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Apple Music Directs Independent Artists To CD Baby
While checking out Apple Music after it launched this morning, I noticed a link targeting undistributed independent artists that points straight to CD Baby. While another link below it leads to a full list of approved providers, Apple, which seems to be making a real effort to support indie music, chose to highlight CD Baby as an onramp. Why ...
The New Creative Class: Will They Disrupt Music Production?
The starving artist is quickly becoming a thing of the past. And with new digital tools arriving daily and empower artists, we are seeing a birth of a new creative class: The artist entrepreneur. These producers are ditching their previous gigs for a more lucrative day job; one that balances equal parts business-know-how with artistic talent. Guest Post by Rory Seydel on Landr.com Meet ...
SiriusXM Finally Wins A Case Over Pre-1972 Music... And Promptly Settles With Sony For $201 Million
SiriusXM has settled one of several pending lawsuits over payments for pre-1972 recordings with Sony Music for $210 million. It's unclear how much of this will trickle down to artists, but Mike Masnick of Techdirt offers some important background and context. By Mike Masnick from techdirt. We've written plenty about the mess around pre-1972 sound recordings ...
Music Education Monday: Master classes with pianists Chick Corea and Kenny Werner
This week for “Music Education Monday," you can check out video master classes from a couple of prominent keyboardists. Chick Corea is one of the best-known pianists in jazz, having served his apprenticeship with Miles Davis and played free jazz with Circle before co-founding the seminal jazz-fusion band Return to Forever. His extensive catalog as a ...
CD Discoveries: June 2015
So many great albums came in over the past four weeks, I wanted to wait until month's end to get them all in. Here are 12 gems... Charenee Wade—Offering: the Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson (Motema). Singer Charenee Wade brings just the right level of vocal passion, soulful seduction and sensitivity to songs by ...
Blue Note Expands With New Venues In Hawaii, China
The Blue Note night club chain is expanding it's brand beyond current outlets in New York City, Japan and Italy, with deals to add venues in Hawaii and China. Blue Note Entertainment Group has partnered with Outrigger Resorts to launch a new live music venue in Hawaii. The Blue Note's chain's Hawaii outlet will be located ...
Six Music Industry Networking Tips Nobody Tells You
Networking in the music industry is an art more than a science. There's no rule book on how to network, but there are some tips that can make navigating the act of schmoozing more effective for you. Guest Post Written By Amy Sciarretto on Sonicbids Blog. Chances are that no one has ever taken the time ...
Fluter's Ball: Flutes Revealed
Last November, I posted on Henry Mancini's Fluter's Ball, a wistful song with four flutes from his score for the suspense-thriller Experiment in Terror (1962). The problem at the time of my post is that the personnel on the session was never captured, so there was no way of knowing who the flutes were. Soon after my ...
Ornette Coleman, Traditionalist
There will be a funeral service for the saxophonist, composer, bandleader and iconoclast Ornette Coleman in Manhattan at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning, June 27. Coleman died on June 11 at the age of 85. Rifftides noted his passing that day. The service at The Riverside Church, between W. 122 St. and W. 120 St., will be ...
Five Perfectly Acceptable Reasons to Turn Down a Gig
It's tempting, especially as a new band, to say yes to every show you're offered. You want to take advantage of every opportunity you get to make a mark in your local scene. But even groups just starting out can't or shouldn't accept every gig they're extended. Original Post Written By Johni Jackson on Sonicbids Blog Sometimes ...
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