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Acquired Taste: Wolfgang's Vault Buys Paste Magazine...
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Digital Music News
Do you read Paste Magazine? Or, any paper magazine, for that matter? Well, there's still a crowd for this, and Paste hasa considerable online presence. Certainly, this is a tough space (trust us), though Wolfgang's Vault thinks some opportunity exists here. “The parent company of Wolfgang's Vault... has acquired all assets of Paste Magazine," confirmed Paste cofounder and editor-in-chief Josh Jackson. Those assets include pastemagazine.com, a fairly well-trafficked site that also ties into the @PasteMagazine Twitter account. But the post-acquisition ...
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#Midem 2011 - Music Hack Day, More Deals and News
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HypeBot
Updated. A Music Hack Day at the music industry convention most heavily influenced by the major labels? It happened because MIDEM brought the Hack Day team to Cannes; and an eclectic group of international hackers showed an overflow crowd the kind of fun and useful music tech that can be created in 24 hours. Key to most of the creations was the open API's of a few forward thinking companies like The Echo Nest, Soundcloud, Music Brains and Last.fm. My ...
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Good News For LA's Jazz Community
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Chuck Koton
The jazz community has, too often, endured bad news. This sad reality recently manifested in the deaths of legends James Moody, Lena Horne, Billy Taylor and Buddy Collette, among others. The loss of the music's great instrumentalists and vocalists to the ravages of time and disease is, of course, inevitable, though no less painful. Like these beautiful and talented human beings, night clubs and jazz radio stations, too, have come and gone. The Three Deuces, Birdland, the Village Gate, the ...
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Casting New Lives Signs Gordon Goodwin and The Big Phat Band
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Michael Ricci
Casting New Lives is pleased to announce that we now represent Gordon Goodwin and his Big Phat Band! “We are honored to represent an artist of Gordon's stature," said Brinka Rauh of CNL. Gordon and the Big Phat Band have a new CD being release in April on Concord Jazz. CNL will be booking Gordon's national tour to coincide with the album release. Gordon Goodwin is an Emmy and Grammy winning composer and is leader of the acclaimed Big Phat ...
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The Music Bay - A Good Reason to be Scared
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HypeBot
The Pirate Bay crew has a surprise for the music industry. A few years back they registered a domain name, themusicbay.org, but haven't done anything with it. That could change soon. In an interview with TorrentFreak, a Pirate Bay insider warned, “The music industry can't even imagine what we're planning to roll out in the coming months. For years they've complained bitterly about piracy, but if they ever had a reason to be scared it is now." At the time that ...
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Universal Cuts 50, WMG and EMI Sale Rumors Grow. but at the Top, They're Playing Musical Chairs
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HypeBot
The major label roller coaster ride has intensified over the last few days with a series of staff cuts, executive changes and sale rumors that should radically shift the major label landscape. But will they lead to real change? Last week, new UMG CEO Lucian Grainge began his reign with 50+ staff cut across the U.S. operation. Finance, IT and administrative services appear to be the heaviest hit. Over at Warner Music Group, CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. seems to be ...
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Will Google Music Offer Full Song Previews?
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The central appeal of Google Music is that it will allow fans to buy music within the company's search engine. Rather than fans seeing solely YouTube videos, Wikipedia entries, and lyrics - as well as torrents - when they search for an artist or song in Google, they'll now be able to purchase music too. However, when a fan goes to purchase a song and they want to preview it first, how long will the stream be? Will fans be limited to ...
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