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Does Spotify Already Have 30,000 Users in U.S.?
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HypeBot
And WMG The Reason It Has Not Launched Here?
Spotify already has 30,000 users in the U.S. according to chatter from the Stockholm (Spoitfy's home) tech scene and first reported TechCrunch. So why not just launch the damn thing in the U.S. officially? Not so fast, says Spotify, the report is “completely factually incorrect".
But Glenn Peoples at Billboard.biz makes the point that you don't have to be a U.S. citizen to use Spotify in the country. Travelers and expatriates ...
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Findings of the Institute
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
In 2008, the Rex Stewart/Jabbo Smith Meme and Trope Institute undertook a multiple year study of the increasingly distant proxemics, gestural and spatial relationship between the jazz performing cohort (expanding) and the jazz audience (contracting). This is a prcis of our findings.
The Institute initially proceeded under the supposition that the jazz performer-audience relationship could be viewed through the lens of the larger cultural zeitgeist, i.e., economic, sociological and political pressures. However, no pattern emerged that would allow a viable ...
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The Outpost Influences of Julee and Junko.
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
I haven't engaged in a thorough binge of pandering to women in a while so I'm way overdue. I've also been neglecting frumpy little Boston lately. The good old Outpost is a wealth of material so let me make what I may of this convergence as I embark on yet another lazy post by exploiting meaningful coincidences.
While the participation of women as musicians in free jazz is about as expansive as its ever been, their role on the advocacy, ...
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Why Your Right to Sell Promo CDs Matters
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HypeBot
This guest post is by Fred von Lohmann, the Senior Staff Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
On Monday, a federal court of appeals in Seattle will consider whether it is legal to resell “promo CDs." You've seen them, the CDs mailed out for free by record labels to industry insiders, reviewers, and radio stations, each bearing the label “promotional use only, not for resale." Do those labels stand up in court? And why should you care?
The case pits ...
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Value-Added Music Gets a Logo
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HypeBot
Music industry trade group NARM has created a promotional icon and messaging program dubbed “music + more“ to support the sale of physical, digital and mobile music that contains value-added or enhanced content. An October 2009 Deluxe Products Survey showed that 60% of respondents believe that consumers are “more likely" to purchase deluxe product over the standard CD once they are aware of it.
The Deluxe Product Workgroup which created the campaign includes representatives from NARM member companies ...
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Jazz for Society's Darkest Side
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Michael Ricci
POISSY, FRANCE On a recent afternoon, an incongruous sound was seeping into the central courtyard of the Maison Centrale de Poissy, the highest security prison in the Paris region. Some of the most dangerous convicts in the country were being treated to an explosive improvisation by the Gregksy Trio, a Paris-based experimental electro-jazz band, as part of the annual Saint-Germain-des-Pres jazz festival. The two-week festival, which finished last weekend, celebrated its 10th anniversary this year with about two dozen gigs, ...
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Europe, Taxes and All That Jazz
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Reading about the impending demise of the JazzBaltica festival, and noting the European allusion in Matt's recent posting, it struck me how unexamined is this business of European jazz subsidy-and how seemingly anomalous. What's actually behind their willingness to lay out tax spondulics? The meager explanation we've been fed all along is that Europeans are simply “more cultured" than we Americans, care more about the arts, etc. Come on, people, does this 19th century explanation ring true to you? Not ...
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Top Ten Reasons Why "Best of" Lists Suck
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
The “Best Of" List Industry continues to grind out the sausages. Downbeat Magazine's recent listing of the 25 Favorite Big Band Albums is not the worst example, but it did snap this camel's back. Call it vain, call it ironic, but in an attempt to undermine this international conspiracy, I offer my own top ten list:
1. Usually there's no commentary at all to validate a listing. If there is, it doesn't.
2. Hyper-selectivity is anathema to discovery. Stumbling through ...
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