Home » Jazz News

Technology News

Timely announcements covering new album releases, tours, concert series, special events, job postings, crowdfunding campaigns and more. You can find more news by searching our website, viewing our news stream, seeing what's trending or reading our blog posts. Subscribe to our news RSS feed and/or embed AAJ news content on your website or blog. Learn about our news service here. Submit news here.

Technology

Diaspora, Privacy-Aware Facebook Rival Goes Beta

Source: HypeBot
November 30, 2010

Chances are you don't need another social network to join. You're already doing enough tweeting and status updating and not doing nearly enough working and creating the way it is. However, if you remember the great threat of a mass exodus from Facebook several months back. Then, you likely recall talk of an open-source, decentralized network called Diaspora. Fueled by the rage of privacy concerns and general dislike of Facebook, it campaigned and raised $200,641 through Kickstarter. The tagline on ...

Continue Reading...

Technology

EMI vs. Mp3Tunes Lawsuit Could Help Make Google Music and iTunes in the Cloud a Reality

Source: HypeBot
November 27, 2010

Mp3Tunes and MP3.com founder Michael Robertson wrote in on Thanksgiving morning to comment on our post New Label Piracy Concerns Could Force Google Music To Delay Christmas Launch saying: “If we prevail (in court vs. EMI) then Google doesn't need a license and neither does Apple." Of course, one court battle usually leads to another. But if he's right and does win, perhaps we can get past the silly idea that storing music online is some kind of “additional use." ...

Continue Reading...

Technology

Tunecore's Jeff Price on Going Direct to iTunes

Source: HypeBot
November 25, 2010

Jeff Price, CEO of TuneCore, responds to a recent post on Digital Music News. This posting is not about me trying to drum up business for TuneCore. Rather, a recent music blog ran a factually incorrect and incomplete story about how artists can “go direct" with digital stores like iTunes. It's frustrating to see wrong information being stated as fact as misinformation can hurt artists. I thought it important to provide a more complete story. To begin, the article implies that a ...

Continue Reading...

Technology

There's No Long Tail on We7; Surprised or Not?

Source: HypeBot
November 24, 2010

This is part two of my interview segment with Steve Purdham, who is the CEO of we7, an on-demand music streaming and radio service based out of the UK. In this section, Purdham talks about the nonexistence of the long tail on his service, the challenge of encouraging music activity over passivity, and why we shouldn't push fans to become more active participants in their cultural lives. In an age where musicians are in need of the most active and ...

Continue Reading...

Technology

Find Paid Artist Opportunities Through Indaba Music

Source: HypeBot
November 24, 2010

Indaba Music has launched its Opportunities Marketplace. With this dedicated platform, they aim to provide musicians with easy, quick access to paying gigs. For musicians, brands, and marketers, among others, this creates a go-to place for posting everything from simple wanted ads to full-blown sponsored competitions that feature custom voting and widgets. At present, Indaba Music specializes in collaboration and content creation, but they aspire to broaden their reach and also generate recognition and income for musicians too. While many ...

Continue Reading...

Technology

What is Twitter and the Evolving Music Industry

Source: HypeBot
November 21, 2010

Technology

Big Facebook, Myspace Joint Announcement Today

Source: HypeBot
November 19, 2010

(Updated) MySpace and Facebook will make a major joint announcement at Noon PST today according to a press invitation sent last night. Mike Jones, CEO of MySpace, and Dan Rose, VP of partnerships and platform marketing for Facebook will be handling the presentation, but no other details were offered. Several sources are pointing towards increased integration between the two services. According to London's Telegraph, MySpace will start to accept Facebook logins, a move that will be seen many as MySpace ...

Continue Reading...

Technology

Wireless Sheet Music Page Turner App Now Available on iTunes App Store

Source: Phil Smith
November 18, 2010

Black & White Software LLC, the makers of iGigBook have released a wireless page turner app to compliment their iGigBook sheet music reader app for the iPad. iGBPager turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a wireless page turner. It uses Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to wirelessly connect an iPhone running iGBPager with an iPad running iGigBook. Users may use the buttons on the face of the device to turn pages forwards or backwards or take advantage of the built in ...

Continue Reading...