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News: TV / Film

5 Holiday Movies of Yore

December 25, 2012

Once upon a time in the 1940s, holiday films had a purpose—to make you feel good. Most had engaging love stories, they appealed to adults and they warmed your spirits. Here are five of my favorites... It Happened in Sun Valley (1941)... Christmas in Connecticut (1945)... The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)... ...

News: Video / DVD

Nat King Cole: Italy 1960

December 24, 2012

The other day I received a fabulous YouTube link from Dick LaPalm, Nat King Cole's record promoter. [Photo above: Nat King Cole with wife Maria] Before you watch, here are Dick's notes ... “The song Non Dimenticar [Do Not Forget] was written in 1950 by Italy's Michele Gladieri and Paulo Redi. Originally titled T'ho Voluto Bene, ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2013 Jazz Preview, Part 3

December 23, 2012

Today, it's part 3 of our video preview offering samples of some of the touring jazz and creative musicians who will be coming to St. Louis during the first part of 2013. (Part 1 of the preview is here and part 2 is here.) Most of the musicians spotlighted in this week's installment may need little ...

News: Opinion

Big Data: The New Oil, or the New Snake Oil?

December 22, 2012

Guest post by Will Mills (@will_mills_) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Mills is the Director of Music and Content at Shazam. Big data played a pivotal role in this year's U.S. election, with both candidates attempting to harness the power of information to win. Barack Obama's campaign in particular mined deep metrics of ...

News: Recording

10 Most Hated Holiday Songs of 2012

December 22, 2012

Every year since 2004, Edison Research has conducted nationwide studies of women, ages 30-to-49, who said they liked or loved hearing Christmas music on the radio. This is the first test to include recent holiday music from Taylor Swift, Michael Bublé, Lady Antebellum, the “Glee" Cast, Justin Bieber, and more. The ten most-disliked holiday songs of ...

News: Music Industry

Zappa Project Roxy by Proxy Funding Experiment Receiving Poor Public Response

December 22, 2012

The Zappa Family Trust is attempting to raise funds to complete the film The Roxy Performances for theatrical and DVD release. Focused on concerts from 1973, they are offering 1000 people the chance to be a “distributor" with their own copy of the “CD Duplication Master" for $1000. From what I can find, response on the ...

News: Recording

Bill Evans and Jimmy Knepper

December 21, 2012

Most fans of pianist Bill Evans know him as one of jazz's great trio leaders from 1959 until his death in 1980. You also many know that in the years preceding 1959, Evans was a prolific sideman—popping up on a wide range of recordings led by superb artists such as Tony Scott, Miles Davis and Hal ...

News: Opinion

The State of Music Psychology

December 21, 2012

Guest post by Diana Hereld (@christypaffgen) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. The psychological conversation surrounding music has boomed. In a few short years, the studies of music therapy and the applied neuroscience of music have hugely invaded the mainstream — the question is, why? As many publications have noted, the initiative that music ...

News: Opinion

A Better Social Music Experience

December 21, 2012

Guest post by Alex May (@AlexmDrums) of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Of the growing number of social music services and apps, none of them have realized the full and broader potential of social platforms; a large gap still exists between listening to music and being social about it. Current music services and apps ...

News: Opinion

Will the Internet Radio Fairness Act Drive a Stake in the Creative Process?

December 21, 2012

By Frank Liwall, President and Founder of independent publishing company Royalty Network, and its label Krian Music Group. I don't believe in devaluing music further. I do know that when an industry is thriving, there's opportunity to invest in and cultivate talent. So the question becomes, can we continue to invest in talent, when challenges like ...