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Video: Spotify CEO Careful Not to Upset Labels
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HypeBot
Here's a video of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek speaking at the recent D:Dive into Mobile conference. If you've been following the Spotify story closely, in watching this interview, there's not much new to be learned. The thing that I found to be interesting about it is comparing how Sean Parker speaks publically about the service as compared to Daniel Ek. Parker has been more apt to say rather controversial statements with broiling confidence whereas Ek appears much more reserved. Ek ...
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Hot Club of Cowtown: What Makes Bob Holler
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JamBase
BAND TO APPEAR AT SXSW AND NPR MOUNTAIN STAGE Bob Wills has always been a core inspiration for the Hot Club of Cowtown's sound, but it has taken the Texas-based trio a dozen years to fully honor the King of Western swing. A fortuitous tour in England last spring led the band to London's Specific Sound studio, where they spent two days recording a 14-song marathon of only Bob Wills tunes. The result, What Makes Bob Holler, is a lively ...
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I Think We Could All Use "A Bit More Miles Davis"
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Miles Davis Online
Interesting business story on BusinessJournalism.org about Miles Davis and the effectiveness of his longtime association with the notion of 'cool.'
Alan Deutschman's article finds him at the Eleven Madison Park restaurant in New York. During a tour of the kitchen, he notices a large photograph of Miles Davis.
It turned out that four years earlier, a critic from the New York Observer, Moira Hodgson, had mentioned the trumpeter in her review, Madison Avenue Makeover: Star Chef Gives New Personality, ...
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A Four-Part New Year's Exercise for Musicians
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HypeBot
BY: Ariel Hyatt After traveling to eight countries this year, teaching master classes and speaking on panels the thing that stands out for me is:
How hard we can be on ourselves.
It's almost the end of the year, and it was a crazy year for most of us. Musicians and colleagues alike tell me that they were busier than ever before.
We have all had to come up with more creative ways to stay relevant and vital in the ...
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5 Things I Think About Every Day as a Professional Musician
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MusicianWages.com
If you were to take a look at my planner, you'd see no two days alike. I have a career that's filled with a great amount of variety. One day I'm playing musical theatre auditions, the next day I may be playing organ at a church, the next day I might have a songwriting session with a singer. Most of my musician friends are the same way—we all have many different kinds of gigs that fill up our weeks. But ...
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Leaksport: Why Your Music Just Ain't Safe Anymore...
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Digital Music News
The leak used to be a one-dimensional concept. You finished your music, and then it leaked ahead of street date. And everyone was stressing out. Then, things got really complicated. Not only were songs leaking, they also started leaking half-baked. Unfinished, raw, released by nefarious insiders. And totally and completely against the wishes of the artist. Dr. Dre and others have become resigned to the problem, but the animal is growing even more tentacles. Over in Germany, a pair of ...
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Music Has Been Reduced to a Set of Flow Charts.
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HypeBot
"Listening to music has historically made people feel free and let us revel in our subjectivity. By contrast, listening to Pandora makes you feel predictable. The first few times I tried Pandora and heard the new songs derived from my old songs, as clone puppies might be derived from a dead dog, I lost my fighting spirit." More Below: My path through this human civilization, my choices of things to like and not like, a path that I believed was ...
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