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Mastery and stylistic breadth carry the night
No matter which gems brothers Peter and Will Anderson choose to explore from the very wide and deep jazz canon, the pair always delight with their technique, clever arrangements and swinging musicality. Such was the case on Monday, February 11, when the 31-year-old identical twins performed in the Charlotte County Jazz Society’s Artist Series in Port ...
Identity Theft New Trend In Music Piracy
Music piracy has existed as long the music industry itself, but like every thing else in the biz, it's constantly changing and adapting. The most recent trend appears be impersonation, and has digital buccaneers pinging labels and publicists, claiming to be an artist or manager in order to access their music. Guest post by James Shotwell ...
Gigi Gryce + Richard Williams
Last week, I posted on composer-arranger and alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce and his Jazz Lab partnership with trumpeter Donald Byrd in 1957. I also mentioned that that their union came to an end when Byrd went off to Paris for six months starting in July 1958. Upon his return in December, Byrd began recording as a ...
How Artists Can Drive Brand Partnerships
With such a high volume of new music constantly being released, artists and their music have a difficult time breaking through and getting traction among listeners. That said, the upheaval and transformation of the traditional music industry has given the scrappy do-it-yourselfers a chance to succeed with the help of brand partnerships. Guest post by Maxwell ...
Streaming Music Revenue Up, But Per Song Rates May Have Dropped In 2018
In this piece, Bobby Owsinski breaks down some complex recent streaming data, which highlights the disparity between the royalty rates paid out by major streamers (with YouTube coming up particularly short) as well as the contextual challenge of drawing accurate information from these kinds of data sets. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 How ...
Music Streaming Rates 2018: Per Stream Rates Drop and YouTube's Value Gap Is Very Real
2018 saw music streaming come into its own as the dominant source of recording music revenue. But as streaming volumes swelled, the YouTube value gap and its pitifully small payout percentage became even more apparent. Guest post by David Lowery of The Trichordist Here we go again. To see previous years, click [here]. This data set is ...
Why Musicians Should Think More B2B, Less About B2C
In this piece, Bobby Owsinski explains why, in the new music economy, artists need to think more about Business to Business transactions instead of just focusing on Business to Consumer transactions. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 You might be wondering about the title and that’s because it contains some popular business-speak, so let ...
Building Your Dream Team: Managers, Music Management Companies
In this edition of Building Your Dream Team, AWAL breaks down the who, what, when, where, and why of music managers and the music management companies behind them so you don't have to, so you can make an informed decision about where managers fit into your music career. Guest post from AWAL Building Your Dream Team breaks ...
Alice Darr: Feature Story
In January, I posted on obscure singer Alice Darr, who recorded her first album in 1962. While researching another subject recently, I came across a feature on the singer in the Cumberland News in Cumberland, Md., from January 31 1963. The headline was “Local Singer to Record Second LP Album Soon." It's hard to know why ...
SoundCloud Appears To Be Getting Healthier
For awhile things looked pretty dark for SoundCloud, and as the audio distribution platform continued to suffer growing losses, both creators and consumers of the sites content began to worry about what sort of changes the company might have to make to stay afloat. Thankfully, a new report from the company has revealed a strong uptick ...
