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Interview: Marlene VerPlanck
Singer Marelen VerPlanck has a new album—Ballads, Mostly. It's a delicious collection of moody songs with an upbeat feel. Seven of the 15 track were arranged by Marlene's late husband, Billy VerPlanck, who died in 2009. Though Marlene spent three decades starting in the '60s recording demos and jingles, she began her professional career in the ...
How mp3.com's IPO Changed SEC Regulations
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. One of the big stories of 2012 was that the big music services, most of which are losing money themselves, are stiffing artists. Hopefully, 2013 will be the year when payouts from subscription services make the big leap we've heard they will, and maybe even when physical distributors will stop ...
How to Improve Your Music Tech Event
Guest post by Cortney Harding (@cortneyharding) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Many of us spend a lot of time and money attending music tech events, as the number of them has mushroomed over the last five years. In fact, it seems like there is a nomadic class of people who do almost nothing but ...
Jazz This Week: Michael Dease with WGHS Jazz Bands, Javier Mendoza's Latin Jazz Experiment, Montez Coleman, Mary Dyson, Joe Mancuso, and More
The first part of January typically is time off for a lot of touring musicians who'd just as soon stay home as deal with bad weather, audiences suffering from empty pockets or the post-holiday blahs, and so on. So even though the weather in St. Louis actually has been pretty nice for this time of year, ...
Topspin's Ian Rogers Joins Beats as CEO New Digital Music Service Daisey
Respected digital music and direct to fan pioneer Ian Rogers has left Topspin to serve as the CEO of Project Daisey for Beats Electronics. Rogers will remain on the Topspin board of directors and serve as Executive Chairman. Beats will make a substantial investment in Topspin to “help create meaningful business opportunities for artists inside project ...
Do TV Show Music Placements Lead to Greater Artist Awareness?
By Liv Buli, Resident Data Journalist for Next Big Sound. You've just tuned in to your favorite television show, be it Gossip Girls, Grey's Anatomy, or Glee, and are enthralled by familiar characters and gripping plot, but how often do you take note of the songs that score these scenes? In the right instance, television syncs ...
Mardra and Reggie Thomas Coming Home to Perform Saturday, February 9 at Robbie's House of Jazz
Singer Mardra Thomas (pictured) and keyboard player Reggie Thomas will be returning to St. Louis next month to perform at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, February 9 at Robbie's House of Jazz. Longtime fixtures on the St. Louis jazz scene, the Thomases moved to Michigan in 2011 after Reggie, who formerly taught at SIUE, got a new job ...
Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013)
Ada Louise Huxtable, the country's most respected and feared architecture critic whose finely crafted articles, essays and books held architects and their works to high humanistic standards, died January 7. She was 91. Ada Louise was most recently the architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal, but she was an early mentor of mine when I ...
Hank Mobley: Blue Note '50s
If the hard bop movement had a musical voice of reason, it was Hank Mobley. Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Elmo Hope, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd and others certainly were significant players who helped develop and define the jazz style's exciting fanning sound and expressive ambitions. But Mobley—as Blue Note's house tenor saxophonist—was hard bop's ...
Musicians' Tune-Up: Establish Your Web Presence with Authority
To establish your web presence with authority, whatever aesthetic or commercial form that presence takes, requires a solid network with an official website, an active social network presence and passive markers back to one's website and social accounts. Whether or not you're feeling the energy of a New Year, now's a great time to tune up ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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