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News: Technology

It's Official: Mobile is the Future of Music

August 12, 2010

It's a trend to important to ignore. Smartphones adoption is soaring. Pandora, MOG. Spotify, Rdio and almost every other music service is rushing to release and improve their mobile apps. In fact, any artist, label or music company that lacks an aggressive mobile strategy may soon be left in the dust. According to Nielsen, smartphones were ...

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News: Trends

What Do the Record Labels Do Now?

August 12, 2010

(A New Yorker Piece Gets It Right... And Wrong “The difference between major and indie labels now has less to do with aesthetics than with the way bands conceive of their careers," writes New Yorker columnist Sasha Frere-Jones in a piece that looks at the future of both indie and major record labels using the rise ...

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News: Technology

Better Than iTunes: The New Age of Torrenting

August 12, 2010

I remember between 04-05 when BitComet started making its way around file-sharing circles; they embraced it almost with a sense of arrogance. You still download single files? Don't you know that people are being sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars for file-sharing on Kazaa and LimeWire? After all, they downloaded an entire discography in the ...

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News: Event

Bandwidth Conference Chooses Discussion Topics

August 12, 2010

The Bandwidth Music | Technology Conference, taking place on August 19 and 20, 2010 in San Francisco, has announced the topics that will be discussed during the sessions. This year, they will be featuring boardroom style sessions. Topics to be covered include: Stream On: Content, Sources, and Survival Emerging Trend of Cloud-Based Music Services What are ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Aural History

August 12, 2010

For fans of Miles Davis's legendary 1959 record, and for jazz fans in general, Ashley Kahn's Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece is a compelling read. It's an insider's look at people involved in the recording of this most popular of jazz records, including never-before-seen session photos. Kahn provides some historical context ...

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News: Recording

Crowded House - Intriguer (2010)

August 12, 2010

By Nick Deriso Crowded House, beginning with their engaging breakthrough 1987 hit “Don't Dream It's Over," were shot through with a complexity, and a melancholy, that belied their own supposed goals of becoming pop stars. Yet, in the wake of the 2005 suicide of drummer and co-founder Paul Hester, never have they had so much to ...

News: Music Industry

Thinking Inside the Box, Part Three - Mixing "ITB" is Actually Better

August 12, 2010

Welcome to the latest installment of Production Tips, our new monthly feature offering, well, production tips, hosted by Simon Langford. In the earlier parts of this series, I discussed the ways in which people can replicate the experience of working on a bigger mixing desk. For many people, mixing in the box is the only practical ...

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News: Technology

Behind the Blogs: Digital Music Trends

August 12, 2010

Welcome to version 2.0 of our series Behind the Blogs, in which we interview the bloggers and thinkers who are following the music business changes that affect us all. Everybody knows the music business is changing, and everybody knows that things move especially quickly in the digital world. So it stands to reason, then, that the ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Taylor Ho Bynum's Acoustic Bicycle Tour Begins September 10th

August 11, 2010

One month from tonight, cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum will embark on his Acoustic Bicycle Tour, a two-week, carbon-neutral concert tour of New England that celebrates both the interconnectedness of the region's creative arts communities and alternative ways of thinking about our world. The first stop will be the opening concert in Firehouse 12's 2010 Fall Jazz ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jeremy Davenport, Phil Perry to Perform in Fall Twilight Tuesdays Concerts

August 11, 2010

The Missouri History Museum has announced the schedule for its fall series of Twilight Tuesdays concerts, and the lineup includes a couple of shows that will be of particular interest to jazz fans.Trumpeter, singer and St. Louis native Jeremy Davenport will perform on Tuesday, September 7, and singer and former East St. Louisan Phil ...