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The Music Business Looks Forward: 5 Social Media Predictions for 2012

December 13, 2011

Guest post by Shore Fire Media, a boutique public relations, online marketing, and digital strategy firm specializing in music and entertainment. In the last year, the music industry shifted from cautiously experimenting with social media, to recognizing it as a necessary part of every marketing strategy, from the smallest bands to the biggest brands. It's an exciting ...

News: Music Industry

Why Spotify Will Never Be Profitable: The Secret Demands of Record Labels

December 13, 2011

Imagine a new hot-dog selling venture. Let's also say there's only one supplier to purchase hot dogs from. Instead of simply charging a fixed price for hot dogs, that supplier demands the HIGHER of the following: $1 per hot dog sold OR $2 for every customer served OR 50 percent of all revenues for anything sold ...

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News: Recording

Tim Ries Quintet - Live at Smalls (Smalls Live, 2011)

December 13, 2011

Tim Ries is most well known for playing saxophone with the Rolling Stones, but as this live set from the New York City jazz club Smalls shows, he's an accomplished jazz musician as well. On this album he plays soprano and saxophone joined by Chris Potter on tenor saxophone, Kalman Olah on piano and Billy Drummond ...

News: Music Industry

Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O Jingling All the Way to Lovin Cup on December 15th

December 12, 2011

Bop Arts (Tom Kohn and the Bop Shop's nonprofit side) is bringing Matt Wilson and his Christmas Tree-O to Lovin' Cup Brews & Bistro on Thursday, December 15th, at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $18 advance/$20 door. Lovin Cup is a great venue for music, but if you want to sit, you better get there early when the ...

News: Interview

The News About Clark Terry

December 12, 2011

The news of Clark Terry's latest setback has raced through the jazz community and much of the wider world. The trumpet and flugelhorn hero, whose 91st birthday will be next Wednesday, has been suffering from diabetes. The disease has seriously affected his eyesight. Last week it led to the amputation of a leg. Reports are that ...

News: Recording

Urbie Green: A Cool Yuletide

December 12, 2011

It's that time of year again when I pick my favorite classic jazz holiday album. I always try to select obscure albums you may have overlooked, forgotten about or weren't even aware existed. This year, the winner is trombonist Urbie Green's A Cool Yuletide, recorded for RCA's “X" label in 1954. Originally a 10-inch disc, the ...

News: Recording

Tony Bennett - The Classic Christmas Album (2011)

December 12, 2011

Tony Bennett's warm, inviting delivery would seem perfectly suited to seasonal music—and it is. You can hear the very best of his Christmas projects, from a seminal 1968 Yuletide release to this burst of holly-jolly projects in the 2000s, on this terrific new compilation. Classic features five tracks from '68's Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album, ...

News: Recording

King Crimson - The Power to Believe (2003)

December 12, 2011

The problem any incarnation of this band has faced is getting King Crimson's music heard by more than its legion of die-hard fans. The appeal of the music is more in the power of the mathematical precision with which Crimson's members undertake each piece, and as such, is generally geared toward people who prefer to “listen" ...

News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Winter/Spring 2012 Jazz Preview, Part One

December 11, 2011

This week, we've got the first installment of a video preview of jazz and creative music bands and musicians who will be coming to St. Louis to perform this winter and spring. First up are The Bad Plus, who will return here to kick off the New Year playing ...

News: Interview

Ian Rogers Interviews Robb McDaniels, CEO Digital Distributor INgrooves

December 11, 2011

On the 21st episode of This Week in Music, Ian Rogers interviews Robb McDaniels, founder and CEO of INgrooves at his offices in San Francisco. They discuss digital distribution, marketing and the unique challenges of monetizing streaming music. McDaniels shares that Spotify is now solidly the #2 income stream for most of his distributed labels behind ...