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News: TV / Film

Other Places: Esperanza Spalding on the News Hour

October 29, 2010

By any assessment, jazz in the 21st century is a minority music. Depending on whose statistics are accurate, it accounts for somewhere between 1% and 3% of record sales, right in there with string quartets and Gregorian chants. Some of the music's best American players find that they are in greater demand in Europe and Japan ...

News: Book / Magazine

The Boombox Project

October 29, 2010

Music and technology have always behaved like two escapees from a Georgia chain gang. Battles were routine, but the shackled pair eventually came to their senses and realized that they weren't going to get far unless they learn to compromise and accommodate each other. Since the 1920s, American music has changed repeatedly with the development of ...

News: Recording

Making a New Record? Help Us Out...

October 29, 2010

Gotta love those digi-packs, you know the ones... the environmentally-friendly CD packages that are generally 3-fold cardboard packs with a plastic housing to hold the disc; still others of the more... ahem... low-budget (skimpy) mode are akin to miniature Lp covers, with a simple front & back and a slot for the CD. The problem with ...

News: Performance / Tour

Musical Friends of Jerry Garcia Come Together to Play His Music

October 29, 2010

LIVE AT THE FILLMORE ON DECEMBER 4; LIMITED NUMBER OF TIKETS ON SALE OCTOBER 31, 10:30 AM PST Set up in festive, intimate cabaret style with reserved seating on the floor, The Fillmore, with its beauty and iconic connection to Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, sets the stage for The Wheel—A Musical Celebration of Jerry ...

News: Video / DVD

Doobie Brothers: "China Grove" Video; New Album out Now

October 29, 2010

WORLD GONE CRAZY OUT NOW In a new performance video from their recent album release event, the Doobie Brothers bring new life to one of their greatest hits, “China Grove." The original recording, with its instantly recognizable guitar riff, was a Top 15 hit for the band in the 1970s and more recently is a featured ...

News: Video / DVD

24,000 Fans Partake in Crowdsourced Music Video

October 29, 2010

C-mon & Kypski has teamed up with a pair of designers and created a unique music video. Fans can select individual frames of the video; reshoot the pose on their own webcam; and upload their replacement images in real-time. Thus far, over 24,000 people have contributed to the project. Every hour, the video is refreshed and ...

News: Music Industry

18 Essays About the Evolution of Digital Music

October 29, 2010

Each of these essays explore a range of topics and there are more to come. There's many subjects can be tied into a post about the music industry. The changes that we're seeing are everywhere. Thank you to all the readers willing to wade through the longer pieces and I aim to create more worth browsing ...

News: Technology

Paypal Lowers Micropayment Fees for Digital Content, Facebook Signs Up

October 29, 2010

PayPal is making direct artist to fan sales easier and more profitable with a new micropayment system that lets consumers pay for low cost digital goods in as few as two clicks without leaving the seller's site. Facebook was one of the first company's to sign on to the new service which, when available later this ...

News: Technology

Can Internet Marketing Techniques Sell Music?

October 29, 2010

This is a guest post by Seamus Anthony, a Melbourne-based musician. While music is my first love, I actually currently make more money as a website geek and, to a lesser extent, a writer. So I know how Internet marketing “squeeze pages“ work, and how to write and build them. Meanwhile, I have been going on ...

News: Music Industry

How Artists Can Get Feedback on Their Music

October 29, 2010

Want feedback on your music? Brian Hazard tests out Soundout, a music service that compares your song to 50,000 others from major and indie labels to tell you how good your track is. The service has a guaranteed 95% accuracy, but Brian Hazard reveals that there may be some flaws in the service since it only analyzes ...