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Apple Puts Another Nail In Snapchat’s Coffin
Aprecently announced a plan to launch the service 'Clips' in April. Although an obvious challenger to Snapchat, Clips is different in that, rather than seeking to build a network of its own, it plans to work through the already existing platforms of Snapchat, Instagram and Messenger. Guest post by Karol Severin of Midia Yesterday Apple announced ...
How to Make Free Music Make Money [Dave Kusek]
Giving music away free is not a smart strategy. After all, free music is everywhere and doesn't pay the bills. But embracing free music as a stepping stone to more fans willing- even wanting- to give you money, can be a powerful strategy. By Dave Kusek of New Artist Model Technology. It’s provided a lot of really ...
Clifford Scott: Out Front
Jazz fans view the saxophone narrowly. What I mean is that we tend to think of the reed instrument in a straight line from Frankie Trumbauer in the '20s and Benny Carter and Bud Freeman in the '30s to Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane and ...
5 Simple Ways To Drive More Video Views On YouTube
For artists with a song and video they've worked hard on and are eager to share with fans, there are several ways to optimize content on YouTube in such a way as to drive up fan engagement. Here we look five easy ways. Guest post by Chris Robley of DIY Musican Let’s assume you’ve got great ...
A New Strategy For Releasing Music
As the music industry continues to change, so too must the strategy for releasing music. With the single once again more important than the album, artists and labels both big and small are having to reevaluate when to make their material available, and in what capacity. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 A new strategy ...
How Royalties From SoundExchange Kept Our Band Together
Here keyboardist Justin Wiseman of The Rocketboys reveals how royalties earned from SoundExchange helped revitalize his independent band in its darkest hour, and why other independent artists should make it priority to register with the service. Guest post by Justin Wiseman of The Rocketboys for SoundExchange I’m not saying anything that everybody doesn’t already know — ...
Growth Slows In Italy's Recorded Music Market
While streaming and vinyl were both bright spots for the sector, growth in Italy's music market appears to have stalled, growing by just 0.4% in 2016. Overall, the market was worth €149m in 2016, according to figures collected by accounting firm Deloitte for trade association Federation Industria Musicale Italiana, (FIMI). The decline of physical product, which remains ...
Inside Chuck Berry And Pandora's Genome Project [Glenn Peoples]
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In this piece, Glenn Peoples looks through the lens of Pandora's genome project to take a close at how the style and musical traits of Chuck Berry were copied and disseminated down through generations of musicians. Guest post by Glenn Peoples of Pandora Biologist Richard Dawkins used the term “the selfish gene” in describing how a ...
Pete Magadini: Bones Blues
The 1970s were a no-man's land for acoustic jazz. The rise of album rock, arena concerts and electronic instruments led to the growing popularity of psychedelic jazz-rock fusion and funk, especially on college campuses. Many jazz labels during this period tended to put much of their budgets behind the new forms, since they commanded the largest ...
A robust sound rooted in early jazz
Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon is a modern-day ambassador for classic jazz dating back nearly a century. He digs the repertoire and style, putting his own stamp on it whether performing vintage songs or his own newer material. Such was the case on Friday, March 24 when Gordon performed at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in ...
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