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At 80 The King Lives On: Elvis’s Biggest Influences
By Eliot Van Buskirk on Spotify Insights Blog You might not see Elvis Presley atop the charts these days, but “The King” played an undeniably crucial role in the history of music—and his influence continues, whether you listen to him every day or not. Elvis was arguably the first mainstream radio and television rock star, and he still makes ...
6 Predictions For The Music Industry In 2015
Guest Post by Eric Neumann of Mad Genius Radio. It’s been an exciting year in music. Taylor Swift made headlines after pulling her entire catalog from Spotify, Thom Yorke released a surprise solo album through BitTorrent Bundles and Aphex Twin released Syro, his first album in over a decade – talk about disrupting the industry. With the New Year upon us, ...
Miles on Monday: 50 years of E.S.P.
For this week's “Miles on Monday," we look back at a recording that marked another historic turn in Davis' career. It was fifty years ago this month that the trumpeter made E.S.P., the first album by what often is referred to as his “second great quintet." As recounted in this space a couple of weeks ago, ...
Digital Music Streaming Report Card 2014
By consultant Mark Mulligan from his Music Industry blog. 2014 was the year streaming broke through to mainstream consciousness, not because of the marketing prowess of Spotify but because Taylor Swift decided to withdraw her content from the Swedish streaming heavyweight and other freemium services. It was a mixed year of momentous achievement and intensifying controversy, which makes it ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, January 2-8
Happy New Year! If this week is any indication, the jazz scene is off to a good start for 2015. It's cold, so never a better time to come indoors and warm up your ears. Big Gigs This Week Friday, January 2. Jazz Central kicks off the 2015 Bridge Series with composer/pianist Jeremy Walker's Small City ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 26- January 1
If the survival of jazz in the Twin Cities depended on newspaper coverage, I could stop writing this! Fortunately there's too much good music this week to spend the time pondering the Strib's near total neglect of the genre in its “best of" lists. (Only Pamela Espeland took note of jazz at all, highlighting the merits ...
Ariel Hyatt Of Cyber PR Looks Back On 2014
Ariel Hyatt of Cyber PR joins us today on the Hypebot.com year end virtual panel. Hyatt notes a dramatic shift within her business demographic over the past twelve months. She says “I felt a palpable downturn in the attitudes of my clients as many saw their bottom lines slip even more in the past 12 months. ...
Documentary: Louis Prima
Louis Prima goes back further than you think. Born in New Orleans, his first surge of popularity came in the 1930s, when he was a trumpeter-bandleader with a swinging singing voice. He wrote Sing, Sing Sing, which sounds just like him once you know it came from his pen. In the 1940s, Prima leveraged his heritage ...
Benji Rogers, Founder And President Of PledgeMusic, Looks Back On 2014
Benji Rogers, Founder and President of PledgeMusic joins us today for Hypebot.com's 2014 Year End Virtual Panel. Rogers has a hopeful outlook for the collaboration between artists and music streaming services, but suggests that streaming companies handle the relationship with care. “The artists are the ones with that power. If the artists are given the tools, ...
Kevin Breuner, CD Baby VP Of Marketing Looks Back On 2014
Kevin Breuner, Host of DIY Musician Podcast, and VP of Marketing, CD Baby joins us today on Hypebot.com's year end virtual panel. As an independent artist, Breuner responds to the current streaming debate saying, “You never know where your fans are going to come from. For that reason, I feel it’s important to have your music in all the ...
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