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Mobile App $'s Soar. Will Music Grab It's Share?

May 6, 2011

Combined revenues from the four major mobile app stores: Apple, Google, Nokia and RIM will rise 77.7%  in 2011 to $3.8 billion, with Apple grabbing 75% of the market, according to new IHS research. (Click on image to enlarge.) While sector numbers were not released, gaming apps generate the most revenue with music lagging far behind. ...

Generate Demand for Your Music with Loss Leaders

May 6, 2011

The debate roars on over giving music away for free. Yesterday, Bruce wrote about it on Hypebot in How To Turn Free Into Paid: Lessons From Evernote Today on Music Think Tank, Minh Chau discusses topics that can help decide if and what music to give away for free including how to generate demand and determine ...

Blues Legend Joe Lewis Walker is Performing at Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley on Friday, May 6

May 6, 2011

Legendary blues guitarist Joe Lewis Walker is performing with special guest Murali Coryell at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, Massachusetts on Friday, May 6, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $16 and can be purchased online. Walker, recently voted Most Outstanding Guitarist by “Living Blues" critics, was raised in San Francisco, where he learned to ...

Dizzy Gillespie - "And then She Stopped" (1966)

May 6, 2011

Singles vs. Albums: Which Does the Public Really Prefer?

May 6, 2011

Big Data wants the world to believe that the album format is dead and CDs are dying a rapid death. But they have a strong vested interest in this point of view; creating services that sell or find and allow the “sharing” of singles has been the tent-pole that supports much of the internet. Could their ...

Dave Juarez - Round Red Light (2011)

May 6, 2011

For a musician who has devoted his life since early childhood toward his craft and studied for many years as well as earning his stripes in the bars of the great jazz cities of the world, the release of that first album has to be a feeling of relief, elation and accomplishment. That day came for ...

The Vinyl Comeback, in Historical Perspective...

May 6, 2011

The Average Price for a Concert Ticket? $31.57...

May 6, 2011

For all the complaining, this doesn't sound that bad, does it? The concert ticket average of $31.57 was calculated using data published by Pollstar, which tracks prices across more than 1,200 active tours in North America—from more than 30,000 detailed box office reports. Specifically, the average comes from 1,252 tours, across a timeframe that spans 12 ...

Neil Rolnick Covers Much Contemporary Ground in His "Extended Family" Program

May 6, 2011

Neil Rolnick composes music that goes somewhere. Then the next piece goes somewhere else. He is not one to be pinned down to a single style. He uses whatever expressive stylistic means he sees fit for any given piece. And so it is with Extended Family (Innova 782). Three divergent works come to light herewith. “Extended ...

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, May 6-12

May 6, 2011

Book signing, live recording sessions and a few visiting stars mark what is hopefully a truly spring weekend in the Twin Cities! Highlights, Last Week Connie Evingson at the Artists Quarter (4/29-30). It was long overdue that Connie would front her own band at the AQ, and from the first set she made it clear she ...