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Spotify Preps Launch Of Hi-FI Music Tier
Hi- Fi, Hi-Rez or Lossless. Whatever you want to call it, higher quality music streaming offers a new revenue opportunity for both streamers and rightholders. A new public test signals that Spotify is about to join Tidal in offering a premium hi-fi music tier. Spotify is openly testing a lossless streaming option. Currently called Spotify Hi-FI, ...
How To Get Press Coverage For Your Band - Pro Tips For Writing Promo Emails
Getting good press coverage for your band often requires crafting the perfect promo email. Here we look at what the necessary components of a great promo email are, depending on the needs of both the sender and the recipient. Guest Post by Kira Grunenberg on Soundfly's Flypaper What defines a great promo email? And what does ...
Gary Smulyan at Le Duc
There's nothing quite like a bad-ass baritone saxophone. Baritones tend to divide into two camps on the leadership side. There's the Gerry Mulligan approach, which sounds muscular and mannered. And there's the Pepper Adams school, an unchained approach that leaps on you like a panther. This low-register, uninhibited and gruff sound has its roots in the ...
What The Music Industry Can Learn From The Gaming Industry
Here Bas Grasmayer explores the unprecedented growth of gamer personalities, the business models they use, and what the music industry can do to learn and directly benefit from the gaming industry and it's marketing tactics. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer on Synchblog The gaming industry counts as many differences from the music business as it counts similarities. ...
Sound United (Polk Audio) Acquires D+M (Denon, Boston Acoustics)
Two of the biggest names in consumer audio Sound United, parent company to Polk Audio, Definitive Technology and Polk BOOM has acquired the D+M Group, owner of the Denon, HEOS by Denon, Marantz and Boston Acoustics brands. The D+M Group is the largest supplier of audio/video receivers worldwide and a leader in wireless multi-room audio. Sound ...
Sunrise Music Saves 70 HMV Records Stores
Indie music retailer Sunrise Records announced that they will take over 70 of HMV's brick and mortar retail locations across Canada. The acquisition will significantly expand Sunrise's footprint in Canada. Previously, the music retailer operated nine brick and mortar locations around Ontario. As a part of their strategy, Sunrise will expand each shop's stock of compact ...
Jazz this week: Clayton Brothers Quintet, Nick Finzer, "Sculptures in Sound," and more
The news in St. Louis jazz and creative music this week is coming mostly from Grand Center, as the district rolls out an expanded version of their weekly Wednesday night “jazz crawl." The first week includes a promising young musician making his St. Louis debut at a new venue for the event, the return of a ...
Barbara Carroll (RCA Years)
In February, just after pianist Barbara Carroll's death, I posted a tribute in which I focused on the grace of her chord voicings and swing time in the early 1950s. From 1954 to 1956, she was with RCA and recorded five superb albums. Prior to these dates in the '50s, Carroll recorded 10-inch albums for the ...
Dart Music Files For Bankruptcy
Dart Music promised to fix music's metadata problem; first with classical music and then all genres. But after raising $1.5 million, the promising startup has filed for bankruptcy. Dart Music has filed for bankruptcy in its home state of Tennessee. In a press release, the company said it will continue to operate during Chapter 11. But ...
Music Investment Act Making Georgia Appealing To Musicians
What a peach. A state that seems to have a firm grasp on the value of entertainment, Georgia is about to pass the Music Investment Act, intended to make the state more financially appealing for artists both to outsiders and those native to the state. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 There are some ...
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