Results for "Music Industry"

The Jazz Bakery Keeps Cooking

March 25, 2010

The Jazz Bakery is a nonprofit organization. To followers of the scene, that statement is a redundancy, of course. In Los Angeles, saying a jazz club doesn't make money is like saying a restaurant doesn't serve scrap iron. In 18 years as president and artistic director of the Jazz Bakery, Ruth Price has always known that ...

SXSW by the Numbers

March 25, 2010

Steve Belkin Joins Innervision Records as General Manager

March 24, 2010

Music industry veteran Steve Belkin has been named as General Manager of the Aliso Viejo, California-based label Innervision Records and Entertainment, as announced by label VP of A&R and Promotion, Adam Leibovitz. Belkin brings some three decades of experience in all areas of the music business to the GM post, including work in marketing, sales and ...

Philly Music-Makers Mull Museum at Torched Offices

March 24, 2010

Longtime R&B record producers Leon Huff and Kenneth Gamble are considering whether to rebuild their fire-damaged offices into a music museum, the duo said Tuesday just hours after the man accused of setting the blaze was ordered to stand trial. Testimony and surveillance video shown at a preliminary hearing convinced a judge that Christopher Cimini should ...

NARM White Paper Explores Digital Music's Technical Challenges

March 24, 2010

NARM and its Digital Think Tank have just released “Digital Supply Chain & Operations" which explores operational issues facing the music industry as it transitions to digital. The report takes on the uber-technical issues the surround the accurate and efficient delivery of music and related metadata. If you've ever tried to clean up you mp3 ...

EMI Tries to Pawn Catalog to Stop Citi Takeover

March 23, 2010

EMI is in serious talks with other labels to manage its most valuable asset - a deep catalog including The Beatles, Pink Foyd, Blondie and more - in exchange for the $600 million USD that it needs to stop a takeover by lender Citi. The deal would reportedly run for five years, though sources say that ...

Court: Widow Owns 'King of the Road' Copyright

March 23, 2010

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The widow of country music legend Roger Miller has won a protracted legal battle over the rights to some of his biggest hits, including “King of the Road." A federal judge ruled last week that Mary Miller and Roger Miller Music, Inc. own the copyrights to the songs the artist published in 1964. ...

Witness: Michael Jackson Doctor Interrupted CPR

March 23, 2010

Michael Jackson's doctor halted CPR on the dying pop star and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed new light on the singer's chaotic final moments. The explosive allegation that Dr. Conrad Murray may have tried to hide evidence is likely ...

Prosecutors Want Michael Jackson's Doctor's License Suspended

March 23, 2010

California prosecutors filed court papers seeking to suspend the medical license of Dr. Conrad Murray, who was charged last month in the death of Michael Jackson. When Murray was charged, the judge agreed he should be barred from administering anesthetics like the ones prosecutors said killed the pop star last year when he was in Murray's ...

Heaven on Wheels

March 23, 2010

Choosy actors choose designer Jane Hallworth's dapper caravan for on-set repose People with sophisticated tastes generally construe the term luxury trailer as an oxymoron. There's certainly no shortage of mobile homes tricked out with all manner of modern conveniences, high-tech gimcracks and swiveling bucket seats large enough to swallow a baby elephant. But luxury? The answer ...