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Sources: Yahoo Music is Now Being Dismantled...
As the dust settles on a massive layoff round at Yahoo, there's this: it now appears that Yahoo Music was a major part of the downsizing, according to sources dislcosing information to Digital Music News. Yahoo representatives declined to share any details beyond its top-level, 2,000+ layoff round completed this week, though one informed source pointed ...
Drowned in Sound Founder Sean Adams: 'The Slow Death of MP3 Blogging'
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. MP3 bloggers were the revolutionaries of music criticism, taking on established outlets like Rolling Stone and Spin by being faster, cooler, and more musical -- in that they could embed what they were talking about. Readers could hear it for themselves as they read the blog, rather than ...
Three Quarter Offers Musicians New Model: "We Run the Business, You Run the Art"
Three Quarter is a new music startup with a hybrid business model. They describe it as “part record label, part venture capital firm, part management firm, part marketing/pr firm." A catchier take, also provided by Three Quarter, goes, “3/4 runs the business, the artist runs the art." Founded by David Airaudi, former Strategy and Business Development ...
Zoot Sims: Gone with the Wind
In November 1984, Zoot Sims was in Lidingö, Sweden, with Red Mitchell on bass and Rune Gustafsson on guitar. He was interviewed on-camera by Mitchell, and the trio performed Gone with the Wind, In a Sentimental Mood, Autumn Leaves and Castle Blues. All three artists have since died—Sims in 1985, Mitchell in 1992 and Gustafsson in ...
At Least One Indie Artist is Making Big $'s from Streaming Music
Guest post by Chris Duncan of The Orchard's Daily Rind. If you're from outside of Scandinavia, you probably have no idea who Jonathan Johansson is. Let me fill you in. He's a very hip Swedish artist who has been steadily building a healthy fanbase in the Nordics with the aid of his label, Hybris. It was ...
New Kickstarter Alternatives Target Music Crowdfunding
With the expected signing by President Obama of the JOBS bill containing provisions for crowd investing, a new crop of funding sites are set to emerge. However, for indie musicians the use of crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and PledgeMusic will continue to be a more viable approach to project funding and presales. Here are some ...
Jazz This Week: Laurence Hobgood and Ernie Watts, Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman, Frank Stemper and Altgeld Chamber Players, Erika Johnson, and More
This week's schedule of jazz and creative music in St. Louis features a variety of sounds, including what amounts to a mini-festival of piano players at Jazz at the Bistro, with the two out-of-town participants bringing along top tenor saxophonists. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, pianist Laurence Hobgood leads a quartet at Jazz at the ...
Missing Gene Lees
Gene Lees died two years ago this month, on April 22. That day I wrote, “We lost a writer unsurpassed at illuminating music and the world that musicians inhabit. I lost a cherished colleague whose work inspired me, a dear friend whose companionship brightened my existence.” The Portland, Oregon, broadcaster, poet and visual essayist Lynn Darroch ...
The Chris Greene Quartet to Release New Live CD "A Group Effort."
Whenever the Chris Greene Quartet takes the stage, jazz and rock listeners notice something immediately: they're sitting next to each other, and that doesn't happen all that often on today's scene. As jazz strives to find new audiences, the CGQ is already admired for its ability to “cross over" and reach music-lovers raised on pop—but without ...
Announcing the 55th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 21-23, 2012
Tickets Go on Sale Today for the 55th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival September 21-23, 2012 Headliners Include Tony Bennett, Esperanza Spalding, Pat Metheny Unity Band, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Bill Frisell, Melody Gardot, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, Monterey Jazz Festival’s 55th Anniversary ...
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