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Building A Fanbase Using YouTube Cards
YouTube Cards allows musicians to raise funds, sell merchandise, beef up your mailing lists, announce new tour dates, and drive video views. Have you tried YouTube Cards? Here's how they can make a difference for you. Guest Post by Chris Robley on The DIY Musician Cards: The Evolution of Annotations Have you used YouTube annotations to enhance your music ...
Why Does Spotify Pay So Little? [An Analysis]
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Both artists and their loyal listeners have expressed disdain about artist payouts (or lack thereof) - but why are streaming services like Spotify, who are seemingly so successful, paying the artists that attract listeners so little? Jack Stratton tries to calculate an answer. Take a single stream of “The Birdwatcher“ in March 2014. Terry, the user, ...
Seven Tips To Getting Sponsors For Your Band
Sponsorships are a mutually-beneficial relationship wherein two (or more) product-based companies market their products via the support and approval of the other. Are you networking with companies that could help you build your career? Guest Post by Bobby Borg Artists can develop relationships with local sellers and national manufacturers and get Live show promotion, Free merchandise, and ...
Virtual Reality Concerts: Music TV Network REVOLT Partners With Jaunt
Virtual reality is the hyped to be the breakthrough technology of 2015. Now, TV network REVOLT has partnered with hardware and software company Jaunt to bring the VR experience to concerts. REVOLT SVP of sales and partnerships, Mike Roche, announced at SXSW Music a first-in-class music partnership with Jaunt, the company building the hardware and software ...
A Fireside Chat With Chris Potter
by AAJ Staff
This article was originally published in December 2001.I remember first seeing Chris Potter playing with Paul Motian and most recently with the highly regarded Dave Holland Quintet. His improvement in the two or so years time is nothing short of remarkable. I can only compare his development with Scott Colley, who happens (and not ...
Spike Wilner On Playing For Listeners
Spike Wilner is a pianist who operates two jazz clubs in New York City with his partners Chris Borden and Lee Kostrinsky. Smalls and Mezzrow are within a short walk of one another in Greenwich Village. They present familiar artists like Lew Tabackin, Frank Lacy, Pete Malinverni, Johnny O'Neal and Wilner himself, as well as those ...
Music Education Monday: Electronic music production tips, plus a keyboard workshop with Richard Tee
This week for “Music Education Monday," we've got some new info on electronic music production techniques, and a classic video workshop with a top session keyboardist: Ableton, makers of the popular Ableton Live software used for electronic music production, has put online a good-sized chunk of the new book Making Music: Creative Strategies for Electronic Music ...
Miles on Monday: Memorial statue sculptor to speak at Lewis and Clark CC, and more
This week for “Miles on Monday," we have some recent news items involving the legendary trumpeter: Preston Jackson, the sculptor creating the statue for the Miles Davis Memorial Project that will be placed in downtown Alton, IL later this year, will give a presentation for Lewis and Clark Community College’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series at noon ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The provocative piano of Matthew Shipp
This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring pianist Matthew Shipp, who's coming to St. Louis for a duo concert with bassist Michael Bisio that will be presented by New Music Circle next Saturday, March 28 at The Stage at KDHX. Shipp, who played here most recently in 2011 at 560 Music Center, emerged ...
How To Thrive In A Post-Download Era With Superfans
Have you read the news recently? Download sales are declining. Think about it, when was the last time you bought a download from iTunes? Guest Post by Berklee Online music business instructor, Chandler Coyle on the Bandzoogle Blog Chandler is one-half of the fan experience agency Music Geek Services and is also the publisher of the The Coyle Report, ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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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
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