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.
Pandora Learns From Spotify's Mistakes, Offers Fairer Terms For Songwiters, Publishers
Source:
HypeBot
If you think that streaming music treats musicians unfairly, take a look at how it affects songwriters. Pandora has taken a small but significant step towards righting that wrong. By Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions Music industry licenses that require a music service to pay a royalty to a copyright owner have traditionally included what’s come to be called an “audit clause”. Because so much information required to actually confirm that royalties are paid properly is under the control of the ...
Continue
Reading...
Rhapsody / Napster Restructures, Laying Off Staff, Closing San Francisco Office
Source:
HypeBot
Rhapsody and Napster are reportedly closing their San Francisco office and laying off staff in a broad restructuring effort, as the company fights to find profitability in the increasingly competitive streaming music sector. Rhapsody is closing its long time San Francisco office and laying off staff, according to source with knowledge of the situation. The company's corporate offices are in Seattle, but it also has maintained teams in San Francisco, New York, São Paulo and Frankfurt. The move comes despite reported 35% paid ...
Continue
Reading...
Distributor Allegro Closes, Leaving 100s Of Indie Labels In Limbo
Source:
HypeBot
The latest victim of the rapid decline in music sales is indie distributor Allegro Media. It's sudden closure has left hundreds of independent labels with their product locked in a warehouse and no distribution. Music and video distributor Allegro has shut down unexpectedly, laying off employees and leaving dozens of independent labels in limbo. A source who has worked with the company told Hypebot that 100s of indie labels are affected as Allegro shuts down and its assets- which includes ...
Continue
Reading...
Indie Empresario Graham Stairs On The Music Industry, Great Songs And Staring A New Record Label
Source:
HypeBot
Here Odario Williams speaks with Graham Stairs about his new digital label imprint known as the Confidence Emperors, what it's place is in the industry, and what he looks for in a song. By Odario Williams Graham Stairs got his start in the business with Intrepid Records where, as their A&R rep, he was responsible for such seminal Canadian artists as National Velvet, Martha and the Muffins and Rheostatics. In addition, Stairs was behind the Bruce Cockburn tribute album that ...
Continue
Reading...
Court Declares Remastered Old Songs Get Brand New Copyright
Source:
HypeBot
In a recent piece of bad copyright news, the courts have ruled that pre-1972 music should, in fact, receive a new copyright once it has been remastered, meaning copyright extensions can be piled on ad nauseam, without a track ever falling into the public domain. Guest Post by Mike Masnick on Techdirt Whoo boy. Did not expect this one. For a while now, we've noted a variety of lawsuits over pre-1972 sound recordings, due to a quirk in copyright law. ...
Continue
Reading...
AMA, Record Store Day Partner For Americana Music Month
Source:
HypeBot
Americana music is hard to define until you visit Nashville. There, an audience not vested in corporate country, has embraced artists as diverse as Jason Isbell, Lumineers, Darlingside and Ben Folds collectively known as Americana. The Americana Music Association and Record Store Day have announced a partnership to create Americana Music Month, which will take place throughout June 2016. More than 100 independent record stores are participating throughout the month providing free music samplers, special deals on new and classic Americana albums, and ...
Continue
Reading...
As on-demand streaming loses its novelty, music needs personality
Source:
HypeBot
With the exception of the occasional flashy exclusive, its harder for the average streaming music users to tell the services apart. So, to combat user fatigue and spur growth, Slacker Radio has added both curation and personality; and CEO Duncan Orrell-Jones makes a strong case that most users want more than just continuous music. Guest post by Duncan Orrell-Jones, CEO, Slacker Radio There was a time when providing consumers with access to on-demand music was a game-changing proposition. But times have changed. Consumers ...
Continue
Reading...
Embracing Virtual Reality Could Enable Streaming Services To Finally Move Forward [Cortney Harding]
Source:
HypeBot
Rhapsody's recent announcement that it plans to launch a VR app is raising some interesting questions about how VR tech will influence the future of streaming services, and if they'll be able to successfully bring it to a more mainstream audience. Guest post by Cortney Harding A few days ago, streaming service Rhapsody announced it was launching a VR app, with the initial content consisting mostly of performances shot at SXSW. The quality of the performances is fairly solid, and ...
Continue
Reading...
Album Showcase
Trending
Award / Grant
How Can Album Notes Compete For A Grammy Nomination?
Performance / Tour
Smoke Jazz Club Announces October Line-up Including...
Recording
Macedonian Saxophonist Hristijan Risteski Releases...
Music Industry
Harvard’s Ming Mei Residency Concert Features...
Recording
Jelly Roll Morton - 'New Orleans Joys: The Earliest...
Recording
Dan Papirany Trio Captures Lyrical Interplay On New...
Recording
What Happened To The American Dream?
VOTE!
