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Talking Artist Management With Paul Steele [Drew Holcomb, Judah and The Lion]
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For the final installment of Tunecore's Artist Management series they spoke to long time music industry player Paul Steele about how he got his start in the industry and what the current expectations are for an artist manager, both from the artist's perspective and the manager's. Guest Post by Kevin Cornell on Tunecore In the finale of our ...
Tiny Kahn and Elliot Lawrence
Composer-arranger Johnny Mandel told me a few years ago that Tiny Kahn was among his favorite arrangers. As Johnny put it, no one could craft a flag-waver like Kahn, with huge build, drive and swing. Johnny and Kahn go back to 1944, when both were in Henry Jerome's band. Both also arranged for Woody Herman and ...
Creating Transparency In The Music Industry
While the digital music industry has made leaps and bounds over the past few years, it still fails to provide artists with easy access to real-time data regarding their listeners. A new company, Revelator, is working to change this. Guest Post by Bruno Guez, Founder and CEO of Revelator In the 15 or so years of ...
Universal Music Wants To Be A Film Studio Too
One upside of declining revenue from the sale of recorded music has been record execs finally rethinking their assets in search of creative ways to make money. The world's largest music group, Universal, is now hoping that film will be one of its major revenue boosters. Universal Music is getting into the film business. Two music ...
Los Lobos, Don Henley, Buffy Sainte-Marie Among Americana Music Lifetime Achievement Honorees 2015
When Jason Isbell has the #1 country album in Billboard, you know that Americana music is finally entering the mainstream; and helping to drive that shift by promoting and empowering artists is the Americans Music Association. The Americana Music Association has announced that Buffy Sainte-Marie, Don Henley, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Ricky Skaggs and Los ...
Music Education Monday: Standard tunes every jazz musician should know
If you spend any time at all around jazz as either a musician or a listener, it won't be long before you read something or hear someone discussing “jazz standards" or just “standards." Which in turn may prompt one to ask, what is a standard, and why are they important? Simply put, a “standard" is a ...
Cilla Black (1943-2015)
Cilla Black, a singing coat-check girl at Liverpool's Cavern Club when the Beatles were getting their start who went on to become one of Britain's most beloved female pop singers, died on Aug. 1 at her summer home in Spain. She was 72. Despite being produced by George Martin, managed by Brian Epstein and helped along ...
Does The Reddit Revolt Foretell A Similar Uprising For The Music Industry?
Reddit has recently been in trouble owing to the discontent of the site's moderators, who feel that their contributions are being under-valued. Are artists beginning to feel the same way about having their music exploited on streaming services? Guest post by George Howard. What if musicians—tired of having their music used to grow subscriber numbers for ...
The Need For Transparency In Music Streaming
In this episode of the Music Business Podcast, we talk with Casey Rae, who is the CEO of the Future of Music Coalition, a non-profit research, education, and advocacy organization for musicians. We talk to Rae about the need for transparency amongst streaming companies and why it's important to artists. Kyle Bylin is a user researcher ...
3 Sure Fire Ways Musicians Win On Instagram
Cultivating a large following on Instagram as a musician can be difficult, so here are three useful tips for creatively engaging with your audience in a way that will keep them interested in both you and your music. Guest Post by Florian Richling of Original Egg I talked to a befriended songwriter the other day, exchanging ...
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