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My Conversation with Wind.
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
By Matt Lavelle Sometimes my worlds come together. Even NYC feels the change of the seasons at times.We actually had tornadoes touch down in Queens and Brooklyn recently,ripping up and throwing trees around,.causing electrical mayhem.The last few days I've been in wind gusts blowing new yorkers right into traffic.(Stand next to a mailbox if it gets really bad).I live way uptown not far from the river and the wind is especially strong the closer you get to the water.Sometimes the ...
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The 9 Biggest Dinosaurs in the Music Industry Today...
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Digital Music News
Regardless of their impressive accomplishments in the past, these dinosaurs are still living in 1982—or, wish they were living in 1982. Here are the largest of the Jurassic pontificators... (1) Gene Simmons In the wake of a woefully-unsuccessful legal campaign against music fans, Simmons blamed the labels for lacking the “balls" to sue every “freckle-faced college kid" into submission. (2) John Cougar Mellencamp The internet is the “most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb," at least according to this ...
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Should New Albums Cost $1?
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HypeBot
Rob Dickens, a former Warner Music executive, told BCC News that he thinks music prices should be radically reduced. He thinks that is albums were marked down to $1, sales would explode. If fans wanted a new album, they'd just go buy it. At a time when some in the industry are worried about fans thinking that music should cost less than their cup of coffee, Dickens thinks that it should cost as much as a double cheeseburger. He thinks ...
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Correspondence: About Mark Murphy
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Mark Murphy may have had his problems the past few years, but rumors that he is not singing well appear to be unfounded. Rifftides reader and occasional correspondent Jim Brown sent a report with evidence.A year or two ago, there were suggestions that Mark was in bad health, perhaps had dementia, and that he might not be performing again. Here's a performance from last summer that will blow you away. Whatever his health problems might have been, it seems clear ...
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Why I Secretly Hope for an Epidemic of Book Piracy
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HypeBot
In his column in The Telegraph, writer Adrian Hon makes a few assertions about book piracy that relate to the record industry. First, he talks about the rather honest journey that a number of readers take into the practice of downloading books, much like fans do with music. It starts with the notion of getting a hold of a few digital copies of books they own; it's convenient. Plus, they already bought it. The next logical progression is to pick ...
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No Shoe-Strings Attached, Unless They're Converse
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HypeBot
No one cares what record label paid for an album. Fans are oblivious to whether EMI, Warner Music Group, or Sony Music had their hands on it. The day is coming when fans might have to care. Converse plans to build a recording studio called Rubber Tracks in New York City. Bands will be able to apply online and those regarded as enthusiastic and disadvantaged enough will be granted the opportunity to record their album, for free, in the new ...
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How Do You Divide up Royalties?
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We All Make Music
The following post was written by Sami Fischer, the lead singer of Viennese rock band My Glorious. You can view his previous work here] You start a band for the fun of it and the love of music. You're idealistic about it: you travel, play for free, invest your time and money into it and fight for that cause together. But as soon as money comes into the game, everything changes. All of a sudden, one band member thinks his ...
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