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News: Music Industry

5 Ways to Turn Superfans into Super-Marketers

August 3, 2011

Sanjay Dholakia, CEO of Crowd Factory, recently shared his insights on encouraging teens to become superfans who will broadcast your message beyond the level of basic participation. Such fans are motivated by the chance to support artists they care about, hooking up their friends with rewards and receiving recognition for their supermarketer status. “How To Turn ...

News: Music Industry

Slicethepie Moves Fan Funding to Pledgemusic, Integrates Soundout Song Analytics

August 3, 2011

Fan funders PledgeMusic and SliceThePie have formed a partnership that integrates SoundOut, Slicethepie's song analytics service into PledgeMusic, who now also takes over the management of the funding process for Slicethepie's artists. SoundOut offers crowdsourced feedback for music and now all successful artist on the PledgeMusic platform will receive a complimentary report on one of their ...

News: Event

Big Changes for Midem 2012. Midemlab Startup, Apps Competition Opens

August 3, 2011

As we announced two weeks ago, producer Reed Midem is shifting gears for the 2012 edition of its signature music industry gathering Midem. In response to a changing industry, the conference is creating an “all-new midem" (new logo to left) that adds more “D.I.Y., technology and brands" to the mix. Gone is popular decade old sub-conference ...

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News: Recording

Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousnes /Lord of Lords (Impulse!, 2011)

August 3, 2011

After the death of her husband and bandleader, the legendary John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane continued to record for Impulse Records for another few years before retreating to her ashram to concentrate on her spiritual concerns. Spirituality has always been the prime concern of her music, and the selections move farther and farther away from jazz into ...

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News: Music Industry

NARAS Messed with the Wrong Latin Jazz Artists...

August 3, 2011

What started as a plan to simplify the Grammys is now getting really, really complicated. On Tuesday, a group of Latin Jazz artists decided to sue NARAS in New York Supreme Court, a move that follows months of frustration. The suit, filed by artists Bobby Sanabria, Ben Lapidus, Mark Levine and Eugene Marlow, alleges that the ...

News: Music Industry

Big Machine Says Anti-Piracy is Just as Important as Marketing...

August 3, 2011

One is all about control, stamping things out, and shutting things down. The other thrives on organic growth, emotional connections, and word-of-mouth. Yet Big Machine Records puts anti-piracy on the same level as marketing in its releases, as evidenced by a recent campaign for Taylor Swift's Speak Now. The anti-piracy policing starts pre-release. “Stopping pre-release leaks ...

News: Trends

Just 8% of Albums Were Sold by Indie Retailers Last Year...

August 3, 2011

Doesn't that change the debate a little? Despite their impressive cache and importance to real music fans, indie retailers come nowhere near level of tonnage offered by big box retailers, large chains and iTunes. That's according to Nielsen Soundscan, which found that just 8 percent of albums were sold through independent retailers last year, compared to ...

News: Radio

Believe It: Sirius Just Passed 21 Million Subscribers...

August 3, 2011

Imagine: getting fans to pay a modest amount every month, in exchange for an incredibly huge amount of music. It's the salivating dream of everyone from Spotify to Pandora, though Sirius XM Radio is actually pulling it off—and beating everyoneelse by a longshot. But is Sirius a long-term survivor? For now, there's something to clap about. ...

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News: Recording

Sir Roland Hanna Piano Solo: Colors from a Giant's Kit

August 3, 2011

Like Jaki Byard, Roland Hanna was a pianist who had absorbed the entire jazz tradition and his playing reflected that. His posthumously released solo session, Colors from A Giant's Kit (IPO), finds him in the mood to cover a lot of ground. There are some quite fetching originals and well-chosen standards, from Duke through Trane. All ...

News: Performance / Tour

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue to Play Tuesday, October 18 at the Old Rock House

August 2, 2011

Troy “Trombone Shorty" Andrews (pictured) and his band Orleans Avenue are returning to St. Louis to perform at 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, October 18 at the the Old Rock House. Andrews last played St. Louis in 2008 at the Broadway Oyster Bar, before the release of his debut CD Backatown, which wound up getting nominated for a ...