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News: Technology

Why Wait For Google's Youtube Music Service? Stream It Free Now!

March 9, 2013

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Google and YouTube are working on at least one subscription music service to complement YouTube (free music videos) and Google Music (free music locker and download store). Our theory is that this is because some label(s) are pressuring Google into the music subscription space by threatening to withhold their music ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet Carl L. Hager

by AAJ Staff
March 8, 2013

I currently live in: Los Angeles, CAI joined All About Jazz in: 2009What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? I've been a writer and editor most of my life, and I love jazz. One day after I'd been reading All About Jazz for a few months, I inquired to ...

News: Music Industry

Sammy Davis Jr.: "Hey There"

March 8, 2013

The Pajama Game—an improbable musical love story about two pajama-factory employees—opened on Broadway in May 1954. In the play, Sid (the factory manager) is spurned by Babe (the grievance committee head) and moons his feelings into a Dictaphone. There were three hit covers of the song out that year. [Pictured above: Sammy Davis Jr. and Eartha ...

News: Radio

Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy Exits, Stock up 20%

March 8, 2013

Wall Street reacted positively to news that Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy is exiting after 10 years at the helm. Pandora also announced strong quarterly earnings of $125 million, improving ad sales, and a strong forecast for the next. The company lost $14.6 million last quarter, but the stock still jumped almost 20% in after hours trading. ...

News: Event

SXSW Survival Guide 2013

March 8, 2013

By Beth Martinez (@dangervillage) of Danger Village, a music publicity firm. In four days, I'll be leaving Los Angeles to attend my eighth South by Southwest Music Festival. Having been attending festivals for over ten years now, I've developed a few methods for surviving the madness that comes with integrating into a crowd of thousands of ...

News: Music Industry

Musicians Need to Rethink Their Struggle with Piracy

March 8, 2013

Tyler Hayes (@thealbumproject). Talking about music piracy has become an exercise in self deprecation, an emotional argument that never seems to end. I understand that music piracy was a real issue, it hurt a lot of people, and it still exists, but we're now at the point where it's been talked to death, and then some. ...

News: Opinion

Seattle's Live Music Business Model is Broken

March 8, 2013

Drummer Tarik Abouzied has a post on his website entitled, “Seattle’s Live Music Business Model is Broken,” which he says, “is about informing the live music audience of the realities behind putting on these shows and what I see as an unsustainable situation, and trying to move past the usual finger-pointing and complaining so we can ...

News: Performance / Tour

Living Legend, Hugh Masekela Takes the Annenberg Center Stage This April

March 8, 2013

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts closes out its 12/13 African Root series with a performance by Grammy award-winning trumpeter Hugh Masekela. “One of the most thrilling live performers around” (Rolling Stone), Masekela is known for his traditional South African jazz inspired sound and his outspoken political voice. This performancewill take place on Sunday, April ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, March 8-14

March 8, 2013

Outside of the Jazz Festival weekend in June, it is hard to imagine a more jazz-packed, star-studded weekend than March 8-11. And what is really cool about this weekend is that the jazz events are spread out all over the Metro area. Maybe not too convenient if you want to hit it all, but evidence that ...

Article: Meet the Staff

Meet John Kelman

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2013

I currently live in: Ottawa, Canada I joined All About Jazz in: 2004 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? After deciding to start writing about music in about 2001, and starting at smaller websites, I was approached by All About Jazz in late 2003, with the question: “We've ...