Music Industry News

Longtime Napster CEO Chris Gorog Steps Down

Source: HypeBot
January 11, 2010

In a post on Napster's blog, longtime CEO Chris Gorog announced that he would be leaving the company. The move comes almost 18 months after he oversaw the sales of Napster to Best Buy.

Today is my last day as CEO of Napster after having helped build the service over the last eight years. I am leaving the leadership of Napster to my close colleague (COO) Christopher Allen, who is a talented and deeply experienced digital media executive and ...

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Boston Globe Story on Jazz in Massachusetts

Source: MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
January 11, 2010

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Live Jazz Music Venues - Los Angeles - 2010

Source: JAZZzology by Richard Watters
January 6, 2010

Here is a list of the venues in Los Angeles, CA that offer live jazz music, call or contact for details... (photo: John Pisano “LA Jazz Institution")2nd Street Jazz366 E. 2nd St.Los Angeles, CA 90012(213) 680-004755 Degree Wine3111 Glendale BoulevardAtwater Village, CA 90039626 Reserve Wine Bar626 S. Spring StreetLos Angeles, CA(213) 627-9800African American Firefighter Museum1401 South Central AvenueLos Angeles, CAAirliner

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Music Tech Investments up in '09 Despite Economy

Source: HypeBot
January 6, 2010

Band Metrics founder and CEO Duncan Freeman has completed his annual review of investments in music technology companies for his Indie Music Tech blog. Despite the down economy and what many believed to be a retrenchment from music tech investments, Duncan found some very hopeful trends: There were almost $4 billion in transactions, up from last year Even if you remove the EMI, Bertelsmann and Live Nation / Ticktemaster deals, it's still over $329,275,000 in transactions, which is also ...

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eMusic Payments Don't Rise Despite Price Increase

Source: HypeBot
January 6, 2010

This guest post on third quarter artist and label payouts from eMusic in the post-Sony era comes from David Harrell who blogs at Digital Audio Insider and plays with indie rockers The Layaways.

The first full-quarter label/artist payout from eMusic after the introduction of the Sony catalog (and the restructuring of its subscription plans) was just about the same as the one for the previous quarter: for the third quarter of 2009, we received 34.2 cents for individual song downloads, ...

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A Framework for Music Marketing in 2010

Source: HypeBot
January 6, 2010

Most know Bruce Warila as the glue that holds the Music Think Tank blog together. But he's also an entrepreneur who has been involved in many tech startups over the last 15 years (the last 5 in music tech), and the chart above is the conceptual framework for his next project.

On the chart, the outer boxes guide and constrain each of the inner boxes. Bruce is only hinting at exactly what that means for his new venture. But in ...

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Line for Lyons, Twice

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
January 6, 2010

Rifftides reader Ty Newcomb sent a link to video of the Dutch singer Fay Claassen doing Gerry Mulligan's “Line for Lyons." After enjoying it, I noticed that YouTube has another version of the piece by The Dave Brubeck Quintet. What to do? Why, show you both, of course.

First, we see and hear the composer with Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Jack Six and Alan Dawson at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1972. The director goes berserk with reverse zooms out of ...

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The Final Soundcheck-Jazz/Blues Music Deaths in 2009

Source: JAZZzology by Richard Watters
January 3, 2010

Here's the full list of jazz, blues and related music industry creative talents that passed in 2009 (ordered by instrument or creative talent)...Accordionist:Mat Mathews (a.k.a. Mathieu Schwartz). Banjoist:Albert Leet (a.k.a. Buddy Lee). Bassists:Leanne Butts, Jeff Clyne, Leopoldo Fleming Sr., Leonard Gaskin, Hugh Hopper, Orlando “Cachaito" Lopez, Sirone (Norris Jones), Fred Williams; bassist and writer Whitey Mitchell; bass guitarist and former NBA star Wayman Tisdale; bassist and singer Joe LaCaria.Clarinetists:Charly ...

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