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The Beatles at Shea: 1965
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Fifty years ago on Aug. 15, 1965, the Beatles performed at New York's Shea Stadium. The Mets were in Houston playing the Astros that weekend, and the Fab Four appeared before a full house—55,600 fans, mostly screaming teenage girls. In today's Wall Street Journal (go here), I write about the concert—not about how the music was drowned out by the hysteria but how the event kick-started the sexual revolution and the rock concert business. When the Beatles took the stage ...
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The Job That Steve Jobs Didn't Finish
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What are artists missing in their online promotion? Here we look at a new app that allows bands to reward fans for their support in way that has, as of yet, not been easily achievable through channels like Facebook and iTunes. Guest Post by Dan Wagster on LinkedIn Pulse In 2003 Steve Jobs changed the music business by launching iTunes with 200,000 songs available for download. For labels and bands, he gave them a digital distribution channel costing half that ...
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Are There Any Rules When It Comes to Playlists?
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Is it legal to make an identical copy of someone's workout mix? As playlists become increasingly popular on streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Songza, and 8track, some questions are being raised regarding the rules and regulations which surround them. Guest Post by Cortney Harding. At this point, pretty much everyone recognizes that playlists are one of the biggest ways people consume music on streaming services. Apple’s “For You” section offers a solid stream of compilations, from the sublime (“Indie ...
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RIAA Asks BitTorrent To Block Infringing Content
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In the latest attack on file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America has requested that BitTorrent put into place a hash filter in order to block infringing content, but will it do more harm than good? By Mike Masnick of TechDirt Almost exactly a year ago, the Hollywood-funded and run astroturfing group “Creative Future" posted a bizarre and fact-challenged article attacking BitTorrent Inc. for copyright infringement, and demanding that the company “take responsibility" for how the BitTorrent protocol was being used. There was, ...
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What The Launch Of Amazon Acoustics Could Mean
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In the crowded and competitive field of music streaming, Amazon isn't often mentioned, but with the introduction of collections like Amazon Acoustics and the release of its own Christmas album, there are signs Amazon could be the dark horse of streaming. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 While Apple, Spotify and Google/YouTube get all the hype when it comes to streaming music these days, Amazon Prime is keeping a surprisingly low profile. Everyone who's an Amazon Prime user also gets Prime Music as an ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, August 7-13
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Summer means more venues for jazz and music of all sorts. There's festivals, patios, and now even breweries with mini-fests and outdoor stages. All of which means there are more, and harder, choices to be made. This weekend, the Lowertown Guitar Festival invades Mears Park, bringing guitars of all shapes, sizes and genres. Weekly jazz series continue at Studio Z, The Nicollet and Black Dog; find music, especially jazz, nightly at the Dakota, Vieux Carré, Jazz Central and Crooners Lounge. ...
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The Music Industry’s Sleeping Giant
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Whether or not streaming is profitable for artists, it has made the process of getting music from its source to its audience remarkably streamlined over the past few years. This is less true where live performance is concerned, however, and the process of putting on a show remains convoluted and inefficient. Guest Post by Danny Fiorentini on Medium Let’s talk about “layers.” With all this commotion about streaming, it’s interesting how much live music is still neglected in terms of efficiency and technology. ...
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