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Ticketleap Relaunches with Mobile Box Office and Easy Seating Chart Creation
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HypeBot
With the recent direct ticketing success of Louis CK ticketing is back on the news agenda. But ticketing has been an incredibly active area of development on the web all along. TicketLeap's recent relaunch is an example of both ongoing development in the ticketing industry and improvements in ticketing services. Beyond a site redesign, TicketLeap has introduced such improvements as a mobile box office and drag-and-drop seating chart creation to serve both event organizers and attendees. Philadelphia-based TicketLeap was founded ...
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'Solar' Wasn't by Miles Davis
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Who wrote what and when? This question pops up often when jazz fans try to figure out who composed their favorite jazz standards. And like most lamppost shadows that form in the dead of night, nothing is as it seems. For example, Richard Carpenter is credited as the composer of Walkin'. Yet little is known about Carpenter or his involvement in the song. Those familiar with Carpenter know that he was a music publisher whose name magically appears on songs ...
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Don't Look Back: Lawrence University Composer Pens Tribute To Baseball Legend Satchel Paige
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Rick Peterson
APPLETON, WIS. — On the mound, pitching legend Leroy “Satchel" Paige could make a baseball “sing." Lawrence University's award-winning composer and baseball lover Fred Sturm has combined his two passions in a musical tribute to the Hall of Famer. The Baseball Music Project is releasing “Don't Look Back," a newly commissioned work written by Lawrence's director of jazz studies and improvisational music that pays homage to the legendary pitcher and Negro Leagues superstar and some of his most celebrated quotes. ...
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This Label Earns Almost 80% of Revenue from Spotify
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Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. When a Swede talks about Spotify, it helps to have a grain of salt nearby. The freemium streaming service seems to be something of a matter of national pride over there. Some places, like England or Jamaica, invent major musical styles that traverse the world. Sweden produced the means with which some of the world's most fervent music fans now listen to that music. According to Swedish pop label Hybris, over the ...
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Comedian Louis CK Offers Music Industry 'How To'
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Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Lots of people are talking about whether electronic artists push one button or more than one button when they play live. Everyone else seems to be bickering about whether the kids today are immoral because they play videogames and stream music instead of dropping acid and seeing the Grateful Dead. You know who isn't talking? Ironically, because it's his job, Louis CK. He's too busy doing things like reinventing the media business, ...
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Soundexchange Digital Royalties Now Total $1 Billion
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SoundExchange announced today that it has reached a major milestone of one billion dollars in digital royalty payments to registered recording artists and record labels since the organization was founded in 2000. In the first quarter of 2012, $108.6 million in total royalties were distributed; marking the first time SoundExchange payouts exceeded $100 million in a given quarter. SoundExchange collects statutory royalties from satellite radio, Internet radio, cable TV music channels, and other services that stream sound recordings. It's the ...
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Redigi Allows Artists to Profit from the Resale of Their Digital Music
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Despite ongoing lawsuits from the major labels, Redigi, the controversial online marketplace for pre-owned digital music, has announced the launch of their “Artist Syndication Program." The program is designed to “directly support artists" by allowing them to profit from the resale of their music in the secondary market (ReDigi will share 20% of the transaction fee with the artist each time their track sells and resells). In order to avoid the resale of illegally acquired digital files, ReDigi's Verification Engine ...
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Herbert L. Clarke on Jazz
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
In 1921, 16-year-old trumpet student Elden E. Benge of Winterset, Iowa, wrote a letter to Herbert L. Clarke (pictured, right), asking advice. Clarke (1867-1945) was the most celebrated cornet soloist of his day, a veteran of John Phillip Sousa’s band and leader of his own concert bands. His recordings of marches and adaptations of classical pieces rang out in living rooms in the days when Victrolas were the iPods of the early twentieth century. Clarke’s method books of technical and ...
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