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News: Radio

SoundExchange Gets 90% of It's Revenue from SiriusXM and Pandora

April 17, 2012

SoundExchange collected 90% of it's 2011 revenue from only two sources: SiriusXM and Pandora, according to new analysis from Live365 general counsel Angus MacDonald. The dominance of just two income sources is particularly poignant at a time when SiriusXM is leading an effort to by-pass SoundExchange entirely and pay rightsholders directly. Based on court filings from ...

News: Technology

Rdio Engineering VP Todd Berman Calls for Universal Music Apps [interview]

April 17, 2012

Guest post by Andy Cush of Evolver.fm. Spotify has received a lt of attention for its app platform, and rightfully so. Rdio also has an app platform, offering access to the same songs, more or less. Evolver.fm caught up with Rdio vice president of engineering Todd Berman to discuss the one-year anniversary of Rdio's developer API; ...

News: Education

Saxquest to Present Free Master Classes This Week from Lauren Sevian, Diana Haskell

April 16, 2012

The woodwind sales and repair shop Saxquest is presenting two free master classes this week for St. Louis area reed players. Baritone saxophonist Lauren Sevian (pictured) will give a clinic and perform with a rhythm section of local musicians at 7:00 p.m. this Thursday, April 19 at the Saxquest shop, 2114 Cherokee St. One of the ...

News: Recording

Chet Baker: New York, 1964

April 16, 2012

By 1964, Chet Baker was damaged goods. The '50s had been a series of ego flights and emotional letdowns for the trumpeter. The vulnerable and naturally pretty look he had cooly projected at the start of the decade was lifted by Hollywood in the form of James Dean and, Montgomery Clift. By 1958, Baker's sensitive-victim look ...

News: Radio

STLJN Audio Archive: The Leon Thomas Album

April 16, 2012

For this week's installment of the StLJN Audio Archive, we revisit The Leon Thomas Album, originally issued by the late singer and East St. Louisan Leon Thomas in 1970 on the now-defunct Flying Dutchman label. In contrast to Thomas' sparse debut recording. Spirits Known and Unknown, which positioned him as part of the music's avant-garde, his ...

News: Festival

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Previewing the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival

April 15, 2012

This week, let's take a look at the musicians who will be performing at next week's Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival. The GSLJF actually will begin on Wednesday with a series of performances and adjudications of local high school jazz combos at Jazz at the Bistro. That continues on ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dirty Dozen Brass Band to Perform Friday, May 25 at Old Rock House

April 13, 2012

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band (pictured) are returning to St. Louis to perform at 9:00 p.m., Friday, May 25 at the Old Rock House. Jazz/funk/"world music" band Snarky Puppy will open. The DDBB last played in St. Louis in February 2011 at the Sheldon Concert Hall. This time around, their show comes just one day after ...

News: Obituary

Hal McKusick: 1924-2012

April 14, 2012

Hal McKusick, an East Coast jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger whose seductively smooth sound, tireless work ethic and flawless technique were admired by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Art Farmer, Johnny Mandel and every other musician he worked with since the early 1940s, died on April 10 of complications from a fractured hip. He was ...

News: Interview

Interview: Mike McCartney (Part 2)

April 12, 2012

In the late 1950s, Liverpool was thick with home-grown poets, writers and artists who revered American beat poets and painters. But because of Liverpool's geographic isolation from the main of England and Liverpudlians' fast, snappy brand of humor, the approach came with a wicked wit. Back in the early '60s, a serious intellect combined with an ...

News: Trends

More Than 100 Million Americans Now Listen to Online Radio...

April 11, 2012

This is a format exploding in front of our very eyes. It's bigger than Pandora, and in fact, it's the reason why Pandora has so many jabbing competitors! According to just-released survey data from Edison Research and Arbitron, 103 million Americans are now accessing online radio in some form, in any month. It's a growth curve ...