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JazzDoc: Miles Davis

June 4, 2013

AOL Music Assets Acquired by Townsquare Media

June 4, 2013

Several recently shuttered AOL Music properties including The Boot (country), The BoomBox (hip hop), NoiseCreep (heavy metal) and ComicsAlliance have been acquired by Townsquare Media Group, a portfolio of music and entertainment sites with 52 million unique monthly visitors. In August, Townsquare purchased the MOG network of music blogs after Beats acquired MOG's music streaming service. ...

Music Tech Exec Roundtable: Who Does Music Discovery Appeal To?

June 2, 2013

By  Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm Twitter #Music is a music discovery tool. You can lean back and listen to each music chart like a radio station, but you often need to pull out your iPhone and skip past undesirable songs. Given the low ranking of Twitter #Music in the App Store charts a month after its launch, some ...

Jean Bach, 1918-2013

June 2, 2013

The death this week in New York of Jean Bach at 94 spurred memories of her role in the jazz community going back to the early 1940s. Ms. Bach was not a musician but an advocate whose enthusiasm for and understanding of the art endeared her to several generations of musicians. Her knowledge of the music ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Terence Blanchard Sampler

June 2, 2013

This week, let's take another look at trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who's been in and out of St. Louis a lot over the last year. That's because he's been working with Opera Theatre St. Louis on Champion, a new opera he composed that will receive its world premiere at OTSL with six performances taking place between June ...

Bonerama to Play Sunday, June 23 at Broadway Oyster Bar

June 1, 2013

The New Orleans band Bonerama is returning to St. Louis for another gig, this time at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, June 23 at the Broadway Oyster Bar. The group's rocked-out take on the NOLA brass band tradition features an all-trombone front line plus rhythm section. They last played St. Louis in September 2012 at The Gramophone. This ...

Gigit Launches Direct to Fan Music Booking Service

June 1, 2013

Gigit launched in public beta over Memorial Day Weekend as a direct to fan booking service for musicians. It's a timely move that addresses pain points in the current private booking situation and benefits from a more general move to D2F, experiences and transparency. Perhaps most importantly, it seems likely to open up music revenue streams ...

Roundtable: Is Music Discovery a Feature or Product?

June 1, 2013

By  Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm It's an important question. There are hundreds of websites and applications that promise to expose listeners to new music. But can they make money? Are they worth money? This is where the discussion becomes challenging for many music startups. They don't always provide value beyond what established services already do, and in many ...

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, May 31-June 6

June 1, 2013

Patios are open, lilacs have bloomed, our first summer storms have thundered through. It's time for outdoor band concerts, neighborhood festivals, and always, more music. Big Gigs This Week Friday, May 31. After taking a maternity break, Nichola Miller is back on stage, swinging and sassy as ever. I caught her “return" gig at Hells' Kitchen ...

Jazz This Week: Red Baraat, Two Times True, St. Louis Big Band, and More

May 31, 2013

While it's not a very busy week for touring jazz musicians visiting St. Louis, as usual our local musicians and bands stand ready with a plethora of performances of their own. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, alumni of the music programs at Parkway West High School will present a big band jazz concert in tribute ...