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Charlie B’s Texas Barbecue Jazz and Blues Cafe opens in Chester
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Michael Ricci
CHESTER, PA: The sweet smell of barbecue wafted through the air at 619 Welsh St. Thursday afternoon as some of the patrons of the newly opened Charlie B’s Texas Bar-B-Que Jazz and Blues Cafe learned of the man behind the name and the experience that guided his son to open the business. For years, Carl Everett saved what he could paycheck to paycheck with the hopes of opening a barbecue restaurant with jazz and blues when he retired. For the ...
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10 Things You Had Totally Wrong About Music Publishing
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HypeBot
By Alex Badanes on Songtrust.com 1) Music Publishing is the business of music journalism and Music PR The word “publishing” can throw some people off, but music publishing is actually the business of owning and exploiting songs in the form of musical copyrights. The business started because the main source of revenue for composers originally came from “publishing” sheet music. 2) Mailing your song to yourself is the only way to gain ownership of your copyright The moment your song is finished ...
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5 Ways Third Man Records Made Vinyl Cool Again
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HypeBot
By Torey Markowitz on Tixr Blog Jack White has been influencing rock music for nearly two decades. He clearly has a passion for creating unique sounds, but his newest passion seems to be vinyl records. In 2001 White founded the record label, Third Man Records, which releases singles and albums primarily on vinyl. On April 19th Jack White’s most recently released album, Lazaretto, set the record for the fastest record ever pressed. Now it’s breaking a new record: the one for the coolest vinyl record ever made. ...
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Our Virtual Panel Looks Back at 2014: Cortney Harding of Muzooka
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HypeBot
Cortney Harding, strategist at Muzooka and co-host of Hypebot.com's Upward Spiral Podcast will be kicking off the 2014 Hypebot.com Year End Virtual Panel. “Much like cab drivers love to whine about Uber when they should be thinking about how to survive when driverless cars hit the road, the Taylor Swift vs Spotify dustup is a short term distraction to a much bigger disruption." Continue reading to hear more from Cortney on what 2014 meant for the music industry. 1) Do ...
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Spotify's Secret Weapon
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HypeBot
By Christopher D Amico from Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. Spotify announced in March the acquisition of The Echo Nest, the industry’s leading music intelligence company. The deal signals the rising importance of big data in the music industry. Founded by MIT Media Lab doctoral students Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman, The Echo Nest provided intelligence to some of the world’s leading music services including Clear Channel’s iHeart radio, Rdio, SiriusXM, and social media networks such as Foursquare, MTV, Twitter, and ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, November 28-December 4
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Star-bright visitors help usher in a month of holiday delights this week, while some local heavyweights kick off the weekend. Don't let Black Friday chaos keep you from enjoying some outstanding music! Big Gigs This Week Friday, November 28. Off the map for a while this fall, the Graydon Peterson Quartet roars back at Jazz Central tonight. Trumpeter Adam Meckler is back from his European tour with Youngblood Brass, adding his horn to the leader's basslines and dynamic contributions from ...
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Russell Simmons Discusses New Era of Music Industry
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HypeBot
In a recent interview with Grammy U and All Def Digital, Def Jams' Russell Simmons spoke about the recent shift in the music industry - a shift he believes has taken the industry away from a royalty based formula. Simmons discussed All Def Digital, his new project with Steve Rifkind in partnership with Universal Music Group and Samsung. He highlighted the platform's matchmaking capabilities for artists to match with users, helping them to foster meaningful connections and find new ways to earn money - a formula for success that ...
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Retailers and Independent Labels Unite Endorsing Monday Global Release Day
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HypeBot
There has been a significant amount of industry chatter surrounding the abandonment of the national release day in order to make way for a globally unified release day. Retailers and independent labels are in agreement that a global release day may be in the best interest of the music industry as a whole, but are pushing for a reconsideration of the proposed global release day falling on Friday. Worried that a Friday release could cause the industry to incur unnecessary ...
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