Music Industry News

Best Place To See Jazz In Vegas

Source: Barbara
December 26, 2010

Jazz joints come and go in Vegas. There are casino rooms and clubs that offer jazz, but there's so much gaming going on, it's hard to enjoy live jazz as an art form. The sound of the slots and people excited by their winnings take away from the experience of enjoying the music. Even most smaller venues and bars have gaming, and musicians & jazz fans alike agree it's not the best jazz environment. Now comes The Freakin' Frog (Freakin' ...

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What's Ahead for 2011? Bob Baker: The Real World is Going to Meet Mobile and the Internet.

Source: HypeBot
December 23, 2010

As we end the year, Hypebot asked some our favorite thinkers, writers, and friends to answer two questions—one looking forward and the other back. Here Bob Baker, author of the “Guerrilla Music Marketing" book series and music marketing teacher at Berkleemusic.com, answers. Hypebot: What do you see as the most important business and consumer trends that will shape the music industry in 2011? Bob Baker: One technology trend that will affect music marketing is something I call “Real World meets ...

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The Doors Respond to Florida's Pardon of Jim Morrison

Source: JamBase
December 23, 2010

40 YEARS AFTER MEDIA AND COURT CIRCUS, THE DOORS SPEAK OUT In the wake of Florida's decision to issue a pardon to Jim Morrison of The Doors more than 40 years after his alleged obscene acts on a Miami stage, his bandmates Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger issued this statement: “In 1969 the Doors played an infamous concert in Miami, Florida. Accounts vary as to what actually happened on stage that night. Whatever took place that night ended ...

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Berklee and the Pat Patrick Collection

Source: The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
December 23, 2010

One of the sweeter stories from 2010—on more than one front—was Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's donation of his father's collection to Berklee College of Music. Saxophonist Pat Patrick, who passed on to ancestry in 1991, came of age musically in Chicago's rich jazz cauldron. He's one of several mighty saxophonists who matriculated through the legendary Captain Walter Dyett's DuSable High School Band; his classmates included Clifford Jordan, John Gilmore and John Jenkins, along with Julian Priester and Richard Davis. Patrick ...

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BMG Wants to Get Back in the Record Business by Buying EMI

Source: HypeBot
December 22, 2010

With Citigroup reportedly on the verge of taking over EMI, potential buyers have begun circling and one surprise potential buyer has emerged as a front runner. BMG, former owner RCA Records and then partner in Sony BMG, got out of the recorded music business by selling its stake to Sony. Since then, BMG has invested in several publishing catalogs and had been thought want to add EMI's deep publishing holdings. That was until BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch spoke to Music ...

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Looking Back on 2010? Brian Hazard: More People Bought and Stole My Music Than Ever Before

Source: HypeBot
December 22, 2010

As we end the year, Hypebot asked some our favorite thinkers, writers, and friends to answer two questions—one looking forward and the other back.  Here Brian Hazard of Color Theory and Passive Promotion answers. Hypebot: What do you see as the most important business and consumer trends that will shape the music industry in 2011? Brian Hazard: The US launch of Spotify, and competing services from Apple and Google, will catalyze the inevitable shift from music ownership to rental. As ...

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Toolshed Media Partners With Music Allies To Expand Services And Offer Integrated Marketing Services

Source: Michael Ricci
December 22, 2010

(NEW YORK, NY)—Toolshed Media announced today that it has joined forces with marketing pioneer Sean O'Connell and Asheville, NC-based Music Allies. Together, Music Allies and Toolshed are focused on providing music, festival, and film clients with a results-based approach to marketing. Music Allies and Toolshed will create customized campaigns for clients utilizing a mix of online promotion and marketing, visual design, publicity, radio marketing, brand involvement, direct-to-fan marketing, and event integration. “Sean and the Music Allies team have a long-term ...

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Money Well Squandered: UMG Dumped $790,000 on Lobbying in Q3...

Source: Digital Music News
December 21, 2010

Mmmmm.... is this the best use of precious funds? According to the latest filings, Universal Music Group dropped a whopping $790,000 in lobbying expenses during the third quarter alone. That brings the 2010 total to $2.58 million, an amount that already eclipses the entire 2009 tally $2.38 million.

Of course, this is not the flushest of times for UMG, or any other label for that matter. But proponents would point to needed Congressional action on issues like piracy, and progress ...

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