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One Cop's Struggle to Make It as a Musician...
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Digital Music News
What's your day job? Well, singer-songwriter Jesse Weeks sometimes has a day job, other times a night job. You see, he's a Toronto police officer, and pursues his musical career while off-duty. And, he's done okay, winning a $15,000 songwriting competition and major radio and label attention. Still, it's been a struggle, and after grabbing lunch with him on asnowy Toronto day, he offered to guest post about his experiences. He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire ...
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My Midlife Jazz Crisis - Stage 4: The Brand of Jazz
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
The issue of branding has increasingly become a driving force in everything we do both personally and professionally. Just think of Facebook and how we brand ourselves through accumulating the most friends or associating ourselves with certain activities or groups, etc. Facebook has become the quickest and most accessible form of personal brand recognition. I recently read branding expert Peter Arnell's book Shift: How To Reinvent Your Business, Your Career, and Your Personal Brand in which he documents his struggle ...
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Music That Needs to be Heard: Is Anyone out There?
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
[Full disclosure. I am the Vice President of the Twin Cities Jazz Society.] The Twin Cities Jazz Society sponsors a series of concerts every year, dubbed Jazz From J to Z. The series title is intended to describe the wide range of music that falls under the jazz label, from trad to swing to big band to bebop to Latin to... even to avant-garde and “free" music. But the performance on Sunday night by local free legend Milo Fine was, ...
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Bryan Adams: 'I Feel Sad for Young Musicians.'
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HypeBot
Cake's John McCrea of and Bryan Adams must be friends. Earlier this month, McCrea said that music will be a hobby for most in 5 or 10 years. Adams is now echoing similar thoughts. “I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly... It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was. You want to get paid for your work and be able to ...
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Why RCRDDEALS Matters More Than Spotify
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HypeBot
Post by: Robin Davey, Head of Music and Film Development at GROWVision. Spotify has been the crux of music industry chatter when it comes to proclamations of a musical revolution, but the announcement of RCRDDEALS is a major step forward, and could prove to be a real game changer for breaking new acts and building established ones. RCRDDEALS appears to be a Groupon for the music industry. Offering limited time unbeatable deals on concert tickets and record packages. Spotify's Short Comings Anyone who ...
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A Stamp of Approval for Jazz
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
We're a society of pack rats, of collectors. Or so it seems. Some of us collect a few things we find meaningful, others have made it into a warehouse-style art form. In general, jazz fans collect live music memories and savor the special moments. Many collect them in hard copy as well—CDs, LPs, 78s, images. You name it. Well, probably not eight-tracks. At least now without suffering some level of derision. But collect we do. When I was a kid, ...
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C is for Civilization
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Once upon a time there were grownups in the music business.They were around to insist that artists meet standards and to step in when they went too far. Artists, by definition, don't have limits. Many also don't have taste or restraint, nor do they care about such things. Which is why there were record producers some years ago. They were there to set standards and draw the line. [Pictured: One of the great grownups, Atlantic's Ahmet Ertegun] So it was ...
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Why SXSW is Bad for Your Business...
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Digital Music News
Stop kidding yourself. Because for most music companies, SXSW is simply an awful place to do business. It's just an expensive party, one full of extreme barriers to good dealmaking and business-building. And, one so full of noise it's questionable whether any marketing dollars make sense here. Sure, it's fun to hop around venues and soak in the atmosphere. I'm not sure of another place that can give me Datarock, Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf, and five other bands in the same ...
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