Home » Jazz News
Music Industry News
Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.
Investors Are Poised To Disrupt Music Funding [Antony Bruno]
![Investors Are Poised To Disrupt Music Funding [Antony Bruno]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/photos/logo/hypebotlogo2015.jpg){kind=logo}
Source:
HypeBot
As interest begins to grow among private investors, it looks as though music funding will be the next aspect of the music industry to experience disruption, as cash-strapped artists are forced to seek an alternative to labels. Guest post by Antony Bruno of Royalty Exchange Contrary to popular belief, the biggest disruption to the traditional music business over the last 10 years was not solely the introduction of digital distribution. Instead, it’s been the slow, gradual disaggregation of all the artist services that labels ...
Continue Reading
How One City Supports Its Music Scene: Philadelphia, PA
Source:
HypeBot
Here musician and longtime Philadelphian Nick Millevoi shares some his favorite venues in the city, giving us an inside look at how such a large city can sometimes feel like a small town of interconnected scenes and genres. Guest Post by Nick Millevoi on Soundfly's Flypaper I'm a lifetime Philadelphian and proud of it. It’s an interesting place to grow up and be a musician. Philly is a big East Coast city that can feel like a small town of ...
Continue Reading
Abbey Road Graduate CloudBounce Closes $250K Seed Round
Source:
HypeBot
Abbey Road Red Incubator graduate CloudBounce, an instant digital audio mastering service, has raised a $250,000 seed round. Investors in this round include UK-based VC Ascension Ventures, and a group of Finnish business angels. CloudBounce offers instant feedback on an audio track using AI. The (artificially) intelligent machine, unlike Shazam or Echo, makes processing decisions based on context and to deliver the most relevant mastering. For example, mastering Pucci’s Tosca would require very different enhancing to Black Sabbath’s War Pigs). ...
Continue Reading
Music Streaming's New Playlist Economy
Source:
HypeBot
With the advent of streaming, playlists have risen to become many consumer's default interface for listening to music, something which has some serious implications both for the music business and music itself. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer on Synchblog Playlists have become the default for listening to both new and unfamiliar music. Instead of digging through complete releases and saving them to our libraries, the design choices of companies like iTunes and Spotify mean we use playlists as the interface for music collections. ...
Continue Reading
When Artists Lead Their Audiences: Roger Waters, Alice Cooper, Beyoncé and More
Source:
HypeBot
Here David Deal reflects on what it means for an artist to lean an audience, and why it is equally important for a performer to in turn both comfort and unsettle an audience with one's creative work. Guest Post by David Deal on Superhype “Are there any paranoids in the audience tonight?” With those caustic words, Roger Waters introduced “Run Like Hell” in concert in 1980. Waters continues to taunt and provoke his audience 37 years later when he performs ...
Continue Reading
Study Suggests Connecting With Fans, Public Shaming More Effective Than Legislation At Combating Piracy
Source:
HypeBot
In an age where piracy is commonplace, using legal tools to combat it has proved largely ineffective. A new study suggests that publishers are better off connecting with fans and providing them with a compelling reason to purchase music instead. Guest Post by Timothy Geigner on Techdirt We have talked about the power of connecting with fans and giving them a reason to buy, along with using public shaming, as tools for combating piracy in its various forms. Tools far better, in ...
Continue Reading
CD Baby, Music Gateway Partner To Provide New Sync Opportunities For Indie Artists
Source:
HypeBot
CD Baby is partnering with Music Gateway and its newly launched Sync Portal which allows 300+ global advertising agencies and 700 music supervisors to easily license tracks from CD Baby’s sync catalog of 2 million songs film, TV, commercials and video games. A new CD Baby and Music Gateway partnership hopes to exploit the advantages that indie artists have in the competitive sync market: speed (all the rights are held by a single entity) and price (fewer mouths to feed ...
Continue Reading
IBM Partners With Sacem For Music Cloud-Based Rights Management Platform
Source:
HypeBot
French performance rights organization Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (Sacam) announced that they are partnering with technology giant IBM in a 10-year bid to develop URights, a cloud-based copyright platform designed to track and collect on online music for creators and publishers. URights aims to leverage cloud technology and data analytics, including IBM's Watson explorer to better identify and compensate copyright holders from a variety of service platforms. The platform will also offer creators and publishers new ...
Continue Reading
