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News: Technology

An Introduction to Programming Languages for Musicians

August 2, 2012

Sean Markey helps musicians with marketing and PR at Visible Musician. In an increasingly DIY environment, musicians are expected to wear many different hats. You do your own PR with Twitter and ReverbNation, you do your own concert promoting with Facebook, and you were the recording engineer, backing band, and producer on all the songs you ...

News: Technology

DIY Music Updates Social Commerce Platform with Interactive Social App

August 2, 2012

DIY Music, a division of DIY Media, unveiled today their new and improved social commerce platform designed specifically for musicians and labels, which provides them with simple ways to build and monetize their audiences. Not only can fans listen to music and share videos through the platform, but they can also buy music directly from Facebook ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Grandmothers of Invention, Chip McNeill Quartet, Free Outdoor Concerts, and More

August 3, 2012

If you're looking for live jazz or creative music in St. Louis during the dog days of August, the pickings can seem kind of slim. The city's most prolific not-for-profit presenter, Jazz St. Louis, has completed its summer season at Jazz at the Bistro, which will be dark until September. That's around the same time that ...

News: Recording

Saxophonist/Composer Roman Filiu Releases Musae (Dafnison Music)

August 2, 2012

Sometimes music can be born from a simple walk around the block of a neighborhood in Madrid. Some others music develops because of the influence of other arts. Musae has both. It shows an inspirational journey where the music has been thought from many different perspectives. The Cuban saxophonist Roman Filiu releases this time his second ...

News: Interview

Bill Holman on Don Bagley

August 2, 2012

Don Bagley, a jazz bassist whose thick, meaty time-keeping became the heartbeat of leading West Coast big bands and ensembles of the 1950s and beyond, died July 26. He was 85. [Pictured above: Don Bagley with Julie London in Japan in May 1964] Bagley spent a good portion of the '50s and '60s in the rhythm ...

News: Festival

Ira Gitler on the Ystad Jazz Festival

August 1, 2012

The 2012 Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival opens on Thursday and will feature a wide range of Swedish, European and American jazz artists. Artistic director and pianist Jan Lundgren [pictured above] will be performing, along with Eliane Elias, Billy Harper, Hiromi Uehara and others. On Sunday—the festival's last day—there will be a tribute to Quincy Jones, who ...

News: Music Industry

Amazon Takes On iTunes Match with Upgraded Cloud Player, Label Deals

August 1, 2012

Amazon today launched an upgraded Cloud Player along with licensing agreements with Sony, EMI, Universal, Warner Music, and more than 150 independent distributors, aggregators and music publishers. Aimed straight at the same market as iTunes Match, Amazon's scan and match technology offers access to music anywhere, but on a wider variety of devices including the Kindle ...

News: Music Industry

Indie Label Century Media Returns Catalog to Spotify

August 1, 2012

In late 2011, heavy metal and hardcore label group Century Media pulled all its labels from Spotify in order to “protect the interests of their artists". Labels include Century Media and associated labels InsideOutMusic, Superballmusic, Ain't No Grave Records, Hollywood Waste and People Like You. Having initially cited “survival" as the primary reason for the pullout, Spotify's promotional value ...

News: Career

Musician Website Quick Fix #10: Embed Video

August 1, 2012

We often talk about “hub and spokes" here at Bandzoogle, which is the concept of making your artist website your “hub" of online activity, and using your social media “spokes" to draw people back to your hub. The idea is to bring people into an environment online that you own and control (i.e. no ads/distractions), where ...

News: Performance / Tour

Bonerama Returning to the Gramophone on Friday, September 14

July 31, 2012

New Orleans' Bonerama (pictured) is returning to St. Louis to perform at 9:00 p.m. Friday, September 14 at The Gramophone. The group, which features a front line of four trombone players, has played here a number of times in the last few years, most recently in February 2012 at the Old Rock House. Tickets for Bonerama ...