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Billy Joel, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock Honored at Kennedy Center (Video)
The elite of Washington D.C. honored five giants of the performing arts Sunday night at the 36th annual Kennedy Center Honors. Billy Joel, Carlos Santana, jazz musician Herbie Hancock, opera singer Martina Arroyo and Shirley MacLaine were saluted in a ceremony that will air Dec. 29 on CBS. President Obama served as the master of ceremonies. Watch: ...
Yahoo! Acquires Evntlive Concert Streaming Platform
Yahoo! has acquired concert streaming platform EVNTLIVE. Founded by former Cisco CTO Judy Estrin, the EVNTLIVE team will now join Yahoo's video team working on Yahoo Music and Yahoo Screen. No details of the deal were announced, but the company had received $2.3 million in funding from Vint Cerf, Yogen Dalal, Dave House and others. After creating a beautiful ...
Sonicbids to Go Offline for "Re-Launch" This Weekend
Sonicbids is “re-launching" it's platform, according to an email sent to users yesterday afternoon. The music gig and opportunity platform will go offline temporarily starting Sunday, December 8th at 11:59PM EST. There was no word as to how long the outage was scheduled to last. “You can expect an enhanced user experience with new tools and some awesome ...
How to Make the Most of Your Music Merch
By Robal Johnson of PUMP Merch. In the last ten years we have experienced the simultaneously terrifying and invigorating evolution of recorded music and collectively bore witness to the ups and downs of technological progress and innovation. The entire major and independent music establishment has struggled to find new ways to make an honest living in ...
Pandora Releases Latest Audience Metrics
Pandora today announced new metrics for the month of November 2013. Listener hours for Pandora during the month of November 2013 were 1.49 billion, an increase of 18% from 1.27 billion during the same period last year. Share of total U.S. radio listening for Pandora in November 2013 was 8.44%, an increase from 7.17% at the same time last year. ...
Will Spotify's Transparency Lead to New Demands from Artists?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Following thousands of articles about how Spotify pays—or doesn't pay—enough money to artists, the company, again worth $4 billion after another round of investment, issued a mini-website on Tuesday to explain how it is not ripping off artists by streaming their music for free or for a monthly subscription to ...
Soundcloud Adds Explore with Trending Music and Lean Back Discovery
Yesterday SoundCloud introduced Explore, a discovery feature that should help connect more listeners with artists using SoundCloud though a more prominent homepage position would be a nice touch. It's available on the web and on SoundCloud's Android app. No word yet on iOS availability but their iTunes listing promises “bigger updates" than their recent design refresh. ...
Musicians Are Finding Licensing Opportunities in Foreign Markets
By Eduardo Loret de Mola from Berklee College's Music Business Journal. The music licensing market is actively expanding its scope within the entertainment industry. Musicians' net earnings from traditional licensing deals are decreasing with each passing year. Nevertheless, there are still opportunities to be found if one is creative enough to spot them. The prospects for ...
The Echo Nest Expands Music Intelligence Platform to Digital Advertising
The music you listen to could now help drive the ads you hear online. With the launch of Music Audience Understanding, clients of The Echo Nest can deliver targeted advertising using musical preferences to predict demographic and psychographic information without revealing other personal information. Broadcast radio advertising still totals $15 billion a year; and Music Audience ...
Between Art and Business: A Musician as a Startup
By indie musician Tommy Darker of Think Beyond The Band. It all starts with a problem... I'm Tommy and I'm a musician. I moved to London 10 months ago, knowing nobody. Early days, I didn't want to feel alone, so I started peering with other musicians, asking them about music in London. The most common — ...
