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6 Predictions For The Music Industry In 2015
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HypeBot
Guest Post by Eric Neumann of Mad Genius Radio. It’s been an exciting year in music. Taylor Swift made headlines after pulling her entire catalog from Spotify, Thom Yorke released a surprise solo album through BitTorrent Bundles and Aphex Twin released Syro, his first album in over a decade – talk about disrupting the industry. With the New Year upon us, I’d like to offer up predictions we can expect in 2015, including the resurrection of US city beef. 1. The RESPECT Act will be reintroduced in Congress ...
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Miles on Monday: 50 years of E.S.P.
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's “Miles on Monday," we look back at a recording that marked another historic turn in Davis' career. It was fifty years ago this month that the trumpeter made E.S.P., the first album by what often is referred to as his “second great quintet." As recounted in this space a couple of weeks ago, Davis had worked with saxophonist Wayne Shorter for the first time a couple of years earlier on the sessions that yielded “Blue Xmas" for ...
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Digital Music Streaming Report Card 2014
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HypeBot
By consultant Mark Mulligan from his Music Industry blog. 2014 was the year streaming broke through to mainstream consciousness, not because of the marketing prowess of Spotify but because Taylor Swift decided to withdraw her content from the Swedish streaming heavyweight and other freemium services. It was a mixed year of momentous achievement and intensifying controversy, which makes it an opportune moment for an end of term report card. Growth – 8/10 No complaints here. Impressive growth for both paid and free streaming ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 2-8
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Happy New Year! If this week is any indication, the jazz scene is off to a good start for 2015. It's cold, so never a better time to come indoors and warm up your ears. Big Gigs This Week Friday, January 2. Jazz Central kicks off the 2015 Bridge Series with composer/pianist Jeremy Walker's Small City Trio, featuring bassist Jeff Brueske and drummer Tim Zhorne. Whatever Jeremy has cooked up for this evening will surely please any fans of modern ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 26- January 1
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
If the survival of jazz in the Twin Cities depended on newspaper coverage, I could stop writing this! Fortunately there's too much good music this week to spend the time pondering the Strib's near total neglect of the genre in its “best of" lists. (Only Pamela Espeland took note of jazz at all, highlighting the merits of the new Twin Cities Jazz Sampler). This weekend, we have the final performances of the Bad Plus, a too-rare performance from Fat Kid ...
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Ariel Hyatt Of Cyber PR Looks Back On 2014
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HypeBot
Ariel Hyatt of Cyber PR joins us today on the Hypebot.com year end virtual panel. Hyatt notes a dramatic shift within her business demographic over the past twelve months. She says “I felt a palpable downturn in the attitudes of my clients as many saw their bottom lines slip even more in the past 12 months. Many of my clients do everything right: great music, a good tribe, solid social media but the problem is the things that used to ...
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Documentary: Louis Prima
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Louis Prima goes back further than you think. Born in New Orleans, his first surge of popularity came in the 1930s, when he was a trumpeter-bandleader with a swinging singing voice. He wrote Sing, Sing Sing, which sounds just like him once you know it came from his pen. In the 1940s, Prima leveraged his heritage to create a string of Italian-themed hits, becoming Metronome's “Showman of the Year" in 1946. Then in 1953, he divorced his third wife and ...
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Spotify Cares Less about Artists Than IPOs and Taylor Swift Cares About... Taylor Swift
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HypeBot
By Tom McAlevey, CEO Radical.FM Regardless of those truths, streaming will save the music industry and Artists will soon make more money than ever before. Daniel Ek is disingenuous when he claims that Spotify’s “reason for existence is to help fans find music and help artists connect with fans through a platform that protects them from piracy”. Spotify is a corporation. Its reason for existence is to make billions of dollars for its owners through an IPO that won’t help Artists ...
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