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New Vinyl-Only Company Uses Innovative New Model To Release World-Class Artists

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
October 14, 2015

Initial year's membership brings private material by Jack DeJohnette, Frank Kimbrough, Noah Preminger, Don Friedman, Ben Allison and Leo Genovese. Guests include Esperanza Spalding, Ted Nash, John Patitucci, Billy Hart and more. “A new kind of record label with a curated repertoire of world class musicians. Newvelle ships six impeccably produced and beautifully packaged vinyl LPs to your door every year. This music is available only on vinyl and solely through Newvelle." Elan & J.C. Explain: Members of Newvelle receive ...

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Surprising New Study Shows 66% Of U.S. Streams Music, Amazon #1 Paid Music Service

Source: HypeBot
October 14, 2015

Streaming music is growing even faster than we thought, according to a new U.S. study, and Amazon is the #1 choice for those who pay for streaming. That Amazon's music costs are bundled with shipping and other services could provide a hint as to how music streamers can gain more paid subscribers. New research from Parks Associates shows that 66% of U.S. broadband households use a streaming audio service. Among all U.S. broadband households, 40% use a free service to stream audio, ...

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Streaming Services Or Major Labels: Who's The Real Bad Guy?

Source: HypeBot
October 14, 2015

Platforms like Spotify and Pandora are often vilified for not paying sufficient royalties to artists, but could it be that it's not, in fact, the streaming services who are the true enemy, but the major labels to which they are contractually beholden? Guest Post by Chris Robley on The DIY Musician Since its launch, Spotify has paid out over two billion dollars to rights holders. That’s a hefty sum, especially considering they’re just one player in a streaming market that also includes YouTube, Rdio, Apple ...

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Pandora's Ticketfly Purchase Good For Artists And Shareholders

Source: HypeBot
October 14, 2015

Pandora made a bold move recently by acquiring the online ticketing service Ticketfly, shifting the popular music streaming service into an area where it may turn a something of a profit, particularly if it can get more listeners to take off their headphones and attend live shows. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Streaming music service Pandora reeled off a blockbuster purchase yesterday, coming to an agreement to acquire the online concert ticketing service Ticketfly. The company announced that it purchased ...

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Jazz this week: Adam Larson, Lettuce, Youngblood Brass Band, March Fourth!, The New Mastersounds, and more

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 14, 2015

This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in and around St. Louis features a couple of different acts purveying instrumental funk, a saxophone phenom working in the modern jazz mainstream, a mutant marching band, and, as the saying goes, much, much more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 14 Up-and-coming saxophonist Adam Larson will play the first of two nights with his quartet at Jazz at the Bistro. Originally from Normal, IL, Larson (pictured, top left) graduated ...

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MedRhythms Uses Music To Treat Brain Injuries

Source: HypeBot
October 13, 2015

While a lot of the talk surrounding music these days looks at it from a business perspective, it's important to remember music's more intangible value. Here George Howard speaks with MedRhythms' CEO Brian Harris about his company's work using music to heal traumatic brain injuries. Guest Post by George Howard on Forbes Amidst all of the chatter about music as it relates to business models, it can be easy to forget that music is unlike other “inputs” or assets that ...

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The Future Of Transparency In The Music Business

Source: HypeBot
October 13, 2015

The process by which music royalties are determined has always been a convoluted one, but the rise of the web has made it even more complex, while simultaneously increasing the demand for more transparency regarding where the money is coming from, and where it's going. Guest Post by Cortney Harding on Medium Last week, I shipped up to Boston for the Rethink Music Conference, a one-day event produced by the Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship and IDEO. Despite a few hilariously retro moments (a musician on one ...

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Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis Biopic

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 12, 2015

Miles Ahead, the movie, opened today at the New York Film Festival. Veteran actor Don Cheadle directed the film, which stars him in the title role. Since it became known months ago that the motion picture was in the works, speculation has been rampant about its faithfulness to Davis’s character and, particularly, about musical accuracy. An exclusive clip from the Yahoo website may address at least part of the concern. It shows Cheadle as Davis rehearsing “Gone” from the 1958 ...

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