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Royalty Hikes Forces Small Webcasters To Shut Down Hurting Indie And Niche Musicians
The webcasting platform Live365 was forced to shut down owing to the CRB's new royalty rate hike, which dramatically increased the amount webcasters are required to pay artists and songwriters. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 A number of issues seemed to have doomed thousands of small webcasters who use the Live365 platform, which ...
Jazz versatility with a bit of a brogue
Paul Duffy has had a charmed life as a musician and entrepreneur. He played jazz in his native Ireland, but had to learn to play Irish music when he came to the U.S. in the 1980s. His career also included six years of touring with The Commitments rock band. Until it closed five years ago, he ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, February 5-11
Winter Jazz Fest might be over, but it is obviously still winter, and hot jazz will keep us in a festive mood in the coming week. Masters reign across the metro this weekend, while stellar visitors and Mardi Gras celebrations highlight the week ahead. Friday, February 5. An ensemble of area heavyweights makes its debut on ...
How Wee Became Allen's Alley
Several years before drummer Denzil Best wrote Move, he came up with a catchy bebop line known as Wee. Where Wee was conceived and how it was named is not known to me. But shortly after it made the rounds among musicians playing at New York's clubs on 52nd St., Leonard Feather held a recording session ...
Songtrust: What You Need To Know [Brian Hazard]
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Here Brian Hazard, better known by his musician alter ego Color Theory, breaks down his experience with the royalty collection service Songtrust, in and effort to help artists determine if the service is right for them. Guest Post by Brian Hazard on Passive Promotion Did you know that when a song you wrote is sold as a download, ...
4 Best Places To Give Away Free Music
Many of today's younger music consumers expect music to be free, and while giving it away can seem disheartening at first, using the four platforms listed below to make said music accessible to your fans can often pay big dividends in other ways. Guest Post by Hugh McIntyre on the Sonicbids Blog Many musicians may not want ...
SoundExchange Reports Record Payouts In 2015, But Growth Is Slowing Dramatically
SoundExchange has announced record royalty payments to artists in 2015. $802.6 million was paid out, but the year's 4% growth was the slowest in the digital performing right's organization's 8 year history. SoundExchange announced a new record with total year-end royalty payments reaching $802.6 million (up 4 percent from $773.4 million the prior year). 2014 growth ...
Jazz this week: Cyrille Aimée, Gregory Porter, Branford Marsalis, Jeff Barnhart, and more
Although the official celebrations during Mardi Gras week in St. Louis typically don't offer much for jazz fans, leaning heavily on rock cover/tribute bands and DJs, this year the concert calendar countdown to Fat Tuesday just happens to feature several noteworthy touring jazz headliners, plus an assortment of shows from local performers. Let's go to the ...
Dick Twardzik: Piano Enigma
Before Bill Evans, there was Dick Twardzik. Not that they played anything alike. Twardzik was a much more percussive pianist who mixed stormy dynamics with cat-like sensitivity, while Evans was a smoldering, graceful swinger. Both musicians were romantics, both were influenced by Bud Powell, both went into a trance when they played piano and both were ...
The Music Business Reimagined [Vickie Nauman]
While the recorded music industry currently rests on a poorly functioning and tenuously constructed business model, technological advancements and an incredibly high level of consumer engagement present an opportunity for positive change. Guest Post by Vickie Nauman, Principal and Founder of CrossBorderWorks on Rethink Music When I work with traditional music companies (labels, publishers, PROs, artists), I ...
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