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News: Music Industry

Social Media and Email Management for Musicians

July 31, 2012

Guest post by Brian Hazard of Passive Promotion and Color Theory. Engaging with fans is fun and rewarding. It can also be an addictive time suck. If you check your email, Facebook, and Twitter first thing in the morning, you're doing it wrong! Better to start your day creating something worth tweeting about. As a self-confessed ...

News: Rights

Major Labels Admit They're Not Sharing Any Pirate Bay Award Money with Artists

July 31, 2012

When the prison sentences were made against The Pirate Bay defendants earlier this year, it was ordered that they would also have to pay €550,000 (approx $677,000) to several major labels including EMI, Universal Music, Sony Music and others. While the Swedish court had originally awarded the damages in order to compensate both artists and rightsholders, ...

News: Career

Musician Website Quick Fix #9: Add a Digital Press Kit

July 31, 2012

When creating your website, you have to think about the different kinds of people that will be visiting it. These can be your current fans, potential new fans, as well as media and industry people. For that latter group, they're likely looking for different information than your fans are, and you have to be sure to ...

News: Recording

Recent Listening in Brief: Quincy Jones

July 30, 2012

Preparing for my public conversation with Quincy Jones (two items down), I’ve been reading his 2001 autobiography, chatting with people he knows and listening to his music. The inventiveness, sparkle and audacity of Jones’ arrangements in the 1950s and early ‘60s gave his music freshness that was notable when he was in his twenties. Now that ...

News: Opinion

The Young and the Digitally Restless

July 27, 2012

Guest post by Michael San Pascual. A new, technologically capable generation of music listeners is approaching adulthood. These former MySpacers are evolving into sophisticated music consumers with new and challenging expectations. They have heightened demands for mobility and social connectivity; they value the freedom to actively seek music, and also the choice to passively discover it. They ...

News: Performance / Tour

Big Jazz Weekend Throughout the State

July 28, 2012

This weekend features two big jazz festivals on each side of the mountains. Starting tonight, Jazz Port Townsend kicks off with club performances and mainstage concerts by national and regional talent. Performers this weekend include Eric Reed Trio, Benny Green Trio, with special guest Gary Smulyan, Dena DeRose, The Centrum Big Band performing the music of ...

News: Trends

70 Percent of All Music Piracy Happens Offline...

July 28, 2012

The FBI can't raid this problem, you can hardly track it! In fact, most music fans would hardly call it piracy, yet offline sharing actually eclipses online sharing when it comes to the acquisition of music. The slide comes from an RIAA presentation leaked to Torrentfreak, with researcher NPD Group breaking out the ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Grandmothers of Invention 2012 Tour

July 28, 2012

This week, let's take a look at some videos of the GrandMothers of Invention, who will be in St. Louis to perform next Saturday, August 4 at the Old Rock House. As their name, evoking Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, suggests, the GrandMothers are a tribute band performing Zappa's ...

News: Recording

Japanese Bossa Nova

July 27, 2012

I don't know when Japan caught the bossa nova bug, but I suspect it was in 1964, when Sergio Mendes toured there with Nara, the Brazilian vocalist. Helen Merrill's chill Bossa Nova in Tokyo album, recorded for Victor in March 1967 and released there, probably was influential as well. Long story short, Japan produced a large ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Ronnie Burrage, Musica Slesa, All That Tap, Della Reese, and More

July 26, 2012

It's another week of extreme heat here in St. Louis, and yet the work of presenting jazz and creative music goes on unabated, with a homecoming gig for drummer and U City native Ronnie Burrage; the annual All That Tap festival; and several other noteworthy events. Let's go to the highlights: Tonight, trumpeter Kasimu Taylor debuts ...