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Managing Your Digital Remains
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All About Jazz
Hamlet, that lucky stiff, only had to worry about being or not being what a nice, binary Denmark he lived in. We modern mopes, on the other hand, must consider not only our too, too solid flesh but also our online infinitude. From banking to book-buying, from Facebook pages to busty Warcraft avatars to scrupulously Tumblrd bucket lists, we leave our silicon snakeskins scattered from here to tim.buk.tu. In a sense, its the realization of William Gibsons Neuromancer fantasy: Weve ...
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Music Biz Back to Playing the Blues
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Michael Ricci
Since the days of Napster (version 1.0), the music industry has been mired in a funk. But then legitimate digital music services came along to help salvage sales, and the industry rejoiced. Now comes a return of bad news. Last year saw a 21% drop in the number of people in the U.S. buying music -- both digital and physical -- compared with 2007, according to figures released Thursday by NPD Group, a market research firm. The NPD numbers echo ...
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Of Course On-Demand Music Replaces Sales - It's Supposed To
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All About Jazz
At the Digital Music Forum East in snowy New York, executives gathered to hear new data comparing what happens to music sales when people use interactive radio services such as Pandora as opposed to subscribing to unlimited streaming services such as Rhapsody and Spotify. The Pandora-like radio model has a promotional effect on music sales, increasing them 41 percent, according to NPDs data. Meanwhile, streaming services that let users hear just about any song they want, such as Spotify, cause ...
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Roanoke, VA: Where Music is Made Matters
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HypeBot
Virginia's Star City Explores Music As An Economic Driver
I've written before about how where music is made matters. Not only can music add flavor to a city as it does in Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans; but musicians can also be harbingers of future growth as we've seen in places like Austin and Brooklyn Heights, New York.
The conditions needed to grow a music city and music's potential to lead a city's transformation have become particularly apparent since my ...
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Indies Boycott Limewire Party at Digital Music East
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HypeBot
American Association Of Independent Music (A2IM) President Rich Bengloff is encouraging his members attending this week's Digital Music Forum East to boycott at Limewire sponsored reception on Thursday evening.
“...Services like LimeWire, Myxer and many more that, by the nature of their services, make it too easy for consumers to violate copyright and/or compensate independents in a sub-standard fashion or not at all," Bengloff wrote in an open letter to his members and shared with Hypebot. “LimeStore uses the LimeWire ...
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The Village Vanguard at 75
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The Village Vanguard is observing its 75th anniversary this week. Joe Lovano and the band he calls Us Five are playing there through Sunday. I wish that I could attend. But I shouldn't be greedy; in my New York years, I was fortunate to be in the club often. I heard music there that echoes in my mind to this day. Frequently on Monday nights, I wrapped up the newscast, jumped into a cab and headed for the Vanguard. That's ...
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Irwin Corey Stars at the Vanguard's Birthday Bash
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
Last night, New York's jazz elite gathered to toast 75 years of that quirky basement space at 178 Seventh Avenue South known as the Village Vanguard. The assembled included impresarios (Anzic's Colin Negrych, festival kingpin George Wein), writers (Gary Giddins, Ashley Kahn, Ben Ratliff), radio hosts (Phil Schapp, Josh Jackson), and, of course, musicians (Paul Motian, Jimmy Heath, Ravi Coltrane, Bill Charlap, Anat Cohen). The event was decidedly low-key—trays of ribs and wings for dinner, Lester Young records instead of ...
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Fire Marshals Say Blaze at Philadelphia Record Studio Was Deliberately Set
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Michael Ricci
A fire broke out on Sunday morning at Philadelphia International Records, where Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff perfected the Philadelphia sound of smooth R&B for singers like Teddy Pendergrass and Patti LaBelle, the Philadelphia Enquirer reported.
The fire swept through the labels office area, melting gold and platinum records and destroying much of its memorabilia, but it spared the historic studio and the labels tape library, according to the paper. Firefighters responded to a call at 7:28 a.m. on Sunday ...
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