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How to Improve Top Charts on Spotify

August 8, 2012

Guest post by Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs. The popular music experience on Spotify is terrible. There are only three ways to seek out and listen to hit songs, and none of them suffice. Users must either settle for Spotify's “Top Lists" or download apps and sift through playlists with hundreds of entries—without the benefit of ...

News: Opinion

Musicians Online Are Playing in Glass Stadiums with Billions of Empty Seats

August 8, 2012

Picture an enormous concert stadium that is so big it can hold everyone. Literally there is a seat for every single person in the world. Now imagine this stadium is made entirely of glass and it also happens to have an open-roof. There you are, up on stage with your band performing your most mind-blowing songs. ...

News: Opinion

Asking the Right Questions About Music's Future

August 8, 2012

We are experiencing a radical transition in the way recorded music relates to culture, and music entrepreneurs face a serious challenge within that transition: people seem willing to pay for books, movies and games, so what’s up with music why all the resistance? Here’s one possible answer. The labels are history, so say the blogs. Music ...

News: Career

10 Tips to Get Real Fans (Not Friends) to Shows

August 8, 2012

This is a guest blog post by Madalyn Sklar. Madalyn is a music business coach & consultant, blogger, social media maven and fearless leader at GoGirlsMusic.com. She has spent over 15 years working with a wide range of independent musicians as well as music industry professionals all over the world. This blog post offers advice on ...

News: Interview

Interview: Bob Whitlock (Part 2)

August 7, 2012

Sixty years ago this month, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet was formed. Original members were Mulligan on baritone sax, Chet Baker on trumpet, Bob Whitlock on bass and Chico Hamilton on drums. Much of the credit for the group goes to Bob Whitlock. If not for him, the quartet may never have been—or at least not in ...

News: Music Industry

The 3 C's of Effective Artist Branding

August 7, 2012

What does brandinghave to do with you as a music artist? In a word: everything. Your brand extends far beyond the logos on your website or merchandise items. Branding is about awareness, both of yourself and the public's mental positioning of you. Being aware of what you are subtly and unconsciously conveying to the public is ...

News: Performance / Tour

Three Swedish Tenors

August 6, 2012

The 250 listeners of a certain age who filled Per Helsas gård on Friday got what they came for—reassurance that solid mainstream jazz is alive and well in Sweden. The courtyard surrounded by venerable half-timbered buildings rang with the brawny music of three of the country’s best-known tenor saxophonists, Nisse Sandström, Krister Andersson and Bernt Rosengren ...

News: Interview

Interview: Bob Whitlock (Part 1)

August 6, 2012

Bassist Bob Whitlock is so far off the grid there isn't even a Wikipedia page for him or a tribute site. An original member of the piano-less Gerry Mulligan Quartet in 1952 and '53, Bob helped establish a new way of playing bass in a small group on the West Coast—light, bright and conversational rather than ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Exploring the Great Barrier Reefs

August 5, 2012

This week, let's take a look at a few video clips from The Great Barrier Reefs, an up-and-coming funk/fusion/jam band from the Nashville, Tennessee area that will be in St. Louis to perform at 10:30 p.m. this coming Thursday, August 9 at Pop's Blue Moon. Led by steel pan ...

News: Recording

Joey Defrancesco, Larry Coryell and Jimmy Cobb Release Wonderful! Wonderful! On Highnote Records.

August 4, 2012

Joey DeFrancesco has come a long way from All of Me, his recording debut as a leader made in 1989 as a fresh-faced 17-year-old. From the get-go, the Philadelphia native established his credentials with virtuoso technique and an innate soulfulness that he brought to bear on the Hammond B-3 organ. Throughout his early career, Joey was ...