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The Most Valuable Thing You Never Knew About YouTube's Business Model

July 25, 2012

Guest post by Doug Shineman of The Orchard's Daily Rind. What if I said that the better you understand the mechanism behind YouTube's business model, the higher your streaming rate will be on YouTube? Yes, that means reading this article could improve your YouTube rates — maybe even double or triple them. Get ready for a ...

News: Technology

A Look Inside the 'New" Music Focused MySpace

July 25, 2012

As tainted of a brand name MySpace may be right now, the fallen social network plans to make a comeback in late 2012 with a focus on what their core mission should have been all along - connecting musicians with fans. Specific Media bought MySpace from News Corp. for $35 million, along with partner in the ...

News: Performance / Tour

Denise Thimes to Perform at Benefit for United Way on Saturday, September 8

July 24, 2012

Singer Denise Thimes will perform once again this year for the annual “Chocolate, Wine and All That Jazz" event kicking off the fall campaign for the Tri County Division of United Way. The fundraiser will take place starting at 6:30 p.m., Saturday September 8 at the Yacht Club of St. Louis, 105 Lake Village Dr in ...

News: Recording

Mays, Cecil and Sondheim

July 24, 2012

Our greatest living Broadway composer is Stephen Sondheim. All you have to do is sit through A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sunday in the Park with George or Into the Woods to be smitten by his wordplay and bitten by his melodies. The songs win you over because they are like ...

News: Advocacy

Jazzspace and the Pittsburgh Legacy

July 24, 2012

As reported in these pages, I had the pleasure recently of returning to my birthplace of Pittsburgh, PA to moderate panel discussions and participate in a very rewarding commemorative weekend honoring the rich legacy of that city’s African American Musicians’ Union local. The city is rife with jazz history and has produced an incredible number of ...

News: Opinion

A Killer, Sustainable, Industry Saving Music Service is Possible

July 24, 2012

Guest post by Joey Flores, co-founder of Earbits,com, an online radio platform that help labels, artists and promoters acquire fans and market music and live events. I was having a chat yesterday with Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs, talking about the various music services, what they lack, what they have, and what we'd both want ...

News: Radio

Radio.SC Turns Soundcloud Users into Radio Stations

July 24, 2012

Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. SoundCloud was originally designed to help musicians send songs (or bits of songs) to each other and their “people" within the industry. Maybe that's why it still has so many users who seem to be either professionally, semi-professionally, or just obsessively involved with music. We hear SoundCloud even ...

News: Recording

Hal Blaine on 'Good Vibrations'

July 23, 2012

In February 1966, the Beach Boys began to record their most ambitious album to date—a project called Smile. Following in the wake of the Beatles' Rubber Soul (released in December 1965), Smile was to be the Beach Boys' game-changer, an ante-raiser that would be a sequel to their Pet Sounds album released in May 1966. [Pictured: ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A Sampler of St. Louis Big Bands

July 22, 2012

Continuing with our recent informal sampling of St. Louis jazz and creative music by genre, this week let's check out some video clips of several of the big bands from around the area. The video up top features one of the newer entries in the local field, the Dave ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Gaddabouts Return with Look Out Now! Sophomore Album Scheduled for September Release.

July 21, 2012

Pino Palladino, Steve Gadd, Edie Brickell, Andy Fairweather Low Insinuating grooves and stellar songwriting are the watchwords of Look Out Now!, the sophomore album from The Gaddabouts out now on racecarLOTTA Records. An all-star group featuring renowned singer-songwriter and musician Edie Brickell along with drumming great Steve Gadd, bassist Pino Palladino and guitarist Andy Fairweather Low, ...