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Is Occupy Wall Street Fair Game for Music Marketing?
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HypeBot
Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the Manhattan sector of a growing international protest movement-in-the-making, has already seen a few famous musicians drop by including Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West. It's also being used by some musicians to promote their music, including an artist called Penguin Prison that took a previously released song and repurposed it for OWS. But is it really a good idea to use social movements for music marketing? High profile visitors to Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, where the New ...
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The Maverick Reunite at Stagecoach
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conqueroo
North American and European dates to follow in summer NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The aptly named Mavericks, whose brand of genre-busting country won them Grammys as well as Academy of Country and Country Music Association awards in the '90s, not to mention critical acclaim and legions of fans, will reunite for the first time since their 2003 dissolution for an appearance at the Stagecoach Festival to be held April 27-29, 2012 in Indio, Calif. Following the Stagecoach appearance, original band members Raul Malo ...
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Part 6: What Musicians Expect from Music Journalists and Critics
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Responding to the burning question: WHEN YOU READ MUSIC JOURNALISM/CRITICISM WHAT QUALITIES ARE YOU LOOKING FOR IN THE WRITER AND THE WRITING? This installment: Joe Lovano & Jason Miles JOE LOVANO: The qualities I look for are: A Clear response to the music with Wisdom, Knowledge, Love, Passion and Honesty... The same qualities I look for from the musicians playing it... JASON MILES: I look for someone who convinces me they are a legitimate writer and know their craft and ...
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Part 5: What Jazz Musicians Expect from Music Journalists and Critics
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Part five of our ongoing dialogues with musicians where we ask the burning question: When you read music journalism and criticism what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing? This time we hear from trumpeter-bandleader-educator Sean Jones, a busy man these days what with his teaching assignments at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, his artistic direction of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, leading his own band and putting in sideman work here and there. Sean's latest recording is ...
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What Jazz Musicians Expect from Jazz Journalists and Critics. Pt 4
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
This is Part Four in our ongoing series of dialogues with jazz musicians where we ask the burning question: WHEN YOU READ MUSIC JOURNALISM AND MUSIC CRITICISM WHAT QUALITIES ARE YOU LOOKING FOR IN THE WRITER AND THE WRITING? Our contributors for this post are the masterful trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and one of our most deeply soulful and versatile voices, Allan Harris, whose also been known to play a mean guitar and sing cowboy odes. WYCLIFFE GORDON “I don't read ...
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How Artists Deal with All the Hate...
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Digital Music News
HATE: the internet is full of it. Technology is amplifying it. And if you grow large enough, you'll get plenty of it. But how do you effectively deal with it as an artist, without letting it interfere with your creativity and fan connectivity? That was one of several topics debated at the Scion Music(less) Music Conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, a small get-together ofmanagers, artists, producers, supervisors, and everyone in-between. And one thing was clear: technology has totally amplified ...
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Will Facebook Music Kill Last.FM?
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HypeBot
About ten years ago, third-year computer science student Richard Jones wrote the code that would eventually earn him $38 million. His creation, AudioScrobbler, was a simple plug-in that tracked what people were listening to on various programs including iTunes and used that information to build an online profile of their listening habits that could be shared with friends or used to fuel music recommendations. Last.fm acquired Audioscrobbler in '03, earning Jones 15 percent of Last.fm. Four years later, CBS bought Last.fm ...
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What Jazz Musicians Expect from Journalists and Critics - PT. 3
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson is one of the most erudite musicians, a true master of elocution and language. A man of abundant wisdom and wit, Golson is one of the most agreeable people in the music. When posed with our dialogue question, it seems this is a subject Benny has been contemplating for some time; his response was the following, the first of two related, common sense essays. Hard for me to find much if anything to disagree with ...
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