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Dear Kyle, Music Discovery is Neither a Lie nor a Path to Failure
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HypeBot
By Paul Lamere, the Director of Developer Platform at The Echo Nest. He blogs at Music Machinery. This week, the usually excellent Hypebot published a post by Kyle Bylin called Music Discovery: The Path to Digital Failure. In this post, Kyle takes issue with a recent Billboard article about how music discovery is one of the key areas in the new music business. Kyle pulls no punches. He says “Music Discovery is a lie that is never going to come ...
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Donald Fagen: 'Sunken Condos'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
For many fans of Steely Dan, Donald Fagen's snake-skin voice is the sound of college, the start of intellectual life and newly won independence from parents' clutches. Today, he's Neptune of a sub-rosa region where jazz, R&B and rock intersect. In this funk-rock world, horns come and go, a harmonica wails, a rock guitar weeps, a Hammond organ mutters, the beat is vinyl, and lyrics are about sound textures, wordplay and imagery. “There's a crateful of lead-line pipes/A photo of ...
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Unlimited Myles Signs Gillian Friedman As Booking Associate
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Myles Weinstein
Unlimited Myles, the eleven year old jazz boutique booking agency, which represents such award-winning artists as Kenny Barron, Stefon Harris, the Yellowjackets, Vijay Iyer, Regina Carter, Billy Childs, Jane Monheit, {{Luciana Souza and Dr. Lonnie Smith has signed Gillian Friedman as Booking Associate. In this role Ms. Friedman will be working with presenters, both in North America and internationally. Gillian received a Bachelor of Arts in Music with distinction from the University of Rochester (May 2012). Immediately following her graduation, ...
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Tunezy Pivots from Social Record Label to Unique ecommerce Platform for Musicians
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HypeBot
Tunezy is an ecommerce platform for musicians featuring music merch, “experiences" and web concerts. Musicians can sell from their own pages with widgets for social network sites. It's a smart combination of product offerings and a smart move away from what was initially described as a “social record label." Tunezy only recently launched to the general public but is now open to fans and musicians. Earlier this year they won an investment competition, received funding from Intertainment Media and were ...
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Ourstage Launches Unique Revenue Sharing Program for Musicians
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HypeBot
Music discovery and social platform OurStage.com has announced OurStage Pro, a new membership service that pays artists for song spins through a rather unique revenue sharing program. Pro allows artists to get paid when fans listen to their music on OurStage.com, on their own site, or on social media. For $2 dollars per month, artists become OurStage Pro members and begin promoting their music on the website and through an embeddable player provided by the company to monetize their work. Whenever fans listen ...
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Virgil Guitars Create The Most Elaborate Custom Made Guitars Ever Built
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Tampa, FL - An artist and guitarist since the 1970's, Virgil Mandanici set out to make guitars that would be exceptional in tone and playability first and foremost. After 35 years of playing guitar, he decided it was time to craft guitars that would feel, play and look better than anything anyone has ever played before – thus Virgil Guitars was born! As a master craftsman,Virgil has drawn his building career from several luthiers over the past couple years to ...
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Jazz St. Louis Announces Winter/Spring Bookings for Jazz at the Bistro
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz St. Louis has announced additional bookings for this winter and spring at Jazz at the Bistro. Singer-songwriter Javier Mendoza's Latin Jazz Experiment will be the first local/regional act to play the Bistro in 2013, returning on Friday, January 11 and Saturday, January 12. Two weeks later, multi-instrumentalist Lamar Harris and singer/trumpeter Dawn Weber will team up for performances on Friday, January 25 and Saturday, January 26. Next up, The Wee Trio, formed in NYC but featuring former St. Louisan ...
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New Jazz Venue Opening in Central West End
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
A new venue for live jazz in St. Louis is opening in the Central West End. Located at 4519 Olive - a bit east of Kingshighway, and not far from what once was Gaslight Square - Troy's Jazz Gallery is the latest venture from Troy Williams, who from 1999 to the early 2000s operated a live music spot near Lafayette Square called Troy's on the Park. After that, Williams ran the bar Filter, located in the CWE where the Tavern ...
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