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Larry Sonn's All-Star Band
The big band era continued long after many historians say it ended. While big bands no longer gained much traction with teens by the late 1940s, many great orchestras continued to tour throughout the 1950s and beyond while others recorded for dancers on the new 12-inch album format. One such studio band in 1955 and '56 ...
Sonos Exploring API For 3rd Party Music Apps
Sonos appears poised to correct the only real flaw that I've found in it's otherwise superior wireless music system: the ability to control Sonos from within my favorite music apps. A new jobs ad posted by the company points to the creation of an API that would allow digital music services to do just that. I openly admit ...
The Death of the (Musical) Middle Class
Guest Post by Courtney Harding on This Week In Music Tech Tumblr With the publication of Ethan Kaplan’s totally brilliant “Generic Article About Spotify” a few weeks ago, I thought we’d truly hit the limit on how many ways we could skin the streaming cat. But alas, here’s comes noted old white man and Pink Floyd member Nick ...
The 3 Biggest Delusions Musicians Still Have About the Music Industry
By Amy Sciaretto on Sonicbids Blog Despite mountains of easy-to-find evidence to the contrary, musicians still have some serious delusions about the music industry and how to “make it." To quote the amazing Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones – because what he says is #truth – “If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless ...
Pink Floyd's Nick Mason Puts Spotlight On Apple's Shortcomings, Looks To Spotify To Raise The Bar
In an interview with GQ, Pink Floyd's Nick Mason talks about Apple's failed release of U2's latest album Songs of Innocence“ and the implications it imposed. He was quick to clarify where he stood on the issue telling GQ, “Let me be completely clear about my position: if Apple had come to me and said, 'Nick, ...
Music Education Monday: Behind the score of Birdman with drummer Antonio Sanchez
The Academy Award nominated film Birdman, now playing in theaters across the US, has won acclaim for its script, cinematography, lead performance by Michael Keaton, and the musical score created by drummer Antonio Sanchez. Perhaps best known to jazz fans for his work with guitarist Pat Metheny, Sanchez (pictured) unfortunately was eliminated from consideration in this ...
Why You Should Give A Shit About SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is more than just an ignored acronym - it is what makes or breaks you on the internet, and in case you have a giant case of the Mondays and missed the memo, the internet makes or breaks your career nowadays. If you haven't “Googled" yourself and/or your band by now 1) ...
Directional Music: Keeping Artists And Media Makers In Business
Directional Music has launched it's website and online searchable music database providing curated content for music supervisors and media makers looking to license music. Directional music aims to keep indie musicians in business by including their work in their powerful search platform, making it available for synch licensing. Users can search, license, and collaborate with others ...
11 Forms Of Promotion You May Be Overlooking
Guest Post by Bobby Borg, author of The DIY Musician The Internet may be one of the most popular and convenient forms of promotion today, but it’s also flooded with independent artists all trying to get attention. Thus, with consideration to your target customers, your budget, and your goals, you might consider evening-out your promotional campaign ...
Larry Coryell: Special jazz moments, all night long
Guitarist Larry Coryell is a musical force unto himself, but when he gets to converse with other musicians, the results can border on magical. Such was the case Saturday, January 17 when the jazz-rock veteran, now more comfortably digging into standard fare, performed in the South County Jazz Club series at Sarasota's Glenridge Performing Arts Center. ...
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