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Ariel Hyatt Of Cyber PR Looks Back On 2014

December 24, 2014

Ariel Hyatt of Cyber PR joins us today on the Hypebot.com year end virtual panel. Hyatt notes a dramatic shift within her business demographic over the past twelve months. She says “I felt a palpable downturn in the attitudes of my clients as many saw their bottom lines slip even more in the past 12 months. ...

News: Video / DVD

Mills Brothers Christmas

December 23, 2014

What better way to usher in the hushed, mellow holidays ahead than with the Mills Brothers singing a series of Christmas songs. Vocal groups don't get much better than this... Here's I Believe in Santa Claus... Here's I'll Be Home for Christmas... Here's On This Christmas Eve... Here's My Christmas Song for You... ...

News: Music Industry

Documentary: Louis Prima

December 22, 2014

Louis Prima goes back further than you think. Born in New Orleans, his first surge of popularity came in the 1930s, when he was a trumpeter-bandleader with a swinging singing voice. He wrote Sing, Sing Sing, which sounds just like him once you know it came from his pen. In the 1940s, Prima leveraged his heritage ...

News: Performance / Tour

Ho-Ho-Ho Jazz

December 22, 2014

Guitarist Nate Najar brought his jazz holiday show to Sarasota on Saturday evening with special guest Harry Allen. The South County Jazz Club event at the Glenridge Performing Arts Center blended jazz treatments of holiday material with some jazz classics. The event marked the club's first opportunity to hear trumpeter James Suggs, an upstate New York ...

News: Recording

Recent Listening In Brief…

December 21, 2014

Frank Zappa (1940-1993), a gifted musician who dipped his toe into jazz, never demonstrated more than a smidgeon of what he knew about the genre. But he left us with the memorable observation, “Jazz isn’t dead. It just smells funny.” A web search shows that lesser wits have adapted Zappa’s line to all kinds of topics ...

News: Video / DVD

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/spring 2015 jazz preview

December 21, 2014

Today, it's the first part of StLJN's winter/spring 2015 jazz preview, in which we bring you music videos from jazz and creative music performers who will be visiting our city in the first part of next year. First up are The Bad Plus, who will be back in St. Louis from Wednesday, January 7 through Saturday, ...

News: Music Industry

Benji Rogers, Founder And President Of PledgeMusic, Looks Back On 2014

December 18, 2014

Benji Rogers, Founder and President of PledgeMusic joins us today for Hypebot.com's 2014 Year End Virtual Panel. Rogers has a hopeful outlook for the collaboration between artists and music streaming services, but suggests that streaming companies handle the relationship with care. “The artists are the ones with that power. If the artists are given the tools, ...

News: Music Industry

Kevin Breuner, CD Baby VP Of Marketing Looks Back On 2014

December 20, 2014

Kevin Breuner, Host of DIY Musician Podcast, and VP of Marketing, CD Baby joins us today on Hypebot.com's year end virtual panel. As an independent artist, Breuner responds to the current streaming debate saying, “You never know where your fans are going to come from. For that reason, I feel it’s important to have your music in all the ...

News: Music Industry

Spotify Cares Less about Artists Than IPOs and Taylor Swift Cares About... Taylor Swift

December 20, 2014

By Tom McAlevey, CEO Radical.FM Regardless of those truths, streaming will save the music industry and Artists will soon make more money than ever before. Daniel Ek is disingenuous when he claims that Spotify’s “reason for existence is to help fans find music and help artists connect with fans through a platform that protects them from piracy”. ...

News: Award / Grant

George Harrison, Buddy Guy, 5 More Honored With Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards

December 20, 2014

The Recording Academy has named its Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners for 2015. George Harrison, The Bee Gees, Buddy Guy, the Louvin Brothers, Wayne Shorter, Flaco Jiménez and Pierre Boulez will all be honored at next year's ceremony during Grammy week. Grammy Trustee & Technical Winners Also Named Producer Richard Perry, the husband and wife songwriting team ...