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Digital Music Streaming Report Card 2014

Source: HypeBot
January 4, 2015

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

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
January 2, 2015

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

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
December 27, 2014

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

Source: HypeBot
December 24, 2014

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

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 22, 2014

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

Source: HypeBot
December 20, 2014

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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Kevin Breuner, CD Baby VP Of Marketing Looks Back On 2014

Source: HypeBot
December 20, 2014

Kevin Breuner, Host of DIY Musician Podcast, and VP of Marketing, CD Baby joins us today on Hypebot.com's year end virtual panel. As an independent artist, Breuner responds to the current streaming debate saying, “You never know where your fans are going to come from. For that reason, I feel it’s important to have your music in all the places people go to enjoy music, including Spotify. I would hate to find out that someone who hadn’t heard us before, but happen to ...

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Benji Rogers, Founder And President Of PledgeMusic, Looks Back On 2014

Source: HypeBot
December 18, 2014

Benji Rogers, Founder and President of PledgeMusic joins us today for Hypebot.com's 2014 Year End Virtual Panel. Rogers has a hopeful outlook for the collaboration between artists and music streaming services, but suggests that streaming companies handle the relationship with care. “The artists are the ones with that power. If the artists are given the tools, and therefore the incentive, they will bring the subscribers and all boats will begin to rise." Continue reading for more from Benji Rogers. 1) ...

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