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The Biggest Industry Mistakes of the Digital Age

Source: HypeBot
July 29, 2009

Audioholics has composed a list of its favorite corporate and industry-specific “disasters" and the music industry proudly made the list in two places.

The Largest Music Retailer Is A Computer Company - Why did the music labels and an entire industry sit on its laurels and allow a computer company to innovate and develop the largest resource for online music? Perhaps because, like a lumbering shipping vessel, the labels, used to bullying around an entire industry of artists, distributors and ...

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Coda, a New Music Venue & Restaurant, Opens in San Francisco

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
July 28, 2009

Chris Pastena and Bruce Hanson announce the opening of Coda, a new music venue and restaurant at 1710 Mission Street at Duboce Avenue in the Mission District of San Francisco. Coda, a musical term meaning the place you return to, is an intimate 70-seat restaurant and 200-person venue. Opening Tuesday, August 4, Coda will present dinner and music six nights a week. Adam Theis and the Jazz Mafia will perform on opening night, beginning a weekly Tuesday residency. Coda will ...

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Where You Make Music Does Matter

Source: HypeBot
July 28, 2009

music & the entertainment economy I've written before about how where you make music may matter more than you'd think it might in a globally connected world. It's not just the size of the music industry where an artist as located that matters. In fact, more important appears to be the size of the music scene measured by both the number of musicians and fans. They both provide the feedback that helps an artist create better music; and great music ...

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Jazz and Tourism Can Go Hand-in-Hand

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
July 28, 2009

In a year when more than a few jazz-related entities have been on the ropes, closed their doors or reinvented themselves, it is interesting to see that the aura of jazz remains alive and well.The hipness, the essence of cool, the going against the grain, a music that doesn't appeal to our least-common-denominator culture has always been a branding hook for advertisers.Now, Massachusetts is hoping jazz can help promote tourism in the commonwealth.A new ...

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Jackson Doctor Injected Drug That Killed Him

Source: Michael Ricci
July 27, 2009

A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation into Michael Jackson's death says the pop star's personal doctor administered the powerful drug that authorities believe killed him.

Jackson regularly received the anesthetic propofol (PROH'-puh-fahl) to go to sleep. The official, who requested anonymity because the probe is ongoing, told The Associated Press today that Dr. Conrad Murray gave Jackson the drug the last night of his life.

Michael Jackson 911 call: 'He's not breathing' Jackson's personal doctor ...

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Experts: Jackson Case Now a Full Criminal Probe

Source: All About Jazz
July 25, 2009

“This is about building a criminal case, not cause of death," lawyer says.

The odd array of evidence police collected from Michael Jacksons personal physicians clinic and storage unit shows authorities are trying to follow a trail of drugs and looking into the doctors record keeping as they attempt to unravel what led to the pop stars death.

Search warrants targeting Dr. Conrad Murrays Houston clinic and his storage unit mean authorities have moved into a full-fledged criminal investigation, looking ...

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Survey Shows Pirates Can Become Paying Fans

Source: HypeBot
July 25, 2009

A new Interpret research report on the music consumption behaviors of “illegal" downloaders shows that while downloading can't be eradicated, there are steps that the industry can take to get downloaders to pay for music and even become assets to record labels and artists. “Illegal downloaders have been a source of frustration for the music industry for over a decade, but they are willing to pay for music. Consumers downloading illegally want their music however they ...

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St. Louis Jazz Cafe Closes

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
July 25, 2009

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Kevin Johnson is reporting today in a blog post that the St. Louis Jazz Cafe has closed, effective immediately. The club, located downtown at 1500 St. Charles in the Terra Cotta Lofts building, had been open for just four months.Operation manager Tim Simms is quoted in Johnson's story saying that although the abrupt timing of the shutdown was due to noise complaints from neighbors - the Terra Cotta Lofts is a residential building - ...

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