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Highlights from SF MusicTech: Unify, Engage, Find Social Sweet Spot, Personalize and Monetize
Yesterday Hisham Dahud attended the 7th San Francisco Music Tech Summit as a correspondent for Hypebot. Each year the summit brings together leaders in music and tech, along with the developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations. Here are the highlights: Engaging Your Fans Chris Vinson of Bandzoogle recommends using the artist website as ...
IRIS and A2IM Launch Another Anti-Piracy Campaign
IRIS Distribution has launched its “I Share Everything But My Music" T-Shirt campaign. Their goal is to promote music ownership and support for the musicians that create it. The logo on the T-Shirt aims to educate kids about music piracy without being heavy-handed. It's a difficult message to communicate. If the point is too aggressive, kids ...
The First Concerts of the 32nd Edition of the Festival
Angélique Kidjo, Dianne Reeves and Lizz Wright, Paco de Lucia, Milton Nascimento, Pink Martini, Madeleine Peyroux, Holly Cole, Georges Wein and the Newport All Stars featuring Randy Brecker, Anat Cohen, Lew Tabackin and Howard Alden, as well as the now-classic Battle of the Bands, with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Artie Shaw Orchestra Christmas gifts ...
I Think We Could All Use "A Bit More Miles Davis"
Interesting business story on BusinessJournalism.org about Miles Davis and the effectiveness of his longtime association with the notion of 'cool.' Alan Deutschman's article finds him at the Eleven Madison Park restaurant in New York. During a tour of the kitchen, he notices a large photograph of Miles Davis. It turned out that four years earlier, ...
Chandler Travis Philharmonic - Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows! (2010)
By Mark Saleski When I was a little kid, we used to take vacations out on Cape Cod. Back then there was a target ship anchored out in the bay, the SS James Longstreet. There was something both creepy and majestic about that ship. Of course, the boy in me wanted to walk out there at ...
Unsigned Treasures: Mark "Pocket" Goldberg - Off the Alleyway (2010)
By Nick DeRiso Mark “Pocket" Goldberg's Off the Alleyway, a rootsy Americana recording with the flickering neon-soul of a blues joint, stays well away from the beaten path. His sound is as eclectic as the country's rolling byways, bringing in low-country pedal steel, back-pew harmonizing, the nostalgic wheeze of an accordion, and crunchy late-night guitar growls. ...
Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green - Apex (2010)
By Pico Maybe it hasn't been talked about that much, but in spite of all the advances in the mastery the instrument led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, the development and evolution of the jazz saxophone didn't end with those guys. Many of the sax players play a modern style that's more intricately articulated, cerebral, ...
Happy Birthday Matthew Shipp.
Matthew meets his half decade today in his prime and fully immersed in Dionysian musings shaped by Apollonian sensibilities. It's quite a feat. It turns on his use of the most basic primal song forms, the first ones most people here were exposed to... Frere Jacques, etc. The melody kernel that the “The New Fact" grows ...
The Advantage of Keeping It Local
If twenty or so independent bands are asked where they printed their CD's, a good majority of them will say Disc Makers. Ask the same bands how they get their record digitally distributed, and many will say CD Baby. If you start asking about other product, such as posters, stickers, banners, and t-shirts, you will probably ...
All Roads Lead to Newton Grove
All Roads Lead to Newton Grove. By Pamela Monk Kelley. 2010. All Roads Lead to Newton Grove is a new book on the Monk family history by Pamela Monk Kelley. Her grandfather, Theodore Babe Monk, and Thelonious Monk's father, Thelonious, Sr., were brothers. They were born and raised in Newton Grove, North Carolina. Thelonious, Sr. moved ...
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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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Six new releases from Michael Pagan Big Band, Ron Vincent,...
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Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
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