Music Industry News

New Music Management & Booking Firm Founded by Music Industry Veteran Scott Foster

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
June 18, 2010

SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT provides representation for superb jazz artists ADA ROVATTI, ARLEE LEONARD, PATRIZIA SCASCITELLI, and JAMIE BAUM Music industry veteran SCOTT FOSTER has announced the formation of a new artist management organization, SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT, with a unique spotlight on female jazz artists. Scott Foster's many years in the jazz festival business make him ideally positioned to understand the relationships between performers, audiences, media, and the business interests of concert presenters. His artist management services include concert booking, publicity, ...

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Gerald Casale of Devo: "Marketing is Everything."

Source: HypeBot
June 18, 2010

In this interview featured on Marketplace, Gerald Casale, founder of the group Devo, talks about his journey to recording a new album and reentering the music industry with his former group, for the first time in 20 years. This short except from his talk with Kai Ryssdal proved to be the most interesting part:

“the implosion of the music business in general, the functions of labels are almost gone, people have devalued music in terms of ...

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It's All Tutu Much: McCartney Writing Ballet Music

Source: Michael Ricci
June 17, 2010

Sorry, Sting, but it sounds like Paul McCartney has just lapped you in the race to be the pop musician with the most classical bona fides.

Mr. McCartney, the former Beatle and Wings man whose orchestral works include “Standing Stone" and “Ecce Cor Meum," told BBC News that he has agreed to write the music for a ballet and has already started work on the project.

“I'm interested in doing things I haven't done before," Mr. McCartney said to the ...

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10 Engineering Rules Applied to DIY Business

Source: HypeBot
June 16, 2010

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Soundation Founder Bil Bryant on Sampling, Studios, and Cloud-Based Music-Making

Source: We All Make Music
June 15, 2010

According to sampling pioneer Bil Bryant, one day we will all be able to make whatever kind of music we want inside our computers.

Thanks to things like Indaba's Mantis studio and Soundation, a digital music studio which Bryant helped to develop, this is already starting to seem like a reality. But the real reason has to do with the explosion and evolution of sampling.

In the past four decades, sampling has grown from an avant-garde artistic curio into one ...

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The Financial Rise and Fall of RIAA and Major Labels

Source: HypeBot
June 15, 2010

(Update 2) Revenue reports from RIAA member labels and edited notes compiled by Ccomp5950 via Techdirt. Be sure to read @billboardglenn's corrections and clarifications in the comments section. Year: $ In Millions (revenue) 1993: 10046.6 (price of CD players drop) 1994: 12068 1995: 12320.3 1996: 12533.8 1997: 12236.8 1998: 13723.4 (Napster sued into bankruptcy) 1999: 14651 (Work for hire controversy) 2000: 14404 2001: 13700 (iPod released in October) 2002: 12,614.2 ...

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How to Get a Job in the Music Industry

Source: HypeBot
June 15, 2010

Kyle Bylin,Editor --(@kbylin)

I. The Rise of a Rebel

In August 2008, Bruce found me. At the time, I was twenty-year-old college student and an intern at an indie record label in Minneapolis, MN. I had just published my second blog post--ever. My readership was small--which is a polite way of saying that the blog I wrote for was only viewed by the other people who worked at the label--about ten people. Though the sequence of events is ...

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Pipe Organ Returns to Alice Tully Hall

Source: Michael Ricci
June 15, 2010

Skepticism stirred when Lincoln Center spirited the pipe organ out of Alice Tully Hall before the building's renovation in 2006, promising its eventual return. The skepticism only grew when the renovated hall reopened in early 2009 with no sign of the organ.

But Lincoln Center promised all along, and now it has delivered. The 19-ton instrument, 4,192 pipes strong, returned to Tully Hall on Monday morning aboard two semitrailers. Employees of the manufacturer, Orgelbau Th. Kuhn of Mnnedorf, Switzerland, and ...

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