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Fans Want To Know Your Narrative: Crafting A Story For Your Music Career
When it comes to marketing your music, it can be easy to get lost in the excitement of album launches, interacting with fans, and posting on social media. All these elements are certainly important in cultivating a successful career, but it's important to also spend time developing a compelling bio and cultivating a solid, relatable image. ...
Chico Hamilton: At Strollers
In August 1955, promoter Maynard Sloate booked a quirky quintet into Strollers, a jazz club at 27 Locust Avenue in Long Beach, Calif. The quintet led by drummer Chico Hamilton featured Buddy Collette (as,ts,cl,fl), Fred Katz (cello), Jim Hall (g), Carson Smith (b) and Hamilton (d). There was no cover or minimum. Branded a chamber jazz ...
Once Upon A Time… In Radio
In this piece, Fred Jacobs explores the role of radio in the recent Tarantino film Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood and how its use in the film highlights radio's iconic cultural relevance in the era depicted- a relevance radio could have again. Guest post by Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media For some of you, this blog ...
Tadd Dameron: Magic Continues
Tadd Dameron's final album was The Magic Touch for Riverside Records in 1962. Dameron would die three years later. In 2017, alto saxophonist Kent Engelhardt, coordinator of jazz studies at Ohio's Youngstown State University, and Steve Enos, a trumpeter and director of jazz studies at Ohio's Cuyahoga Community College, co-formed Madd for Tadd. The 15-piece band ...
Production Music Startup Soundstripe Raises Another $2M
Subscription-based production music startup Soundstripe has raised an additional $2 million in financing from Craft Ventures, just months after raising a $4 million Series A round. Craft is led by David Sacks, founding COO of PayPal and co-founder/former CEO of Yammer, and Bill Lee, a prominent founder and investor in San Francisco based on the credo ...
Discogs Mid-Year Survey Shows Surprising Surge In CD Sales
Music marketplace Discogs has released its Marketplace Analysis & Database report for the first half of 2019 and it revealed some surprising data about online music retail. The report showed the continued popularity of the vinyl format with consumers, with sales rising 3.03% year-over-year with over 4.3 million records purchased. More surprisingly, the data compiled in ...
How To Get The Most From Your Music Email Marketing
While social media is certainly accessible and easy to use as a marketing platform, the barriers to entry are so few that the marketplace has become a bit clogged. For this reason email, while old school, has seen something of a renaissance owing to its ability to actually break through and reach potential consumers. Guest post ...
Forbes Names Berklee, Julliard, NYU Top Colleges For Alumni Success in Entertainment
NYU, Julliard, and Berklee were the top three on a new Forbes list of the top 15 schools in the U.S. that produce alumni who have achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the entertainment industry. Alongside Harvard, Yale, Brown, UCLA, Forbes cited Berklee for the sheer number of Grammy winners who have attended the music school” ...
DistroKid Adds Distribution To TikTok
DistroKid has become the first DIY music distributor top add TikTok to its offering. The short video app has more than 500 million active worldwide and served as the launchpad for the longest-running #1 in chart history, “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X. Artists have been asking us to add TikTok on a daily basis," ...
IEBA Names 2019 Industry Awards Nominees
The International Entertainment Buyers Association (IEBA) has named the 2019 nominees for its Industry Awards to be presented at the Honors & Awards Ceremony on Oct. 29th during IEBA’s 49th Annual Conference in Nashville. More info on IEBA and the convention here. 2019 IEBA Nominees Club of the Year • The Armory – Minneapolis, MN


