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Interview with CEO of LyricFind: On "Lyrics for Free" and Fighting Lyric Pirates One Site at a Time
Recently, I spoke with Darryl Ballantyne, who is CEO of LyricFind, a legal lyric solution provider. In part one of this interview with Ballantyne, he talks about recent developments at his company and the challenges of disrupting lyric pirates. Hypebot: How will your “Lyrics For Free" option be helpful in relation to curving lyric piracy? Darryl ...
Rale Micic Charts New Ground with Crowdfunding
New York, NY—Rale Micic, who is being hailed as “one of the most interesting young guitarists on the New York City scene," has turned to crowd funding, a new way of financing independent, creative projects, to produce a high-quality jazz music video for his composition “Serbology." Crowd funding is a grassroots, web-based approach to raising money ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Samuel Quinto (Part 3)
The further an artist moves forward in their chosen musical direction, the more they define their artistic identity. It's a process that evolves over the course of years, as the musician moves through a series of milestones. These milestones are the moments that we remember historically, but it's really the events that lead to the milestones ...
Interview with OK Go: On File-Sharing, the Major Label System, and Balancing Creativity with Marketing
This interview is by Miranda Burnett of Pirate Verbatim. Follow her on Twitter. A few months back, Miranda Burnett started a blog called Pirate Verbatim, where she highlights artist's thoughts on file-sharing. Hypebot grew very excited about her efforts, as we had thought it would be great to give artists a voice and enable them to ...
Interview with CEO of LyricFnd: On Their New API System and the Most Innovative Lyric Sites
This is part two of my interview with Darryl Ballantyne. He's CEO of LyricFind, a legal lyric solution provider. In part two of this interview with Ballantyne, he talks about recent developments at his company and the challenges of disrupting lyric pirates. Hypebot: What are some of the most interesting lyric websites that you've seen emerge ...
Buddy Collette Said It
In addition to being a superb reed and woodwind musician, the late Buddy Collette also was a courageous advocate for civil rights in Los Angeles. Up through the late '40s and early '50s, integration was actively discouraged by the city. Even the musicians' union had two locals—one for whites and another for blacks. By 1950, the ...
36 Exclusive Hypebot Interviews from 2010
In case you missed them, here's a list of our best interviews from 2010. I'm very thankful that all of these people were kind enough to take their time and answer my numerous questions. If you're at all curious about the issues that the record and music industries will be grappling with in the new year, ...
New Cindy Blackman Interview with Charles Blass (audio) On the Wedding Day of Cindy and Carlos Santana
The following interview with drummer-composer-bandleader-producer Cindy Blackman was conducted on August 28, 2010 in Zürich, Switzerland at the home of her friend, event producer Michaela Fritz. Less than two months' prior, Carlos Santana had proposed to her onstage following a drum solo in Illinois, and she accepted. Today, December 19th is Cindy and Carlos' wedding day, ...
Guitarist Bob Keefe goes 'Surfin' with Santa' on holiday release
Santa Claus, take note: Bob Keefe wants a surfboard for Christmas. In case Saint Nicholas isn't listening, Keefe has released a new album, Surfin' with Santa, that should get the bearded one's attention at the North Pole. On Surfin' with Santa, Keefe covers traditional Christmas tunes like “Jingle Bells" and “Silent Night" and gives them the ...
Singer/Songwriter Doug Wamble Interviewed at All About Jazz
It's never easy for an established artist to make a change in their musical output mid-career, especially if up until that point they have made a name for themselves in the realm of traditional jazz. While some of these artists make a switch because for monetary reasons or to reach a wider audience, others are drawn ...
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