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What’s In A Name: Cuneiform

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 31, 2017

Curious about the name of a small, imaginative jazz record company called Cuneiform, I asked Joyce Feigenbaum, the company’s publicist, who is married to the owner, how the label’s name came about. This is her reply: I’m actually an art historian by academic training (B.A. & M.A.), not an archeologist, a modernist. BUT I’m not the one who came up with the name–Steve Feigenbaum, Cuneiform’s owner and founder, did. Here’s how it happened. Steve wanted a different, a distinctive, name—not ...

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Neighboring Rights: An Updated Look

Source: HypeBot
August 30, 2017

Here we dive back in to look further at 'neighboring rights', a form of rights holding which entitles allows monies to be distributed to artists and sound recording holders when one of their works is either broadcast publicly or streamed. Guest post by Justin M. Jacobson, Esq. on the TuneCore Blog Featured artists, session musicians and master sound recording owners, typically record labels, are entitled to an additional royalty stream that artists and sound recording owners within the United States ...

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Pandora Partners With Fitbit Smartwatch As Exclusive Music Streamer

Source: HypeBot
August 29, 2017

Pandora has partnered with Fitbit as the exclusive music streaming provider for their new smartwatch, Fitbit Ionic. Pandora Plus and Premium listeners can synch their top stations or workout stations directly to the watch with no phone required. Pandora has also launched the Fitbit Motivation Mixtape with upbeat tracks by artists including Beastie Boys, Daft Punk, Gorillaz, Justice, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, ODESZA and STRFKR. Here are Pandora's most popular fitness stations: Pop and Hip Hop Power Workout: 21 ...

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Curated Playlists' Rise To Power

Source: HypeBot
August 25, 2017

In this article Brian Reitz maps out the rise of the curated playlist to a dominant form of music consumption, how creators now compete with curators, and what the curated playlists means for emerging artists and the industry as a whole. Guest post by Brian Reitz from Berklee's Music Business Journal Artists have traditionally commanded attention, serving as the primary inspirations and icons for diverse communities of fan bases around the world. However, with the unrelenting rise of on-demand music ...

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Pirate Bay Ordered To Pay Labels A Paltry $477,000

Source: HypeBot
August 24, 2017

Despite being an early target of multiple lawsuits brought my several labels and music trade groups, torrent tracker Pirate bay is still operating and helping to enable music and media piracy worldwide. Now , 6 years after a lawsuit began, a court has ordered to Pirate bay founder to pay labels, just $477,000. A court in Finland has ordered two founders of The Pirate Bay to pay record labels just $477,000 in damages. Pirate Bay co- founders Fredrik Neij and ...

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Diggers Factory Brings Community To Indie Vinyl Pre-Sales

Source: HypeBot
August 24, 2017

Diggers Factory founder Alexis Castiel takes us behind the scenes of his crowdfunding styled vinyl pre-order and production service designed to keep artists from wasting money on vinyl production. In this article he explains how the idea for the company came about and where it's headed. Guest post from Soundfly's Flypaper Diggers Factory is an online vinyl pre-order and production service built like a crowdfunding platform and with an international network of digital “crate-diggers” to back it up. Founder Alexis Castiel actually calls it “a ...

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Eclipse Music

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
August 21, 2017

There are several jazz pieces called “Eclipse.” Tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, the Japanese group called Kyoto Jazz Massive, and the Mexican singer Bere Contreras, among others, have performed or recorded compositions with that name. The best known “Eclipse,” though, remains the one that Charles Mingus first recorded in the 1950s and revived for a 1972 concert at Philharmonic Hall in New York. In the ‘72 concert, Mingus performed with a 21 piece all-star band conducted by Teo Macero. The saxophones ...

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Johnny Cash Family Condemns Neo-Nazi Use Of Father's Image

Source: HypeBot
August 19, 2017

The family of Johnny Cash have demanded that Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups not associate the image of their late father with the discriminatory ideas. In an open letter posted to Roseanne Cash's Facebook page, the family took issue with a protester during the confrontation in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend who appeared in a video wearing a Johnny Cash t- shirt. “We were alerted to a video of a young man in Charlottesville, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, spewing hatred ...

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