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Hot Club of Cowtown: What Makes Bob Holler
BAND TO APPEAR AT SXSW AND NPR MOUNTAIN STAGE Bob Wills has always been a core inspiration for the Hot Club of Cowtown's sound, but it has taken the Texas-based trio a dozen years to fully honor the King of Western swing. A fortuitous tour in England last spring led the band to London's Specific Sound ...
Video: Spotify CEO Careful Not to Upset Labels
Here's a video of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek speaking at the recent D:Dive into Mobile conference. If you've been following the Spotify story closely, in watching this interview, there's not much new to be learned. The thing that I found to be interesting about it is comparing how Sean Parker speaks publically about the service as ...
Myspace CEO is Not Interested in Selling Music
Some surprising news from the CEO of a company openly for sale by parent NewsCorp for not producing profits: “My goal is you come to MySpace, you listen to some new bands and connect to those bands," MySpace CEO Mike Jones told LeWeb conference in Paris this morning. “I don't wanna be the place that replaces ...
70% Thumbplay Users Stop File-Sharing Their Music.
What stops fans from file-sharing music? According to a new study released by Thumbplay, a cloud-based music service, 70% of their users stopped file-sharing music upon engaging with Thumbplay Music. Out of a pool of 500 respondents, that leaves 150 who—even after gaining access to more than 10 million songs—still desire to use P2P music services. ...
Spotify U.S. Launch Stalled Again
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek declined to comment on the U.S. launch of his company at the recent D:Dive into Mobile conference. This has led to speculation that the much hoped for arrival of Spotify might not be coming this year. The reason for the delay appears to be rooted in licensing and negotiation problems of the ...
Chicago's Velvet Lounge Closed in Family Dispute
The Velvet Lounge, a Near South Side jazz club admired around the world as home base for the late Chicago tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, has been closed in a dispute among Anderson's survivors. The staff of the club walked out last week, in support of Jasmine Sebaggala and Rasminee Harris, Anderson's granddaughters, who have been managing ...
"1st Annual Jazz Ghoul-Athon"
By Steve Provizer Ah, the elevation of John Lennon to sainthood. He did co-write and write some great songs. He was also occasionally a creep and often ah, not what he appeared to be. That said, my teeth are set on edge by the “where were you when Lennon died“ tweets, blog posts, etc.; a ghoulish ...
Are You Media Ready?
[This guest post was written by Jem Bahaijoub, the founder of Imagine PR, a music marketing and PR agency based in Washington, D.C.] If you can't afford the luxury of a publicist, dealing with the media can be a daunting, even overwhelming task. But it is also a necessary one, and to make the process bearable, ...
Music Marketing: Is It Really Just Like Exercise?
Bad advice is oftentimes free advice. But at a music conference, you're actually paying for the privilege. And, attempting to sort and sift through what will actually help your career or company, versus what won't. And oftentimes, it won't. Is that worth the price of admission? This was a serious concern at CMJ in New York, ...
Still Not Taking This Seriously? Spotify Hits 750,000...
Ahead of Halloween, Spotify was careening past 650,000 paying subscribers—of which, 90 percent were paying the highest tier. Now, that number is 750,000, according to word from CEO Daniel Ek. But the prospects of entering the US this year are slim-to-zilch, and Ek conceded as much during a recent D:Dive Into Mobile chit-chat. Bigger numbers, same ...
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