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Naples Jazz Orchestra Spared, for Now
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Brian Ross
Tourism is so hot in Naples, Florida that its town council is considering ways to limit traffic and parking issues, including shutting down concerts at the Cambier Park Bandshell, where all of the jazz concerts happen with multiple bands, including the facility's anchor tenant, The Naples Jazz Orchestra, in its fifth season. At a meeting to discuss the issue, there was great turnout for the NJO. The season has been spared, for now. You can read more about the results ...
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Kevin Spacey on Stopping Piracy: Give the Fans What They Want
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HypeBot
Kevin Spacey gave a speech at the International Television Festival in Edinburgh late last month with a big focus on the implications of Netflix's “House of Cards" for the tv industry. He emphasized a number of points about piracy and giving the fans what they want that are quite relevant to the music industry as well. Kevin Spacey's speech is making the rounds in the form of video excerpts which are circulating widely. “Give people what they want" Spacey's comments ...
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Why Telling Artists to Stop Selling Music and Just Make Money Through Live Shows is Ridiculous
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HypeBot
Giving away all your music for free and trying to make your living via other revenue streams can be a valid approach. Except that I don't know of any musicians actually doing that. The ones who do make all their music available for free are also selling it and some are doing just fine without touring at all. As a one size fits all solution, it still seems to be the fantasy mostly of people in the tech world, which ...
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The Reasons Paid Music Downloads Are Going Downhill
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HypeBot
By Tom Dillon of Evolver.fm. Paid downloads, the songs people pay for individually the way they do with CDs, have officially stopped their ascent. According to Nielsen SoundScan data, digital song sales dropped 2.3 percent over the first half of 2013 over the same period last year. In terms of the straight numbers, music fans purchased 698 million song downloads in the first six months of last year, and only 682.2 million this year. This marks the first time that ...
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mp3.com Domain for Sale for $1m+, is It Worth It? [michael Robertson]
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HypeBot
By Michael Robertson, a seriel music tech entrepennuer and founder of the original MP3.com. His current projects include Dar.fm. I recently got a call from the owner of this iconic domain name asking if I was interested in buying the MP3.com domain name. MP3.com was the digital music pioneer I founded which offered free MP3 downloads of initially unsigned bands, but eventually the biggest names in music. It also sold the first MP3 player in the US, built the first ...
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The Future of Music
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal/Europe ran my interviews with John Cale, Robert Glasper, Joan as Police Woman and Ari Picker on the future of music. Since the Europe edition is unavailable in North America and my interviews needed to be shortened to fit, I thought I'd make them available here in their entirety... Robert Glasper, 35, won a Grammy this year for his album Black Radio. The jazz pianist's follow-up, Black Radio 2, will be released in the ...
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How I Listen: Future of Music Coalition's Kristin Thomson
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HypeBot
In our new series, How I Listen, we're asking industry leaders and artists to share how they discover and consume music. This edition features Kristin Thomson, Co-Director, Future of Music Coalition's Artist Revenue Streams Project. 1) What device(s) do you use to listen to music? At home: We have a three-zone Sonos system, including one in my office, that lets us stream Rhapsody, Pandora, Spotify, any webcast station, or music from our own library. When walking/running: I usually listen to ...
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Building a Music Collection in the Digital Age
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HypeBot
By Aarti Kelapure of Evolver.fm. Recently, my editor lamented the challenge of collecting music when we find and listen to it from so many different sources. Without a one-size-fits-all solution, we end up forgetting some of the music we've stumbled upon across services. Other times, we come across something we don't have time to listen to, but want to check out later. Again, without a solid collection option, the song disappears into digital oblivion. Sean Adams from Drowned in Sound ...
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