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L.A. Band Tries to Cash in with Free Monthly Album
In an instrument-filled garage almost every day for the past year, musician John Wood has tried to find a new way to make a living. Wood and a bunch of other artists use the soundproofed space with an extra-high ceiling to create a new album every month. It's a staggering feat when you consider it means ...
Jim Knapp Orchestra Goes On Hiatus
from Jim Knapp: The Jim Knapp Orchestra will no longer be performing on a regular basis. We have been going 18 years and that seems to be the lifespan for this group as a regular performing organization. I am eternally grateful for the musicians of such great talent who have made up the band including several ...
Mining Brooklyn's Jazz Legacy
Brooklyn had more jazz clubs and related venues than Manhattan in the 1950s and '60s. So say Randy Weston and numerous other observers and historians of the bigger, brilliantly-multi culti, undeniably colorful and richly historic borough across the East River. This and other fascinating facts of Brooklyns storied jazz history are becoming clearer by the day through ...
"Allowing Merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation Was Pretty Immoral"
As industry conference and festival South by Southwest enters its home stretch, independent label heads such as Matador's Gerard Cosloy and Domino's Kris Gillespie raised concerns about the recent merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, and they also spoke on the ever-controversial, all-encompassing 360-label deals. Allowing the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation was pretty immoral," ...
Exclusive Deal for Hendrix at ScatterTunes
Experience Hendrix, LLC in partnership with Sony Legacy inked an exclusive deal with ScatterTunes to re-release the partial catalog of Jimi Hendrix as well as his latest, Valleys of Neptune," via their V-Album technology. The V-Album, short for Virtual-Album, was created by ScatterTunes founder and CEO Witt Stewart of Texas. A music veteran of more than ...
Jimi Hendrix's Last Days and Lost Music
On August 26th, 1970, Jimi Hendrix celebrated the official opening of his Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan's West Village. It would be the last time he ever set foot in his beloved recording sanctuary; he died three weeks later in London at age 27 after ingesting a powerful dose of the sedative Vesperax. But a month ...
ReverbNation Expands Music Distribution Service
ReverbNation launched an expanded digital music distribution platform this morning and the company's co-founder and COO Jed Carlson shared the details with Hypebot. HYPBOT: I'm sure it was a long night getting ready for today's launch. Can you introduce the new ReverbNation digital distribution products for our readers. CARLSON: In addition to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic, ...
Record in Michigan and Louisiana and Get a Tax Credit
It's no secret that the economy is struggling just about everywhere and that governments at all levels are attempting to do something about it. At least two states, Michigan and Louisiana, have extended their efforts to include musicians and the music industry by offering tax credits. A little known clause in a Michigan law designed to ...
Selling to Fans? Think L.I.V.E.
During yesterday's SXSW 2010 panel Your Fans Are Your Livelihood hosted by Glenn Peoples of Billboard, Brian Peterson of Bandboxrecommended that the key to more sales from fans is to think L.I.V.E. Limited Offer products that are limited in time and/or quantity. Interaction Interact regularly with the fans. Value Add more value or discount the product. ...
Notes from the Net: Hancock to Score Miles Davis Movie; Osby at the Vanguard; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* In this week's Miles Davis news, the feature film about the trumpeter came one ...


