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The Cost Of Breaking A Major Label Act
By Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Blog The latest IFPI (International Federation of the Phonograph Industry - boy, is that name outdated) recently came out with a report about the state of the music industry and a few of the elements that were analyzed included how much the major labels spent on developing new acts. Here are some interesting figures. The ...
Our Virtual Panel Looks Back on 2014 | Dave Cool of Bandzoogle
Dave Cool, Director of Artist Relations at Banzoogle joins us next on Hypebot.com's 2014 Year End Virtual Panel. Cool lands among other YouTube Music key skeptics: I'm not sure what impact it will have. YouTube has gotten away with being the largest free music streaming service for years. I don't know how they're going to get people ...
The art of the jazz duo
Pianist Johnny Varro is best known for his interpretations of vintage jazz, most of it dating to the 1920s through the '40s. But Friday afternoon's duo concert with bassist Mark Neuenschwander for the South County Jazz Club gave Varro a chance to spread his wings a bit into material not associated with his Swing 7 classic ...
Lennie Tristano: Chicago 1951
One of the most important live recordings of the Lennie Tristano Sextet with Lee Kontiz and Warne Marsh has just been released. The material has never before been issued, and the sound is superb, capturing the group's cool sound at its peak and at a critical moment in jazz history, just a year before Lee Konitz ...
Our Virtual Panel Looks Back on 2014 | Dmitri Vietze
Dmitri Vietze of Music and Technology PR Firm Rock Paper Scissors is up next on Hypebot.com's virtual panel. He shares his thoughts on the Taylor Swift rift with Spotify and the importance of YouTube Music Key and the expansion of Beats Music ecosystem below. He also speaks to the changes brought on by 2014 and what it ...
Bandzoogle and Pledgemusic Partner for D2F
Bandzoogle, the website platform for musicians, and PledgeMusic, the popular direct-to-fan music community, have formed a partnership designed to help artists succeed. Using Bandzoogle’s platform, artists and bands can now easily integrate their PledgeMusic direct-to-fan campaign onto any page of their Bandzoogle-powered websites. You can see the integration at work on Bandzoogle-powered websites for metal legends ...
Videos: Bud Powell in Europe
Yesterday it poured in New York with a whipping wind, turning the city into the inside of a car wash. As always, I spent the day indoors writing (except for my daily pre-dawn, 1-mile swim). For some reason the weather made me want to listen to The Complete Bud Powell on Verve. No other jazz pianist ...
Our Virtual Panel Looks Back on 2014 | Simon Cole of 7digital
Up next in our 2014 Year End Virtual Panel, Simon Cole, CEO of 7digital chimes in on the current state of the music industry. Cole says The switch to hi-res and wearable technology has pushed the need for a great deal of quick innovation on our part. But these challenges are exciting to us because we see how ...
Not Another Streaming Debate
Guest post by LIVIA TORTELLA of Black Box In 2009, Jordan Kurland invited me to my first Bandwidth Conference when it was hosted in San Francisco; great name, no press, invitation only. The space was perfect for productive and intimate conversations. Five years later, Ashli Lewis (founder and organizer of Bandwidth) continues to keep the conference true to it’s roots as a music meets technology heart-to-heart. When ...
Smart Artists, Smart Fans
By Dan Servantes from Berklee College of Music's Music Business Journal. The Internet age has drastically altered the dynamics of the interaction between corporations and their customers. Talking down at consumers, for instance, is less preferable than engaging them in a conversation that can later lead to a commercial transaction. This is what direct-to-fan marketing should be ...

