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Hypebot Revisited: 100 Free and Affordable High and Low Tech Music Promotion Tips

Source: HypeBot
September 3, 2009

As part of Hypebot's 5th Anniversary, we're bringing back some of our favorite articles. This 100 Tips post needs some updating after almost 2 years, but aside perhaps from “Infiltrating Columbia Records Site With An Anti-Label Ad", it is one of our most read and linked to posts ever.

There's lots of great and simple stuff here. Give it a read and let me know in the comments section what you'd add and subtract to upate it. If I get ...

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Pandora Refreshes Desktop Music App

Source: PC Magazine
September 3, 2009

Internet radio provider Pandora on Wednesday announced that it has released the second version of its Pandora One desktop app. In a blog post, the site's CTO Tom Conrad added that the new app maintains a simple interface while incorporating come of the “most-requested features." Among the new features are the ability to view song history from the previous hour. Users can purchase or thumb up or down any songs played in that time. The app also features a new ...

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Cradle to Grave: The Untold Story of Digital Natives

Source: HypeBot
September 3, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor

Among the population of one billion youth born after 1980, much significance is placed on their “use" of digital technologies. By doing so, we have, in turn, underestimated the major “role" in which a unique combination psychological and technological obsolescence has played in their daily lives. All the while, it appears as though we've simply ignored how this abstract concept has become embedded into the very fabric of who these 'Digital Natives' are. ...

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Music Blog Network Mog Gets $5 Million More

Source: HypeBot
September 3, 2009

Music blogging network MOG has closed a $5 million equity financing round lead by Menlo Ventures. Long-time investors Simon Equity Partners and Scott Jones have also participated to the round and will be joined on the board by Sonja Hoel Perkins of Menlo Ventures. MOG has raised $12.5 million dollars in funding to date.

A number of other blog networks also hope to become the go to place on the web for music; but while some have gained eyeballs, most ...

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amazon.com Offering Free Downloads of 30 Different "World Music" Samplers

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 3, 2009

While the term “world music" is more of a marketing turn of phrase than a useful description, there's no doubt that a lot of interesting sounds get included in the category. Now Amazon.com is trying to encourage everyone to do a bit of audio globetrotting by offering free MP3 downloads of 30 different sampler albums of music from all over the world. Some of the samplers are record label-specific, while others concentrate on a single genre or country, ...

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#Jazzlives Twitter Campaign to Draw Attention, Demonstrate Support for Live Jazz

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 3, 2009

The latest eruption of the recurring “is jazz dying? controversy, prompted in part by a recent article in the Wall Street Journal (see previous posts here and here for more) got veteran jazz journalist Howard Mandel thinking about ways to demonstrate the current vitality and diversity of jazz music.Last week, Mandel emailed an assortment jazz journalists and broadcasters, websites, bloggers, and presenters, including yr. humble StLJN editor, saying in part:“Is the audience for jazz aging and diminishing, ...

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Site News: A New Look For St. Louis Jazz Notes

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
September 3, 2009

If you're reading this post directly on the St. Louis Jazz Notes site (as opposed to via RSS, email or another site aggregating StLJN's posts), you'll notice that it has a new look, and some new features as well.If only for cosmetic reasons, a change was long overdue, as StLJN has had the same basic template and look since first going online in April 2005. The new layout is a three-column variation of one of Blogger's basic designs; ...

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'Weather Channel' Changes Music Format: 'Weather Report' in the Forecast?

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2009

"Callin' out around the world / Are you ready for a brand new beat?"--Martha and the Vandellas hit from the summer of '64 (video) written by William 'Mickey' Stevenson and Marvin Gaye. Around the world, indeed--from North to South America; from France, Germany, and England to India and Australia. With the flip of a switch, the Weather Channel's cultural tsunami--unexpected and relentless--quietly surges through the web of communication satellites and fiber-optic cables that envelope the world like strands of extruded ...

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