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News: Radio

Johnny Smith: Roost Sessions

July 26, 2012

Each jazz instrument in the '50s had a different set of competitive criteria. Trumpet players were about tension and heat, saxophonists about developing a smooth and swinging sound, and pianists about speed and percussive intensity. As for jazz guitarists, rankings often revolved around the taste of the artists chord and note choices and who could sound ...

News: Opinion

Text of Robert Plant, Pete Townsend and Brian May Letter Calling On Google, Isps to Fight Piracy

July 26, 2012

Robert Plant, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Elton John, Simon Cowell and six other UK musicians and music industry leaders have signed a letter addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron demanding that he fully implement the Digital Economy Act 2010, anti-piracy legislation which passed in 2010. The letter also called on ISP and search engines, online advertisers ...

News: Career

Music + Games: Opportunities Abound

July 26, 2012

By Neil Cartwright, Business Development Manager, Audiosocket. Let's kick off with just a few facts about the Games industry: In 2012 the estimated turnover of the games industry will be $56bn, twice as much as the music industry. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 grossed over $400m on it's first day of release and over $1bn ...

News: Opinion

A Casual Scam: The Truth About Pre-Sale Tickets

July 26, 2012

Guest post by artist manager and booking agent Justin Herring. December 2005, the band I was playing in was offered a show at this venue in Tampa called The Masquerade. It was the venue in Tampa. I saw all my idols there growing up. Slayer, Down, Superjoint Ritual, Fear Factory, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR, Clutch, Lamb of God, ...

News: Music Industry

Ticketfly Secures $22 Million for Expansion

July 26, 2012

Social ticketing platform Ticketfly has announced today that they've secured $22 million in series C investment, bringing their total investment to $37 million since their launch in 2008. This round of financing was led by SAP Ventures with participation from Northgate Capital, Cross Creek Capital, and Series B lead investor Mohr Davidow Ventures. The money is ...

News: Recording

Cannonball and the Poll-Winners

July 25, 2012

In the spring of 1960, fate had its way and a perfect jazz moment occurred in San Francisco. Cannonball Adderley was gigging in town with his quintet, the Oscar Peterson Trio was playing at the Blackhawk and Wes Montgomery arrived in the city to join his brothers, the Montgomery Brothers, on club dates. According to Orrin ...

News: Book / Magazine

Turn Your Band into a Virus... with a Book?

July 25, 2012

Guest post by Aarti Kelapure of Evolver.fm. We have learned to be leery of marketing. After all, marketers and advertisers are paid to push commodities — human and otherwise — on the defenseless masses whether or not they believe in what they're selling, or so the story goes. Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but we've all ...

News: Technology

BandPage Expands to Become Hub for Musician Content on the Web

July 25, 2012

When Facebook required brand and band pages to switch over to the Timeline layout earlier this year, many Facebook application providers felt an uncomfortable blow as the new layout resulted in less visibility and usage of their products. Forced to adapt to a changing environment, the leading application for musicians on Facebook, BandPage, announced today that ...

News: Opinion

Two Inane Suggestions for Compensating Artists Online

July 25, 2012

Guest post by Krzysztof 'Faza' Wiszniewski. This post was originally published at TheCynicalMusician.com. The problem with hardcore geeks (meaning here people who know about computers, as opposed to the other kind1) is while they are superhumanly knowledgable about their own area of expertise, they appear to be endearingly ignorant about everything else - humans especially. It ...

News: Technology

Online Street Teams: How to Motivate Fans to Spread the Word for You

July 25, 2012

Guest post by Moses Soyoola (@moseyshow), co-founder of Jamplify (@jampaigns), a promotional platform that turns fans into active promoters of artists' content. Whatever happened to street teams? It used to be that artists would have armies of kids in any given city beating the pavement to promote the artist and the artist's shows. These promoters would ...