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Gigswiz and the Human League Help Disrupt the Ticket Industry
TicketMaster has long been unpopular with both music fans and many bands. GigsWiz' approach to building an alternative was to create a system that rewards artists for ticket sales resulting from their direct contacts with fans. Essentially an affiliate program, it encourages musicians to promote their own shows on social media. The band Human League recently ...
We7 Closes New Funding Round, Charts Expansion of Music Streaming Service
We7 has added new funding and will use the money to expand across Europe. Participating were co-founder Peter Gabriel, Eden Ventures, Qualcomm Inc. through its venture capital arm and Pentech Ventures. The amount of the investments were not disclosed. Certainly the investments are well timed to help we7 compete in an increasingly competitive cloud music sector. ...
Massachusetts Issues 2011 Jazz Festival Schedule
(Boston)—MassJazz has released its annual schedule of jazz and blues festivals and outdoor concerts taking place in Massachusetts this summer and fall. The schedule includes a dozen outdoor jazz festivals across the Commonwealth, plus hundreds of outdoor concerts taking place in city parks and town squares, at museums and cultural venues, and at tourist spots around ...
Neil Young and the International Harvesters - A Treasure (2011)
Time to rethink Neil Young and the 1980s. A Treasure, featuring live songs from a 1984-85 tour with a group of Nashville pros, is the sixth release in Young's ongoing Archives Performance Series—and it shines a spotlight on an often overlooked period between 1979's Rust Never Sleeps and Freedom a decade later. Young tinkered, and sometimes ...
Vicious World - Plays the Music of Rufus Wainwright (2011)
Originally named for a Rufus Wainwright song, it was perhaps inevitable that Vicious World would eventually devote an entire album to this underrated contemporary singer-songwriter. That doesn't make the prospect any less daunting, considering the sharp turns and blind alleys associated with Wainwright's deeply idiosyncratic style. But Vicious World, a septet co-led by saxophonist Aaron Irwin ...
Eric Hofbauer and the Infrared Band - Level (2011)
Boston-based guitarist Eric Hofbauer penned the liner notes to his new album out today, Level, beginning it with the testimony that “the music on Level ... explores the human condition using sound to tell stories." He then goes on to explain that the album “offers nine mythology-themed pieces about duality in the universe and in life—two ...
Ranking Your Fans from 1 to 5 (and What Those Ratings Mean)
[Editor's Note: The following post is by Ryan Sweeney, who's currently recovering from a week up at NXNE with his artists] My last article touched on the use of third party e-mail marketing systems like Mail Chimp and Constant Contact. These sites allow bands to track which e-mail subscribers open e-mails, click on their links, and ...
Projection: Brands Will Soon Account for 50% of Industry Revenues...
Percentages can be dangerous in this business, but here's something to chew on: Digitas now projects that 50% of all music industry revenues will come from brands in just a few years. “I would argue half the revenue of the industry in a few years will come from brands," Digitas CEO Laura Lang told an audience ...
Trumpeter Evan Weiss Creates Math or Magic
DON'T MISS THIS STELLAR NEW RELEASE ON INNER CIRCLE MUSIC Composer/trumpeter EVAN WEISS MATH OR MAGIC His Debut CD on Greg Osby's Inner Circle Music Label Chamber Music For Fans of Modern Composition, Neo-Classical, Jazz and Beyond What the press is saying about MATH OR MAGIC: ..."one of the leading lights for the big bands of ...
Fabled Music Man Bob Mintzer Shares Decades Worth of Wisdom
Bob Mintzer is a 20-year member of the Grammy Award winning Yellowjackets, has recorded some 30 solo projects including his own Grammy winning big band, holds the Buzz McCoy endowed chair position on the faculty University of Southern California, does workshops all over the world, writes books on jazz, writes for orchestra, concert band, and big ...
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