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The Most SoundHound'ed Moments Of The GRAMMYs 2015
SoundHound, Inc., a leading innovator in Sound Recognition and Search Technology, watched more than just the GRAMMYs last night—they watched their users interact and react to the award show. Unlike Shazam, SoundHound has a portfolio of technology that recognizes natural language and allows for the searching and identification of music through live performances. Taking a look ...
CDs Discoveries of the Month
Now that the Grammys are over, here are some truly sensational albums. To feature as many as possible, I've kept my banter to a minimum... She sings, she plays bass and she writes songs. Katie Thiroux is a triple threat who also has chosen terrific material for her first album. I love the way she deals ...
How Much Can You Actually Make Playing House Concerts?
Guest Post by Blake Guthrie on Sonicbids Blog Every singer/songwriter or acoustic act who's played out enough knows the drill. You show up to a gig where you must perform underneath a TV showing the big game or in a coffeehouse with the erratic, nerve-jarring grinding and screeching of the espresso machine, or maybe in a ...
StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Getting to know cellist Okkyung Lee
Today, our video spotlight falls on cellist and composer Okkyung Lee, who will be making her St. Louis debut in a New Music Circle concert on Saturday, February 21 at Joe's Cafe, 6014 Kingsbury Ave. Lee, who's originally from Korea, came to the United States in 2000 and settled in NYC, where she has collaborated on ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, February 6-12
While it was very disappointing to have the Chris Potter Quartet postponed due to the latest East Coast snowstorm, it was gratifying to hear two stellar local bands filling in last week at the Dakota (a last-minute assemblage from Steve Kenny and the Atlantis Quartet). Potter will be rescheduled. Meanwhile we have another week of largely ...
Welcome To The Opposite Of Freemium - The End Of Free Music
Guest Post by Noel Troy Do we create too much content? Does the world need a filter? “Every two days, the world creates as much content as we did from the beginning of time up until 2003.” ~-Eric Schmidt, Google CEO. When it comes to content, music is king. In the words of music entrepreneur Troy Carter: “Music can sell ...
How to Measure if Your PR Campaign Was Successful
Guest Post by Amy Sciaretto on Sonicbids Blog If you've launched a PR campaign, there are several ways to measure how successful it was or wasn't, but the science is hardly exact. Know this going into it: you shouldn't be looking for quantifiable things that unfold in a set amount of time, because the measurement formula has changed so much, ...
Major Record Labels Are Keeping Nearly All The Money They Get From Spotify, Rather Than Giving It To Artists
Guest Post by Mike Masnick on TechDirt A small group of very vocal musicians has decided that the new target of their anger, after attacking cyberlockers, search engines and torrent sites, should be legal, authorized streaming services. They've decided that the payouts from these services are simply too low, even though almost none of these services are anywhere close to profitable, and ...
Music Tech - It's Been A Long Hard Winter
Guest Post by Cortney Harding on This Week In Music Tech An update on last week’s post: there were some pretty good discussions on Twitter and elsewhere, most of which were civil and interesting. Over at Billboard, Andrew Flanagan dug deeper and reported that, according to YouTube, artists who choose not to be part of Music Key would still have ...
A guitar master's take on jazz - It's about much so more than the music
Guitarist Pat Martino quickly set the tone with a blistering revisit of the boppish “Lean Years" at his concert Wednesday, February 4 with the Naples Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra. “Lean Years," which first appeared on Martino's 1967 Prestige album Strings!, remains one of his signature tunes. The program also included two other Martino originals ("Inside Out" and ...
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Points of View: Celebrating Dave Holland
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Boney James: A Simple Man And A Lifetime Study
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Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Steve Coleman on Dave Holland
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Isaiah Collier Plays Coltrane: Live at Jazz Alley in Seattle
Reanimating Conversations Past
John Scofield: Meant To Be
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