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Skyline Music Launches Book a Band / Plant a Tree
Hypebot and Music Think Tank's parent company, booking agency Skyline Music, is kicking off the new year on a green note with the launch of Book A Band / Plant A Tree and a challenge to other music companies to join in. Every time a promoter or venue books one of Skyline Music's exclusive clients, who range from ...
Jazz News: Huge Music Donation to the Library of Congress
Universal Music Group has made a huge donation of treasured recordings from its vault to the Library of Congress. The material, dating from 1926 to 1948, includes music from Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, and Billie Holiday. Here's the story from the New York Times: Library of Congress Gets a Mile of Music By Larry ...
If Major Labels Are Bleeding so Badly, Why Are They Still Creating the Biggest Artists?
Do we have to talk about the demise of the major label system again? Perhaps this is just a four-car pileup that demands a slow-down and stare. The lights are dimming at EMI, political upheaval is tainting UMG and Sony, and WMG is often considered 'next' for the wolves. But if the majors are bleeding so ...
2011 is Now, "Live Jazz" Thrives at APAP since 2007
By Daniel Kassell For the fourth consecutive year Jazz Journalist Association members have noted the influx of Jazz presenters showcases highlighted at the Association of Performing Presenters (APAP) in New York's Hilton Hotel and in 2011 concurrently at every conceivable venue in NYC. APAP's vision is to develop and support professionals who offer “Live" performance such ...
As Google, Apple Hesitate, RealNetworks Demos Unifi Cloud Music and Media Service at CES
Yesterday at CES, RealNetworks demoed Unifi, a new music and media cloud service which its says can serve as a complete library of all the media a users owns, accessible from any internet-connected device. Real says Unifi will be available early this year. But how did Real beat Google and Apple cloud music services to market? Apparently ...
Buy One, Give One Free: What Artists Can Learn from Social Entrepreneurship
Over at Music Think Tank, George Howard makes the case that the record industry has yet to find a way to reward fans for sharing music. In many instances, our human nature is to share the music we love with others. We've yet to incentivize this exchange in any way. Instead, the record industry has condemned ...
January is Filled with Jazz
From Jim Wilke: There's an amazing amount of activity in the jazz world this week.... the JEN conference (successor to IAJE) is this week in New Orleans, the APAP presenters conference is happening in New York City and both are chock full of artists' showcases and presentations and concerts, stirring up more interest and involvement in ...
Spotify: "URL Will Become Universal Music Format."
Spotify's Jonathan Forster thinks 2011 will bring us one-step closer to this. The URL becoming the new universal format for music. We won't send out MP3s or links to YouTube videos, the URL itself will be the primary way that fans are exposed to music. You click it and music plays—not for thirty or ninety seconds, ...
Size of the Average Music Library: 7,160 Songs
The average TidySongs user has 7,160 songs in their music library. These people may not be your average music fan. That's clear. What's obvious is that these users likely didn't pay for a majority of these songs. For the inundated, TidySongs operates like a music library nanny. It comes in and fills in your missing titles, ...
Latest EMI News: Pink Floyd Resigns, but March Miracle Sill Needed
Despite a recent court ruling that a deal signed in the pre-download age could be not applied to digital sales, Pink Floyd has dropped its lawsuit against EMI and resigned. “All legal disputes between the band and the company have been settled as a result of this new deal," EMI said in a statement. But EMI's ...
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