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Amuse Going Head To Head With CD Baby, TuneCore
While a lot of independent artists are familiar with music aggregators such as TuneCore and CD Baby, it appears the new Swedish startup Amuse is throwing its hat in the distribution ring, with a number of industry heavyweights at its helm. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 If you’ve been using a music aggregator ...
Vevo Flop Reemphasizes How Badly The Record Labels Underestimate Technology
Record label's inability to understand and effectively get on the band wagon with new tech was recently highlighted by the shuttering of video hosting service and wannabe YouTube competitor Vevo, which will ironically now only be found on YouTube. Guest post by Mike Masnick of Techdirt Just last week we wrote about how the big record ...
Ticketfly, Major Venues Offline 40+ Hours After Hack, Ransom Demand [UPDATED]
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More than 40 hours after it first went dark, Ticketfly and the sites of many of the major venues and promoters it services are still offline. Ticketfly, which is owned by Eventbrite, discovered that it had been hacked just before 6 AM ET Thursday and went offline with the tweet: “To protect our clients and fans, ...
Looking For Good Band Photos? Don't Do This
While your band photos may technically have anything to do with your music, they are nonetheless part of your brand, and having a solid set of band pictures is important. Here we look at how to avoid ending up with pictures that are cliché garbage. Guest post by Patrick McGuire of the ReverbNation Blog Photography has ...
Ticketfly, Major Venues Offline 12 Hrs After Hack, Ransom Demand [UPDATE 3]
Ticketfly and the sites of many of the major venues and promoters it services are offline as the ticketing company struggles with a major “cyber incident." Still offline as of 5PM ET Thursday, the site, which is owned by Eventbrite, went dark before 6AM ET Thursday with the tweet: “To protect our clients and fans, and ...
YouTubers Dig Red Garland
Whenever I'm searching around YouTube, I'm always amazed when I come across pianists around the world playing convincingly in the style of a jazz giant. Or convincingly enough that they sound like they're having a ball. Yesterday, I found a bunch of Red Garland wannabes. I play some piano, but if I were to take lessons ...
2018's Newport Jazz Festival juggle nears
The 2018 edition of the Newport Jazz Festival's three-day music marathon has quite the lineup in store at Fort Adams State Park August 3-5 With all sizes of ensembles and a range of mostly jazz styles, the event offers more than 60 musical groups on its four stages. Tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd turned 80 in March- ...
Music Video Distribution Unlikely To Change Much As Vevo Succumbs To YouTube
After a long and doomed battle, Vevo has finally thrown up the white flag, shuttering its site and ditching its mobile app, however, the fateful end of this attempt by record labels to compete with YouTube will likely have little impact on music distribution as we know it. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 ...
How Spotify Is Killing Jazz, Soul, Classical Music
Is it time for a Fair Streaming movement? Chris Rizik explores the structure of the new streaming economy and the way in which artists are paid could spell bad news for Jazz, Soul, Classical and other niche music genres. Guest post by Chris Rizik of Soul Tracks Two events happened recently that caught my attention: Lil ...
Jazz this week: Jazz St. Louis students with Antonio Hart, "Miles Fest 2018," and more
Post-Memorial Day, St. Louis' not-for-profit presenters mostly have wound down their season schedules and are transitioning to summer, but there still are some noteworthy jazz and creative music shows coming up in the next week. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, May 30 This week's “Grand Center Jazz Crawl" features saxophonist Jacob Alspach at The Stage ...
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