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Breaking Bad Music Supervisor: Inside the Wonderful [and Corporate] World of Sync
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Thomas Golubic, the music supervisor behind Breaking Bad, Six Feet Under, The Killing and The Walking Dead has an insider view of the world of music sync, and its not always pretty. “These are big corporations,” Golubis, interviewed by Music Week at AIM’s recent Sync Conference, says of music budgets. “Some of the companies you deal with are a bit more respectful of the role music has, some are less so. It was a bummer to us all the way through that ...
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Positive Changes in Chinese Music Industry Happening Behind the Scenes
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This is an excerpt from China music market specialist Ed Peto's article on the China Music Business site. It originally ran as a feature in the March 5th edition of the Music Ally report. In March 2013, Gao Xiaosong – a famous Chinese music composer, producer and TV talent judge – announced that on 1st July of the same year “the Chinese online music market will step into an era of legal copies”. Of course, the 1st July came and ...
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Rdio to Exit Echo Nest After Spotify Acquisition, New Data Competitors Emerge
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Streaming music service Rdio will stop using the music intelligence services of The Echo Nest since it has been acquired by Spotify. Sharing data with its competitor was the primary reason cited for the move by Rdio CEO Anthony Bay in an interview on CNBC. “As far as we are concerned, they were a good partner, but we have other good partners and we'll move on," Bay told CNBC. “We, probably like most people, have multiple sources of data ...
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Neil Young's Pono Kickstarter Campaign Passes $1.3 Million in One Day
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Michael Dell Takes $25 Million Stake in Kobalt Music
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(UPDATED) Computer titan Michael Dell’s private investment firm, MSD Capital, has taken a 9.9% stake in music publisher Kobalt. Kobalt has been a leader in using new technologies to collect new and far flung royalty streams. MSD reportedly paid about $25 million for the stake, sources tell the WSJ. The full press release: NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES and LONDON, 10 March 2014: Kobalt Music Group, the leading independent music publisher and music services company, today announced that an affiliate of MSD ...
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Spotify Paid $100 Million for the Echo Nest Plus Industry Reactions
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Spotify paid $100-$125 million to acquire The Echo Nest with up to 90% of the figure being equity in Spotify, sources tell TechCrunch. Based on the higher valuation, sources peg $15 million split between founders Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan, and CEO Jim Lucchese, $20 million for employee cash earn outs over 4 years for 70 others employees and $90 million in deferred payments. Reaction To The Deal & What's Next The Echo Nest had received $23.6 million in funding since ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 7-13
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A fast-rising star, an internationally renowned veteran, a young lion...not a bad start to another week of jazz in the Twin Cities. Add to that a significant up-turn in our weather and Joy Spring is in the air! Big Gigs This Week Friday, March 7. Parma continues its Friday night vocal jazz series with one of the area's favorites, Charmin Michelle. She'll have a bit more room than her Fireside Pizza gigs, and the menu gives you more options, but ...
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Spotify Acquires the Echo Nest, Music Data Provider for Rdio, iHeart Radio and More
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Spotify is acquiring music intelligence provider, The Echo Nest. The music streamer says that the deal allows them “leverage The Echo Nest’s in depth musical understanding and tools for curation." But The Echo Nest already feeds music data to Spotify along with Rdio, iHeart Radio and many other competitors who are likely a bit nervous today despite assurances from both companies who say The Echo Nest's API will remain “free and open." “The developer community is crucial to the success ...
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