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Pandora Tests Direct To Fan Audio Messaging Service For Artists
Some in the industry have been critical of Pandora's payments to artists and labels. As part of a campaign to show that the platform can help artists, the music streamer began offering a free analytics dashboard. Now Pandora is experimenting with allowing artists to include audio messages in their streams. At the Code/Media conference yesterday in Laguna ...
Pandora Has “No Comment” About “Steering” Payola In Direct Deal With Naxos Records
Pandora is bringing back the $50 handshake by striking another “direct" deal this week with Naxos Records; and is looking for any pre-ruling leverage that they can find, according to David Lowery of The Trichordist. Ed note - The $50 dollar handshake was record industry slang for the age old practice of illegal payments by record labels to radio stations for preferential airplay. ...
Reporting On SoundCloud: Past, Present & Future
In the seven years since its inception, SoundCloud has worked to build the ideal platform for maximizing exposure and connections for musicians, and, in doing so, has dramatically changed the music industry. Griffin Davis explores how in the Music Business Journal. In the years since the rise and subsequent fall of Napster, the distribution of recorded music ...
Jazz this week: Jeff Lorber Fusion, Lotte Anker & Okkyung Lee, and more
This week's jazz and creative music offerings in St. Louis run the gamut from fusion to free improvisation, with plenty of mainstream sounds as well. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 18 Keyboardist Jeff Lorber and the latest iteration of his Fusion group featuring bassist Jimmy Haslip and saxophonist Eric Marienthal (pictured, top left) will ...
Why Lesley Gore Mattered
Lesley Gore, who died on February 16 of lung cancer at age 68, was best known for her hit, It's My Party, which went to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 and R&B charts in 1963. But the teen singer stood for much more than adolescent anguish and the right to bawl at one's own bash. Gore ...
Signature Brew, Music-Based Brewery Opens Up For Public Crowdfunding
Have you ever dreamed of going into business with some of your favorite artists & bands? Now you can by investing in London's own Signature Brew alongside Frank Turner, Baby Godzilla, Chicane, HooDoo Pop, Ed Harcourt and many more! Signature Brew, a London-based brewery, offers music and beer fans the opportunity to tap into creative collaboration by ...
Domino.fm Enters The Streaming Services Arena With High Hopes
Ladies and gentlemen, another streaming service has made an entrance. In an already saturated market dominated by algorithm curated content, Domino.fm hit the market today with hopes of combating competition with a distinctly human touch. Domino.fm curates it's musical selections directly from the industry's leading blogs and music news sources. By determining individual preferences based on the news ...
Why China's Music Industry Should Be Extremely Wary Of Its Mobile Providers
What happens when an industry’s well-being lies in the hands of a monopolistic group of state-owned enterprises that don’t care about sustainability, much less the growth, of the industry, and don't invest the money they make on others’ content back into nurturing that industry? Archie Hamilton takes a closer look in this post on Billboard.com Back in 2008 ...
Georgie Auld: The Tiger Bands
Tenor saxophonist Georgie Auld was a born soloist. By the time he was 20 in 1939, Auld had recorded more solos than musicians twice his age. While in Bunny Berigan's band between 1936 and 1938, Auld had nearly as many solos on records as Berigan himself. Auld also was a standout in Artie Shaw's orchestra between ...
SoundExchange Adds Two Music Industry Veterans To Executive Suite
SoundExchange continues to add to its senior executive team with the hiring of two music industry veterans as VP, Strategic Initiatives and SVP, Communications. SoundExchange today announced the addition of Mark Eisenberg as SVP, Strategic Initiatives and Jacqueline Peterson as SVP, Communications. Both are music industry veterans. Eisenberg most recently served as Global Head of Content Acquisition ...
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