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Artist Recording Collective News Update

July 20, 2010

DR. RONNELL L. BRIGHT--The Artists Recording Collective (ARC) is pleased to officially announce that Dr. Ronnell L. Bright has joined our artist roster. In a telephone conversation with ARC, Dr. Bright and his wife Dianna, stated that material ranging from unreleased musical recordings, as well as audio and video interviews will be released...."Jazz is ...

Brettina: New Sound of Jazz

July 20, 2010

What defines a female jazz vocalist today? Is it someone whose albums feature at least three American Songbook standards? Must the singer be backed by well-known jazz musicians? What about her sound? Does she have to be bluesy? Or is this checklist outdated? There's probably no concrete answer to these questions. I do know that I'm ...

Music Hits Home: Phish, DMB, Allman Bros.

July 20, 2010

FEATURING UNRELEASED TRACKS BY DAVE MATTHEWS BAND & JESSE COLIN YOUNG AS WELL AS TRACKS BY PHISH, ALLMAN BROTHERS, LORI MCKENNA, STAIND & DROPKICK MURPHYS Music Hits home Rounder Records is pleased to announce the release of Music Hits Home, out now. The album is a compilation of songs by some of today's top national and ...

Ditto Music: Get Your Music on iTunes in 24 Hours

July 20, 2010

Matt Mason's Summer Reading List

July 20, 2010

Matt Mason is the author of The Pirate's Dilemma.  Also, a great book to add to your summer reading list. Here at Hypebot, we are going to start rolling out our summer reading lists, written by some of the leading thinkers in the industry. If you happen to be in that crowd and want to join ...

Fortune's Fool: Goodman on the Record Industry

July 20, 2010

As is the case when a new tome is released that chronicles the plight of the record industry in the digital age, interviews abound, and author Fred Goodman's latest book, Fortune's Fool, is no different.  That said, it has been interesting to see a new perspective emerge where the likes of Steve Knopper and Greg Kot ...

Getting Your First Gig...

July 20, 2010

This guest post is by David Chaitt of SoundCtrl.   ...is a matter of thinking from a talent buyer's perspective and making promises you can keep. The first thing you have to think about is which venue to contact.  Reach out to a venue that makes sense (aka if you're an indie band, don't reach out to ...

The Culture of the "Old-School" Record Industry

July 20, 2010

Why do fans download music? Well, the story goes that file-sharers believe record industry executives--i.e. “The Man"--are just a bunch of coke snorting, extremely rich, shady people, who wear Armani suits and pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars to get Christina Aguilera's newest single on the radio. Fans downloading music off the web; it is ...

Richard Florida on Designing Musical Experiences

July 20, 2010

In a recent column in the Atlantic, Richard Florida talks about a subject that aligns perfectly with an interview I am running tomorrow, featuring Rich Huxley from Hope and Social, also the author of the essay Music Is Not Our Currency.  In it, Huxley argues that if we can all now make, distribute and sell music, ...

More Than 10 Billion Videos Were Streamed in June

July 20, 2010