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News: Interview

Interview: Junior Mance (Part 3)

January 8, 2011

Pianist Junior Mance has a lot of church in his playing. But it's not purely the church of stomping gospel or frenzied revivals. Rather, Junior's playing channels both urban gospel and rural spirituals and hymns. What interesting about his quiet soul is that it garners both a physical reaction in listeners as well as self-reflection. Junior's ...

News: Performance / Tour

Morcheeba: North American Tour

January 8, 2011

BLOOD LIKE LEMONADE OUT NOW London-based genre-bending Morcheeba will be crossing the pond in February for a slew of North American tour dates. The tour will kick off on February 10 at the 9:30 club in Washington DC, followed up with two nights at the Fillmore-Irving Plaza in New York. A full list of tour dates ...

News: Music Industry

As Google, Apple Hesitate, RealNetworks Demos Unifi Cloud Music and Media Service at CES

January 8, 2011

Yesterday at CES, RealNetworks demoed Unifi, a new music and media cloud service which its says can serve as a complete library of all the media a users owns, accessible from any internet-connected device. Real says Unifi will be available early this year. But how did Real beat Google and Apple cloud music services to market? Apparently ...

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News: Technology

Top 6 Missing Features from Thumbplay Music

January 8, 2011

In past month, I've had the pleasure of using Thumbplay Music. I had recently bought myself an iPod Touch and wanted to experiment with a cloud-based music service. It's been a pretty good experience. I've mostly used the mobile app and have only dabbled in the desktop player. But, I wanted to highlight six of the ...

News: Economics

Digital Only Label X5 Music Gets $9 Million Venture Funding for U.S. Expansion

January 8, 2011

Who says venture capitalists don't love music? In the last few days alone, RootMusic received $2.3 million to help musicians build better Facebook pages and trueAnthem grabbed $2.9 million to take yet another stab at the unproven ad supported music market. Now Swedish digital-only record label X5 Music has landed $9.09 million USD from Northzone Ventures, who ...

News: Rights

2000-2010: RIAA Spends +$90 Million on Lobbying

January 8, 2011

Since 2000, the RIAA has spent over $90 million in government lobbying efforts in the U.S. alone. In 2000, the record industry spent a mere $4 million, in attempt to shape the public opinion of file-sharing. By 2009, that figure rose to $17.5 million. The motion picture industry spent less than half of what the record ...

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News: Technology

SoundCloud Embeds Content ID Technology

January 8, 2011

SoundCloud has collaborated with Audible Magic, a digital media identification and copyright tracking service provider. This technology will be used to help identify the ownership rights of artists, record labels, and other music copyright owners. It will also give rights holders more control over how they make their content available and ensure creators can share work ...

News: Radio

Future to Come: Pandora in Hand, Pandora in Car

January 8, 2011

50% of radio listening happens in the car. In order for Pandora to be in all the places that their users go, they need to find their way into the car. At CES this week, Pandora announced partnerships with Toyota and BMW that would place them one step closer to musical domination. Having personalized content in the ...

News: Music Industry

Buy One, Give One Free: What Artists Can Learn from Social Entrepreneurship

January 8, 2011

Over at Music Think Tank, George Howard makes the case that the record industry has yet to find a way to reward fans for sharing music. In many instances, our human nature is to share the music we love with others. We've yet to incentivize this exchange in any way. Instead, the record industry has condemned ...

News: Music Industry

January is Filled with Jazz

January 8, 2011

From Jim Wilke: There's an amazing amount of activity in the jazz world this week.... the JEN conference (successor to IAJE) is this week in New Orleans, the APAP presenters conference is happening in New York City and both are chock full of artists' showcases and presentations and concerts, stirring up more interest and involvement in ...