Results for "AAJ Staff"

Apple in Negotiations to Offer Unlimited Downloads, Move Could Cement iTunes Dominance

March 5, 2011

Apple is in talks with all four major record companies to offer unlimited downloads of purchased music. This would enable iTunes customers to sync their music across different Apple devices. While the labels have been reluctant to grant multiple download rights previously, Apple's relatively closed eco-sytem could offer them a level of comfort. Is This DRM ...

The Negative Effects of Rewarding Music Fandom

March 5, 2011

FanTrail is the latest of the line in app platforms that attempt to increase the connectivity between fans and the artists they love. Like any product of this kind, artists can update their fans from one location, sell music, and provide concert information. Where FanTrail differs is that it has integrated a fandom measurement and reward ...

Pay-What-You-Want Music Label Opens in Detroit

March 5, 2011

This Detroit music label is a great example of disruptive thinking. When thinking disruptively, the goal is to flip assumptions on their head. Case in point: Beehive Recording. All the music is free. All the recording and art services are free. Just donate what you can. The new album won't be released in three months; it will ...

Echo Nest and Columbia University Release Free Million Song Dataset

March 5, 2011

A free Million Song Dataset has been released in an effort to empower the creativity of music software developers. To get the massive project off the ground, The Echo Nest provided the music analysis and metadata, Columbia University's LabROSA (Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio) did the research, Infochimps is handling the ...

D.I.Y. Bootcamp: Audiolife Virtual Storefronts [video]

March 5, 2011

Jazz Vocalist Charmaine Clamor Performing at Regattabar Jazz Club in Harvard Square on Saturday, March 5

March 5, 2011

Filipino jazz star Charmaine Clamor is performing two shows at the famous Regattabar jazz club in Cambridge Massachusetts on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Tickets to the concert are $22 and can be ordered online. Hailed as “one of the important and original singers of the decade" by music critic Don ...

The Friday Morning Listen: Van Halen - Van Halen (1978)

March 5, 2011

By Mark Saleski There was an article out this past week by Steven Hyden at the Onion A.V. website entitled How long does it take to “get" an album? Interesting stuff. I'm not sure I agree with the whole “professional critic" vs. “regular person" deal, but I can see Mr. Hyden's point when he wonders about ...

One Track Mind: Billy Joel, "Prelude/Angry Young Man" (1976)

March 5, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron So yesterday I read that Billy Joel has written an autobiography that he plans to publish June 14, called The Book Of Joel, and the book's editor promised that “there is a lot in this book that he has never revealed before." (Ex-Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar's memoirs, incidentally, arrive on March ...

"Ma Nuit Chez En Enfer. Or, a Night at the Movies" by Steve Provizer

March 5, 2011

Hollywood movies suck. Not only that, going to a multiplex theatre is one of the most dispiriting, depressing and irritating experiences imaginable. Yet, it's one to which Americans are sado-masochistically drawn by the millions. It's especially piquant to plunge in just after you've seen the Oscars; like turning over a beautiful moss-covered log in the forest ...

George Howard on the Importance of Entrepreneurial Spirit

March 5, 2011