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Sonicbids and Songtrust Partner for D.I.Y Publishing
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HypeBot
Later today Sonicbds further expands its artist services offering with the addition of a new Songtrust app within each artist's account. The app will help members manage their music publishing rights inexpensively and without the help of a publisher. Songtrust, developed by Downtown Music, simplifies song registration and royalty collections, and is on its way to becoming for d.y.i. music publishing what Tunecore is for digital distribution. Within the app users can also maximize licensing opportunities and track where their ...
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The Official Music Industry Launch Calendar - Plus: Six Reasons to be Excited for Music in 2011
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HypeBot
2011 will be the year that defines the trajectory of digital music. The developments that everyone has been waiting for are on their way. In the past few months, launch dates for Spotify, Apple in the Cloud, Slacker On-Demand, and Sony's Music Unlimited have been confirmed. As well, the major court decision in the EMI vs. MP3tunes is two to six months away. If MP3tunes wins, companies like Google Music and Apple will not have to pay extra royalties when ...
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Dig the Freedom Jazz Dance WebMagShow Volume 2
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Ken Hohman
Slake your appetite for new jazz, rare jazz, jazz reviews and extemporaneous jazz comments at the Volume 2, 2011 Edition of the Freedom Jazz Dance website. Pay a visit to freedomjazzdance.net today and dig through the ear and eye candy I've created in the second installment of this one-of-a-kind Mini Jazz Webzine & Show. FJD WebMag #2 for 2011 features...
FJD Featured Recording of the month by Hadley Caliman & Pete Christlieb FJD Dusty Gems—listen to this month's rare recordings ...
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The Creativity Never Ceases
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
The Montreal International Jazz Festival's innovative programming is one of the creative charms that keeps jazz fans coming back for more. Every year, there's a new twist or musical pairing that makes its presentations stand apart from other venues. It's a staggering jazz festival just in the quantity of its 600 or so performances. But the quality puts it over the top as what I consider the world's finest jazz festival. It runs like clockwork, draws most of its audience ...
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Why Would Anyone Want to Acquire a Label, Anyway?
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Digital Music News
Wall Street was jumping on another rumor today—this time, that WMG is being more aggressively shopped. Haven't we heard this one before? Of course we have, though the latest—courtesy of the New York Post—suggests that Bronfman and company are jockeying to sell their label before Citigroup can sell theirs. So this is how it ends? We've heard a lot of mismatched rumors on this, though the Post is now pointing to the presence of 20 different potential WMG buyers, many ...
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The Perils of Music Industry Criticism
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HypeBot
Wesley Verhoeve of Family Records was kind enough to remind me via Twitter that if you say bad things about the major labels often enough, it's important to balance out your criticism with some solutions. Well, Mr. Verhoeve I'm working on it. For the last couple weekends, I've dedicated my writing and time to figuring out the problems with cloud-based music subscriptions. To me, they are an essential part of the next music business or whatever we call it now. ...
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Why Music Keeps Us Coming Back for More
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HypeBot
"Music itself can be identified as a language. Every language has structure, each with a set of grammatical rules put into place for correct communication. Yet beyond structure music also has the ability to create feelings and emotions without a verbal context. Music, like words, has the ability to make us cry, enlighten and transcend us. By alternating the pitch, rhythm and tempo, we are subsequently intrigued by these violations in communicating through music, which leaves us coming back for ...
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Guitar Hero Franchise Dies, Music Industry Loses
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HypeBot
Activision has terminated the division that designed Guitar Hero and it's follow-ups. Since 2005, there have been roughly twelve titles in the franchise. That's six main titles and six expansions. Warriors of Rock, the most recent title, sold fewer than 100,000 copies during its debut month. Due to market saturation and diminishing novelty, the music video game series grew stagnate in recent years and failed to achieve financial projections. While some musicians and critics will dance on the grave of ...
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