Music Industry News

Pitchfork Fest: Full '09 Lineup

Source: JamBase
June 7, 2009

SOME SERIOUS WINDY CITY SWEETNESS!

Doug Martsch - Built To Spill by Scott Galbraith The 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival, to be held July 17 - 19 at Chicago's Union Park, continues to congeal nicely, including adding Antlers to the bill! Here's the complete festival lineup:

Friday - “Write the Night: Set Lists by Request"

Built to Spill The Jesus Lizard Yo La Tengo Tortoise

Saturday

The National Beirut DOOM

Continue Reading

For TV Band, Jet Lag is Part of the Job

Source: Michael Ricci
June 7, 2009

The drummer Max Weinberg, leads the eight-member house band on The Tonight Show With Conan OBrien.

When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Izod Center in the New Jersey Meadowlands on May 21, there was one musician conspicuously absent: Max Weinberg, the groups drummer for more than three decades.

As Mr. Springsteen tore into his opening number, Badlands, Mr. Weinberg was on another stage 3,000 miles away, pounding his drum kit through a dress rehearsal of ...

Continue Reading

A&M/Octone's James Diener is Making the Music Business... A Business Again

Source: Michael Ricci
June 7, 2009

James Diener is almost certainly the only head of a music label who's reading for pleasure the worlds hundred best books. Right now, hes slogging through Theodore Dreisers Sister Carrie, a novel that's a century and a universe removed from his world.

But Diener's reality as CEO and president of A&M/Octone Records is far from whatever passes for normal in todays music business. For one thing, A&M/Octone is small. Two pizzas could feed its New York-based staff. Nine years after ...

Continue Reading

What Will a Record Label Look Like in 5 Years?

Source: HypeBot
June 6, 2009

Martin J. Thrnkvist is a music industry thinker and strategist who operates indie label Songs I Wish I'd Written and is one of the founders of The Swedish Model consortium of labels. This article first appeared on the group blog Digital Renaissance.

The future. This undefined scope of time with a divine shimmer around it. When it comes to the future of music I've always consider myself an optimist.

For one, I'm certain that musicians and music fans have ...

Continue Reading

Her Husband Behind Bars, Spector's Wife Breaks Silence

Source: Michael Ricci
June 5, 2009

Rachelle Spector, 28, scoffs at the notion that she's a gold digger, saying she's devoted to her role as the spokeswoman for the producer's cause and chief financial officer of his music empire.

Rachelle Spector arrived for lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel with one French-manicured hand gripping a hot pink BlackBerry. “I never know when he is going to be allowed to call," she said as she laid the mobile device carefully on a velvety banquette. “Whenever he calls, ...

Continue Reading

Don Rickles at Snoqualmie Casino

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
June 4, 2009

Don Rickles Show Thursday, June 4, 8:00pm Snoqualmie Casino 37500 S.E. Northbend Way Snoqualmie, Washington 98065 featuring: Andy Omdahl, Jay Thomas, Jim Sisko: Trumpet & Flugel Gary Shutes: Trombone Dan Marcus: Bass Trombone Tracy Knoop & Travis Ranney: Alto Sax, Clarinet, Flute, Piccolo Mike West: Tenor Sax, Flute, Clarinet Bill Ramsay: Bari Sax, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Larry Holloway: ...

Continue Reading

Notes from the Net: On the Corner Reexamined; Osby, Harrold on Tour; Parran Live in NYC; Plus News, Interviews and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 4, 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 interes* On the Miles Davis beat, Howard Mandel had a couple of pertinent posts recently on his Jazz Beyond Jazz blog - one covering an NYC performance of music from the recent concept album Miles From India at Iridium ...

Continue Reading

Longer, Higher Quality Music Samples Lead to More Sales, Study Finds

Source: HypeBot
June 3, 2009

A report to be published in the International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising says that longer, higher quality free music samples engage more listeners and reduce the number of “free riders".

Ask any food manufacturer, free product samples give consumers the opportunity to try before they buy. This marketing model works well for products as diverse as shampoo and washing powder, instant coffee and bubble gum. But in the digital age these free offerings to often aren't provided at ...

Continue Reading