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You Just Dropped A New Release, Now What?

April 16, 2019

You had a great marketing plan leading up to your new release, but do you have a plan on what to do after it's released? “Sadly many small labels significantly cut back their marketing efforts once the album is out," says Music Biz Weekly podcast co-host Michael Brandvold. “It is YOUR job to keep the album ...

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Betty Carter: Music Never Stops

April 16, 2019

After singing with Lionel Hampton in the late 1940s, vocalist Betty Carter had her first hit with Red Top. Teamed with vocalist King Pleasure in 1952, their vocalese duet put words to the solo melodies of tenor saxophonist Gene Ammons and trumpeter Gail Brockman on their 1947 version of Red Top. Between 1956 and 1964, Carter ...

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Alan Broadbent: New York Notes

April 15, 2019

I began paying attention to pianist-arranger Alan Broadbent in 1973, when Woody Herman's Giant Steps came out. It was my senior year in high school, and the wife of the band's drummer, Ed Soph, was one of my teachers. I wasn't much of a student during high school until my last year, when I began acing ...

News: Music Industry

Amazon To Launch Free Ad-Supported Music Streamer [Report]

April 14, 2019

Amazon is in talks with the major labels to launch an ad-supported music streaming service in direct competition to Spotify, according to a new report. The free music service could launch as early as next week. Currently, Spotify is the only major music service to have a full ad-supported offering. Amazon will market the free music ...

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Guide To Becoming A Session Musician [Video]

April 13, 2019

In this recent piece, Sonny Stuart winter sat down to chat with Marcus Gooda about how he successfully become session musician and how successfully network and find opportunities for session work. Guest post from Sunny Stuart Winter In the latest episode of Such Great Heights (don't miss out- subscribe on YouTube by clicking here), I sit down with Marcus ...

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Tips To Optimize An Official YouTube Artist Channel

April 13, 2019

Since YouTube's unrolling of its Official Artist Channel, how artists distribute and listeners consumer their music has shifted, and with their content now largely consolidated, artists now have a powerful tool at their disposal, provided they market it correctly. Here we look at how to get the most out of your AOC. By Otavio Galileu, Manager, ...

News: Music Industry

How Generation Z Is Redefining The Business Of Music

April 13, 2019

While a lot of fuss is made about marketing to millennials (owing to their purchasing power), an increasing number of industries are now turning their attention to how to capture the attention of Generation Z, and the music business is no exception. Guest post by Alyssa Golden from the Berklee College of Music: Music Business Journal ...

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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The percussive prowess of Pedrito Martinez

April 13, 2019

This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring percussionist and vocalist Pedrito Martinez, who's coming to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, April 24 through Sunday, April 28 at Jazz St. Louis. Martinez, 45, was born and raised in Havana, Cuba, where he learned to play popular Cuban styles as well as Afro-Cuban folkloric and ...

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dotBC Adds Digimarc's Barcode For Audio Watermarking

April 12, 2019

dotBC and Digimarc have partnered to add Digimarc's Barcode for Audio watermarking technology to the dotBC offering. This will connect the metadata and rights ownership information supplied by artists, songwriters and rights holders to the audio file itself. This collaboration will enable the industry to easily and accurately identify blockchain addresses and the most up to ...

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How You Should Be Marketing Your Next Album, Single Release

April 12, 2019

For many artists, marketing their work is by far the most loathsome aspect of being a DIY artist. Whether you hate it or not though, selling your music is essential, so you might as well get good at it. Here we look at what exactly you should be doing to market your next release. Guest post ...