Music Industry News

Swedes Confirm UK Study: Artist Income Rising

Source: HypeBot
December 16, 2009

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Notes from the Net: Miles Davis Re-Examined, Clark Terry Honored, Grant Green Reissued, Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More.

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
December 16, 2009

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* The new 70-disc Miles Davis mega-box set collecting all of the trumpeter's work for Columbia/Sony Music is out, and David Was, jazz fan and one of the principals in the group Was (Not Was), reviews it for NPR ...

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Thousands of Indie Artists Are Left Unpaid After MySpace's imeem Purchase

Source: HypeBot
December 15, 2009

It wasn't just fans who got the short end of the stick when MySpace purchased imeem. They just lost their playlists and a great place to hang out and discover music. Now its come to light that thousands of indie artists lost some hard earned cash.

MySpace only bought some of imeem's assets and assumed none of its mounting debts. Included in those unpaid debts were money owed to the 110,000 artists who used imeem owned SnoCap to sell there ...

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Jazz is Dead. Long Live Jazz.

Source: Michael Ricci
December 14, 2009

The music may never again be a popular force, but it is still swinging--if you know where to listen. Put yourself in this jazz musician's shoes for a minute. Your record label just dropped two of its most acclaimed acts from the roster in order to aggressively pursue pop artists. Still, you think you have a sound that's relevant to the moment--and to prove it, you need a stay of execution from what's starting to look inevitable. So you pick ...

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Ruby Flower Records Appointed Dominic Duval as Artistic Director

Source: Michael Ricci
December 14, 2009

Ruby Flower Records was founded in 2005 by Ana Isabel Ordonez, she wished to promote the music of New Jersey based trumpeter Herb Robertson and wanted to burn her passion for art and jazz founding a recording label in which the avant-garde music would be the priority. Both, Herb Robertson and Ana Isabel Ordonez became business partners and opened their own record company, Ruby Flower Records. However...Herb Robertson considered this label as a hobby and the cooperation between both business ...

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Untouchable: What a Collector Loses (and Gains) in the Age of Music Downloading

Source: Michael Ricci
December 14, 2009

Piles of CDs surround me. I have been feeding them into my computer to suck the music out of them. And then I pack them away. My Mac does not discriminate. Dufay or du Pre, Eno or Ellington, the computer digests them each with the same chipper whir, and check marks appear on my screen next to each MP3 file I have just created. I think I am supposed to feel accomplished. But this has been an exercise both exciting ...

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The Hard Drive Solution

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
December 14, 2009

What do Jeremy Eichler and I have in common? We are out of room for the thousands of CDs that show up when you commit music criticism. Eichler is the classical music critic of The Boston Globe. Some time ago, I wrote about a temporary solution that I applied to the problem of limited shelf space. Eichler has taken a more drastic step. He is putting his collection where the only space consideration is the capacity of his hard drive. ...

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Digital Distributor Iris Shifts into Growth Mode

Source: HypeBot
December 12, 2009

Independent digital distributor IRIS has added several category leading labels to its catalog: Metropolis Records, BYO, Mt. Fuji, In The Fishtank, and Pocketsongs. IRIS is one of a handful of digital distributors without ties to the majors and these label additions come on the heels of the company's report of profitability, a rarity in the current digital music space.

“As our name implies IRIS (Independent Recording Industry Services) has always been more than just a distributor," says Bryn Boughton, IRIS' ...

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