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3 Trends Driving the Music Industry in 2009

Source: HypeBot
December 31, 2008

Predictions are easy. Being good at them is much harder. As I've been working on my predictions for the music industry for 2009, however, three recurring themes seem to be dominating the industry conversation as we begin the new year.

DEMOCRATIZATION - Giving entrepreneurs, artists and even fans the tools to compete with the major labels and mass media. DATA - Gathering and crunching actionable date. As you explore all of these new avenues for music discovery, what is working? ...

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Music is Looking to Ads for Revenue in Middle of Three Year Sales Slump

Source: HypeBot
December 31, 2008

Music Industry

Living Theater Revives "The Connection"

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
December 31, 2008

Music Industry

Meet Ralph Rainger

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
December 31, 2008

Music Industry

All He Needs is Royalties

Source: Michael Ricci
December 30, 2008

You may not recognize the name Patrick Halling, but if you’re a Beatles fan you’ve surely heard his work: he played violin on the recording of “All You Need Is Love,” and he is among the musicians asking European Union lawmakers to extend the period during which they can receive royalties for their recorded work.

Mr. Halling, a classically trained violinist, said that he would lose thousands of dollars a year in income when songs by the Beatles, Tom Jones ...

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Writing Nice 'N Easy for Sinatra

Source: Michael Ricci
December 30, 2008

In the fall of 1959, a dashing Los Angeles writer of tunes named Lew Spence got a call from Frank Sinatra’s people. In between concerts on the Vegas Strip, the most popular jazz singer in America had finished a new album of classic, lightly swinging love songs, “The Nearness of You,” named for a Hoagy Carmichael standard. But now Sinatra, in typically volatile form, decided hewanted a new title song written especially for him.

The next morning, as he did ...

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L.A. Clubs Offer Cheaper New Year's Eve Revelry

Source: Michael Ricci
December 30, 2008

On New Year's Eve, the Viper Room on the Sunset Strip will charge a basic cover of $50, or $100 with drinks and other goodies included. Venues on the Sunset Strip and in Hollywood are cutting cover charges and drink prices to draw partygoers. The beat is slowing on the Sunset Strip, muffled by a less-than-festive economy. For the first time in years, clubs in this night-life mecca on Sunset Boulevard and nearby will be ringing in 2009 on Wednesday ...

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Swinging 60s: Brit Girls Rule

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 30, 2008

In 1968, when I was a kid, my artist parents took me and my brother to London for a few weeks on a budget summer vacation. In retrospect, I wish they had taken us a few years earlier so I could have seen Swinging London at the height of its glory. But in 1968, I still got an eyeful of bold colors, wide stripes and long hair as well as an earful of BBC hit radio. What stuck out most, ...

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