Results for "AAJ Staff"

Conan O'Brien Launches Erase U2 App [video]

September 20, 2014

Digital Money for Music: Tip Jar That Takes Plastic, Websites That Take Bitcoin

September 20, 2014

To paraphrase Amanda Palmer, people want to give you their money so make sure you can take it. DipJar is a tipjar that takes tips via credit cards. It's designed as a self-serve solution for coffee shops and similar settings and suggests one possible solution for street musicians in a cashless society. Accepting payment in digital ...

How to Grow Your Band's Fanbase Creatively

September 20, 2014

By Yannick Ilunga from The Jazz Spotlight. This is probably old news to you: social media is a great way to build and grow a fan base. When looking for a platform to promote their music, many artists turn to the various Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. When it comes to social media promotion, it is important ...

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, September 19-25

September 20, 2014

The fall jazz harvest is in full swing, and the coming week show no signs of a slow-down, from New York guitarist Joel Harrison at Jazz Central to Chick Corea and Vigil and The Cookers at the Dakota, as well as local highlights— the return of Monk in Motian, Connie Evingson at Parma, Mary Louise Knutson ...

The 5 Most Frequently Signed Music Publishing Deals

September 19, 2014

By Hugh McIntyre from the Sonicbids Blog. Music publishing is something that many small artists don’t think about, and, to be honest, some of them don’t need to. If you're truly just starting out in music, focusing on getting the word out and racking up a good number of listens comes before delving too deeply into ...

Bop.FM Tipping Point: Pandora, Xbox Music, Rhapsody and Napster Added

September 19, 2014

Bop.fm specializes in “service-agnostic playlists" allowing you to send a song link to a friend who can listen to it without having the same music service subscriptions that you have. Starting out as a somewhat better variation on overlapping trends, Bop.fm has steadily added key music streaming services from Spotify to Deezer. Now they're covering most ...

Jazz This Week: Joe McPhee and Survival Unit III, Old Webster Jazz and Blues Festival, Snarky Puppy, and More

September 19, 2014

It should be another good weekend to get out and hear some live jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with several free shows featuring local performers, plus a couple of noteworthy touring acts coming to town. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, there are a couple of free concerts, as guitarist Vincent Varvel plays for ...

Who Still Buys Music in 2014? [infographic]

September 19, 2014

Even with the plethora of free and almost free music along with the zillion track libraries available to anyone willing to shell out just $5 - $10 a month, there still some people that pay for music. I'm one of those who buys to support my favorite musicians, but who else? MusicWatch with just 10 years ago. ...

U2 Working with Apple on "New Digital Music Format" That Assures Artists Get Paid Again

September 19, 2014

U2 is working with Apple to create a new digital music format that would assure that songwriters and artists get paid for creating music. Their plans “might just save the music industry," according to a preview of a Time Magazine cover story posted online Thursday morning. Time reporter Catherine Mayer spent the last week with the ...

The "Me" Generation: Why Music Curation Isn't the Answer

September 19, 2014

By Michael E. Spinelli, founder of Eventsnype. In a recent interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook dubbed Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre “creative geniuses.” The justification CEO Tim Cook gave for acquiring Beats for $3 billion was the recognition that “human curation was important in the subscription service – that the sequencing of songs that ...