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News: Trends

How to Launch a Music Startup: Willingness to Pay

September 29, 2010

This post is part of the How To Launch a Music Startup series by Brenden Mulligan, which focuses on building a company that creates online products for musicians. Mulligan founded ArtistData, which was recently acquired by Sonicbids, and can be found on Twitter at @bmull. In the last post, we covered one of the first major ...

News: Video / DVD

Whatcha Say: The Alternative Video Revolution

September 29, 2010

This is the second essay by Hypebot intern Mike Pineau (@mikejpineau). For years now, multi-million dollar music videos have been a staple of the budgets that major labels set aside for artist releases. Iconic performances by artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna pushed videos past traditional lip sync numbers into full fledged musical movies. The pop ...

News: Technology

Want More Fans? Buy a Twitter "Promoted Account"

September 29, 2010

(UPDATED) Want more fans? At a tech conference today, Twitter will reportedly announce an approved and sanctioned way to collect. Just buy a newly created Promoted Account, and Twitter will try to help increase your Twitter following. Their method is to insert you alongside other Twitter users it suggests in its “Who to Follow" feature. Just ...

News: Technology

BitTorrent Asks Artists to Get in Bed with the Devil

September 29, 2010

BitTorrent has created a pilot program that encourages musicians to submit their creative works for the chance to be spotlighted on their site, which reaches over 80 million music enthusiasts around the world. Course, for all you know, your works might already be in their promotional network that distributes music globally at baffling speeds. With their ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Celebrating Bob Hammer at the New Orleans

September 30, 2010

Next week we are celebrating Bob Hammer at the New Orleans Restaurant on Tuesday, October 5th from 7pm-10pm. Some of you have worked with Bob, or have played from his charts. Those of you who don't know him, and all, please read on. The main reason we are celebrating, is because Bob Hammer is 80 years ...

News: TV / Film

Announcing Jazzzology's Official Youtube Channel

September 29, 2010

Finally, the JAZZzology Official Youtube Channel has arrived! It went live on September 24, 2010 and is a way to compliment the JAZZzology blog (http://JAZZzology.blogspot.com/) ...presenting JAZZzology's favorite Youtube videos on the topic of the global presence of jazz music and jazz artists (including interviews) and any other info related to the world of jazz. So...turn ...

News: Award / Grant

Jazz Pianist and Composer Jason Moran Winner of 2010 Macarthur Fellowship

September 29, 2010

(Boston)—Jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran has been named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, it was announced today. The unrestricted fellowship encourages “people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual and professional inclinations," according to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Moran is one of 23 recipients of this year's so-called genius award, ...

News: Recording

Gimme Five: Forgotten Jazz Gems from Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Ron Carter/Jim Hall, Oliver Nelson and Nat Adderley

September 29, 2010

By Nick Deriso Even a passing fan can purchase with some confidence the touchstone jazz recordings of the last century. But what next? How to explore deeper into the legacy? SomethingElse! is here to help, with an ongoing guide to what we like to call “if/then" jazz listening ... IF YOU LIKE ... Charles Mingus' The ...

News: Opinion

Matthew's Back in Town.

September 30, 2010

Image courtesy of Lena Adesheva. While a debate over the pros and cons of mercantilism as applied to jazz rages below, I got an e mail from Mr Shipp last night to let me know he's back from a fabulous September that began in Brazil, took him through another fat swath of former Soviet enclaves, saw ...

News: Performance / Tour

Trumpet Legends Terence Blanchard and Hugh Masekela to Perform over the Course of Two October Evenings at the Annenberg Center

September 29, 2010

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents not one but two Grammy award-winning trumpet players over the course of two October evenings. First, Grammy award-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard takes the stage on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM to perform music from his beautifully haunting and impassioned song-cycle, A Tale of God's ...