Music Industry News

2010 Highlights: Best Guest Posts

Source: We All Make Music
December 21, 2010

Ever since this site launched back in March, we've spent a lot of time trying to solicit expert advice.

As a new site, this can be difficult. People had no idea who we were, and they were upset by our constant begging, by our late night phone calls, by the oil-smeared, battered boxes we'd leave on their doorsteps without return addresses.

But eventually, we did manage to convince some amazing people to sign on. A musician and producer who's worked ...

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Maya Beiser - Provenance

Source: Something Else!
December 21, 2010

By Mark Saleski It's amazing to look back at the Golden Age of Spain (9th to 15th century) with modern eyes. In this era, the idea of multiculturalism has become loaded with political import (both good and bad), making it tough to accept the idea of so many diverse cultures working together as anything more than an aberration. On Provenance, cellist Maya Beiser's goal was to work with the spirit of that age, bringing it into the 21st century. It ...

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Jazz News: A New Addition to the Louis Armstrong House Museum

Source: Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
December 21, 2010

A story in the Wall Street Journal provides details about a planned new visitor's center at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. It will house the entire Armstrong collection. What a Wonderful House In Queens, the Louis Armstrong House Museum Trumpets Its Namesake Anew By Will Friedwald Louis Armstrong has been gone for nearly 40 years, but there's still little doubt that he is regarded as the single most important figure in jazz, and perhaps all of American ...

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Unsigned Treasures: Erik Hartley - Not Me Being Nervous

Source: Something Else!
December 20, 2010

By Nick DeRiso Erik Hartley can't decide about things, and that uncertainty creates an interesting tension on the new EP Not Me Being Nervous. The in-joke ends up being that he's anything but “not nervous." Hartley, instead, couldn't be less settled, with looming questions about girls, about life, about getting back some piece of himself after the day's many small indignities. No surprise, then, that the Boston-based guitarist works alone here, fashioning a sound that's somewhere between the me-generation singer-songwriter ...

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Riffing the Jazz Links: A Random Romp Around the Jazz Internet....

Source: Jazz@Rochester
December 20, 2010

I can't give you gifts for the holidays, so I'll share some links. I've looked in the pile of links I've gathered over the past months and came up with a few for you.  I'd love to get down to NYC for the2011 Winter Jazz Fest, which happens in five West Village venues on January 7-8 (until 4am each night). Last year's sounded like a lot of fun and a chance to see some of the newest sounds in jazz ...

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End of Year Roundup: Our Friends' Bests

Source: We All Make Music
December 18, 2010

All week, we've been hitting you with some top-shelf reviews of all the wonderful things that have been done by and happened for independent musicians. This is the recap.

Some of you have been following this series since Monday, but a quick rehash of what's going on here: we invited friends at Tight Mix, CD Baby's DIY Musician blog, Mic Control, The Musician's Guide to World Domination, and Rockethub to recognize and celebrate some of the cool things that have ...

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Top 50 Most Read Music Think Tank Posts in 2010

Source: HypeBot
December 18, 2010

Similar to yesterday's most read Hypebot news stories, this is a look at the top Music Think Tank posts in 2010. There's some invaluable advice being churned out by these great authors. If you have a minute, glance through this great list of insights and marketing advice. This listing is also organized by pageviews. Take a look: How to Write a Music Business Plan . Bob Marley: The Transformative Sound of Selling Out . Avoid These Mistakes! 15 Critical Marketing ...

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Google: The Last of the Giant Music Industry Scams...

Source: Digital Music News
December 17, 2010

Startups used to die for a meeting with the majors. That is, before they actually died. Because once they got that meeting, they'd call their investors and pay a massive ransom for the right to license label content. Either that, or they'd be crying uncle under the weight of a mighty major label lawsuit. It wasn't a business model, it was a scam. And it lasted for afew years before completely drying up. Investors got the memo, they figured it ...

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