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Fleet Foxes Thank Piracy for Success, Pledge to Stay Indie

Source: HypeBot
June 18, 2009

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

Source: HypeBot
June 18, 2009

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 ...

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Report Says Music Sales 83% Digital by 2013

Source: HypeBot
June 17, 2009

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Jazz Gospel Central Debuts with Interviews from Top Artists and “Key” Information

Source: Tehillah Enterprises, LLC
June 13, 2009

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

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2009

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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Music and the Creative Class: Why Place Matters to Music and Music Matters to Place

Source: HypeBot
June 12, 2009

(Part 3) In previous installments of Music & The Creative Class, I explored the importance that musicians and the business that follow them play in the growing Creative Class that is reshaping America and much of the developed world. Not only does music add flavor to a neighborhood or city, as they have in Nashville, Memphis or New Orleans; but musicians are also often “fruit fly indicators" or harbingers of future growth as they have been from Austin, Texas and ...

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The 10 Commandments of Music 2.0

Source: HypeBot
June 12, 2009

Thou Shalt Not Worship False Prophets - Neither a record deal or auto-tune are your saviors. Thou Shalt Worship Only One God - He (or she) is called The Fan. Thou Shalt Giveaway Free Music - Like Jesus and the loaf of bread, give your flock a gift that multiplies as they pass it around. Thou Shalt Not Steal - Borrowing a beat is one thing, but stealing... Thou Shalt Blog ...

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Tina Marsh, Austin's Avant-Jazz Leader, Gravely Ill

Source: Jazz Beyond Jazz by Howard Mandel
June 12, 2009

The founder of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra, a musicans' cooperative of composer-improvisers on the model of Chicago's AACM, is suffering late stage breast cancer. Beautiful Tina Marsh, age 55, whose disease was successfully treated in the '90s but recurred in 2008, is resting in a private home, with friends close by. A pure-voiced vocalist who employs extended techniques in dramatic interpretations of songs such as Ornette Coleman's “Lonely Woman" with brilliant control for deep affect but who has also ...

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