Results for "AAJ Staff"

7 Ways Most Non-Famous Musicians Make a Living

March 8, 2011

When we think about what it means to make a living as a musician many people still conjure up ideas of selling plastic discs and endlessly touring the country. Well, that's perhaps how things work at the top, but what about near the middle? Suzanne Lainson of BrandsPlusMusic has written a short overview of the more ...

Kazaa May Benefit from New Apple App Rules

March 8, 2011

Here's a novel theory: Despite the doom and gloom talk in the subscription music sector now that Apple may take a 30% cut of in-app sign ups, one stock analyst says Kazaa may actually benefit from the new rules. So far, Kazaa has been overlooked in this debate, but John Gilliam thinks the on-demand streaming service ...

Admit It, Social Media is out of Control.

March 8, 2011

If despots can't control social media, how can we expect to? It may seem a trivial comparison, but it is a useful one. In our own little world of music, can anyone really predict, much less guarantee, social success? Messages to fans are re-interpreted in unexpected ways. Facebook, the dominate social channel, is constantly changing the ...

MP3tunes CEO Says "CDs Are Going to Zero."

March 8, 2011

CNET has a posted a fascinating round-table discussion between MP3tunes CEO Michael Robertson and reporter Greg Sandoval. It starts off talking about Robertson's new venture DAR.fm and quickly shifts into the future of Pandora and subscription music. Some of the points made are well-known, but it's quite interesting to watch the two go back in forth ...

D.I.Y. Bootcamp: Nimbit Direct-to-Fan Platform [video]

March 8, 2011

Jazz Pianists Fred Hersch + Jason Moran Perform at NEC in Boston on March 8

March 8, 2011

A free concert by two formidable jazz pianists, Fred Hersch and Jason Moran, is taking place at Jordan Hall in Boston on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Both pianists are faculty members at the New England Conservatory and are highly regarded as collaborate artists. Moran is completing his first year of teaching at NEC, ...

Forgotten Series: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (1985)

March 8, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Known now (unfortunately) for its jokey songs—that headband-couture video-hit “Money for Nothing," the silly baseball-park ditty “Walk of Life"—Dire Strait's Brothers in Arms wouldn't perhaps seem like a top candidate for inclusion in the Something Else's Forgotten Series. Except that elsewhere on the album, when they weren't “playing guitar on the MTV," Dire ...

How $10/Month Could Turn Canada's Music Industry Upside Down

March 8, 2011

The Songwriters Association of Canada (or, S.A.C.), “a friendly community of songwriters" which “advocate[s] on behalf of songwriters to protect the value of our work," has worked out a proposal that could turn the Canadian music industry on its head. According to the Montreal Gazette, S.A.C. president Eddie Schwartz is in talks with various Internet service ...

Interview | Tyshawn Sorey

March 8, 2011

This Friday night, March 11, Ars Nova Workshop begins its three-day Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series with a performance of Fieldwork drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s composition, “For Kathy Change.” Inspired by Kathy Change, an American performance artist and political activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996, Sorey’s ensemble ...

Various Artists - Essential Chicago Blues (Not Now Music, 2010)

March 8, 2011

European labels have long used their generous copyright laws to anthologize American music in a way their counterparts in the States find difficult. This compilation draws from a number of record labels including Chess and Vee-Jay, skimming some of the cream of the crop of American blues during the period 1951-1959. The electric blues boom during ...