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This One Free Tool Will Make All Of Your Social Media Look Better
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How your social media looks matters. It sends a signal. It says that you care. You are telling a story that I want to follow. You are building a career and a brand. But creating the different graphics and sizing them for every social network can be a daunting task. It doesn't have to be. Canva is a free online tool with easy to understand online guides that provide all you need to make your social media sing. Watch this overview from ...
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5 Reasons The Major Labels Didn't Really Blow It With Napster
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Pundits are fond of saying that the major labels blew it by suing Napster instead of doing a deal with them. It's as though they're obligated to repeat it as a mantra; they didn't get it, they were asleep, how could they have missed such a golden opportunity, yadda yadda. Shift through all the reverential twaddle, and you'd think Napster walked into the major labels offering trays of gold and were rebuffed. These pundits weren't there when Napster was going down, ...
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An Indie Streaming Success Story: Secrets In Stereo
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NPR recently posted an article about how the tiny royalties coming from music streaming can add up and chose one artist as a great example. Josh Colum and his band Secrets In Stereo signed up with Rumblefish, a company that finds licensing opportunities for artists. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Blog Initially there wasn't a lot of money, only a few bucks per statement (we've all seen that one), but soon Josh began to see around $10,000 per quarter. Astonished, he explored what happened. It seems that ...
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Redistributing The Streaming Wealth: Why Listening Hours Not Artist Popularity May Drive The Divvying Up Of Royalties
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The question of just how to distribute the royalty dollars from music services has moved from a back-office thought exercise to an out-in-the-open debate. Moving forward in this debate is the argument that it would be fairer—particularly to emerging, independent, or less “popular” artists—to distribute royalties on an each pair of ears basis (i.e., per subscriber) rather than on an all pairs of ears basis (i.s., all subscribers). Guest Post by David Touve on the Rockonomic Blog See Laguana’s “How to make streaing royalties fairer,” and Gottfried’s, “Throw ...
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Epic Fail: The War On Piracy
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The final chapter in the long, sordid story of the pirate site, Grooveshark, finally played out in a New York Courtroom last week. The principals, after years of litigation, have finally shut down their website and signed an agreement stating they will never own or operate a pirate site again or face millions of dollars in fines. Guest Post by Will Buckley on Fare Play “An RIAA statement issued on Thursday (April 30) goes on to say under terms of the settlement, Grooveshark ...
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Miles on Monday: Wayne Shorter speaks out, Amandla turns 26, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for “Miles on Monday," some recent news items related to the legendary trumpeter: In a new interview with Billboard magazine, saxophonist Wayne Shorter (pictured) discusses topics including his relationship with Davis as a member of the trumpeter's “second great quintet." With the 89th anniversary of Davis' birth coming up next Tuesday, saxophonist Gary Bartz and drummer Al Foster—both ex-sidemen of Davis'—will join trumpeter Eddie Henderson for a series of tribute gigs this weekend at the NYC club Smoke. ...
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That Old East Coast-West Coast Thing
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Following yesterday’s Rifftides post announcing the Jazz Journalists Association poll winners, vibraphonist Charlie Shoemake commented: Randy Weston has had a long and distinguished career as have many of the other deserving award winners. Just curious, though, if any jazz artists from the west coast have ever been or ever will be recognized. It always seems in these things as though we’re an invisible group. One recent positive note, though. Four of my young students here on the California Central Coast ...
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Austin Jazz Trumpeter Jeff Lofton Featured In Macy's American Icons Campaign
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Austin-based jazz trumpeter and composer Jeff Lofton is featured in Macy's American Icons summer fashion campaign celebrating American landscapes and people. In addition to photos in the print campaign and an interview online, the campaign features video of the Jeff Lofton Trio at their long- running residency in the lounge at Ruth's Chris Steak House at 6th & Congress, in Austin. Lofton has led the Thursday happy hour residency, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. weekly, for over five years and ...
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