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Taking The Music Industry Monopoly Seriously
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HypeBot
As weakening antitrust laws and consolidation of businesses continue, virtually every corner of the music industry is now controlled by a choice few companies, whether its streaming or live music, writes Will Meyer. Here he explores why these monopolies must be taken seriously. Guest post by Will Meyer of CASH Music Everyone can agree, at this point, that most corners of the music industry are dominated by a small number of companies. Take streaming services, for example. Just a few ...
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U.S. Actually Just Expanded Arts, Public Broadcast Funding
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HypeBot
After a great deal of bluster and promises to eliminate federal funding for the arts and public broadcasting, Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that actually increases funding for the threatened programs last week. In February, Trump released a proposed budget that threatened to cut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s budget to the bone, reducing the federal contribution to the organization from $445 million down to just $15 million. However, in the spending measure passed on Friday, funding ...
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Listen: First Album Composed By Artificial Intelligence
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HypeBot
Artificial Intelligence has hit a number of milestones of late. Forget self-driving cars and microbots, the music industry has just seen its first album composed using artificial intelligence. Guest post from FrtyFve, powered by TalentAI insights 'Hello World' is the first full-length album composed using artificial intelligence. The project released by SKYGGE aims to illustrate that AI “can be used to create new, compelling music, generating fresh musical material”. The use of artificial intelligence in music has improved way beyond its early applications- including ...
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It's Time For People To Learn How Streaming Really Works
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HypeBot
Despite it being the fastest growing form of music consumption, many people still don't fully grasp how streaming works or, as this article maintains, doesn't work. Guest post by Faza of The Cynical Musician Odd as it may seem, people apparently still don’t understand how streaming music works. Spotify has been a thing for years and there’s a fair number of competitors these days, as well. Despite the vast trove of experience available to anyone with a stake in the ...
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A great day in Venice
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Nearly seven years ago, former broadcaster Morrie Trumble was asked to start a jazz club in Venice for music fans who loved mainstream swing and a bit of bebop. It started small with scattered concerts and regular jam sessions. Before long, the South County Jazz Club, set up to serve the southern end of Sarasota County, was serving up helpings of jazz with season-long series of concerts generally running from October through April. Trumble, who has been president and major ...
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Pandora Buys AdWizz Platform Used By Spotify, Deezer
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HypeBot
Pandora is ramping up its digital advertising push with the acquisition of digital audio ad platform AdsWizz. The addition will upgrade Pandora’s ad tech capabilities, providing its advertisers with greater audience reach, and expand the company’s revenue opportunities. Spotify, Deezer and TuneIn are all currently AdsWizz clients. The transaction, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2018 was worth $145 million, which Pandora agreed to pay in a combination of at least 50% cash and the remaining 50% ...
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Pandora Partners w/ Linkfire To Improve Artist Marketing
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HypeBot
Pandora has partnered with smart link aggregator Linkfire to improve music discovery and amplify marketing efforts. Pandora becomes the first music streamer to feed Linkfire advanced attribution data that helps artists, labels and marketers understand how content is performing and create data driven promotional campaigns. The Linkfire integration is part of Pandora's expanding Artist Marketing Platform (AMP). 14,000 artists are using AMP, and more than 22,000 free Artist Audio Messages have been published, delivering 1.6 billion impressions to fans. “We have ...
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Bill Frisell And Brad Mehldau: Alone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Their recording histories encompass dozens of collaborations, but in their new albums two of the most prolific recording artists in modern music go it alone. Bill Frisell, Music Is (Okeh) Guitarist Bill Frisell reaches into his storehouse of compositions to revisit several that he has recorded before, and to play others for the first time. Frisell is alone, yes, but with the help of producer Lee Townsend and engineer Tucker Martine he overdubs guitar layers and uses looping, applying the ...
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