Results for "Music Industry"

Donna's Bar and Grill, longtime home to brass bands, closes

August 26, 2010

The proprietors of Donna's Bar & Grill have decided to close the North Rampart Street brass band and jazz club, effective immediately. The deteriorating condition of the building, coupled with the landlord's alleged reluctance to make repairs, reportedly factored in Donna Poniatowski's and husband Charlie Sims' decision. Poniatowski opened Donna's in October 1993 and soon presented ...

The Case for the Billboard Top 40 over 40 List

August 25, 2010

This last week, Billboard ran their annual 30 under 30 list, identifying the “rising young executives who are driving our business forward with their artistic and business vision." It's a great inventory of up-and-coming power players in the industry, but it's quite ironic that it ran the same week as this story in Newsweek, which effectively ...

Mia Vermillion Blues Power House is Back and Ready!

August 24, 2010

The Fool's Gold of Paz's Piggybacking Marketing Campaign

August 24, 2010

One of the most important aspects of any marketing campaign is getting yourself in front of the right kinds of people. In the music world, that normally means people who listen to similar kinds of music, or certain groups of people in particular age ranges that have specific sets of interests or hobbies. But more recently, ...

Congress's Unsavory Copyright Conundrum

August 23, 2010

Many music lovers intrigued by the National Jazz Museum's collection of newly discovered recordings wonder when they will be able to hear more than the samples on the museum's website. Under current law, there is little likelihood that the music will be generally available in most of our lifetimes. That willchange only if Congress loosens copyright ...

How Not to Write a Press Release, Courtesy of Vice (Part One)

August 21, 2010

[The following article, originally titled “$ell Your Music With Prose," first appeared in much longer form in the Anti-Music Issue of Vice Magazine. It was written by Oliver Hall. We thank him for his invaluable contribution, and hope sincerely that every music publicist in the free world reads his words, whether they read them here or ...

How Not to Write a Press Release, Courtesy of Vice (Part Two)

August 21, 2010

[Part two of Oliver Hall's magnificent “$ell Your Music With Prose" continues below. Part one is here]Emotions and the Chatechrestic Pitch According to a recent press release about a debut album that “has sunshine seeping through every note," the members of the band that made it “evoke a grand sense of nostalgia with their heartfelt melancholy." ...

Free That Tenor Sax

August 22, 2010

For jazz fans, nothing could be more tantalizing than the excerpts made available by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem of newly discovered recordings from the 1930s and '40s. Nearly 1,000 discs containing performances by masters like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Billie Holiday and the long-neglected Herschel Evans suddenly re-emerged when the son of the audio ...

Fat Beats Closes Last Remaining Retail Locations

August 20, 2010

Early this September, hip hop label Fat Beats will be closing its two remaining iconic retail locations in New York and Los Angeles. The label will be throwing a series of blow-out sales and tribute parties, open to the public, to celebrate the 16 years that the stores were in operation. To Fat Beats, their ability ...

EMI Loses Another $802 Million, More Trouble Ahead

August 19, 2010

UPDATED) In its report to investors this morning, EMI detailed a net loss of £512 or US $802 million. The company also wrote off another £602 million ($943M USD) in 2009-2010 and despite a recent round of refinancing still has £3 billion ($4.7B USD) in outstanding debt. Just in case investors think that things can't get ...