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Highlights from Nashville's Leadership Music Summit and Evan Lowenstein's Keynote
Yesterday I attended Nashville's Leadership Music Summit, an event that brought together a diverse array of stakeholders in Nashville's future with a special emphasis on music and entrepreneurship. I could tell I was only scratching the surface of Leadership Music's involvement in Nashville but it was a really positive first look. Here are some highlights from ...
Kollect.FM Beautifully Gathers Your Music from Youtube, Facebook and Soundcloud
Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Kollekt.fm aims to help music listeners corral music from Facebook, SoundCloud, and YouTube, so they can keep it all in one tidy place. The Amsterdam-based Kollekt.fm plans to let you collect music from other places in addition to Facebook, SoundCloud, and YouTube, which will be nice, because music is too hard ...
Casket Streams Spotify when You're Six Feet Under
For those of us whose dreams of an afterlife include plenty of our favorite music. an audio-in-you-coffin solution promises to allow you to to take your playlists with you. Of course, your estate still has to keep making those monthly payments to Spotify, but Swedish audio makers Pause Ljud & Bild have created product called the CataCombo Sound System that ...
Interview: Graham Nash
At 11 a.m. on Labor Day, the front door of Graham Nash's anonymous house on an unassuming street in a beach community near the Los Angeles airport was wide open. From the outside, the house looked like a cottage out of a nursery rhyme—the kind where three bears eat porridge or the grandmother of a red-caped ...
Breaking Into the Music Business Today
By Mika Salmi, CEO of creativeLIVE. Whether you love making music, or love listening to it, there are now more ways than ever to break into the music business. It's been 14 years since Napster emerged, marking the start of an industry-wide revolution. Today, more music is being made and listened to than ever before, and ...
Ronnell Bright: Japan, 1990
As long-term readers of this blog know, I'm a huge Ronnell Bright fan. My love for the pianist's playing is well documented in my interviews with him (go here) and in videos in which I've been asked about him. It all started with my passion for Sarah Vaughan's After Hours at the London House (1958)—an album ...
Complete Musician's Guide to Getting Played on College Radio
David Roberts is the founder of the Sunshine Promotion company. Based out of Nashville, TN, his blog “Sunshine Promotion“ helps artists achieve real goals with hard facts, case studies, and templates of music business plans to follow. Recently, I had the chance to chat with EricTheReDD, the former general manager of WJSC-FM (Johnson State College, Vermont) ...
Sam Most on Bop Clarinet
When Sam Most died in June, obituaries praised him for bringing the flute into the modern jazz age. Though Jerome Richardson predated Most on flute in a small group with Lionel Hampton in 1950, Most was first to pull the instrument out of its floral, bucolic role and give it a bop twist on Undercurrent Blues. ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Fall 2013 Jazz Preview, Part 2
Today, it's part two of StLJN's Fall 2013 jazz preview, with videos spotlighting the various jazz and creative music performers who will be coming to town over the next few months. In part one, posted a week ago, we covered most of the month of September; today's segment takes up where that one left off, on ...
Musicians: Why Your Self-Presentation is an Important Part of Your Music
A recent study showed that volunteers could more accurately identify the winners of music competitions by watching video without sound rather than video with sound or audio alone. It raises the possiblity that visual cues are a much more important aspect of evaluating music quality than we realize. At the very least, the study is a ...
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