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SFJAZZ Launches New Online Venue - Are You Listening? A place for the conversation of jazz in today’s culture.
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Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
Today SFJAZZ is launching Are You Listening, for the jazz community to engage with one another and to contribute their thoughts, perspectives and financial support for the music. “With Are You Listening, we want to create an online space for the types of conversations that are going to take place in the SFJAZZ Center itself," said Kevin Causey, SFJAZZ Director of Development. The SFJAZZ Center will officially open its doors during the week of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in ...
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In 1968, Martin Luther King Said This About Technological and Societal Change...
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Digital Music News
Steve Aoki Unveils New Music Using Turntable.FM
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HypeBot
Electro house musician Steve Aoki has chosen to unveil his latest tracks in the context of a Turntable.fm DJ room—making him the first established artist to fully orchestrate a listening session using the platform. While many artists have debuted their tracks online before, this strategic move is a solid example of how one artist has a keen understanding of his audience, and therefore understands the best way to properly engage them. Aoki and his headphone sponsor SOL REPUBLIC did their diligence and ...
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Soundslates Provides Platform for Online Music Collaborations
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HypeBot
Swiss-based Soundslates.com (beta) is an online collaborative music-making community that's one part social media platform and one part creative exchange platform. The service offers a simple collaboration tool for musicians, producers, songwriters, and sound professionals around the world to contribute to and complete each other's tracks. “I was frustrated by not being able to find exactly the right person to share my musical vision with, who was passionate about their work and simply wanted to make music together," said Pierre Seylan, ...
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Controversial Megaupload to Launch Topspin, Bandcamp Direct-to-Fan Competitor
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HypeBot
Breaking a 10 year silence with a Torrentfreak op-ed, controversial Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom took on his many critics along with Universal Music for yanking his promo video from YouTube (“They decided to stop us at all costs... They have nothing and they don't even care."). But buried in his lengthy diatribe were also specifics of two previously unheard of services that Magaupload is launching that will compete with Topspin, Bandcamp and others in the direct-to-fan music space. “UMG knows ...
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The Guy Who Hacked Gene Simmons' Website Faces 15 Years in Prison...
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Digital Music News
The memo is out: major content owners are deathly serious about enforcing their property, and they want to make examples. That may include 24-year-old Kevin Poe, who has been linked to a recent denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on GeneSimmons.com by the FBI. The Connecticut-based Poe has been charged with two federal counts of conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, and penalties that could result in 15 years of prison time. For now, Poe has been released on $10,000 bond, ...
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Does Google+ Hope to be the Next MySpace Music?
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HypeBot
Japanese pop group AKB48 is leveraging the social functions of Google+ to regularly host Hangouts with fans and broadcast concerts live through Hangouts on Air, Google+ VP of Product Bradley Horowitz recently announced. When MySpace was still in its prime, it served as the go-to place for keeping track of what songs artists were creating. In 2007, it even launched Myspace Transmissions, a series of digital EPs featuring audio recordings, streaming video of music performances and video footage of artist ...
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Diaspora's Early Adopters Launch the Diaspora Noise Project
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HypeBot
Diaspora, the long-anticipated alternative to social networks that invade your privacy and monetize information about your interests and habits, has started opening up to newcomers. I recently joined and, in addition to a simple, clean interface, found an emerging community of interesting folks some of whom are involved in a musical experiment known as The Diaspora Noise Project. The Diaspora social network has been in the news for quite some time since at least the launch of its successful Kickstarter ...
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