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Dubspot Founder Dan Giove on How to Set Yourself Apart as DJ

Source: We All Make Music
September 8, 2010

In the past couple of years, DJ culture has become totally demystified. Thanks to a variety of developments, DJing is no longer shadowy or mysterious. In theory, anybody can do it. You can do it with iPods. You can do it with CDs. You can do it with iPads. You can do it online. You can even DJ with video game controllers! Yet as the mystique surrounding DJ culture has faded away, its cache has swelled almost immeasurably. Expanded access ...

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Yellowjackets Sign with Mack Avenue Records

Source: AAJ Staff
September 8, 2010

Announced at the 2010 Detroit International Jazz Festival Mack Avenue Records is proud to announce the signing of Grammy® award winning jazz group, the Yellowjackets. The signing was made official at the 2010 Detroit International Jazz Festival, where the group headlined on the Carhartt Amphitheatre Stage. Comprised of saxophonist Bob Mintzer, keyboardist Russell Ferrante, bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer Will Kennedy (who was a member of the group from 1986-1998 and returned this year), the group joins the Mack Avenue ...

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How to Launch a Music Startup: Market Size

Source: HypeBot
September 8, 2010

This post is part of the How To Launch a Music Startup series by Brenden Mulligan, which focuses on building a company that creates online products for musicians. Mulligan founded ArtistData, which was recently acquired by Sonicbids, and can be found on Twitter at @bmull. As mentioned in the previous post, I'm going to start out this series establishing key metrics to think about when building a music startup. The first of our three integral metrics is market size. ...

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When Blank Media Costs Less Than Your Album

Source: HypeBot
September 8, 2010

Chances are, blank media costs less than your album. What now? Rarely, do I get a chance to listen to an album all the way through. Writing requires different type of background ambiance; almost familiar, yet not too overwhelming. Therefore, most of the time, when I write, I either listen to streams or non-disruptive titles. Some whole albums are my writing albums, but not many can fill that role; it calls for a certain group of songs and they are ...

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Exclusive: Sonicbids Announcing a Really Stupid Deal...

Source: Digital Music News
September 7, 2010

Brands want association with bands, that we know. But they often want edgy, unheard-of indies, mainly to keep things fresh and deliver something totally unique. It's so simple, it's stupid. Enter Diesel, which has been encouraging the world to “Be Stupid" lately. Now, according to details tipped to Digital Music News over the weekend, Sonicbids is joining the fun and minting a brand-focused unit in the process. As part of a broader launch of Sonicbids Brands, the two companies are ...

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"The People Who Invented the Paradigm and Were Trusted to Run It Let It Run Afoul. We Have to Fix It"."

Source: HypeBot
September 7, 2010

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Rap and Hip-Hop, Now Accented with Jazz

Source: AAJ Staff
September 5, 2010

When fans attend a performance by the Chicago rap stars Common or Kanye West (or, for that matter, the hip-hop princess Beyoncé or the neo-soul crooner Maxwell), they expect certain things: powerful choreography, glitzy peripherals like lights and props and the headliner on video screens in gigantic detail. What they do not expect is jazz artists backing the stars. But a number of pop performers, including the rapper Timbaland and the singer Bilal, have recently employed them. . “They don't ...

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MXP4 CEO Albin Serviant on Music Interactivity

Source: We All Make Music
September 4, 2010

"Interactivity" has been a hot topic of conversation in the music industry lately. In everything from music videos to live shows to, um, pinball, musicians and businesses are trying to figure out not only how to make their music more of a two-way street, but whether they actually can or should. There is a fair amount of skepticism about whether interactivity is what fans want. But to Albin Serviant, the CEO of music technology company MXP4, music interactivity is a ...

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