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News: Music Industry

Sell Music and Merch Bundles Via Nuplays with Extra Rewards for Fans

August 25, 2012

NuPlays is a new ecommerce platform for selling digital music and other downloads in bundles that can include physical items. Points are awarded to customers for each purchase which can then be used on additional rewards to encourage legitimate music sales. Though the recently hatched site features individual musicians and bands, the platform is designed to ...

News: Music Industry

Indie Band Uses Ignitiondeck for Crowdfunding Without the Middleman

August 25, 2012

Like many artists nowadays, Los Angeles-based indie folk rock band A House For Lions is calling upon the help of their fans to help fund the production of their new album, only they are not going through Kickstarter, Pledge Music or RocketHub. Instead, the band has opted for the new WordPress crowdfunding plugin IgnitionDeck, which allows ...

News: Video / DVD

Jazz Musicians as Pitchmen 2

August 24, 2012

On August 20, I posted a series of YouTube clips in which well-known jazz and pop artists starred in ads. Well, it didn't take long for JazzWax readers to chime in. Here's another round... Ella Fitzgerald and Nelson Riddle from Jeff Helgesen... Ella Fitzgerald and Chuck Mangione from Jeff... Miles Davis for Honda from ...

News: Rights

Soundexchange Pays $204.4 Million in Digital Royalties Since Beginning of 2012

August 24, 2012

SoundExchange announced today that is it has distributed $204.4 million in digital royalty payments to artists and labels in the first two quarters of 2012. In its second quarter alone, the nonprofit PRO distributed $95.8 million, the second highest quarterly distribution in the organization's history. SoundExchange has really been on a mission lately to get musicians ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: David Sanborn and Brian Culbertson, Steve Davis, Dave Dickey Big Band, and More

August 23, 2012

With the return of one of the best known jazz musicians ever to come out of St. Louis, plus a nice variety of local gigs on tap, this week's jazz and creative music calendar is relatively busy for the end of August, which usually is a fairly slow time of year. So without further ado, let's ...

News: Interview

Pat McAllister's Jazz Photos

August 23, 2012

In the 1950s, JazzWax reader and painter Pat McAllister was in the right place at the right time. Back then, Pat was a teen living in Los Angeles and had the opportunity to see quite a few famous jazz artists perform. Fortunately he took along his camera. [Photo of Dave Brubeck by Pat McAllister] Let Pat ...

News: Music Industry

reKiosk Allows Tastemakers to Cash in on Music Recommendations

August 23, 2012

Incentivizing fans with offers to spread the word about their favorite artist is good way to drive and track engagements, but what about those looking to spread the word about just good content? Should they be incentivized as well? The founders of reKiosk seem to think so, and have created a way for independent artists to ...

News: Technology

Spaghetti Monster: The Plight of Instant Playlists

August 23, 2012

Guest post by Kyle Bylin of Sidewinder.fm Listening to an instant playlist on Spotify is like eating spaghetti off the floor, because a majority of the songs it throws at you don't stick. What you're left with is a sloppily compiled playlist that tastes like linoleum, but you try to consume the songs anyway. Filtr, a ...

News: Performance / Tour

3 Benefits of Music Crowdfunding Beyond "Show Me the Money"

August 23, 2012

It's not surprising that we all tend to focus on the money when we talk about crowdfunding music. But all the work that goes into crowdfunding campaigns can result in other benefits especially when you keep those in mind. Such benefits can include getting your business act together, spreading awareness of your music and deepening your ...

News: Advocacy

Does UX for Good Know What's Best for New Orleans' Musicians?

August 23, 2012

UX for Good is a project that takes user experience designers into the field to see how their research and solution-generation skills can be put to use in real world settings. In May they assembled a group of designers in New Orleans for a brief fieldwork investigation followed by presentations of possible solutions to address the ...