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Let's Prove That Artists Don't Need Major Labels to "Make It"
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Help Build A Database Of Music 2.0 Success Stories
During every interview, convention panel, startup negotiation or conversation with an industry peer, there is inevitably a moment when someone says something like, “All this talk about social networking, new media and digital marketing is exciting, but does it work? And if it does, where are all the successful artists that have made it because of music 2.0?"
They're not interested in stories of Trent Reznor, Radiohead and Jill Sobule who ...
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New York, June, 2009
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
I like New York in June. I'd like it more if we didn't have heavy rain, with more in the forecast. Umbrellas crowd the streets. People discussing the weather give that “Hey, whaddaya gonna do" New York shrug. Last night at the Tutuma Social Club, Gabriel Alegria and Laurandrea Leguia told me that in Lima, Peru, umbrellas are unknown because it never rains. Lima is their home town. They are New Yorkers now, making a name for their band, blending ...
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A Day in the Jazz Life
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
As days go, yesterday was pretty fabulous. First came lunch with Doug Ramsey and Bill Kirchner. Doug, of course, posts at Rifftides, has written hundreds of jazz album liner notes, and is author of Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond here. Bill is a jazz saxophonist, jazz historian who has written award-winning liner notes, and now teaches jazz at The New School University. Catching up with Doug and Bill was terrific fun. [Sunrise, 1965, by Roy ...
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Fleet Foxes Thank Piracy for Success, Pledge to Stay Indie
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HypeBot
One of the breakout indie bands of 2008 was Sub Pop's Fleet Foxes, and the band openly credits online piracy for providing both inspiration and a promotional boost for its 200K+ selling debut album.
As much music as musicians can hear, that will only make music richer as an art form," singer Robin Pecknold told the BBC. “I think we're seeing that now with tons of new bands that are amazing, and are doing way better music now than was ...
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10 Most Creative People in Music Business According to Fast Company
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HypeBot
As part of an issue on creativity, business magazine Fast Company has named the “The 100 Most Creative People In Business" and it's “10 Most Creative People In The Music Business" are:
DeAndre “Soulja Boy Tell'em" Way, 18 year old rapper/producer Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, Pandora Alexandra Patsavas, Owner, Chop Shop Music Supervision Gregg Gillis, aka mashup artist Girl Talk Pharrell Williams, Musician, producer (Neptunes) A.R. Rahman, Composer “Slumdog Millionaire" Jimmy Iovine, Chairman, Interscope Geffen A&M ...Continue Reading
Jazz Gospel Central Debuts with Interviews from Top Artists and “Key” Information
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Tehillah Enterprises, LLC
The genre of Gospel Jazz is growing by leaps and bounds. The unique merging of two highly expressive and improvisational African American forms of music has spawned a variety of gifted artists such as Angella Christie, Ben Tankard and Kirk Whalum. It’s with these artists and this music in mind that Founder and Editor-In-Chief, Terrence Richburg, launched Jazz Gospel Central. Unveiled in October 2008, Jazz Gospel Central is dedicated to showcasing Gospel Jazz, the artists who play it and devout ...
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Jamie Cullum Supports UNICEF's Water and Sanitation Campaign
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All About Jazz
Jazz singer and songwriter Jamie Cullum recently travelled to Ethiopia to witness UNICEF's work in the areas of health, nutrition, HIV and AIDS, child protection and water and sanitation. During Jamie's busy visit, he saw the impact HIV and AIDS is having on young people in Addis Ababa and in rural Ethiopia. He also saw UNICEF's nutrition work, which is particularly crucial as food and livelihood analyses forecast a severe humanitarian crisis in 2009. “Sadly, a child born in Ethiopia ...
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