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The Most Important Problem the Music Business Must Solve
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HypeBot
By David Sherbow (@MusicBizGuy) of My Life With Music. What is the greatest problem which the new music business must solve to maintain it relevance in the future? In my humble opinion, it needs to figure out how to simply curate new music, filter it down to a small enough selection that is easily digestible and readily posted some place on the Internet, seamlessly accessible by mobile phones, where people will want to come, listen to it, own it emotionally ...
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For Music Discovery, Definition Often Varies
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By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Over the years, the definition of music discovery has changed. For some, music discovery encapsulates the serendipitous event of finding a new song or artist, which is often wrapped with infatuation of a new crush. You can't stop talking about the artist that is now the love of your life and when you have free moment, you quietly stalk them on Facebook or Twitter. For ...
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Eddie Layton's Springtime Touch
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The smell of spring awakens the little kid in most baseball fans. Back before ballpark trons and digital audio systems, the music that pushed fans to root for the home team came from an organ. Often squirreled away in a booth high above in the upper rafters, the organist was responsible not only for motivating fans but also entertaining families before the game and in between innings. To this day, the sound of a baseball stadium organ makes me hungry ...
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Should Pirate Site Advertisers Be Punished? Spain Eyes Crackdown
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HypeBot
Should company's that advertise on pirate sites be punished as supporting piracy? It's a debate that's raged in the music community in recent weeks fueled in part by Cracker's David Lowery. On his Trichordist blog, Lowery wrote that brands who advertise on pirate sites are “supporting not only music piracy, but also the mainstream piracy of films and every other kind of digitally distributed work." and called for an end to the practice. Now Spain is eying a crackdown. In ...
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Live Concert Streaming - The Time is Now [Op-Ed]
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Prior to co-founding EVNTLIVE in January, 2012, David Carrico was CEO of CMG, a music industry marketing, consulting and management group. Here, he calls on the music industry to work with new companies and business models to create a much needed new revenue stream from online concert streams. “It's not just about EVNTLIVE," Carrico says, “this extends to other industries as well." David Carrico: To sustain and secure the future of the music industry, we need to lead with creativity ...
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Philippe Petit: At Home
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
You may think that a wire-walker has little or nothing to do with jazz or art. But to me, wire-walking is all about rhythm, balance and expression. In the case of Philippe Petit—perhaps the world's most famous wire-walker and juggler—there's also poetry and philosophy. Philippe, as you surely recall, brazenly and illegally walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in August 1974 after attaching a wire between them using a bow and arrow. The mere idea of ...
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Keeping Jazz Alive: One Weekend at a Time?
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Sometimes I wonder if I am just fooling myself (and anyone who asks) that jazz is really alive in the Twin Cities. When I am at Jazz Central, the Artists Quarter, Black Dog or Studio Z, for example, the vitality of the music is beyond question. Veterans like Donald Washington, George Cartwright, Peter Schimke, Milo Fine, Dave Karr, Pete Whitman, Dean Magraw (and so many more) lead ensembles of all jazz leanings in performing new music and reinventing the innovative ...
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Seattle's Live Music Business Model is Broken
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Seattle Jazz Scene
Drummer Tarik Abouzied has a post on his website entitled, “Seattle’s Live Music Business Model is Broken,” which he says, “is about informing the live music audience of the realities behind putting on these shows and what I see as an unsustainable situation, and trying to move past the usual finger-pointing and complaining so we can have a constructive, open discussion about what is fair and why.” From the post: Every few months the Seattle musician community erupts with outrage ...
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