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Can Pandora Find a Business Model That Works?
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HypeBot
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Royalty payouts and the burden they impose have always been a strongly debated issue when it comes to Pandora. The company has pursued numerous routes to lower the cost of music streaming from listening caps to government lobbying — some of which have been more successful than others. In this interview panel on Pandora, four influential executives in the music and tech industry weigh in on whether they think ...
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Irving Berlin’s Music Box
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, guest artists—trumpeter Bob Barnard and singers Nina Ferro and Rebecca Kilgore—interpret both familiar and lesser-known works by Irving Berlin. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Irving Berlin made a huge contribution to the great canon of interwar American ...
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Keith Brand retires from WXPN
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Michael Ricci
Keith Brand, the Sunday morning host of WXPN's Sleepy Hollow, is retiring after 27 years at the mic. A letter was sent out to 'XPN members with Brand's fond farewell: Dear Sleepy Hollow listeners, It is with both sadness and anticipation that I announce that I will be retiring from Sleepy Hollow after 27 years. My last show will be May 5th. When I began broadcasting at WXPN, it was still a community radio station with a small but ...
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Jazz Ballads This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it's “Gentle Giants: The Beauty of The Jazz Ballad." The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Jazz musicians, far better known as performers than composers, have turned their talents to writing jazz ballads—guitarist Django Reinhardt, baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Milt, Clark And Doc On The Road In The 30s & 40s
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, jazz legends Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham and others tell stories of life on the road. And these jazz greats take to the stage with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in performances recorded live at The Landing. Our show features recordings from the Riverwalk Jazz archive and audiotape courtesy of National Public Radio. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from ...
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This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Unsung Songwriters: The Great Craftsmen
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Don Mopsick
We know about the Gershwins, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin—but who were the hardworking, yet little-known craftsmen of song responsible for penning the vast body of work known as “jazz standards” of the golden age? The lyrics of these songs may be rich with romance, a silly Marx Brothers ditty, or even a “torchy” lament of lost love. But the melodies capture the rhythmic bounce of America in love with its own happy-go-lucky optimism. Most were written in the era ...
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Pandora's Biggest Weakness, Potential Opportunity
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By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Pandora has evolved during its tumultuous, decade long rise to ascendancy in the Internet radio sector, but the product is not perfect. Avid users lament about the repetitious nature of their custom stations and their tendency to pander toward certain artists. The alternative rock band Weezer, for example, is a chameleon whose wide ranging and popular songs eventually squeeze their way into any station. Furthermore, custom stations that ...
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SiriusXM Takes On Pandora, Custom Radio with MySXM Powered by the Echo Nest
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The music service with more paid subscribers than any other is taking direct aim at Pandora and other custom music stream providers. Today satellite broadcaster SiriusXM launched MySXM which, with some help from The Echo Nest, allows users to customize the mix of 50+ SiriusXM music channels. When listeners first start listening to a MySXM channel, they hear curated programming from the regular SiriusXM broadcast channel. By using sliders the user can personalize the stream thanks The Echo Nest music ...
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