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Slicethepie Moves Fan Funding to Pledgemusic, Integrates Soundout Song Analytics
Fan funders PledgeMusic and SliceThePie have formed a partnership that integrates SoundOut, Slicethepie's song analytics service into PledgeMusic, who now also takes over the management of the funding process for Slicethepie's artists. SoundOut offers crowdsourced feedback for music and now all successful artist on the PledgeMusic platform will receive a complimentary report on one of their ...
NARAS Messed with the Wrong Latin Jazz Artists...
What started as a plan to simplify the Grammys is now getting really, really complicated. On Tuesday, a group of Latin Jazz artists decided to sue NARAS in New York Supreme Court, a move that follows months of frustration. The suit, filed by artists Bobby Sanabria, Ben Lapidus, Mark Levine and Eugene Marlow, alleges that the ...
Big Machine Says Anti-Piracy is Just as Important as Marketing...
One is all about control, stamping things out, and shutting things down. The other thrives on organic growth, emotional connections, and word-of-mouth. Yet Big Machine Records puts anti-piracy on the same level as marketing in its releases, as evidenced by a recent campaign for Taylor Swift's Speak Now. The anti-piracy policing starts pre-release. “Stopping pre-release leaks ...
The End of the Jazz Masters
For thirty years, the National Endowment for the Arts has honored jazz musicians with the highest award for the genre, the NEA Jazz Masters Award. The recipients of the 2012 NEA Jazz Masters Award (including Jack DeJohnette, Von" Freeman, Sr., Charlie Haden, Sheila Jordan, and Jimmy Owens), will apparently be the last group to earn the ...
Creating Your Own Offline Music Distribution Network
Recent news of the development of a CD distribution network via 7-Eleven by Mall Jamz and Thump Records reminded me of one of my favorite topics, creating distribution platforms that use networks of retail and other commercial outlets that do not typically sell music. This concept has mostly been explored on a local level with diverse ...
Why Vinyl Pressing Plants Keep Raising Red Flags...
The simple version is that growing demand for vinyl will result in more capacity to handle that demand. Certainly makes sense over the long-term, though right now, it's just not that simple. For starters, there are a lot of sticky production and expansion issues surrounding the recent surge in vinyl, including a deepsuspicion among pressing plants ...
Philadelphia's jazz elders riff on the golden times
The walls of Conference Room 310 at WRTI are lined with a gray cushion that dulls sound. To the roomful of elderly jazz musicians who came of age in smoky, boisterous clubs, the acoustics can be challenging. “I can't hear a thing in this room!" exclaims Morris “Mo" Bailey, stationed in a motorized wheelchair at one ...
Stuttering to the Top of the Charts
The Stuttering Foundation, a nonprofit organization helping people who stutter since 1947, has recognized the song “You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," a 1974 number one hit by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as being the most unique of the many rock songs featuring stuttering vocals. Jane Fraser, president of the Stuttering Foundation, said recently, “Not only was 'You Ain't ...
Bandmix Improves Musicians Classifieds
Bandmix is a fairly simple classifieds service featuring musicians seeking other musicians with which to play. While other features are offered, including an active forum section, the musicians listings seem to be the key focus. There are plenty of listings and searches by location and by instruments revealed quite a bit of diversity so that ups ...
Jazz Around Town: Out of Town, but Not out of Mind...
Thursday, July 28, 2011 Wine & Jazz: The Swooners @ Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 5:30 pm The John Pallocy Trio (Jazz Dawgs) @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm The Groove Dogs @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Friday, July 29, 2011 Johnny Matt Band with ...
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