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Here's Why Amazon Picked a Fight with the Labels
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HypeBot
Some are writing volumes about how the labels are going to force Amazon to license their new Cloud Player and Cloud storage locker. The real story is that Amazon already intended to. But in meetings late last week, they told the major labels that they were about to launch what they believe they already could—a place for people to store digital files in the cloud. Beating Google and Apple to the music cloud certainly felt good, but it's not why ...
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5 Lessons That the Latin Jazz World Can Learn from Rebecca Black During Jazz Appreciation Month
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Our calendars turn towards April tomorrow bringing with them a yearly tradition, Jazz Appreciation Month. It's thirty government-sanctioned days that are officially dedicated to the history and future of everything associated with jazz. Some of us celebrate jazz 365 days a year, and for us, Jazz Appreciation Month seems a bit redundant. We can easily turn a deaf ear to the proceedings and wonder why the world doesn't share our daily passion for jazz. It's important to remember that most ...
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Sonicbids CEO Tells the Industry, "Let's Share!" Any Takers?
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Digital Music News
Sonicbids CEO Panos Panay wants this industry to share information—not hoard it—and build a bigger industry in the process. That means pooling data related to artist revenue sources, DIY tools, touring, desired products, and whatever else matters to this early-stage industry. “Let's get together, and do a joint survey of our memberships and derive some meaningful information," Panos told Digital Music News during a recent interview (video below). “Because at the end of the day, we're all in this together—none ...
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The Ecosystem Approach: Introducing Non-Linear Music Marketing for the Digital Age
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HypeBot
This post is by Bas Grasmayer (@Spartz), communication advisor for official.fm and new music business thesis student. Over the course of the last two years, I've been intensively researching and writing about the new music business for my bachelor thesis about this topic. My main frustration with most advice I saw (and still see) popping up on the web, is that it's incomplete. Some of the advice is good, some of it not so good, but none of it is ...
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The Post Consumption Fan Meets Amazon Locker
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HypeBot
The race to the cloud heated up yesterday as Amazon jumped the gun on Google and Apple and got a running start. Expect responses from the latter companies soon. This increased emphasis on music lockers, however, could have unintended consequences that actually make the record industry worse off than if they had embraced Spotify and others with open arms. Once fans have a cheap way to access their MP3s—long before they've grown accustomed to supplementing them with streams—they may not ...
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Jazz Around Town: And the Thaw Begins...
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Jazz@Rochester
Thursday, March 31, 2011 Live Jazz Jam with ESM Students @ Triple Deuces Bar & Grill, 6:00 pm A. Giannavola @Lemoncello, 6:00 pm Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm The Djangoners @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Friday, April 1, 2011 Stefan Love public lecture & dissertation defense, “On Phrase Rhythm in Jazz" @ Eastman School of Music, Room 209, 9:00 am Live Jazz Jam with ESM ...
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Rockethub Co-Founders Brian Meece and Vlad Vukicevic on Branding Partnerships
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We All Make Music
About two weeks ago, we tipped you off to the existence of Rockethub's inaugural Launchpad Opportunity, a branded competition of sorts featuring Gibson. With just a few days to go, we decided to chat with Rockethub's co-founders about their foray into the world of band-brand matchmaking. Thus far, their competition's attracted a wide range of performers—ukelele players and classically-trained pianists, would-be pop starlets and polymath singer songwriters—and many votes from many different crowds of people. Rockethub's co-founders Brian Meece, Vlad ...
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Billboard Targets Indie Artists with New Pro Service
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HypeBot
Billboard has launched a new subscription-based service that targets indie artists and their entourage. The service, Billboard Pro, offers personalized artist analytics that track online and social network activity, airplay, and sales, among other things. Subscribers also gain access to editorial that focuses on artist-focused how-to's guides, case studies, and industry profiles. Members also gain access to opportunities to perform and participate at Billboard events and conferences, and may even have their music selected to play for a weekly playlist on ...
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