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Jazz This Week: Jon Batiste and Stay Human, Jahmal Nichols CD Release, and More
If you're looking to shake the mid-winter doldrums this weekend, your options for live jazz and creative music in St. Louis include the local debut of an up-and-coming New Orleans performer; an album release event featuring the first recording as a leader from one of our town's busiest bassists, and more. Let's go to the highlights... ...
Make More Money with Your Official Band Website
There are a lot of ways to make money on the web when you have your own site. But it's easy to fall into a rut with a band or label's website, monetizing music online in the expected manner by selling music, merch and tickets, requesting donations and crowdfunding. While you don't want to go overboard ...
5 Stories That Will Shape the Music Industry in 2014
By Alex May (@AlexmDrums) In a recent episode of the Upward Spiral podcast, we talked with Darren Hemmings, who is the founder of Motive Unknown, a strategic digital marketing consultancy, about the top stories of last year. Ranging from music royalties gaining press attention to Billboard’s including YouTube video views and online music stream in chart rankings, 2013 ...
6 Things I Learned Submitting My Music for a Grammy
By Musician and Marketing Consultant Solveig Whittle (@shadesofsolveig). Sometime in the summer of 2013, I decided to join The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), AKA The Academy®. I had heard it was a great way to network with other local musicians – including Seattle’s own Grammy®-winning writers, producers and artists like Sir Mix-A-Lot, ...
Researchers Discover Kickstarter Phrases That Pay
Two Georgia Tech researchers have crunched the data on over 45,000 Kickstarter projects and claim they've revealed the top 100 phrases that signal that a crowdfunding project will or will not be funded. But the possibly more useful part is their analysis of the language styles indicated by these phrases and their relationship to the psychology ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 17-23
As rumors continue to circulate as to the sale (or not) of the Artists Quarter, there is no doubt that a significant hole exists on the live jazz scene in the Twin Cities. Yet jazz continues to thrive around that hole, if in more challenging (i.e., not ideal listening) settings. Spots like Jazz Central, Black Dog, ...
A Look at the Team Curating Beats Music
New music subscription service Beats Music says that when it launches on January 21st, it will revolutionize the listening experience through expert curation. And while it's inevitable that Beats Music founders Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, Luke Wood, Trent Reznor and Ian Rogers will have a hand in fine tuning what Beats users hear, they've also hired an ...
Who Needs Ticketmaster? Eventbrite Sold 58 Million D.I.Y. Tickets in 2013
Online d.i.y. ticketing company Eventbrite is reporting 60% growth last year. The company says it sold 58 million tickets in 2013, with a total value of $960 million. 2.9 million events sold tickets on the Eventfrite platform last year. Most of them were smaller grassroots affairs like Dan Pierson's New York City based Subway Sets, created after he was ...
Interview: Carol Stevens, Part 2
Singer Carol Stevens has a terrific phone voice. It's identical to her singing voice in the late '50s—husky, feminine and full of character. Naturally, it was a pleasure interviewing her—both for the content and just to hear her articulate her points. Carol in the '60s and beyond continued to sing at clubs in New York and ...
Beats Music is Here: The Full Launch Press Release
Beats, the new streaming music service founded by Interscope chief Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre, Luke Wood, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Ian Rogers, will launch January 21st. (Launch details here.) Built on the skeleton of MOG which parent Beats Electronics bought more than a year ago, the company shared details in this official release: BEATS MUSIC IS ...
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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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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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