Results for "Music Industry"

Jeremy McCall Enters "The Naked Gospel" Songwriting Contest

March 10, 2010

Guest Post: With Mixtapes and Social Media, is the Album so Far Gone?

March 9, 2010

Alex Mann is the director of Trendrr, a business intelligence platform for social and digital media. You can read more by Alex on his blog here and follow him on Twitter here. At first glance, Drake's success as an artist appears similar to his hip-hop peers. The actor turned Grammy-nominated rapper performed at the 2010 Grammy ...

Other Matters: Return of the One-Man Band

March 9, 2010

No, not the Sidney Bechet “Sheik of Araby" kind of one man band, but the television news kind. Today, Howard Kurtz devotes his column in The Washington Post to a phenomenon brought about in broadcast news by the convergence of technology and economic hard times. Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, ...

RIAA Tells Fans to Stop Nibbling

March 7, 2010

In a post on the RIAA blog, VP of Reaserach Joshua P. Friedlander titled “Nobody Stole The Pie“ argues that the decline in music sales is like the story of the same name by Sonia Levitin. In it the town of Little Digby annually bakes a giant lollyberry pie. When one year the celebrated pie is ...

Overheard at Billboard's Music and Money Symposium

March 7, 2010

Vevo Pres/CEO Rio Caraeff replaced L.A. Reid as the morning keynote. “Vevo creating new programming directly with brands and bands. 30 second music videos for new artists, brought to you by a brand." “When there's no money, people get smart" - Cynthia Sexton (EMI) Hot Topic chief music officer John Kirkpatrick: “We've almost completely moved ...

Chris Berry Trio with Kimock | 03.01 | Ukiah

March 7, 2010

Words by: Zack Sampsel | Images by: Rob Burgess Chris Berry Trio with Steve Kimock :: 03.01.10 :: Ukiah Brewing Company :: Ukiah, CA Kimock & Berry - CB3 :: 03.01 :: Ukiah, CA The Chris Berry Trio returned to the certified organic confines of the Ukiah Brewing Company once again, this time with guitar ...

Photostory16: Buddy Rich

March 6, 2010

This image of Buddy Rich by Paul Slaughter is a personal favorite of mine. I think it's one of the most dynamic and revealing photos of the drummer. For a brief second, you get to see Rich's intensity, anxiety and aggression in one fleeting glance (or glare). Let Paul pick up the story: “On September ...

This Music is Sponsored by ...The Music Industry in Free Fall

March 5, 2010

With the music industry in free fall, musicians turn to corporate advertising and product placement to promote their work. In the music video for Lady Gaga's hit single “Bad Romance, the pop diva vamps across several nightmarish tableaux wearing a variety of barely there lingerie get-ups. The flashy clip caused a sensation when it debuted in ...

David Jassy gets 15 to Life for Beating and Driving over Hollywood Jazz Pianist

March 5, 2010

The sentencing of John Osnes' killer Thursday was as muted as the victim's death was shocking. There were no angry words for the man who kicked the Hollywood jazz pianist to death in a brutal act of road rage and no emotion beyond a few choked words and a hand smearing away a tear. “I don't ...

Euclid Records to Open Store in New Orleans

March 4, 2010