Music Industry News

Are You Media Ready?

Source: We All Make Music
December 9, 2010

[This guest post was written by Jem Bahaijoub, the founder of Imagine PR, a music marketing and PR agency based in Washington, D.C.]

If you can't afford the luxury of a publicist, dealing with the media can be a daunting, even overwhelming task.

But it is also a necessary one, and to make the process bearable, there are a number of things you must do BEFORE you can approach music journalists. Here are a handful of tips:

Research, Research, Research! ...

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"1st Annual Jazz Ghoul-Athon"

Source: Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
December 9, 2010

By Steve Provizer Ah, the elevation of John Lennon to sainthood. He did co-write and write some great songs. He was also occasionally a creep and often ah, not what he appeared to be. That said, my teeth are set on edge by the “where were you when Lennon died“ tweets, blog posts, etc.; a ghoulish piggy-backing on boomer nostalgia. Well, two can play at that game, I-gor. Welcome to the First Annual Jazz Ghoul-athon. Answers are offered, but creative ...

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Chicago's Velvet Lounge Closed in Family Dispute

Source: AAJ Staff
December 9, 2010

The Velvet Lounge, a Near South Side jazz club admired around the world as home base for the late Chicago tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, has been closed in a dispute among Anderson's survivors.

The staff of the club walked out last week, in support of Jasmine Sebaggala and Rasminee Harris, Anderson's granddaughters, who have been managing the jazz shrine since the saxophonist's death last June, at age 81.

Sebaggala and Harris ceded control of the room, at 67 E.Cermak Rd., ...

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Spotify U.S. Launch Stalled Again

Source: HypeBot
December 9, 2010

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek declined to comment on the U.S. launch of his company at the recent D:Dive into Mobile conference. This has led to speculation that the much hoped for arrival of Spotify might not be coming this year. The reason for the delay appears to be rooted in licensing and negotiation problems of the free side of the service. Ek said, however, that when it does launch here, the service will cost $10 a month and that free ...

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70% Thumbplay Users Stop File-Sharing Their Music.

Source: HypeBot
December 9, 2010

What stops fans from file-sharing music? According to a new study released by Thumbplay, a cloud-based music service, 70% of their users stopped file-sharing music upon engaging with Thumbplay Music. Out of a pool of 500 respondents, that leaves 150 who—even after gaining access to more than 10 million songs—still desire to use P2P music services. This indicates that, for the most avid fans, a void in the market exists. Unlimited, on-demand access to music isn't enough to quench their ...

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Myspace CEO is Not Interested in Selling Music

Source: HypeBot
December 9, 2010

Some surprising news from the CEO of a company openly for sale by parent NewsCorp for not producing profits: “My goal is you come to MySpace, you listen to some new bands and connect to those bands," MySpace CEO Mike Jones told LeWeb conference in Paris this morning.  “I don't wanna be the place that replaces iTunes. I wanna be the place where you learn about music and then take that to wherever your music consumption happens."  The company is, ...

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Video: Spotify CEO Careful Not to Upset Labels

Source: HypeBot
December 9, 2010

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

Source: JamBase
December 9, 2010

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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