Music Industry News

Bandmix Improves Musicians Classifieds

Source: HypeBot
July 29, 2011

Bandmix is a fairly simple classifieds service featuring musicians seeking other musicians with which to play. While other features are offered, including an active forum section, the musicians listings seem to be the key focus. There are plenty of listings and searches by location and by instruments revealed quite a bit of diversity so that ups the chance of Bandmix being a useful service for you if you're seeking other musicians. Bandmix focuses on the U.S. with additional sites for ...

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Rob Perry, the Face of Jazz Alley, Soon to Retire

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
July 28, 2011

“Rob is a jewel," says longtime Seattle jazz patron David Marriott Sr. of Rob Perry, the svelte, silver-haired manager of Dimitriou's Jazz Alley for the past 27 years. “After you come down those stairs, you know you've got a good friend there. He's going to take care of you. He sets the tone." Perry, 60, the public face of Seattle's signature jazz institution (the 32-year-old club is owned by John Dimitriou) is retiring at the end of July. For two ...

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Jazz Around Town: Out of Town, but Not out of Mind...

Source: Jazz@Rochester
July 28, 2011

Thursday, July 28, 2011 Wine & Jazz: The Swooners @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 5:30 pm The John Pallocy Trio (Jazz Dawgs) @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm The Groove Dogs @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm

Friday, July 29, 2011 Johnny Matt Band with Jon Seiger @ Wegmans Eastway, 5:30 pm Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes @ Glengarry Inn at Eagle Vale, 4400 Nine Mile Point Road, Rt ...

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Oh, It's On: Eventbrite Now Selling in Ticketmaster's Backyard...

Source: Digital Music News
July 27, 2011

If you purchased Warped Tour tickets this year, you probably went through Ticketmaster. Except if you went to the recently-staged event in Ventura, CA, where Eventbrite stealthily injected itself as an experimental ticketing provider. Pretty sneaky, huh? Well, if the strategy is to chip away at the behemoth, it seems to be working. The Ventura gig actually happened on the 3rd, though the various parties were very happy with the deal—andrecently agreed to say it out loud. “Partnering with Eventbrite ...

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Steely Dan | Santa Barbara | Review | Pics

Source: JamBase
July 26, 2011

By L. Paul Mann Steely Dan :: 07.06.11 :: Santa Barbara Bowl :: Santa Barbara, CA July 6th was an unusually crisp and warm evening in Santa Barbara with light Santa Ana winds buffeting the hillsides above the city. It was a perfect summer evening for a concert by the veteran jazz rock fusion band Steely Dan. As the sunset faded to twilight, the 11-piece Miles High Big Band and the Embassy Brats began an impressive jam introduction of an ...

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Did You Know? 2010 Was the Worst Decline Ever for the Concert Industry...

Source: Digital Music News
July 23, 2011

It's worse than you think. “2010... was the single largest year-over-year decline in the history of the live event business, straight up, in the 35 year history of Ticketmaster and I think anywhere else," said Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard in a weekend interview with Topspin head Ian Rogers. “You have to take a step back and say, 'why? what is the fan telling us that isn't right about the business?'"

Is this becoming a broken model? Indeed, a look at ...

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ASCAP Licenses Turntable.FM. Will Others?

Source: HypeBot
July 22, 2011

Turntable.fm is a big hit, and offer many opportunities for fan engagement. But many wondered if it was legal.  Since launch turntable.fm has been operating in a grey area of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A new deal with ASCAP moves the site a long way towards full legitimacy.  With the explosion of digital music services that do not fit easily into previous licensing patterns, performing rights organizations and some rightsholders are finally starting to respond with new more flexible ...

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Digital Music Price Fixing Class Action Lawsuit Against Major Labels Moves Forward

Source: HypeBot
July 21, 2011

A consolidated class action lawsuit claiming that the major labels fixed prices on digital music will move forward, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled on Monday. The suit contends that the major labels signed agreements with joint-venture entities MusicNet and Pressplay containing a hidden Favored Nation clause guaranteeing that each recieved equal terms. According to the filing, digital retailers, like eMusic, that originally agree to the Favored Nation terms were shut out by the major labels. Defendants include labels that ...

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