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Why Soundcloud Will Beat Other Streaming Music Services
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HypeBot
By Dan Polaske an entrepreneur & blogger. Check out his artists interview series coming soon. Who is the current leader in the streaming service war? Not Spotify. Not Rdio. Not Deezer. Not Beats Music (just launched) The answer: YouTube! Ok so YouTube is not technically a streaming service, however more music is streamed on YouTube than any of these other streaming services. Why is that? There are many reasons. The biggest being user generated content. Users can upload music directly ...
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What Is the Future of Jazz in New York?
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Michael Ricci
Being a jazz musician in New York City has never been easy. For most of its century-long existence, jazz has gotten by on the margins, and so have those who’ve played it. But the gloomy consensus last night in a panel discussion at the CUNY Graduate Center was that being a jazz musician in the city has never been harder. “In every decade, New York has welcomed, housed and encouraged jazz,” said Gary Giddins, a former jazz critic for The ...
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5 Ways Major Label Music on Soundcloud Would Be Awesome
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HypeBot
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Most of the music services available today have more or less the same music, so they distinguish themselves with third-party apps, free versions, improved designs, mixtape-style playlists, and other attractive features. On-demand music services have the same music (more or less) because the same copyright holders decide which songs to put on subscription services, and they typically put certain songs on all of them, or none. SoundCloud comes from the other direction. Originally envisioned ...
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10 Ways Legal Recreational Marijuana Could Help the Music Industry
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HypeBot
As Colorado pushes the U.S. a tiny bit closer to rational drug laws, it's high time to consider the potential positive effects on the music industry of legal recreational marijuana. I'll focus my comments on the U.S. and what might happen here if recreational marijuana was legalized. My belief is that such a move could have positive effects in a variety of ways from reduced police harassment to increased revenue opportunities. Marijuana has an integral place in American music from ...
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Who Will Win the Home Music War?
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HypeBot
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. The cassette player, compact disc, MP3 player, and today’s smartphones and tablets were all portable music evolutions. Newsflash: Humans are not always in motion. Sometimes — a great deal of the time — we are at home. And yet as a general population, we are all hackers and settlers-for-good-enough in this place where we spend most of our time. Touring the homes of your friends and family will reveal a hodgepodge of iPod decks, ...
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'Zat You, Santa Claus?
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Jazz (Jazzers Jazzing) by Carl L. Hager
We Americans and our religious holidays are hard to figure, that's for sure. First, you hear us demanding tolerance and equal time for people who choose to affiliate with an anti-religious philosophy, or no religious practice at all. The next minute, we are decrying the absurd religious discrimination being exercised by a commercial enterprise like A&E Network with their top-rated television program, Duck Dynasty. Then you hear us defending our gay brothers and ...
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Crooner, Actress Cynthia Basinet Petitions The United Nations
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Cynthia "c." Basinet
New York - The Singer, Actress Cynthia Basinet Addressed the United Nations Sixty-eighth General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara, last Thursday. From the UN official site: “CYNTHIA BASINET, actress, singer and humanitarian advocate, lamented that thousands of people of Western Sahara had lived as refugees, without the opportunity to fully enjoy their lives. That situation had led to tyranny, poverty and untold hardship, she said, stressing the need for self-determination to salvage them from ...
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Why Musicians Make Little While Music Services and Distributors Make Billions [Jeff Price]
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By Jeff Price, the founder of TuneCore and now founder/CEO of Audiam. In today's new music industry of peer-to-peer file sharing, download stores, and on-demand streams, it's hard enough for an artist to make money by selling their music. So what happens when the world's largest music distributors and stores carry all the songs in world but don't need to sell any of them in order to make money? The answer: Revenue from the sale of music goes down for ...
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