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"Now in Stores" - 4/25/2010 to 5/1/2010
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Groove Notes
We recommend five jazz albums that were released over the past week and here are this weeks five, released between April 25th and May 1st, 2010. 1. It's About That Time by Hot Club of Detroit (Mack Avenue, 4/27/2010) The family tree that traces its roots to the Quintette du Hot Club de France has sprouted countless branches across the globe in the seventy years since Django Reinhardt first jammed with Stphane Grappelli. It seems like a new city lays ...
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Column: Why Music (Really) Matters...
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HypeBot
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor (@kbylin)
When watching the series of short animation films released by Music Matters, a UK-based collective formed to “remind listeners of the significance and value of music," I'm left with the overwhelming sensation that they are missing the point.
That, by trying to educate people on why music matters, in this manner, by exploring the work and lives of musicians past and present, and concluding with the message: “and that's why music matters...," they're ...
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TuneCore and Myspace Music Partner for Discounted Distribution Services
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HypeBot
Try Stoking Your Fans
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HypeBot
This guest post comes from Ben Coe who is an artist coach and co-founder of music management and marketing firm The Artist Farm. His work there is designed to help artists of all types and levels succeed in clarifying and achieving their goals. The most effective marketing comes from word of mouth: and as you may also know, it is easier to retain a customer than it is to get a new customer. Put those two ideas together and you ...
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Record Store Day Declared Big Sales Success
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HypeBot
It was a great day for recorded music as sales surged during America's third annual Record Store Day on April 17th. Compared to the prior week, overall U.S. album sales in the independent sector increased 12% including a whopping 119% vinyl sales jump for the weekend and 529% growth in vinyl single sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Acts from the Black Keys to Soundgarden to Bruce Springsteen released exclusive vinyl singles, part of the nearly 175 limited vinyl ...
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The Concord Music Group Difference, According to Tift Merritt
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Michael Ricci
One of the comments that cropped up consistently in my reporting for our story running in Saturday's Business section on the Concord Music Group is that the people who run and work at the company are dyed-in-the-wool music fans, which isn't always the case in the record business these days. So I asked Tift Merritt, the Houston-born, North Carolina-reared singer and songwriter whose second album for the Concord-owned Fantasy label, “See You On the Moon," is coming out June 1, ...
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Quincy Jones Talks Music, Life, Love
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All About Jazz
Despite his record-breaking success in music for 60 years, Quincy Jones says his proudest achievement is his seven children and six grandchildren. Jones talked about his life and music career during an hourlong on-stage conversation with Ludacris Friday night as part of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' annual “I Create Music" expo at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel. The 77-year-old composer and producer says it's been “a blessing" to have worked with “every major artist of the 20th ...
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