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News: Award / Grant

Indie Artist Clean House At 57th Annual GRAMMYS

February 12, 2015

Indie artists took home GRAMMY awards in key categories on Sunday including Best Dance/Electronic Album, Best Country Duo/Group Performance, Best Country Song & Best Alternative Music Album. The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) issued a formal “Congratulations" to their member labels giving a nod to the phenomenal work coming from the Independent Music sector in ...

News: Music Industry

TuneGo Raises $1.2 Million To Expand Emerging Artist Platform

February 12, 2015

TuneGo, a music discovery platform for emerging artists, has raised $1.2 million from serial entrepreneur Chris Murray and Pasadena Angel investor Kenny Kam. Alongside the funding, TuneGo announced deals with Spotify, Slacker and APM Music as distribution partners and some heavy-hitting producers including Peter Asher, Desmond Child and Ron Dante. How TuneGo Works Still in open beta, ...

News: Music Industry

Music As A Marketing Tool

February 12, 2015

Guest Post by Colin Shaw on LinkedIn Pulse Music has a unique effect on our brain, especially concerning memory. Apple brilliantly capitalizes on all of them in its holiday ad. When it comes to branding there might be no better way than using music to help a Customer remember your brand promise. Here is the ad, in case ...

News: Trends

Rhapsody, Napster Pass 2.5 Million Paying Subscribers - 60% Growth

February 12, 2015

Rhapsody and its Napster brand now have more than 2.5 million paid subscribers globally. That's up from 2 million in July, and paces annual subscriber growth a 60%. The increase was driven primarily by new global partnerships with automakers and wireless providers including T-Mobile and Telefonica. New Listening Patterns The majority of Rhapsody's global customer base is ...

News: Recording

Carmen McRae for Cool Ones

February 11, 2015

Between 1954 and 1958, singer Carmen McRae recorded 12 albums for Decca. She was signed by Milt Gabler, Decca's head of A&R, after he had seen her sing at a Brooklyn club. Gabler had great success producing Billie Holiday between 1944 and 1950 for Decca and Ella Fitzgerald between 1942 and 1955. When Fitzgerald announced in ...

News: Music Industry

Uncommon jazz trio is spellbinding

February 11, 2015

There is a notable, and rather robust, roster of jazz-playing siblings through the years. A much leaner list of identical twins playing jazz shows that most play different instruments. That makes sense. If you are working together a lot as budding musicians, you need a variety of position players in a band. Peter and Will Anderson ...

News: Interview

Exclusive: Bill Evans Interview

February 10, 2015

A few weeks ago I received an email from two ardent Bill Evans fans. James Farber and Larry Goldbert wrote to say they had interviewed Evans back in 1976 for a radio station in Madison, Wis., and asked if I wanted to hear it. I said I'd be happy to and, if I loved it and ...

News: Education

Music Education Monday: Books, Both Fake And Real

February 10, 2015

For this week's “Music Education Monday," it's part two of a look at free sheet music resources available online, this week concentrating on fake books. First, a bit of background: A fake book is a collection of sheet music for well-known tunes, usually formatted with one song per page using only chord symbols, a written-out melody ...

News: Technology

Onkyo Launches Hi-Res Music Download Store In US, UK, Germany

February 10, 2015

Japan based audio and video manufacturer Onkyo has expanded its Onkyo Music high resolution music download store to the US, UK and Germany in beta. Unlike Pono, Tidal and Deezer Elite, Onkyo does not stream hi-def music, but offers it for sale and download. Onkyo Music is powered by 7Digital and offers “hundreds of thousands" of 24-bit ...

News: Career

How To Set Up Your Recording Studio For Creativity

February 10, 2015

Guest Post by Adam Percy from the Bandzoogle Blog If you’re a musician, then you’ve been involved to varying degrees in recording. While many of you have probably been in a pro studio, it’s likely that you’ve dabbled with the idea of doing some recording yourself at home or in your own space - for demos, making beats, or ...