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Memo to Bands and Promoters: Use Discount Tickets to Announce a Show, Not to Save One

March 22, 2011

This simple and powerful idea somes from Scott Perry of The New Music Tip Sheet: “Don't use sites like Goldstar and Groupon to discount tickets at the last minute, use those services to announce a tour and give fans the discount up front. Offer the cheap seats at 2-for-1 pricing via a partnered presale, and then...  ...

Is the Shared Music Experience a Niche?

March 22, 2011

Many apps I've come across lately focus on the shared music experience. SoundTracking lets users share music moments. Songza lets users share a radio station. Mixapp lets users create a listening room. And Roqbot lets users gain control of a public playlist. All of these are great ideas. But I'm left asking myself, is the shared music experience ...

Apple Pushing to Launch Music Locker in April

March 22, 2011

Apple is reportedly pressuring the major labels to have all of the music licenses in place for the re-launch of their MobileMe service in April. This would allow users to store their music online and access it from any mobile device. Last month, Apple confirmed that their new $1 billion data center in Maiden, NC, is ...

Managing Relationships with Fans when Your Fan Base Gets Too Big

March 22, 2011

Jon Ostrow has written a fantastic post on Music Think Tank that details how an artist can stay connected to their fans when their audience outgrows them.  Before you start to feel overwhelmed, Ostrow offers actionable insights into how an artists can keep their fans close before they feel like pushing them away. This may not ...

Shelly Manne - "Speak Low" (1962)

March 22, 2011

Anatomy of a Successful Direct to Fan Campaign

March 22, 2011

Over the weekend at SXSW, Topspin awarded a $5,000 grant to Alessandro Cortini, a.k.a. SONOIO, to fund a marketing campaign for SONOIO's albums. SONOIO was one of many artists that formally applied for the grant, filling out an application detailing precisely what he intended to do with his money. Let's have a look at what goes ...

Interview | Wally Shoup

March 22, 2011

On Wednesday, March 23, Ars Nova Workshop presents a trio performance by saxophonist Wally Shoup, violinist/electronicist C. Spencer Yeh, and percussionist Ben Hall at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. Shoup, who is also a visual artist and writer, has worked with many leading experimental musicians, including LaDonna Smith, Evan Parker, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Reuben Radding, and ...

Cross-Post: Jazz and Food

March 22, 2011

One of my colleagues is an avid foodie, with an excellent blog called Oh! You Cook! She recently uncovered a cookbook called Jazz Cooks and asked me if I would like to cross-post with her about jazz and food. The recipes she picked from the cookbook belong to jazz legends Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine and Rashied ...

The Case for a Separate Society of Indies...

March 22, 2011

We've questioned whether it makes sense to treat indies as a distinct category of the music industry anymore.The majors are collapsing, artists and labels can communicate directly with their fans, and fans themselves have unprecedented access to whatever music they want— major, indie, unsigned, whatever. On top of that, it's increasingly unclear how to define an ...

Jazz Gawronski Plays Jaruzelski's Dream

March 22, 2011

A free alto-bass-drums trio come out of a Viennese studio with Jaruzelski's Dream (Clean Feed 211). And what is the result? A long, most energetic set of improvisations with rock, swing and freetime flow. Franceso Cusa makes an impact with his energy drumming. Stefano Senni plies his bass with a sure sense of phrase and form. ...