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Dave Kusek Of The New Artist Model Looks Back On 2014 [Our Virtual Panel]
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Dave Kusek is the founder of the New Artist Model online music business school and former CEO and founder of Berklee Online. Kusek is also the co-author of one of the best selling music business books The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Generation written in 2005, and has enjoyed a successful career as an entrepreneur in music, technology and marketing. He started the first music software company Passport Designs in 1980, helped bring MIDI to the marketplace, ...
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Katherine McVicker Launches New Booking Agency Music Works International
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HypeBot
Music Industry Veteran Katherine McVicker has launched a new booking agency, Music Works International. Based in Reading, Mass, the new agency represents an international roster that includes Dianne Reeves, David Sanborn, Jason Moran, Lalah Hathaway, & Ruthie Foster, Plus Stars Lizz Wright, Kurt Elling, Vijay Iyer, Joshua Redman, Richard Bona, The Gloaming, Justin Kauflin, and Martin Hayes. In addition to regular touring with their established groups, MWI will also focus on developing commissions, residencies, guest artist appearances and special projects ...
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Jack Conte Of Pomplamoose And Patreon Looks Back At 2014
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Jack Conte, multi-instrumentialist of Pomplamoose and co-founder of Patreon joins us today to Hypebot.com's year end virtual panel. When asked about effect of ubiquitous music online and what the “Taylor Swift Debate" means for music streaming he says “No - the debate won't change anything, but artists pulling out of Spotify will." Conte goes on, “So many financial models are crumbling for artists right now - they're going to go where they get paid, as they should." Continue reading for more from Jack ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 12-18
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
As we get closer to the holidays, the options for live music keep growing. This week, for instance, you can hear one of the finest jazz quintets on the local scene in a too-rare live gig; welcome home (if briefly) one of our most popular, swinging pianists; enjoy productions of holiday brass and holiday songs from top local talents; hear two nights from an internationally acclaimed vocalist dubbed by legends as the “next big thing;" hear in an intimate space ...
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The art of the jazz duo
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Pianist Johnny Varro is best known for his interpretations of vintage jazz, most of it dating to the 1920s through the '40s. But Friday afternoon's duo concert with bassist Mark Neuenschwander for the South County Jazz Club gave Varro a chance to spread his wings a bit into material not associated with his Swing 7 classic jazz band. Their duo came about by accident a few years ago when the drummer never showed for a trio gig. They shifted gears ...
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Our Virtual Panel Looks Back on 2014 | Dave Cool of Bandzoogle
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Dave Cool, Director of Artist Relations at Banzoogle joins us next on Hypebot.com's 2014 Year End Virtual Panel. Cool lands among other YouTube Music key skeptics: “I'm not sure what impact it will have. YouTube has gotten away with being the largest free music streaming service for years. I don't know how they're going to get people to start paying for it now, and it already seems confusing." Find out more about how 2014 impacted Bandzoogle and what Dave Cool thinks ...
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The Cost Of Breaking A Major Label Act
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By Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Blog The latest IFPI (International Federation of the Phonograph Industry - boy, is that name outdated) recently came out with a report about the state of the music industry and a few of the elements that were analyzed included how much the major labels spent on developing new acts. Here are some interesting figures. The cost of breaking an act is between $500k and $1 million. The typical advance averages between $50k and $350k Typical album recording costs are ...
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Our Virtual Panel Looks Back on 2014 | Dmitri Vietze
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Dmitri Vietze of Music and Technology PR Firm Rock Paper Scissors is up next on Hypebot.com's virtual panel. He shares his thoughts on the Taylor Swift rift with Spotify and the importance of YouTube Music Key and the expansion of Beats Music ecosystem below. He also speaks to the changes brought on by 2014 and what it means for his business: “The largest shift right now is that we are in a transitional moment, which means there are no one-size-fits-all solutions ...
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