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2019 Must-Attend Music Conferences
Music conferences can a be a life changing experience, and the perfect place to educate yourself about the industry, connect with your contemporaries, and make contact with the powers that be. They can also be a huge waste of time however, so we've here provided a short list of must-attend conferences. Guest post by James Shotwell ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: From Brazil to Broadway with Eliane Elias
This week, let's take a look at some videos from pianist and singer Eliane Elias, who's coming to St. Louis to perform next Saturday, March 2 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Elias was something of a child prodigy as a pianist, teaching music and performing professionally while still a teenager. ...
Jeremy Pelt The Artist
For nearly two decades, Pelt has made it clear via his trumpet playing, and occasionally in interviews, that he is attuned to what other artists achieve in their work. That sensitivity extends well beyond jazz—indeed, beyond music. For this album, his primary inspiration came from the 19th century French sculptor Auguste Rodin. In notes for Pelt’s ...
AMLC Makes Case For A More Independent Mechanical Licensing Collective
The Music Modernization Act calls for the creation of a Mechanical Licensing Collective to oversee the blanket mechanical licenses that the new law established. So far, two groups ave applied to the Copyright Royalty Board, who will chose the new collective in July. One group has been spearheaded by the National Music Publishers Association is made ...
Ethel Ennis (1932-2019)
Ethel Ennis, a female jazz-pop singer with an exceptional vocal range and a warm, seductive style that made listeners feel as if they just kicked off their shoes and extended their legs on a soft sofa, died on February 17. She was 86. There was a hint of Sarah Vaughan in Ennis's voice, but instead of ...
When Do We Become Uninterested In Discovering New Music?
While music discovery has, in many ways, become easier than ever, a new study suggests that there's a limited period of time in the average consumer's life when they're actually finding new music, and at a certain age 'musical paralysis' sets in and the discovery ceases. Guest post by Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media Strategies Believe ...
Amazon, Google & The Morality Of Driving Fans To Big Tech
While many artists have some serious moral quandaries about driving their fans to YouTube given Google's suspect data practices, Chris Castle here looks at why Amazon is in fact a far guiltier culprit. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that “there will be ...
Perfect: Glad to Be Unhappy
In September 1959, guitarist Jim Hall and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond teamed up to record the first in a series of six albums together. The first was called First Place Again (Warner Bros.). The duo was backed by bassist Percy Heath and drummer Connie Kay—two-thirds of the Modern Jazz Quartet. When Desmond and Hall shifted to ...
SoundCloud Adds Free Distribution To Spotify, Apple Music To All Pro Accounts
SoundCloud has added free digital distribution to its SoundCloud Premier monetization toolset. With the new feature, creators monetizing music on SoundCloud can distribute to Amazon Music, Apple Music, Instagram, Spotify, Tencent, YouTube Music and other music services directly from their SoundCloud account. Creators using the SoundCloud Premier distribution feature keep 100% of their rights and 100% ...
What Musicians Should Ask Themselves Before Hiring A Publicist
Sure every wants to be successful, but the route to success tends to vary wildly across the industry, and while the help of a publicist can do wonders for advancing the career of some artists, hiring one before you're ready, or when it's simply not right fit, can be a huge setback. Guest post by James ...
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