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Remembering When Cars Came With An In Dash Turntable [VIDEO]

February 18, 2015

Tumblr Gets Tough On Music, Implements 3 Strikes Like Policy

February 18, 2015

Tumblr users publish more than 110 million posts daily (that's not a typo), and naturally some of them include music. But in recent days,Tumblr has been punishing users who publish tracks without permission with both takedowns and outright bans. Tumblr has been getting much tougher on users who post music without permission. In recent days, the ...

The Best Time to Release Your Album: A Month by Month Guide

February 18, 2015

When you are an independent artist, making an album is a feat in itself. All of the months of planning, writing, recording can be enough to occupy all of your energy. Now that the project is done, it is now time to market and release your album. But how do you know when is the right ...

How Rhapsody Re-Entered The Streaming Player Competition

February 17, 2015

Industry analyst Mark Mulligan who pens the Music Industry Blog shares how Rhapsody and its Napster brand are on the road back to becoming a real competitor in the crowded streaming music sector. Last week Rhapsody announced reaching 2.5 million total subscribers across their unlimited and UnRadio offerings. While not in the same scale as Spotify’s 15 million, it nonetheless ...

Rodrigo Lima: Saga

February 17, 2015

Temperatures dropped to single digits in New York today, compelling me to break out something tasty and warm: Saga, a new double-CD album by Brazilian guitarist and composer-arranger Rodrigo Lima. Produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro, the album is Lima's first as a leader and a tribute of sorts to CTI's sultry Brazilian jazz recordings of the 1970s, ...

Former RCA, MTV Execs Near Launch Of CÜR Music Streaming Service

February 17, 2015

Yes, yet another streaming music service is nearing launch. Led by former top executives at MTV and RCA,  CÜR Music promises a “next generation" and “immersive" music experience. CÜR Media announced today that it has entered into a digital content streaming agreement with MediaNet to licence 22 million tracks from all the major and 80,000 indie labels. Led ...

Seven Rare Soul Videos

February 16, 2015

I'm a big fan of '60s sweet soul, so when I was on YouTube over the weekend, I shopped around for rare clips of favorite songs and came up with seven to share with you... In 1982, singer Denise Williams had a huge hit with It's Gonna Take a Miracle that went to #1 on Billboard's ...

The Music World Isn't Flat... Yet.

February 15, 2015

Guest Post by Cortney Harding on This Week In Music Tech I travel internationally a handful of times a year, and each trip usually has a few “the world is flat” moments. I talked baseball with a cab driver in Japan! I flew to Africa and wound up in a hipster motorcycle shop/coffee bar just like ...

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The return of Jeff Lorber Fusion

February 15, 2015

Today, let's check out some video clips previewing next week's performances by keyboardist Jeff Lorber, who will be playing Wednesday, February 18 through Saturday, February 21 at Jazz at the Bistro. Officially billed as Jeff Lorber Fusion featuring Jimmy Haslip and Eric Marienthal, this will be the group's second time at the Bistro after having played ...

Music Licensing Bracing For "The Big One"

February 14, 2015

Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Blog Everyone acknowledges that the current copyright law that we live under is outdated, but it's been really difficult getting any updates to the law passed in recent years, mostly because of special interest groups and the fact the a complete overhaul is required rather than just a ...