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News: Performance / Tour

Robert Plant: Spring Tour

January 19, 2011

TOUR STARTS APRIL 8 IN LOUISVILLE, KY; GET FREE DOWNLOAD BELOW Robert Plant has confirmed a 12-date North American tour. Beginning April 8 in Louisville, KY, this will be the third leg of touring on these shores in support of the triumphant release of his latest album, Band of Joy. The touring band is the same ...

News: Performance / Tour

Nels Cline Singers: Winter 2011 Tour Dates

January 19, 2011

WILCO LEAD GUITARIST ANNOUNCES WEST COAST DATES Nels Cline Singers are heading out on the road with Yuka C. Honda in support of their 2010 release Initiate. The tour includes stops in Seattle, Portland, Arcata, San Francisco, Felton, LA, and NY. Initiate, in a beautifully designed, six-panel digipak featuring Simon Norfolk's gorgeous photographs of the world's ...

News: Book / Magazine

CD Baby Starts New Book-Selling Division, Targets Indie Authors and Imprints [launch]

January 19, 2011

CD Baby had a baby. BookBaby, to be precise, is their new venture that focuses on indie authors. After a decade in the music business and paying out $120 million to indie artists, the company has decided to level the playing field between professional and amateur authors in the same way it did with musicians. Authors ...

News: Music Industry

If Steve Jobs Dies Do Musicians Lose?

January 19, 2011

"If Steve Jobs dies do musicians lose? Yes, in the immediate future if Steve Jobs died it would harm musicians because the single best thing about iTunes is how ubiquitous and understood it is as a music player and purchasing tool for digital music. The cloud is the final frontier for music. Streaming is the future, ...

News: Music Industry

Fair Trade Coffee, Meet Fair Trade Music - Where They Cut out the Evil Middlemen Too

January 19, 2011

Another day, another artist community launches. Fair Trade Music is a new site that strives to step aside from the music industry and cut out the middlemen in it. Donations can be made to artists. They keep 100% of the money. This way, artists who don't want to sign with the big bad record labels can ...

News: Opinion

Stream the Album, Make It Cheaper - Social Distortion Puts Fans in Control of Record Price

January 19, 2011

How do you get fans to listen to the entire album anymore? They want the single. Hell, they probably have the single already. And the rest of the tracks, depending on how big of a fan they are, don't matter so much. Marketers are asking fans to take upwards of half-an-hour to 80 minutes to listen ...

News: Career

Advice for Getting a Job in the Music Business

January 19, 2011

This guest post is by Ty White at Outside The Box Office. I'm often approached by my friends and fellow twenty-something's who are looking for advice on entering the music business. It's a really fun business to be in, but it can also come with a great number of surprises if you haven't done your homework up ...

News: Interview

Amateurs Blur with Professionals - As Music Apps Get Better, the Music Will Too [interview]

January 19, 2011

This is part two of my interview with Suzanne Lainson. She is a marketing strategist who has worked with sports, tech, and music companies, and currently writes about the future of the music industry for the Brands Pus Music blog. In this interview, she talks about the implication of a global community of creators and how they ...

News: Music Industry

News Alert: Major Labels Discover Common Sense Thwarts Music Piracy Almost Every Time

January 19, 2011

After reading the news that Universal and Sony Music plan to use “instant singles" as an effort to curve music piracy several times, I feel like the major labels have discovered common sense. Sadly, not even for the right reasons. The article clearly states that they believe this move will show ministers that they're “playing their ...

News: Performance / Tour

Shelley Neill Kicks of 2011 Jazz Series at Cambridge's Multicultural Arts Center on January 21

January 19, 2011

Acclaimed vocalist Shelley Neill performs this Friday, January 21, at the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge Massachusetts at 8:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.). Neill is being joined by ace Berklee musicians Laszlo Gardony on piano, Ron Mahdi on bass and Yoron Israel on drums. Tickets to the show are $20 and $15 and are ...