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Bruno’s Christmas Recital Revisited
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The pianist Jack Brownlow (1923-2007), known to his friends as Bruno, was a constant correspondent. Over the years, he stayed in touch by letter, postcard, telephone and recordings. At Christmas time he brightened the season for our family with music he taped at the grand piano in the living room of his house in Seattle. Just once, when we were living in New Orleans, he made his Christmas recording using the Fender-Rhodes electric piano. Something about that instrument invested his ...
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Post-Brexit, Foreign Musicians Can't Play UK Unless They Earn $38,000 A Year
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HypeBot
A new official UK government report recommends post-Brexit rules for migrants that could jeopardize the UK music industry. The Government Migration Advisory Committee calls for a minimum salary requirement of £30,000 / $38,000 USD for musicians and other skilled migrants seeking five-year visas. Requiring musicians, songwriters and producers from the EU to earn salaries of at least £30,000 / $38,000 USD to work in the UK poses a major threat to the music industry where music creators earn on average ...
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Free Genre Specific Spotify Playlist Search Tool Now Available
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James Todd
Playlist Match Maker (PMM) is a new website whose objective is to connect Spotify Artists with Spotify Playlist Owners (Curators). We accomplish this in several ways but the pre-eminent way we do this is by offering free, unique Spotify search tools not found elsewhere. Our Spotify Playlist Finder (SPF) is a must have resource for artists that are involved with the marketing of their music. The Spotify Playlist Finder Tool allows artists to quickly conduct genre specific searches of Spotify’s ...
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How Stereo Records Were Sold To A Skeptical Public: Hi-Res Lessons In An Era Of Lo-Res Music
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Music's pundits wondered ad infinitum if consumers would put up with the inferior digital sound of downloads and streaming. More than 17 years after the iPod was introduced , the answer is a loud lo-res yes. Such was also the case when the music industry first introduced stereo records to a skeptical public. How stereo was first sold to a skeptical public By Jonathan Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology and Janet Borgerson, DePaul University When we hear the word “stereo” ...
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American Pop Loses Global Crown, But Christmas Music Still Can’t Be Beat
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In this piece, Bobby Owsinski observes how US pop hits which once permeated the world over have given way to more local music in every area except when it comes to the holidays, where American Christmas classics from the '50s and '60s still reign supreme. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 One of the ways I used to gauge the magnitude of a hit was if I could walk down a street in another country and hear it ...
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Music Metadata: Why You Need To Get It Right
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Metadata (aka data about data) has become a huge part of achieving musical success in the digital age. So huge, in fact, that to ignore it, or to have incorrect metadata, can ruin your chances of keeping your head above water in the streaming era. By Chris Robley of CD Baby from the DIY Musician blog. What is music metadata? Metadata is “data about data” — information about information. In the digital music world, it’s the data that accompanies your songs and ...
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An Exploration Of Co-publishing, Sub-publishing And Administration Agreements [Pt. 2]
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In this second in a multi-part series exploring some of the less well known publishing agreements in the music industry, Justin Jacobson delves into the nitty gritty of sub-publishing agreement and what its implications are for an artist. Guest post by Justin Jacobson, Esq. of the TuneCore Blog This is the second in a two-part installment reviewing different types of publishing agreements. To catch up on Part 1, click here. In Part 1, we examined administration agreements and began looking at co-publishing ...
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Qobuz Hi-Res Streaming Service US Launch Imminent
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While consumer need for a hi-res streaming services seems to have cooled down of late and most listeners seemingly content with CD-quality music, Qobuz close to imminent launching its hi-res streaming and download platform in the US. The news comes on the same day that Sony became the first major label to launch its own hi-res streaming service. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 The fervor for high-resolution music streaming has died down in recent months, and it ...
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