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Killing Itself to Live: How the Record Industry Conceived It's Own Demise

Killing Itself to Live: How the Record Industry Conceived It's Own Demise

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Throwaway culture, while, perhaps, not limited to commercialized music, appears to stem from highly and quickly popularized songs that are file-shared and listened to for a short period of time. And are, then, later deleted or 'disposed of' from the listener's computer or MP3 player, typically, once the song starts ...

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Success Begins in the Niche

Success Begins in the Niche

niche: a specialized market; a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fitted; a habitat supplying the factors necessary for the existence of an organism or species In the new music industry, success begins in the niche. Start where you are wanted. Use that base to ...

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The Sheldon, Cardinals Care Teaching Young Baseball Players About Jazz

The Sheldon, Cardinals Care Teaching Young Baseball Players About Jazz

Once again this year the Sheldon Concert Hall and the St. Louis Cardinals' Cardinals Care charity are teaming up to teach a new generation of potential fans and players about the connections between two great American pastimes: jazz and baseball.The two organizations are sponsoring free educational jazz concerts featuring the Jeff Anderson Quartet for ...

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Jazz This Week: Todd Mosby, Legacy Jazz Quintet, Funky Butt Brass Band, a Jazz St. Louis Benefit, and More

Jazz This Week: Todd Mosby, Legacy Jazz Quintet, Funky Butt Brass Band, a Jazz St. Louis Benefit, and More

There's only time for a very short post this week, so here, in abbreviated form, are some of the jazz and creative music performances worth checking out over the next few days in St. Louis:Tonight, guitarist Todd Mosby and his group will do a free concert for the Whitaker Music Festival at the Missouri ...

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Michael Jackson -- Cardiac Arrest

Michael Jackson -- Cardiac Arrest

Pop star Michael Jackson was rushed to a hospital this afternoon by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics. [Updated at 3:15 p.m.: Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.] [Updated at 2:46 p.m.: Pop star Michael ...

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Composer Joseph Brooks Faces Trial for 11 Rapes

The Oscar-winning composer and director behind “You Light Up My Life" raped 11 women he lured to his apartment with the promise of a starring role in a movie, prosecutors said at his arraignment in New York on Tuesday. Joseph Brooks, 71, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, where he was arraigned on a ...

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Phil Spector Will Be Allowed Jam Sessions with Fellow Prisoners

Phil Spectors permanent assignment in the state prison system is a massive Central Valley penitentiary with special accommodations for older and disabled inmates. And even behind bars, the man credited with inventing the “Wall of Sound" will still be allowed to create music. The 69-year-old record producer, serving at least 19 years for the murder of ...

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35,000-Year-Old Flute is Oldest Known Musical Instrument

The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, suggests that the first humans to occupy Europe had a fairly sophisticated culture. The instrument was excavated from a cave in Germany. The wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-old relic of an early human ...

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Variable MP3 Pricing Making Money for Labels

In April, soon after Apple gave labels the ability to set different prices for their songs on iTunes, every track on Pink Floyd's “Dark Side of the Moon" was raised to $1.29. Some music fans complained about these price increases, and many technology executives and bloggers proclaimed that labels were making the wrong move. But while ...

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band Signs to Ted Kurland Associates

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Signs to Ted Kurland Associates

Exciting new slate of programs planned for 2010, including a new collaboration with Bluegrass Legends The Del McCoury Band Boston, MA--Ted Kurland Associates has signed the venerated Preservation Hall Jazz Band for exclusive representation on a worldwide basis. TKA's history of working with legendary artists and their extraordinary careers was key to the Preservation Hall Jazz ...


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