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The Case Against Public Radio Funding...
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Digital Music News
If you want some good ol' liberal-bashing, go someplace else. Sure, I can jab at “All Things Considered" and all the overly-cerebral discourse, but I'm also listening to NPR, KCRW, and other stations like Classical KUSC all the time. The programming is just better on the 'far left' of the dial, so to speak—it's better researched, less schlocky, less repetitive, and more serious. But there's been a serious debate about whether the government should be paying for this—whether it be ...
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Create a Radio Show for Your Band with Spreaker
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We All Make Music
Everybody knows how important the medium of radio is to artists. Terrestrial radio is still one of the biggest drivers of record sales, digital radio platforms like Last.fm and Pandora are spreading like wildfire, and even Sirius/XM, which is finally profitable, makes a huge difference to the careers of artists everywhere. But what if your band could have its own radio show? What kind of effect would that have? Thanks to the recent launch of sites like Spreaker, creating a ...
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Impresario Fred Taylor Talks About His Life in Jazz with WGBH Host Steve Schwartz on Friday, April 15
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Boston's legendary jazz promoter, Fred Taylor, is going to be on the radio with jazz host Steve Schwartz this Friday, April 15, from 8:00 p.m. to Midnight on WGBH 89.7 FM. To listen to the show via Live Stream, click here. In June 2010, Taylor received a Heroes Award from the Jazz Journalists Association for his lifelong work in promoting jazz and other musical genres. To read a profile of Fred Taylor in the 2010 MassJazz Travel Guide, click here. ...
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"Chicago's Jazz Age Melting Pot" this week on Riverwalk Jazz
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Don Mopsick
Recalling the heady atmosphere of the great musical “melting pot" in Jazz Age Chicago, with a script based on historical and biographical written accounts and recordings, Riverwalk Jazz this week welcomes two frequent guests from New Orleans—the Obie award-winning actor and singer Vernel Bagneris and renowned blues singer Topsy Chapman—plus pianist Shelly Berg. By the 1920s, jazz was on the move. In the wake of America's entry into WWI in 1917, the promise of well-paying manufacturing jobs and a better ...
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The Traneumentary: Ashley Kahn
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
Writer Ashley Kahn is one of the most profound authorities when it comes to John Coltrane. He has written three well researched and enjoyable books that feature John Coltrane among others: The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse! Records, Kind of Blue-The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece and A Love Supreme-The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album. On the first of two Traneumentary episodes, Ashley puts Coltrane's musical force and legacy into perspective. He presents a brief ...
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Spreaker: Artist Marketing Tool or Waste of Time?
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HypeBot
(UPDATED) Spreaker is a free and straightforward online radio and podcast service with resources like video tutorials to make it easy to use. Set up a show, upload media files and record audio directly into a mic. You specify the sequencing and Spreaker mixes it together on their end. Sounds like a simple and effective tool that artists and others can use to communicate with their fans; or is it? The limit to the free version is one hour of ...
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XM Settles, Agrees to Pay Indepedent Labels $3.6m
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HypeBot
Independent music agency Merlin and other members of the indie music community have agreed to a settlement of $3.6 million in a long-running dispute with XM Satellite Radio over the Pioneer Inno recordable radio receiver. Out of court settlements had been reached with the four major record labels between 2007 and 2008. As a result of the class action settlement, Merlin members and all other independent record labels that had their sound recordings transmitted by XM Satellite Radio between March ...
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