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Buy Your Digital Music from a Vending Machine

December 11, 2010

The future of the music industry has arrived: the MP3 vending machine. MOD Systems has released its Download2Go digital music kiosks in Quick Chek convenience stores. Shoppers can now grab a quick bite to eat and a new album while they're browsing around. With these machines, all the user has to do is tap the screen, ...

Is Music Moving from Rip and Burn to Watch and Share?

December 11, 2010

Last week Forrester analyst Mark Mulligan tweeted: “Need some help: if 'Buy & Listen' was 20th cent. music consumption, 'Rip & Burn' the 1st digital generation, what's it for Digital Natives?" The question was part of research Mulligan and his team are doing for an upcming study “Digital Natives, the Generation Music Product Strategy Forgot." Some early ...

Facebook Exec Says: "We Are in the Music Space"

December 11, 2010

(UPDATED) When asked if Facebook would use it's social platform to reinvent the music industry like Zynga changed gaming, Ethan Beard, the Director of the Facebook Developer platform, replied “ We are in the music space."  Beard was referring to Connect and the ability for outside music companies to tap into Facebook's social network, and as ...

MidemNet Lab Names Top Digital Music Sartups

December 11, 2010

MidemNet Lab has announced its 2011 class of top digital music start-ups. For this 2nd edition, the companies with the strongest potential in mobile apps, B2B and B2C music services were chosen by UK consulting firm Music Ally to take part in a showcase during MIDEM January 22-26 in Cannes. Here are the finalists: Mobile applications: ...

Dizzy Gillespie - "No More Blues" (1966)

December 11, 2010

James Moody, 1925-2010

December 11, 2010

By Pico Jazz saxophone and flute giant James Moody has been around seemingly forever and never slowed down, but yesterday pancreatic cancer finally ended a long and distinguished career at the age of 85. He was a key member of Dizzy Gillespie bands going back to the 1940s (Diz once remarked, “Playing with James Moody is ...

The Friday Morning Listen: Patti Smith Group - Easter

December 11, 2010

By Mark Saleski I just finished reading Patti Smith's memoir of her life and connection with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. It was pretty inspiring stuff. Two wild kids (wild in their own way) whose happy collision in New York City turned into a lasting and productive friendship. Productive? Yeah, I don't mean this in the empty capitalist ...

One Track Mind: Emily Hearn, "Maybe" (2010)

December 11, 2010

By Nick DeRiso A radiant uncertainty runs through “Maybe," Emily Hearn's song about the confusion and memorable pain of a lonely young heart. OK, there's a girl, and there's a guy, and the guy won't give her the time of day. This, we've heard before. But Hearn, singing with an oaken longing reminescent of Patty Griffin ...

Anat Fort - And if (ECM, 2010)

December 12, 2010

Pianist and composer Anat Fort made a big splash in 2007 with her previous album for ECM, A Long Story, and this follow up shows that she has continued to make progress in forging her own unique musical path. Supported by her core trio mates Gary Wang on bass and Roland Schneider on drums, the group ...

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, December 10-16

December 11, 2010

Highlights, Last Week The 25th anniversary celebration at the Dakota peaked with a legacy/legend back-to-back shows. The Ravi Coltrane Quartet repeatedly proves to be one of the top small ensembles in modern jazz, as its leader proves to star-worthy in his own right. And McCoy Tyner, if not the agile powerhouse of his earlier years, retains ...