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The Album Is DEAD, But Not Everyone Believes It
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While creating an album has for many bands and artists been a cornerstone of artistic accomplishment over the years, our shift to a predominantly playlist based culture means that we're shifting away from the album format and living in a world of singles- just not everyone's accepted it yet. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 To many music artists and bands, making an album has always been the epitome of their art. This group of songs was a ...
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London Mayor Takes On Social Media At SXSW
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In the late 1990s, consumers across the globe began using a resource in the comfort of their own homes that was destined to revolutionize information consumption – the internet. Twenty years later, computer advancement and faster connections have altered virtually every aspect of daily life and have, for better or worse, begun to enter the realm of politics. Mayor Sadiq Khan, London’s first Muslim and ethnic minority mayor, gave a keynote speech Monday with a question-and-answer session at South by ...
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Jazz this week: Melissa Aldana Quartet, Ben Wendel's "The Seasons," Galactic, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music in St. Louis features performances from two stellar saxophonists, one of New Orleans' favorite funk bands, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, March 14 Saxophonist Melissa Aldana returns with her quartet for the first of four nights of performances at Jazz at the Bistro. Aldana, who was born in Chile and educated at Berklee, has enjoyed a fast rise in the jazz world since becoming the first female instrumentalist ...
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Streaming Music Presages The End Of Ownership... Of Everything [George Howard]
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Music is often the proverbial canary in a coal mine, says George Howard. Here, he explores how the rise of streaming led to a full fledged shift to a cloud-based media, making the idea of actual ownership is becoming increasingly antiquated. Guest post by George Howard , this first appeared on Forbes Many moons ago — just around the time I first applied the term “Canary In A Coal Mine“ to the music industry — I wrote a piece entitled, “The Stream That Snuck ...
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East Coast v. West Coast
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in the early 1950s, New York and Los Angeles had mildly different jazz styles. The West Coast sound tended to be more melodic and contrapuntal. The East Coast's sound was denser and more bluesy. By mid-decade, as the LP became an increasingly profitable format, major New York-based labels such as RCA, Decca, MGM and Bethlehem opened Los Angeles jazz divisions. Naturally, competition heated up as jazz A&R chiefs on each coast scrambled to sign regional artists. Before long, the ...
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Washington State Laughs In The Face Of FCC Attempt To Prevent States From Protecting Net Neutrality
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Although the FCC recently repealed net neutrality on a national level, states are taking matters into the own hands, and while incumbent ISPs and the FCC are doing their best to prevent this, states like Washington don't seem particularly perturbed. Guest post by Karl Bode of Techdirt from the Unicorns-at-the-FCC dept In the wake of the FCC's net neutrality repeal, nearly half the states in the union are now in the process of passing new net neutrality rules. Some states are pushing for legislation ...
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Apple Deleting iTunes LP Format: Beginning Of The End?
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Apple is deleting the iTunes LP format. The news was shared with labels and distributors two weeks ago; and now an email to iTunes' music partners has surfaced that states clearly, “Apple will no longer accept new submissions of iTunes LPS after March 2018." Apple is killing the iTunes LP format, and some are seeing this as the rumored beginning of the end for paid downloads on iTunes. But the iTunes LP format, which includes lyrics, photo, liner notes and ...
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Indies Demand Spotify Stock Profit Share, Sony Responds
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While the major labels have promised to pay their artists a share of any proceeds from the sale of their stock in Spotify, the independent music community is demanding that a corresponding share be passed on the many labels the major label owned companies distribute. All three major label groups have committed to sharing revenues from the sales of Spotify shares with the artists directly signed to their companies. Now indie trade organization, The Worldwide Independent Music Industry Network (WIN) ...
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