Association
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All About Jazz
Educators, Presenters, Philanthropists, Fans, Players, Poet and Dentist Hailed as Activists, Advocates, Altruists, Aiders and Abettors of Jazz Honored New York, NY: Two dozen “JazzHeroes"—activists of positive influence on their musical communities—have been announced today by the Jazz Journalists Association, a non-profit organization of media professionals, in collaborations with grassroots organizations andsupporters in 22 U.S. cities, launching JazzApril, the annual campaign celebrating local music people and scenes during Jazz Appreciation Month, culminating in International Jazz Day. The Jazz Heroes are ...
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Jazz Appreciation Month 2015
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
April 2015 is the twelfth observance of National Jazz Appreciation Month. Founded at the Smithsonian Institution in 2002 by the jazz scholar, Duke Ellington biographer and musician John Edward Haase, the celebration is intended, in the words of Quincy Jones, to “…recognize that our indigenous music—jazz—is the heart and soul of all popular music, and that we cannot afford to let its legacy slip into obscurity.” Jones’s quote is on this page of the National Endowment for the Humanities website, ...
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Promise Of Digital Royalties For Producers, Mixers, And Engineers In New House Bill
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The Allocation for Music Producer Act (AMP) will be presented to Congress this week with bipartisan support. The bill aims to redistribute digital royalties in a way that fairly compensates producers, mixers, and engineers. Previously left to their own devices when negotiating their fair share of digital royalty payouts, producers, engineers, and mixers would have a statutory right to receive royalties managed through SoundExchange under the AMP Act. The new bill will be formally introduced to Congress with representation from ...
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FCC Votes 3-2 To Approve New Net Neutrality Rules, Music Industry Applauds
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HypeBot
In a contentious meeting yesterday morning, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to adopt new Net Neutrality rules, preserving a fair and open internet. If you're still wondering what net neutrality means and how this effects you, you're not alone. NPR's Elise Hu provided a bit of clarity in layman's terms: "Net Neutrality is the concept that your Internet provider should be a neutral gateway to everything on the Internet, not a gatekeeper deciding to load some sites slower than others or impose ...
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Musicians Rally Behind FCC Chairman In Advance Of Net Neutrality Vote
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Musicians and creative cultural contributors rallied behind Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in an open letter thanking him for his unwavering commitment to strong net neutrality rules, penned prior to the Commission's vote on February 26th. The letter, co-organized by Future of Music Coalition (FMC), a national non-profit research, education and advocacy organization for musicians and composers, follows an impassioned statement is made earlier this month by Casey Rae, CEO of Music Coalition (FMC): “Musicians and other creators should feel proud of what ...
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New York is Music Coalition Gains Momentum at Recent Roundtable | Sights Set on Passing Empire State Music Production Tax Credit
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On November 12, New York Is Music partnered with NYS Assemblyman Joseph Lentol to host a roundtable discussion focused on the coalition's first initiative: gaining support for the passing of the Empire State Music Production Tax Credit. The bill was introduced by Assemblyman Lentol in hopes of rejuvenating the Empire State's increasingly lackluster music industry scene. The bill would allow businesses as well as individuals recording and/or producing music a 20% ($60 million) income tax credit on expenditures relevant to music creation. ...
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