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Jazz this week: Danilo Pérez, Jay Oliver, Denise Thimes, a big band Sunday, and more
This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes a visit from a top touring jazz pianist, the return of a favorite local singer to the city's showcase club, and one day that may seem like a time warp back to the big band era. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 24 ...
Magna Takes "Major Position" In PledgeMusic
Recent hires at Kickstarter signal that the crowdfunder is ramping up its music industry outreach. To counter that move and expand its own successful footprint, music centric competitor PledgeMusic has gotten a cash infusion from one of its main investors Magna Entertainment. Magna Entertainment, a division of the investment firm Magna, today announced that it had ...
MySpace Bought By Time Inc. - New Life Or Deadpool?
Although its glory days seem long passed, MySpace was once again in the news after being purchased, as part of a larger package deal, by the company Time Inc, although the site's future remains uncertain. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 MySpace is back in the news again, this time because it's just a ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, February 26-March 3
This winter has seemed like a nonstop jazz festival, including two events carrying that designation, one sponsored by the Twin Cities Jazz Festival organization at the end of January, and now the third annual “Winter Jazz Fest" at Studio Z, five hours of modern jazz in the heart of Lowertown St. Paul on Saturday. (This after ...
What I Learned Working At A Record Label That Failed
Why do some record labels fail while others succeed? We explore what can be learned from watching a record label go under even after a promising start, and how such knowledge can be used to help other labels avoid similar pitfalls in the future. By W. Tyler Allen on W. Tyler Consulting In early 2015, I ...
The Music Industry Needs Better: Bandpage And How Open Technology Will Save The Industry [Jesse Von Doom]
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While Bandpage is the most recent music startup promising to save artists to be purchased by tech giant like YouTube, it's hardly the first. What the music industry needs, however, is to move away from corporate partnership and embrace open technology. By Jesse von Doom of Cash Music Floating in Friday’s news dump jetsam was the announcement ...
Ushering In Virtual Reality 2.0: Why The Music Industry Must Work Together In 2016
Here Todd J. Alexander discusses the challenges of implementing new technologies like Blockchain and, in particular, VR, and the need for those operating within the music economy to work together to develop a foundation on which to build these technologies in the coming years. Guest Post by Todd J. Alexander on Medium In early 2015 I attended ...
How To Use Samples On Tracks Without Getting Sued
Sampling is ubiquitous in music and in addition to being a lot of fun to use, can add a lot to your work. That said, if done incorrectly, sampling can quickly put you on the wrong side of Johnny Law. This helpful guide walks you through how to use sampling in a way that won't get ...
Will Virtual Reality Be Music's Next Frontier?
Although the music industry is often slow to fully embrace game changing technology, Virtual Reality has been gaining steady ground, and possesses the potential to dramatically alter the landscape of the music business in the not-too-distant future. Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer, from the MUSIC x TECH x FUTURE weekly mailing It wasn’t until last year that ...
Pandora, Spotify And The Future Of Freemium
Although not long ago it was everyone's favorite business model, the growth of freemium based services like Pandora has slowed, causing its financial backers to lose faith, and call into question the viability of freemium in general. By Mark Mulligan of the Music Industry Blog Earlier this week Soundcloud’s financials revealed that the company was hemorrhaging cash (even before ...
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