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News: Music Industry

Bandcamp Partners with Songkick

December 29, 2010

Rather than create yet another place that artists have to post their live performance listings, music sales and marketing platform Bandcamp has partnered with Songkick. Songkick already collects shows data from ticket vendors and venues globally, and provides that data to Bandcamp (as well as YouTube, HypeMachine, Yahoo, and others). and they appear automatically on the ...

News: Technology

Combining Email Marketing with Social Media Rises

December 29, 2010

Email marketers for music and other media are increasingly adding social media using elements like “share with your network" and buttons to connect with brands on Twitter and Facebook in their email campaigns. A new survey says the combination is the top tactic marketers worldwide expect to increase budgets on in 2011. According to a November ...

News: Rights

Is Pandora Violating Your Privacy? A Lawsuit and Investigation Say Yes...

December 29, 2010

Is Pandora crossing the line with your personal data? That's the accusation of a recent lawsuit against Apple, Pandora, and a number of other top apps, and there's more to this than you might expect. The suit, which currently seeks class action status, alleges that various iPhone and iPad apps are slyly collecting and selling a ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Around Town: 2011 Anyone?

December 30, 2010

Now, on to the listings. If there's a big jazz thing out there for New Year's Eve, no one has bothered to let the only jazz blog in town know about it. Let me know if I missed something and I'll add it tomorrow. So Happy New Year!!! I'm going to be here at home, listening to ...

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News: Recording

Gene Estes: Westful

December 30, 2010

Don't feel bad if the name Gene Estes doesn't ring a bell. Most jazz listeners aren't familiar with him. Though Estes started his recording career in the mid-'50s bands of Harry James, Billy May, Shorty Rogers and Henry Mancini, he also was an in-demand studio percussionist who wound up on studio recordings by the Monkees (Theme), ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Funky Meters: 2011 Dates

December 30, 2010

FREE TICKET GIVEAWAY TO EACH BROOKLYN BOWL SHOW The Funky Meters have announced tour dates for next year. On January 14th the band will be celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Tipitina's in New Orleans with special guest Brian Stoltz. They will also be playing at the Brooklyn Bowl for three nights on Valentine's week Feb 15-17. ...

News: Rights

Music Industry Tops Worldwide Digital Cease and Desist Orders in 2010

December 30, 2010

Clearinghouse ChillingEffects logged 12,000 DMCA cease and desist notices, some for a single URL and others like for The Pirate Bay containing hundreds. Across all categories and territories, the music industry led the list. Details: The international music industry, represented by the trade group IFPI, issued the most DMCA take down notices in 2010: 1272 in ...

News: TV / Film

Echo Nest to Power New BBC Music Channels

December 30, 2010

Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has announced a deal with the British Broadcasting Corporation to power the clip-to-clip recommendations in the BBC's nw Music Showcase—a media aggregation hub that gathers all of their music and music-related video and audio clips. The partnership comes hot on the heels of Echo Nest's recent deal to develop music ...

News: Obituary

Billy Taylor, Jazz Pianist and Educator, Dies at 89

December 30, 2010

Billy Taylor, a pianist and composer who was also an eloquent spokesman and advocate for jazz as well as a familiar presence for many years on television and radio, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 89 and lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The cause was heart failure, said his daughter, Kim Taylor-Thompson. ...

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News: Recording

Debora Petrina - In Doma (2010)

December 30, 2010

By Mark Saleski After years of writing reviews, I have now stumbled into what must be the most embarrassing way to discover music: via a tumblr photo blog. I can't even remember what I'd been writing at the time, but I had googled the word “geek" and ended up on a site full of pictures of ...