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News: Recording

Les Spann: Gemini

February 2, 2011

I find it interesting that several top jazz guitarists of the '50s steered clear of recording as leaders. Billy Bauer recorded only one album, Plectrist, as a leader in 1956. The same goes for Barry Galbraith, who took charge only on Guitar & the Wind in 1958. There usually are two reasons for this: First, most ...

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News: Video / DVD

Al Di Meola: Tour Dates; Video w/Rodrigo Y Gabriela

February 2, 2011

TOUR STARTS FEBRUARY 17 IN AGOURA, CALIFORNIA Legendary guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola joined rising young stars Rodrigo y Gabriela onstage in Paris for an intimate performance. The Mexican guitar duo sat down before the show to talk about what playing with guitar master Di Meola meant to them. Check out the video below. Fans can ...

News: Music Industry

Citi Takes Control of EMI, Wipes out $3.5b Debt

February 2, 2011

(UPDATE 2) EMI, the world's fourth largest label group along with a successful publishing division, are now controlled by one of America's largest banks. As predicted, Citigroup seized 100% of EMI Group Ltd. from financier Guy Hands and his Terra Firma group in a restructuring that saw the company's debt cut from nearly $5.5 billion to ...

News: Economics

Is the Format Replacement Cycle Over?

February 2, 2011

When the CD format came out, fans upgraded their LP collections, igniting a boom in sales that lasted from 1984 to 2000. When the MP3 format trickled up from the tech-geek community, fans ripped their CDs to their computers and downloaded free digital files of the web, causing a decline in sales that has lasted from ...

News: Opinion

Why Any Seat at Music Hack Day is More Valuable Than a Front Row Ticket to the Grammys

February 2, 2011

“Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes." - Jason Epstein, The New York Review Of Books Epstein's ...

News: Economics

Does Spotify Pay Major Labels More Than Indies?

February 2, 2011

The utopian dream of the Internet is that it makes artists equals. Each can have their music available on iTunes and have a webpage to call their own. But do major label artists make more money per stream on Spotify than the indies like the xx? New reports hint that this may be the case. It's not ...

News: Music Industry

10 Expert Insights into Great Music Marketing

February 2, 2011

This post is by Hypebot intern Hisham Dahud. His Twitter: @HishamDahud. This past weekend, the California Lawyers for the Art's held their 28th Annual Music Business Seminar at Ex'pression College for the Digital Arts in Emeryville, CA. Here were some of the highlights: On getting a marketing and distribution campaign started: Danny Dee Aguayo of Topspin Media ...

News: Video / DVD

Why I Think Video LPS Are a Good Idea

February 2, 2011

DFTBA Records President and co-founder Alan Lastufka has joined MTT as an author. In his first post, he talks about his experience of releasing a Video LP on YouTube. So far, he can't find many disadvantages. For fans, labels, and managers the positives of a Video LP are vast. Given how much music consumption happens on ...

News: Video / DVD

Chad McCullough Video from Belgium

February 2, 2011

Chad McCullough and John Bishop are in Europe in support of their new release, Imaginary Sketches, with Belgium pianist Bram Weijters and bassist Piet Verbist. A video has been posted from their performance at The Appeltuin Jazz Festival in Leuven, Belgium. On this show Lionel Beuvens was filling in for John Bishop on drums, who missed ...

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News: TV / Film

Blast from the Past: Mark Cantor's Jazz Films

February 2, 2011

I had the pleasure ofattending Mark Cantor's “Jazz on Film" presentation on January 22nd here at theJewish Community Center of San Francisco and it was a blast from the past.Cantor is a jazz film archivist who has collected over 4,000 reels (yes, actualfilm) of vintage jazz performances. He shares programs of these rare films atpresentations all ...