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Culture Coin: Creative Currency Competes in Business Unusual National Challenge
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Alternative currencies can take many forms from Bitcoin to the credits given within gamified social networks to local exchange systems. One such system for exchanging arts-related labor and skills for similar skills or resources is the Culture Coin, a project of HowlRound currently competing in the Business Unusual National Challenge. Culture Coin is described (via @shadesofsolveig) as “an alternative currency, a bit like frequent flyer miles": “Say a playwright wants to organize a reading of a new script, but has ...
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Top Ad Agency Edelman Tells Brands How to Engage the Ever-Evolving Music Fan
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As music consumption continues to evolve, money from big brands has become increasingly important. Sponsorships, licensing, ongoing initiatives like Converse's Fader Fort and more, all help power the modern music industry's engine. Just ask Jay Z who nabbed $5 million from Samsung for 1 million copies of his latest album. But are brands benefiting from their relationship with music? Top as agency Edelman offers 5 ways that they can: 1. Fish where the fish are - “In a fragmented music ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, August 2-8
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Hard to believe August is here already! Seems the Jazz Festival was just last week. But we're enjoying some very decent weather , so let's there be jazz, inside and out! This coming week offers many opportunities to enjoy some of our amazing veterans. Big Gigs This Week Friday, August 2. You have your pick of two well-established vocalists among the choices tonight. At the Artists Quarter, the always-entertaining, soulful spitfire Debbie Duncan graces the stage, most likely in the ...
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Motema Takes Flight With Steady Stream of Breakthrough Albums
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Motéma Music's tenth anniversary year is in full swing, and as the summer heats up, the Harlem-based label has much cause for celebration. The month of July kicked off with vibraphonist Joe Locke's May release Lay Down My Heart, spending two weeks in the #1 slot on the Jazz Week chart. For the week of July 1, Motéma held the distinction of having the most albums of any label on Jazz Week's chart, with six of the top 50 albums ...
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Grammy Winning Producer Walter Afanasieff on the de-Evolution of the Music Industry
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Jessica Blankenship is a writer and media manager at Muzooka (muzooka.com, @muzooka). You know the story: for every huge hit song that you hate your brain for holding onto, there is a team of people responsible for its creation. And while that remains as true as it's ever been, exactly how those hits are created is vastly different these days compared to, say, 20 years ago. As huge supporters of trying to recreate the excitement of organic artist discovery in ...
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Bang on a Can All-Stars Announce Ken Thomson as New Clarinetist
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Jensen Artists
Bang on a Can, New York’s innovative and energetic champion of new music, officially announced the new clarinetist for its “All-Star” lineup. The Bang on a Can All-Stars have become a singular vehicle for visionary composition over the course of the last 20 years, and with the addition of Ken Thomson will continue to set the standard for exciting and virtuosic performances. Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe welcomed Ken Thomson with this statement: “We are thrilled to welcome ...
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New York City's Pedrito Martinez Group Signs with Motéma Music
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The charismatic Pedrito Martinez Group - a veritable 'Latino Fab Four' - who met and started playing together at the Guantanamera restaurant in New York City five years ago, is led by the much in-demand Cuban percussion wizard Pedrito Martinez. Pedrito has performed on over 100 recordings, including Eddie Palmieri and Bryan Lynch's 2010 Grammy®-winner Sympatico; was a member of the Grammy®-nominated fusion band Yerba Buena; and has played with greats such as Sting, Paul Simon and Wynton Marsalis. Co-featured ...
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