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Rdio CEO Says New Apple Tax Makes It "Untenable" for Them to Exist on Ios Devices

February 19, 2011

One by one, executives behind leading subscription music companies are speaking out against the new Apple Tax. CEO Steve Jobs has made it clear that when Apple brings new subscribers to apps he expects them to let Apple handle the billing process and for providing that service, he believes his company is entitled to a 30% ...

News: Opinion

How To: Take the Music Business Back from Apple

February 19, 2011

Apple has the music business cornered. Or does it? Chris Holmes has a radical idea that would help the music business free itself from Apple's stranglehold and reward the real influencers that distribute music. Apple might sell music, but it's the blogs and music pirates that distribute it. They're the ones that create the buzz that leads ...

News: Music Industry

A Graphic Look at 25 Years of Music Sales

February 19, 2011

There's something particularly sad about this chart. Whatever the format׮-track, LP, cassette, CD—every one has its day and then sales decline as it is replaced by new formats. Then in 2005 comes digital music, which according to the stats from the RIAA as interpreted by Bain show how, for the first time in 25 years, a ...

News: Opinion

If Only More Cities Took Music Tourism Seriously...

February 19, 2011

Let's say you decide to create an absolutely amazing music festival. How can you get your city to pitch in? Well, it's very, very difficult, at least according to those in the trenches in Europe. “It's bloody hard," Anna Hildur Hildibrandsdóttir, managing director of Iceland Music Export, told an audience in Norway at by:Larm this week. ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Gettin' Dirty with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band

February 20, 2011

This week, we shine our video spotlight on New Orleans' Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who will be back in St. Louis to perform next Saturday, February 26 on a double bill with singer/pianist Jon Cleary at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The DDBB have played here numerous times in recent ...

News: Video / DVD

Sat Eye Candy: Smokey Robinson

February 20, 2011

HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY, MR. ROBINSON R&B and soul music would be a much different thing without Smokey Robinson. Since the late 1950s Robinson has been shaping American music, and in turn influencing music around the world. He's produced almost 40 Top 40 Hits in his career, and has shown a rare tenacity in his field, continuing ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Black History Month: Tribute to Lena Horne at Berklee Performance Center in Boston on February 22, Featuring Jo Thompson

February 20, 2011

Jazz musicians, dancers and professors —led by vocalist Jo Thompson—are gathering in Boston for a tribute to Lena Horne—a trailblazer in music,dance, film, human and civil rights. The event takes place on Tuesday, February 22, 2011, at the Berklee Performing Center, located at 136 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston's Back Bay. For directions click here. General admission ...

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News: Recording

Gutbucket - Flock (2011)

February 20, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron According to Wikipedia, a gutbucket is “a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator." There was even a “gutbucket blues" style of music that was played by those jug bands of long ago. And so since we're here to talk about a band called ...

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News: Recording

Forgotten Series: Nat 'King" Cole - Welcome to the Club (1959)

February 20, 2011

By Nick DeRiso The King has been dead for nearly a half century. Not that you'd know it with all the reissues, television specials and creepy rip offs from Nat Cole's daughter over the last pair of decades. He's funny that way. Cole has had more output over that period than many living jazzers, and he's ...

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News: Recording

Radiohead - The King of Limbs (2011)

February 20, 2011

By Tom Johnson Just a week ago, we were expecting nothing more than the usual—just distant wondering of when there might be a new Radiohead. It had to be coming soon, right? It's been more than three years since they surprised us with In Rainbows and then only cryptic messages about embracing new formats. Were we ...