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Sound Exchange Distributes Record $54.8m
SoundExchange announced that it will distribute $54.8 million to artists and right holders for the second quarter of 2010. It's a record for the non-profit performance rights organization appointed by Congress to collect digital royalties. Their previous top quarter was the $51.7 million paid out in Q1. Each quarterly distribution includes royalties earned through play on ...
10 Years Later, garageband.com Closes
After more than ten years of operation, the online music community Garageband.com has announced that on July 15th they are shutting down. Users can register for an account on the social music discovery site iLike to have their page contents and song files automatically transferred over. Anyone who has purchased music on the site and believes ...
Solomon Burke Completes an 'Impossible' Musical Mission
Mission accomplished: Solomon Burke's new album, Nothing's Impossible, was produced by Memphis studio ace Willie Mitchell. Solomon Burke and Willie Mitchell were friends for years without ever laying eyes on each other. The King of Rock & Soul and the revered Memphis producer who made R&B stars out of Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson and, most famously, ...
B.J. Jansen on Helping Artists Help Themselves
B.J. Jansen accepts and welcomes the changes faced by the music industry. Rather than look at them as catastrophic, Jansen sees them as “kind of a revitalization." “Everyone should stop complaining and try to become master of their own destiny!" Music business acolytes say that kind of thing all the time, but Jansen, who has over ...
Mining His Vault: Kurt Rosenwinkel at Village Vanguard
The jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel prizes ethereality and control in his music, but that doesnt mean he shies away from the unruly or the unknown. His career as a bandleader has involved searching as well as refinement, even when he worked within a tradition, as on Reflections (Word of Mouth), a standards album released last year. ...
The Death of the Live Album
Though this topic strikes me as something to be less than worried about, it still seems worth pointing you to this article where reporter Andrew Dansby asks, “Is the live album dead?" Likely, there are far many more issues that demand attention than the question as to whether not live albums ...
Well, Hello, Louis
Rifftides reader Deborah Hendrick e-mailed the following question: I have noticed that when talking about Louis Armstrong, musician Wynton Marsalis carefully, almost deliberately, pronounces “Louis" as Lou-iss, not Lou-ee, which is how I usually hear the name. How did Armstrong pronounce his name? He invariably pronounced it Louis, not Louie, as he demonstrates here, with help ...
Recent Listening: Tom Varner
Tom Varner, Heaven and Hell (Omnitone). When Varner moved from New York to Seattle in 2006, he left behind none of his French horn virtuosity, compositional skill or avant-garde daring. Heaven and Hell is his meditation on changes in the world and in his life since the 9/11 attack, and on the evolution of his approach ...
Big Band Ambassador
During the Cold War, the U.S. government sent artists--stars of all stripes--around the world to promote a positive image of the United States. This included jazz musicians. And while Louis Armstrong had a justified image as the “real ambassador," Dizzy Gillespie was the big band ambassador in 1956 on tours of the Middle East and South ...
RealNetworks Cuts 85, 25% of Executive Staff
Even after the recent spin-off of Rhapsody, RealNetworks continues to struggle. Today the company announced another round of layoffs that include 85 jobs or 6% of the total workforce. The cuts include 25% of its executives and will shrink offices in Europe, Asia and its Seattle headquarters. Real also consolidated its Technology Products and Solutions and ...
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