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News: Technology

AT&T Hopes You'll Pay for Music on Your Phone Bill

October 30, 2010

AT&T has partnered with BOKU to offer consumers a direct carrier billing solution for online goods including music using their existing wireless service account. From their wireless handset, customers can make online purchases by entering their mobile number and charging directly to their existing AT&T wireless account. This kind of direct mobile music connection was part ...

News: Technology

5 Ways Artists Disappear Almost Completely Online (and Purposely Hide Themselves from Google...)

October 30, 2010

This guest post is by Deb Chachra; she writes the blog zed equals zee. For new artists, any discussion of a band name is likely coupled with a domain name search to make sure the URL is available, since they are constantly being told how to have an effective online presence. But there is an interesting ...

News: Music Industry

Labels Strangle Startups More Than Music Pirates

October 30, 2010

The RIAA thinks that LimeWire should not be proud of their service, because they broke the law. They go on to say that services that flout the law do not deserve a place in today's music marketplace where “hundreds of existing, accessible, innovative legal sites offer users their favorite music at affordable prices—sometimes even free." Following ...

News: Video / DVD

Seth Godin: Why Artists Think It's Safer to Fail Small

October 30, 2010

Seth Godin gives a speech on how artists sabotage their work. They follow the pattern and attempt to fail small. Why? Their lizard brain tells them to; it's the resistance. The thing that tells them to make it so they don't end up a failure, starving, or worse, dead. At the last minute, most artists will ...

News: Economics

Barnes and Noble to Sell Kids "Educational Toys" in the Place of Music - Good Riddance.

October 30, 2010

In select pilot locations, Barnes and Noble will be eliminating their music sections entirely. Where the CDs once sat, educational toys will be placed. To some, this may seem like a sign of the times, but I respectfully disagree. The reason that Barnes and Noble isn't making good on its CD sales probably has more to ...

News: Video / DVD

Weekend Extra: Lagniappe from Art Farmer

October 31, 2010

A year ago almost to the day, a Rifftides post called “The Art Of Art Farmer" featured three videos from Farmer's 1982 concert at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. It also had some of my musings on the great trumpeter and flugelhornist. Two of the videos were later disabled by those mysterious internet forces always ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet

October 31, 2010

This week, let's take a look at some video clips featuring trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet, who will be in St. Louis on Saturday, November 13 to perform at the 560 Music Center under the auspices of New Music Circle. Given that Smith, bassist John Lindberg and drummer ...

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News: Recording

Domina Catrina Lee - Songs from the Breastbone Drum (2010)

October 31, 2010

By Pico Ever since the music business as we know it first came into existence, there have always been musicians for whose need for artistic purity and/or just out of financial necessity has made them into “do it yourself" musicians, producing homemade music for a limited audience. More accurately, a portion of that audience who actually ...

News: Opinion

Vote with Your Ears-Dizzy for Pres

October 31, 2010

By Steve Provizer Herbert Hoover's advisers no doubt warned him that getting endorsements from Red Allen or Miff Mole might backfire. Ditto Harry Truman, who never sought the support of Bird-or even Tommy Dorsey. Ronald Reagan never thought that the backing of Archie Shepp would seal the deal. Through most of its history, even in its ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Fede4real

by AAJ Staff
October 30, 2010

Meet Fedee4real:It's difficult to write my bio down to 200 words. I'm a singer/songwriter/keyboardist.I write, compose, arrange and produce all my material. I'm half Spanish and Equatoguinean (Africa). I have lived in both countries and I love both. My music has many different influences, jazz being the biggest. I started playing music at six ...