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CD Baby Expands Major Latin American Footprint with Local Office In Argentina
CD Baby has expanded into Argentina hiring Martín Liviciche to open a local office. Already one of the largest distributors in Latin America, CD Baby represents 20,000 artists from Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Mexico. Martín Liviciche has been hired to open a local office of CD Baby in Argentina, expanding the D.I.Y. and indie music distributor's already ...
Why You Need To Be As Active On Spotify As You Are On Facebook
While most musicians now realize that maintaining an effective artist presence on Facebook requires daily maintenance, the may not know that the same is true of Spotify. Here we go over ten easy steps that can do wonders for the growth of your presence on Spotify. Guest post by Chris Robley of DIY Musician 10 small ...
Virginia Woolf To Howlin' Wolf: Author Peter Guralnick On Algorithm-Defeating Art, Expression Of Emotion [INTERVIEW]
Here George Howard shares his recent experience speaking with Peter Guralnick, an author noted for his use of music as a tool through which to explore socio-political and cultural issues. The two discussed their shared concern of an increasingly algorithm-based culture of music consumption, and if we have reached peak curation. Guest post by George Howard on Forbes Peter ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Grégoire Maret's harmonica jazz
Harmonica players are rare in jazz. Many fans could recognize and name the late Jean Toots" Thielemans (who also played guitar) and Howard Levy, who first earned fame playing harmonica and keyboards with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (and St. Louis music fans in the know might tout our town's Sandy Weltman as deserving of being ...
YouTube Has Changed Its Payment Threshold and It's Bad News For New Musicians, Creators
YouTube has been working on ways to respond to a major ad boycott over ad placement alongside objectionable videos. One of the changes will be bad news for musicians and other creators at the beginning of their careers. Effective immediately, YouTube will no longer serve ads on videos until the channel reaches 10,000 lifetime views. "This new ...
LyricFind and Turning Your Lyrics Into A Revenue Stream [Music Biz Weekly Podcast]
This week on Hypebot's Music Biz Weekly podcast, hosts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert are joined Darryl Ballantyne, the CEO of LyricFind. He shares how to make lyrics a revenue stream and that they are properly licensed. LyricFind created a new revenue stream for songwriters and rights holders by paying them royalties each time their lyrics are ...
Support Copyright Office Legislation And Call Congress
Here Chris Castle urges readers to support new bipartisan legislation making the Librarian of Congress a presidential appointment, as well as bringing about several other badly needed fixes to the position. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Technology Policy I don’t often ask MTP readers for their vote, but I am asking you to call ...
Artist & Manager Relationships – A Look At Recording Industry Management Agreements [Part 2 Of 2]
In the second part of a set of articles exploring the different music business agreements, Justin M. Jacobson dives into the world of management agreements, the additional clauses associated with them and negotiation tactics surrounding these clauses. Guest post by Justin M. Jacobson of the TuneCore Blog [Editors Note: This is a guest blog written by Justin M. Jacobson, ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, April 7-13
As the weather turns very spring-like, it seems we are also adding steam to our sound waves. Maria Schneider returns to conduct the JazzMN Orchestra; pianist Larry Fuller makes his debut in a leading role with his trio in the Dunsmore Room; there's a new installment of the Reich Fest at the Icehouse; and Davu Seru, ...
Freddie Hubbard: Three Videos
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard came up at the height of the hard bop movement in the late 1950s and became instrumental in free jazz movement in the 1960s and fusion in the '70s. His second recording was on John Coltrane's The Believer in late 1958, and from then on Hubbard was in strong demand. His critical recordings ...

