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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 24-30
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
You can find jazz in all sorts of venues this week, from classic club settings to hotel lounges to the tiniest gallery space. And you can also find some jazz memorabilia to reinforce your memories of perhaps the most beloved venue of all. Big Gigs This Week Friday, January 24. Whenever Patty Peterson is on stage, it is a “big gig," and tonight, this savvy singer “and friends" take over the Dakota. And it's truly more friends than family this ...
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Lively Raises $2 Million for Concert Recordings Available After the Show
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HypeBot
Lively's concert recording service allows bands to offer both audio and video recording of the show after it's over using a mobile app for delivery. They'd already raised half a million over the summer and now they've added to their investments with another 2 million or so. A number of services have related offerings and it seems likely that, as the tech and related processes mature, such recordings can become a solid revenue stream for musicians at multiple levels of ...
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Day in the Life of a Modern Day Music A+R
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HypeBot
By INDMUSIC's Channel Manager Arshan Sadri. Leading A&R for YouTube's Largest Music Network sounds like a made up job, or at least one that most people didn't know existed until about three years ago. Over the last few years, YouTube has become one of the largest and most talked about platforms for discovering music. From VEVO and the major labels, to the singer songwriters covering a song and recording it with their phones, music is now a constant on YouTube ...
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Next Big Sound Analyzes 2013 Music Data
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HypeBot
A special report from Next Big Sound. Looking at the online music industry data for 2013 in aggregate across sources ranging from the major social networks, streaming services, sales figures, and key events for more than a million artists, we reveal an industry that is decidedly lopsided. In our rankings of the most popular artists across social networks, a core group of major celebrities dominate the top of the charts, from Rihanna to Justin Bieber. Online streaming services present a ...
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Why Indie Musicians and Indie Radio Stations Should Work Together
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HypeBot
In the fall Paul Riismandel wrote an “immodest proposal" in the hopes of encouraging indie radio stations and indie musicians to work together. He points to a natural fit between non-commercial radio and indie artists and proposes at least one possibility for connecting the two. The larger point is that indie radio and indie musicians could be supporting each other in ways that would benefit both sectors as long as everyone is willing to cooperate. With radio still a dominant ...
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Is Pandora Prepared for the Launch of Beats Music?
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HypeBot
As Beats Music prepares for its big day tomorrow, other services like Spotify and Rdio have been preparing with pre-emptive strikes expanding free listening, a feature Beats Music will not have. Pandora's already free but they've been running a creative commercial campaign, last week added recommendations to ease that awkward “paralysis moment" and keep growing by multiple measures though there are some concerns about growth. With Beats coverage everywhere tomorrow should be a busy day for music industry watchers. Last ...
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Vinyl Pressing Plants in Short Supply
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HypeBot
With vinyl sales growing strongly over the last 6 years, it's not a surprise that vinyl pressing plants appear to be in short supply. Yet vinyl sales aren't enough to spark a resurgence of vinyl pressing equipment manufacturers and so, as some old equipment is sold for parts, the tools of the trade are also beginning to disappear. To make matters worse, most easy to find lists of vinyl pressing plants are out-of-date and incomplete. Vinyl's popularity has resulted in ...
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New Concept In Music Is Born - STEM
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Zzzing Agency
STEM is born. New concept in Musicland. Singer Themed Evocative Music STEM means different things in different languages: the stem of a flower, the stem of a note, the voice and more. These keywords are the corner stone to the musical arch that comprises STEM’s repertoire and singers. Our Mission: STEM aspires to be a universal platform for MUSIC, STEMming from the SINGER’s unique voice, creating EVOCATIVE MUSIC using text, melody or tempo as the STEM of the tune. Our ...
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