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Musician Email List Etiquette
By Cameron Mizell Your new album has just been released, or maybe you've just booked a huge show. Time to email everybody you know! Before you add your entire address book to the “To:" field of a new email, consider a few points of email list etiquette. By respecting the recipients of your mass emails, you'll ...
Newscorp Begins MySpace Auction Wednesday
It feels like a race to the bottom, but at least the action has finally begun. After months of publicly bashing MySpace, parent NewsCorp is reportedly beginning the sale process in ernest on Wednesday. And, not surprisingly after months of tire kicking, there's no one bidder in the lead. Vevo, Providence Equity Partners and Silver Lake ...
The Crazy Bond Between Artist and Entrepreneur...
The music industry has a notoriously high rate of failure—not just for entrepreneurs, but also for artists. In fact, both groups are pursuing dreams with helaciously bad odds. And great business ideas—just like talented artists—often fail to break through. Hey, that's the sandbox, but if there's any place where the stigma of failure's been defeated, it's ...
5 Lessons That the Latin Jazz World Can Learn from Rebecca Black During Jazz Appreciation Month
Our calendars turn towards April tomorrow bringing with them a yearly tradition, Jazz Appreciation Month. It's thirty government-sanctioned days that are officially dedicated to the history and future of everything associated with jazz. Some of us celebrate jazz 365 days a year, and for us, Jazz Appreciation Month seems a bit redundant. We can easily turn ...
Here's Why Amazon Picked a Fight with the Labels
Some are writing volumes about how the labels are going to force Amazon to license their new Cloud Player and Cloud storage locker. The real story is that Amazon already intended to. But in meetings late last week, they told the major labels that they were about to launch what they believe they already could—a place ...
Capitol Records Building Goes Condo - Citibank Cuts EMI Losses
With CitiBank looking to recover loses from the loans made to major record label, Capitol/EMI, it seems a Hollywood landmark may be sold for scrap. April 1st, 2011, Los Angeles. In a surprise move yesterday CitiBank, who is in receivership of EMI/Capitol Records, after its parent company Terra Firma defaulted on their loans earlier this year, ...
Cruel Sister: Music for String Orchestra by Bang-on-a-Can's Julia Wolfe
For all my exposure to the marvelous Downtown New York institution Bang-on- a Can, I have not had the pleasure of hearing much of the music of co-founder-composer Julia Wolfe. There is no good reason for this. It simply is an omission on my part. The situation has been rectified by listening to her new release ...
Jazz Around Town: And the Thaw Begins...
Thursday, March 31, 2011 Live Jazz Jam with ESM Students @ Triple Deuces Bar & Grill, 6:00 pm A. Giannavola @Lemoncello, 6:00 pm Jazz Dawgs @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm The Djangoners @ Little Theatre Cafe, 7:30 pm Friday, April 1, 2011 Stefan Love ...
The Post Consumption Fan Meets Amazon Locker
The race to the cloud heated up yesterday as Amazon jumped the gun on Google and Apple and got a running start. Expect responses from the latter companies soon. This increased emphasis on music lockers, however, could have unintended consequences that actually make the record industry worse off than if they had embraced Spotify and others ...
The Ecosystem Approach: Introducing Non-Linear Music Marketing for the Digital Age
This post is by Bas Grasmayer (@Spartz), communication advisor for official.fm and new music business thesis student. Over the course of the last two years, I've been intensively researching and writing about the new music business for my bachelor thesis about this topic. My main frustration with most advice I saw (and still see) popping up ...
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