Music Industry News

Jeremy McCall Enters "The Naked Gospel" Songwriting Contest

Source: Michael Ricci
March 10, 2010

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Guest Post: With Mixtapes and Social Media, is the Album so Far Gone?

Source: HypeBot
March 9, 2010

Alex Mann is the director of Trendrr, a business intelligence platform for social and digital media. You can read more by Alex on his blog here and follow him on Twitter here. At first glance, Drake's success as an artist appears similar to his hip-hop peers. The actor turned Grammy-nominated rapper performed at the 2010 Grammy Awards and starred in a recent Sprite commercial during the NBA All-Star game. Here is what's new: ...

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Other Matters: Return of the One-Man Band

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
March 9, 2010

No, not the Sidney Bechet “Sheik of Araby" kind of one man band, but the television news kind. Today, Howard Kurtz devotes his column in The Washington Post to a phenomenon brought about in broadcast news by the convergence of technology and economic hard times.

“Here's how bad it is for the U.S. Postal Service," the WUSA reporter ...

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RIAA Tells Fans to Stop Nibbling

Source: HypeBot
March 7, 2010

In a post on the RIAA blog, VP of Reaserach Joshua P. Friedlander titled “Nobody Stole The Pie“ argues that the decline in music sales is like the story of the same name by Sonia Levitin. In it the town of Little Digby annually bakes a giant lollyberry pie. When one year the celebrated pie is gone, all the townsfolk who had picked away at it bit by bit claim it was “Not I who stole the pie".

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Overheard at Billboard's Music and Money Symposium

Source: HypeBot
March 7, 2010

Vevo Pres/CEO Rio Caraeff replaced L.A. Reid as the morning keynote. “Vevo creating new programming directly with brands and bands. 30 second music videos for new artists, brought to you by a brand." “When there's no money, people get smart" - Cynthia Sexton (EMI) Hot Topic chief music officer John Kirkpatrick: “We've almost completely moved away from the idea of sponsorship...We focus more on the experience and connecting fans with what they love inside of our store in some ...

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Chris Berry Trio with Kimock | 03.01 | Ukiah

Source: JamBase
March 7, 2010

Words by: Zack Sampsel | Images by: Rob Burgess

Chris Berry Trio with Steve Kimock :: 03.01.10 :: Ukiah Brewing Company :: Ukiah, CA

Kimock & Berry - CB3 :: 03.01 :: Ukiah, CA The Chris Berry Trio returned to the certified organic confines of the Ukiah Brewing Company once again, this time with guitar legend Steve Kimock in tow, and gave the Redwood Empire crowd a lesson in feel-good fun and psychedelic exploration.

The evening began with a ...

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Photostory16: Buddy Rich

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 6, 2010

This image of Buddy Rich by Paul Slaughter is a personal favorite of mine. I think it's one of the most dynamic and revealing photos of the drummer. For a brief second, you get to see Rich's intensity, anxiety and aggression in one fleeting glance (or glare).

Let Paul pick up the story:

“On September 20, 1970, I was covering the Monterey Jazz Festival for several magazines. Back in those days, the concert's promoters gave the professional photographers covering ...

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This Music is Sponsored by ...The Music Industry in Free Fall

Source: Michael Ricci
March 5, 2010

With the music industry in free fall, musicians turn to corporate advertising and product placement to promote their work. In the music video for Lady Gaga's hit single “Bad Romance, the pop diva vamps across several nightmarish tableaux wearing a variety of barely there lingerie get-ups. The flashy clip caused a sensation when it debuted in November and has racked up 85 million views on YouTube. But perhaps its most striking aspect is the unabashed product placement -- conspicuous visual ...

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