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Jazz this week: Andre Delano, Denise Thimes, Cornet Chop Suey, and more
This week's lineup of jazz and creative music shows in and around St. Louis includes a well-known expat back home for a couple of “summer vacation" shows, showcase performances for one of the city's reigning vocals divas and one its top traditional jazz bands, and more. Let's go to the highlights... Thursday, July 9 Saxophonist and ...
Top 6 Overlooked Merch Items
Although music and band shirts are often thought of as making up the bulk of merchandise sales at shows, this article lists several items which are often omitted from the merch table, in spite of their popularity among concert attendees. Guest Post by Matt Voyno on The New Rockstar Philosophy People love supporting artists but with ...
Massive Changes In This Year's Music Sales
A recent Nielson report on the year's music sales reveals some interesting new data on how music is being consumed. Massive growth has been seen for streaming services like Spotify, but conventional digital track sales have slumped. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Nielsen's mid-year music sales report is out and a lot has changed ...
Artists And Performance Royalties: Time For A Solution
Followers of the Future of Music Coalition know that they have long supported a public performance right for AM/FM radio that would pay artists when their music is played on over-the-air. This right already exists for digital radio platforms like Pandora and SiriusXM. Yet massive companies like iHeart Media, Cumulus and Entercom are exempt due to a loophole in US law. Guest Post by Casey Rae on Future of ...
How Many New Listeners Does Streaming Deliver For Each Lost Music Buyer? [Mark Mulligan]
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As we wait to see what effect Apple Music will have on streaming adoption, download revenue and its competitors, one of the music industry's top analysts, Mark Mulligan, looks at listener-to-buyer ratios - how many new listeners you get for each ‘lost’ buyer. By Mark Mulligan on his Music Industry Blog The next 6 to 12 ...
Doppler Labs Adds $17 Million, Investors Include Live Nation, UMG, WME
Not just protecting your ears, but offering an enhanced music experience is the aim of the earphones created at Doppler Labs. A big cash infusion should help them bring the concept to the masses. Doppler Labs has closes of a $17 million Series B investment round led by The Chernin Group, David Bonderman’s Wildcat Capital Management ...
8 Quick Tips To Get You On The Next Level In Your Music Career
How many people do you hear talk about their master plan to rule the world, but they never seem to make much progress from one year to the next? Sure, pursuing a career in the music business is difficult. But perhaps with these eight common-sense, practical tips (here are the first nine tips in case you ...
SESAC Acquires The Harry Fox Agency
Streaming is not just causing a seismic shift in recorded music revenue, its disrupting music publishing and performing rights, as well. Mechanical licenses handled by Harry Fox were once a lucrative business, but as tracks sales decline and streaming rises, performing rights have become an increasingly valuable business. Privately owned performing rights agency SESAC has purchased ...
Music Education Monday: The Purdie Shuffle
Sometimes StLJN's weekly “Music Education Monday" feature deals with broad topics, and sometimes, things get very specific - like today's video lesson from famed session drummer Bernard Purdie, which is all about how to play the beat known as the “Purdie Shuffle." Produced by Drumeo.com, the video shows Purdie himself explaining and demonstrating the distinctive half-time ...
Ralph Burns: Swingin' Herd
I'm on a bit of a Ralph Burns tear—listening to both the recordings I've owned for some time and grabbing those that I'm unearthing through a deep dive into his discography. What makes Burns special is that he could write beautifully for strings on one album and then tear your heart out with his charts for ...
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