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Booking Your First Gigs + A FREE Webinar With Steve Rennie
For any artist just starting out, the process of booking gigs can be both difficult and disheartening, but it's important to be proactive and stick with it. Industry veteran Steve Rennie offers 3 pro tips on how get your live music career off to a successful start and announces a free webinar. Guest post by Steve “Renman" Rennie, ...
7 Things That Annoy All Talent Buyers
Talent buyers are busy people, and typically have too much on their plate at any given time to deal with a band or artist who makes any of the following seven mistakes when attempting to contact them. Guest Post by Jhoni Jackson on the Sonicbids Blog In case you haven't considered this before: talent buyers are busy ...
A Brief History Of The Record Business: 1965 To 2015
Here we go on a whirlwind journey through the history of music consumption from 1965 to the present day, looking at how it has evolved from the communal listening of LPs to today's personalized streaming playlists. Guest Post by William Buckley Jr. of FarePlay Growing up in the sixties and seventies music was everywhere, it was all ...
Another Problem For Pandora? iHeartRadio Passes 80 Million Registered Users
iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia’s live streaming radio service, has passed 80 million registered users. iHeartRadio reached this milestones at a rate faster than Facebook or any other radio or digital music service including Pandora, having reached 70 million registered users just last summer. The number of registered users do not account for the millions of listeners who tune ...
Getting back in the Monday night jazz groove
Rhode Island has had a superb big band jazz tradition that began within a year of the Monday night “rehearsal band" that Thad Jones and Mel Lewis started at New York's Village Vanguard. Drummer Duke Belaire inaugurated the RI tradition in 1967 at the Cobblestone Tavern in East Providence before settling in 1969 at nearby Bovi's ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Introducing Cyrille Aimée
Today's showcase features some videos starring Cyrille Aimée, who will be making her St. Louis debut with performances starting Wednesday, February 3 through Saturday, February 6 at Jazz at the Bistro Though Aimée is just now performing in St. Louis for the first time, the 31-year-old singer, whose name is pronounced SUR- real M-A, has been ...
Justin Bieber And The Self-Perpetuating Upward Spiral
Here we closely examine how Justin Bieber's domination of the charts is both a cause and effect of his popularity on Spotify, and why the streaming playlist is edging out radio as a hit maker. Guest Post by Chris Price on New Slang Media New Slang is excited to announce the publication of Part 2 in the Listomania playlist report series. ...
How Patreon Works For Me [Indie Musician Nate Maingard]
Here devoted Patreon user Nate Maingard offers us an inside look at the benefits of the service, and provides several tips other potential users should keep in mind when using Patreon so as to get (and give) the most out of it. Guest post by indie musician and Patreon user Nate Maingard I'm Nate Maingard, a modern troubadour (nomadic singer-songwriter) from ...
Old Albums Now Outsell New Releases
It seems 2015 was the year for back catalogs, as a recent study from Nielsen has revealed that albums eighteen months and older outsold new releases, much to the distress of A&R execs everywhere. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 According to the latest Nielsen report on the music business of 2015, catalog albums (defined ...
Revenue From Music Streaming Apps More Than Doubles
Music streaming entered the mainstream in 2015. Jay Z's Tidal purchase, Spotify's growth and the launch of Apple Music and YouTube Red helped drive consumer awareness and adoption. That growth is turning into real dollars, according to a new analysis by App Annie. Mobile based music streaming is the new normal, according to the newly releases ...
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Points of View: Celebrating Dave Holland
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Boney James: A Simple Man And A Lifetime Study
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Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
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Steve Coleman on Dave Holland
Live Review
Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
Reanimating Conversations Past
John Scofield: Meant To Be
Groove Orbit
A Time Capsule in Sound: Jim Pugh’s New American...
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