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News: Video / DVD

Best of 2010, Part Two: Innovative Online Marketing Strategies and Music Videos

December 15, 2010

Throughout the year, this site and others have pointed you in the direction of cool services, sites, videos, artists and companies that have made life better for independent artists. And a few weeks ago, we decided that it would make sense to pool all our colleagues' thoughts and finds into one massive end of year blog ...

News: Opinion

How to Waste Five Dollars, End of Year Edition

December 15, 2010

Regular readers know that we like Sonicbids, that we like The Deli magazine, and that we favor creative schemes to get publicity for your band. We do not, however, like this. As you can see in the above picture, The Deli magazine is accepting submissions for its End of Year poll. For the first few days, ...

News: Award / Grant

El Intruso Poll

December 15, 2010

The Argentinian jazz website El Intruso asked me to participate in their year end poll. Much like the polls in Downbeat or Jazz Times, the poll was broken down by instrument. Here were my submissions with a few comments: Musician of the year—Mary Halvorson (MH has seemingly been everywhere this year, releasing a great album as ...

News: Radio

The Jazz Session #224: Jason Robinson

December 14, 2010

Woodwind player Jason Robinson released three albums this fall—solo (Cerberus Reigning), duo (Cerulean Landscape) and full band (The Two Faces of Janus). In this interview, Robinson discusses his use of electronics and computer manipulation in his solo saxophone playing; how the music of Duke Ellington and Cecil Taylor inform his duets with pianist Anthony Davis; and ...

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News: Interview

This is Pat Moran

December 14, 2010

By now, you probably know that bassist Scott LaFaro was a member of the Bill Evans Trio from 1959 to 1961 and that he died in an auto accident in July 1961. But before LaFaro's association with Evans, he was a working musician in New York and then in Los Angeles. Just before his trip West ...

News: TV / Film

Phosphorescent on Letterman

December 14, 2010

NOW, THAT'S A FULL SOUND! “It's Hard To Be Humble (When You're From Alabama)" is easily one of the song titles of the year, and the bouncing tune off Here's To Taking It Easy pretty much backs up the bravado. The band made their Late Show With David Letterman debut last week, where they performed the ...

News: Technology

Grooveshark Rises in Popularity - So Now What?

December 14, 2010

Grooveshark proudly announced on their blog yesterday that they made it onto Google's annual Zeitgeist—a roundup of the most popular search terms on the web throughout the year. They made the list of the Top Ten searches in the United States. Strangely enough, as far as regional of interest goes, the United States is actually last ...

News: Technology

Sonicbids and Headliner.FM Collaborate, Launch App

December 14, 2010

Sonicbids and Headliner.fm have collaborated to launch a new app for artists to reach new fans. The Headliner.fm app enables artists to trade recommendations with similar groups and promote to their fanbases through artist-approved status updates on social networking sites and mobile devices. With this collaboration, Sonicbids artists will gain access to the Headliner.fm app and ...

News: Interview

Interview: Indie Band Survival Guide Authors PT. 1

December 14, 2010

Recently, I spoke with Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan, who are authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide: The Complete Manual for the Do-It-Yourself Musician. As well, they're lead members of the Chicago band Beatnik Turtle. In part one of this interview, Chertkow and Feehan talk about why they never quit they're day jobs once they ...

News: Music Industry

Citigroup Likely to Take Control of EMI by Christmas

December 14, 2010

The official line is that they are still weighing options, but Guy Hands has reportedly been telling Terra Firma investors that they could loose control of EMI to lender Citigroup before the end of the year. His statements come a few weeks after he lost a last ditch lawsuit against CitiGroup claiming fraud and just days ...