Results for "Music Industry"

Vote: Is It OK to Have Ads Inside CD Booklets?

August 5, 2009

Buckingham Palace Makes Jazz List

August 5, 2009

Buckingham Palace has been included on a shortlist of locations crucial to the development of jazz in Britain, part of a competition to pick the most important British site in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, the BBC reported. The British royal family's London residence made the list, along ...

Herbie Hancock Named New Los Angeles Philharmonic Creative Chair for Jazz

August 5, 2009

Grammy-winning pianist Herbie Hancock will take over for bassist Christian McBride next year as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair for jazz. The 69-year-old Hancock says the two-year stint involves choosing artists to perform at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. Hancock says he wants to integrate jazz with other genres, from dance ...

Another New Model: Label Signed by Artist

August 4, 2009

The Blue Scholars Sign Label Duck Down It's not a typo - Seattle's Blue Scholars did not sign to the sign to the indie hip hop label Duck Down label. Instead, the band hired the label to handle marketing and other functions for several of their releases. Using money from ...

Stephen Colbert: Black Eyed Peas "Missed so Many Advertunities!"

August 4, 2009

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cMeTunes - Hit of the Summerwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTasers “Peas, please! You guys are the masters of the mass-market sell-out. You missed so many advertunities!" lamented TV host and comedian. Stephen Colbert. To prove the point, Colbert showed possible placements of products from HP, MAC Cosmetics ...

St. Louis Jazz Presenters Get NEA Stimulus Funds

August 4, 2009

Thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act recently passed by the U.S. Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts got additional funding to distribute to arts organizations across the country. Those funds are intended to help preserve jobs that otherwise might be threatened by the recession, and according to an item on the Post-Dispatch's Culture ...

The Album is Dead, Long Live the App

August 4, 2009

The iTunes music store sells single songs at approximately the same price, with artist presented in more or less the same way. Apples app store, however, is still somewhat like the wild west (at least as far as music goes), where the rules are being made up in real time. Artists and labels can sell music ...

Michael Jackson Was Killed by a Shot of Powerful Painkiller Demerol Given by an Aide as His Personal Medic Dr Conrad Murray Slept

August 3, 2009

Dr Murray is reported to have confessed to cops that he had ALREADY given the singer surgical anaesthetic Propofol that same day. Jackson is feared to have woken when the effects wore off and demanded pain relief. The Demerol was duly administered by the compliant aide - with devastating effects. The combination of Demerol and Propofol, ...

Conditioned to Steal: Popular Music and Obsolescence in America

August 3, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor To understand the MTV Generation, the Millennials, and the epidemic of file-sharing that has preceded them, Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Outliers, might argue that not only do you have to look beyond the individuals, but also you have to understand the culture that they are ...

10,000 Lakes | 07.22 - 07.25 | MN

August 1, 2009

Words by: Herschel Concepcion | Images by: Norman Sands 10,000 Lakes Music Festival :: 07.22.09 - 07.26.09 :: Soo Pass Ranch :: Detroit Lakes, MN 10KLF 2009 The 7th annual 10,000 Lakes Music Festival saw the return of Widespread Panic (who last played the fest in 2005) as well as newcomers Wilco and the Dave ...