Results for "AAJ Staff"

The Most Popular Music Websites in 2010

February 5, 2011

yan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv, has created a fascinating music website heat map; it depicts estimated web-based music consumption in the U.S. in 2010. The visualization is based on traffic data from Compete. Green indicates positive growth in 2010. Red indicates negative growth in 2010. Notable is the fact that cloud-based music services, aside ...

4 Main Purposes of Hyperlocal Blogs [interview]

February 5, 2011

This is part two of my interview with Jordan Stepp. She's Editor in Chief of Athens Music Junkie. Stepp started writing about the music scene in Athens, GA in 2008. Since she has interviewed and reviewed bands and artists from all ends of the spectrum, from R.E.M. and Widespread Panic to little indie startup groups. In this ...

Ticketbattle! - The Ticketmaster, AEG Deathmatch

February 5, 2011

AEG has joined forces with OutBox to take over ticketing at its105 arenas and theaters. This positions the company as a direct rival of Livenation's Ticketmaster. But according to Andrew Dreskin, CEO of Ticketfly, this is mark of growth that will drive competition and lower ticket prices for fans. In a statement to Hypebot, Dreskin expressed concern ...

Hating Pandora Today, Loving It Tomorrow

February 5, 2011

I hate you. I've had an iPod Touch now for several months. The experience is astoundingly unlike my former iPod. Years ago, blinded by choice, I may have listened to the same artists and songs more than I realized, but back then, I still made real decisions. Sometimes while sitting. Sometimes while driving. Always spinning my ...

AARP Says Old People Are Online Too! PS: These Are the People Still Willing to Pay for Music

February 5, 2011

The American Association Of Retired Persons (AARP) has created a short video to remind us (and advertisers) that those 55 years old and over are online too. In fact, those 65 and older makeup the fastest growing age group on Facebook which, according to the AARP, totalled more than 65 million on the social network as ...

Help Wanted! - FMC Artist Revenue Streams Project

February 5, 2011

The Future of Music Coalition has launched a project that seeks to assess if and how musicians revenue streams are changing. They're looking to conduct in-person interviews with a small but diverse set of musicians and composers to collect information about the ways that they're currently generating income from their music, performances or brand, and whether ...

Chicago Live Jazz Music (February 4 - February 11, 2011) Schedule

February 5, 2011

Here is what's happening with the live music Chicago Jazz Scene for the dates February 4th thru February 11th, 2011(Steven Hashimoto bassist-catch him at The Green Mill in Chicago for the Friday-midnight late set)... Andy's Jazz Club 11 East Hubbard St. Chicago, IL 60611 312.642.6805 ANDY'S WEEKENDS FRIDAY & SATURDAY HEADLINERS! $10 Admission until 8:30 pm; ...

Joey Defrancesco Trio - "Fly Me to the Moon" (1999)

February 5, 2011

Kneebody + Busdriver: Why Horns Matter

February 5, 2011

One of my favorite thought-experiments of late comes from some Darcy James Argue-quilled Secret Society program notes: “What if every time you turned on the radio, everyone from T-Pain to Rihanna to Katy Perry was backed by a big band? What if Animal Collective and Vampire Weekend and MGMT all had 13-piece horn sections? What if ...

Peter Hum - A Boy's Journey (2010)

February 5, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Peter Hum is, in a few ways, like me. We're a couple of middle-aged guys who both love jazz, love to write about jazz and critique jazz records, and post our reviews on the internet. I've been an admirer of Hum's jazz blog of the online version of the Ottawa Citizen for ...