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Visit the new Freedom Jazz Dance website
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Ken Hohman
Dig fresh new jazz reviews, listen to rare jazz tracks and keep the jazz conversation going at the new Freedom Jazz Dance website! Jazz DJ and writer Ken Hohman is pleased to announce that the new Freedom Jazz Dance website is live and online at www.freedomjazzdance.net. Pay a visit today and dig through the ear and eye candy created for the first installment of this one-of-a-kind Mini Jazz Webzine. The WebMag #1 for 2011 features...
FJD Featured Recording of the ...
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Crowdbands: A Fan-Sourced Record Label - Fans Buy-in and Help Make Creative Decisions
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HypeBot
Crowdbands is a fan-sourced record label that lets fans in on discussions and creative decisions surrounding the release of an album. Currently, The Donnas have partnered up with the site and are letting fans determine the nature of a partnership between them and Joan Jett. Should The Donnas record one of her classics or should they make an original with Jett? It's your choice. If that is, you're a fan that's willing to pay the membership fee of $25 per ...
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Fanbridge Grabs $2 Million, Acquires Damntheradio
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HypeBot
FanBridge has acquired damntheradio. This will extend the fan relationship management tools that the company offers to encompass a Facebook too. This news comes as FanBridge closed a $2 million Series A financing round. FanBridge has also taken damntheradio out of private beta and launched a fully self-serve version of the product. Artists will now be able to create their own media-rich Facebook fan pages using the service. All of the damntheradio founders will be joining the FanBridge team full-time and be ...
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Spotify Closes First U.S. Deal with Sony
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HypeBot
Last week, rumors surfaced that Spotify was close to a U.S. deal with Sony. That rumor has turned out to be true. Sony has finally signed up with Spotify. Before they launch in the U.S. though, Spotify will need support from at least two other labels, one of which needs to be Universal, as they're the largest. Reports indicate that the terms in the Sony deal is favorable, allowing them to offer a service similar to the one they have ...
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News Alert: Major Labels Discover Common Sense Thwarts Music Piracy Almost Every Time
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HypeBot
After reading the news that Universal and Sony Music plan to use “instant singles" as an effort to curve music piracy several times, I feel like the major labels have discovered common sense. Sadly, not even for the right reasons. The article clearly states that they believe this move will show ministers that they're “playing their part in fighting copyright theft." The omission that they're making is that this looks good and hopefully makes them more money. If their new ...
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Fair Trade Coffee, Meet Fair Trade Music - Where They Cut out the Evil Middlemen Too
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HypeBot
Another day, another artist community launches. Fair Trade Music is a new site that strives to step aside from the music industry and cut out the middlemen in it. Donations can be made to artists. They keep 100% of the money. This way, artists who don't want to sign with the big bad record labels can thrive through direct support from their loyal audience. Artists will also be able to notify fans of their concert listings and other such happenings. ...
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Why Labels Abandoned A&R...
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Digital Music News
The following is a guest post by Ritch Esra of the Music Business Registry. Esra attempts to answer the question: whatever happened to traditional A&R? “My take is that the traditional A&R process as we've known it is dying for a few reasons;
(1) The major labels are hiring fewer and fewer A&R executives because the volume of acts—and more importantly the types of acts—being signed have dramatically decreased. The A&R process used to be about the discovery, signing & ...
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