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London Mayor Launches Plan To Save Music Venues

November 3, 2015

As an alarmingly increasing number of live music venues are closing owing to financial challenges and it becomes harder for artists to find venues to play, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is establishing a task force to keep the city's music scene alive. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 Live music everywhere is facing ...

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THE PITCH: Busker - Helping Fans Support Musicians

September 1, 2015

Our ongoing early stage startup series, The PITCH, today gives Busker - "a platform designed to facilitate the direct financial support of musicians" - its chance in 100 words or less to tell you why you should pay attention. Busker is a platform designed to facilitate the direct financial support of musicians by their fans, friends ...

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How Greenpeace Is Using Non-Static Music To Make Digital Activism More Engaging

August 26, 2015

While there are those who say that the era of musical protest is over, an agency of music hackers has been collaborating with Greenpeace to create interactive digital music as a means of protesting Shell's oil drilling in the arctic. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer In recent years non-static music formats have really started taking off in the form ...

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Union Sues Universal, Sony, WMG, Others For Failing To Fund Musician's Pensions

August 11, 2015

The American Federation of Musicians pension fund is suing Atlantic Records, Hollywood Records, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Brothers Records for failing to make pension fund contributions. A lawsuit filed in New York today by The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) claims that all three major label groups have failed to make pension fund ...

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Artists And Performance Royalties: Time For A Solution

July 8, 2015

Followers of the Future of Music Coalition know that they have long supported a public performance right for AM/FM radio that would pay artists when their music is played on over-the-air. This right already exists for digital radio platforms like Pandora and SiriusXM. Yet massive companies like iHeart Media, Cumulus and Entercom are exempt due to a loophole in US law. Guest Post by Casey Rae on Future of ...

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Support Jazz in Philadelphia... Win a Tablet!

May 27, 2015

Since the Fall of 2014, Philadelphia Jazz Project and our partner, Jazz Near You / All About Jazz have been engaged in a campaign to remind Jazz fans of the vibrancy of the music, as well as introduce new audience members to the wonders of Jazz & Grown Folks Music. Our goal is to develop a ...

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Composer And Jazz Supporter Andrea Clearfield Actively Involved In Campaigns For Nepal Earthquake Relief

May 18, 2015

Celebrated composer Andrea Clearfield has written important musical compositions based on the long and vital tradition of music in Nepal, where she has traveled, transcribed and documented indigenous folk music and made many friends. (In the photograph on the right, on a recent trip there, she is recording Nepalese composer, Tashi Tsering.) A long-time resident of ...

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All In Favor Of A Willis Conover Stamp, Say Aye

May 11, 2015

An international campaign is underway to win national recognition for Willis Conover, the Voice Of America broadcaster who sent American jazz to millions of listeners around the world. A petition drive is aimed at persuading the United States Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring Conover (1920-1996). Efforts to win him a posthumous Presidential Medal Of ...

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Recording Academy Reorganizes To Offer Stronger Grassroots Activism For Music Creators

May 2, 2015

Yesterday morning, The Recording Academy announced it will merge it's Advocacy and Membership divisions in an effort to enhance the grassroots advocacy happening on behalf of music creators at a local level. The merge will allow the music community a direct line to approach Congress with an informed & unified voice at a time where effective ...

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Google, Amazon, Pandora, NPR Unite To Fight Better Pay For Musicians

May 1, 2015

A coalition of lobbying groups and large corporations have united to fight efforts to that would raise payments to musicians and creators from broadcast radio and online music services. The movement to increase payments to creators and revamp antiquated copyright laws has been gathering momentum with new legislation filed, reviews underway by key regulatory bodies and in ...