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Piracy Benefits Everyone Except the Content Owner. Can Canada Fix This?
“The vast majority of music consumed on the internet—over 90 percent—is pirated. When music is pirated, the artists don't get paid, but the ISPs, search engines, advertisers, websites and device manufacturers do. They all profit from enabling this pirate activity, while denying any responsibility to pay the people who create the music in the first place. ...
You're 30. You Haven't Made It Yet. Now What?
We just received a discouraging note from an artist that recently turned 30. Things weren't materializing; he was ready to hang it up. But is that the right move? The odds of success—however defined—remain quite slim for artists. But does age play as much of a role in the current environment? In other words, if you're ...
PC Magazine Snubs Back: "You Guys Are Desperate..."
Up until recently, a letter from the RIAA stirred emotions of fear, anxiety, or outrage. But these days, it provokes something closer to... pity and scorn? Even when co-signed by about a dozen other industry organizations like A2IM, NMPA, BMI, and SoundExchange. No one's getting intimidated anymore. “It worries me that the music industry took this ...
The Average Age of a Top-Touring Artist: 46...
Is it any wonder that younger fans are leaving the building? The latest figures show a mass exodus of 12-to-24 concertgoers, thanks partly to recessionary effects. But even in good times, $100+ seats are tough to stomach, and the biggest grosses often belong to older artists. How old? We did a canvas of the top 50 ...
The Jazz Session #220: Rudresh Mahanthappa
Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa teams up with fellow saxophonist Bunky Green for Apex (Pi Recordings, 2010), an album of original compositions featuring Jason Moran, Francois Moutin, Jack DeJohnette and Damion Reed. In this interview, Mahanthappa talks about his first exposure to Bunky Greens playing; why this all-star cast feels like a working band; and the thought process ...
Chet Baker: Sesjun Radio Shows
Chet Baker's recording career divides neatly into two broad categories: the helpless romantic of the '50s and life's punching bag of the mid-'70s and '80s. By now you're certainly familiar with the charmer of the '50s—a West Coast natural trumpeter and singer whose look of youthful vulnerability and confusion was adapted by James Dean, Montgomery Clift ...
Rush Announces 2011 North American Dates
TOUR STARTS MARCH 30 IN FT. LAUDERDALE Rush have confirmed The Time Machine Tour will visit new cities throughout North America and play a few return engagements beginning March 30 in Ft. Lauderdale and running through April 22 in 2011 with dates in Greensboro, Nashville, Louisville, Toledo, Hershey, New York's esteemed Madison Square Garden, Chicago, Cleveland, ...
Floydfest 2011 Lineup
TAJ MAHAL, DEL MCCOURY BAND, DAVID GRISMAN QUINTET, HOT TUNA, TOUBAB KREWE, REVEREND PEYTON, PIMPS OF JOYTIME & MORE FloydFest, the annual music and arts festival described by one on-line reviewer as a “unicorn in a horse pasture of music festivals" celebrates it's 10 year anniversary this July 28-31, 2011. Held in the non-commercial National Park ...
Diaspora, Privacy-Aware Facebook Rival Goes Beta
Chances are you don't need another social network to join. You're already doing enough tweeting and status updating and not doing nearly enough working and creating the way it is. However, if you remember the great threat of a mass exodus from Facebook several months back. Then, you likely recall talk of an open-source, decentralized network ...
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will "Reform" Music, Film and TV Within 5 Years
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used last week's Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco to share his most sweeping vision yet of how Facebook will fundamentally change the music, film, TV and media industries within the next five years. Zuckerberg believes strongly that insurgent entrepreneurs will “reform" the music, film, TV, news, e-commerce and perhaps many other ...
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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