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Threadheads Jazz Lovers Give Up-and-Coming Musicians a Boost
The music lovers have evolved from an online chat room group into a nonprofit record label. Reporting from New Orleans -- Like a lot of out-of-towners who came to New Orleans in the years after the levees failed, Chris Joseph found that the singers John Boutte and Paul Sanchez spoke to the city's post-Katrina trauma better ...
Guitar Market Strikes a Nostalgic Chord
In one upside to a down economy, collectors are finding there's a string of vintage options on the market -- and some lower prices Signature guitars of the rock 'n' roll era -- candy-colored Fender Stratocasters, slab-bodied Fender Telecasters, flame-topped Gibson Les Pauls and voluptuously shaped Gretsch hollow bodies -- are symbols of a uniquely ...
Mark O'Connor: Living on the Cracks
By: Dennis Cook Mark O'Connor Not everyone can communicate without words. Getting meaning, feeling and narrative across using nuance and texture instead of defined syllables is beyond the grasp of many musicians. Yet, Mark O'Connor has always told vivid tales with his violin and compositions. ...
Jazz This Week: The Yellowjackets with Mike Stern, New Music Circle Turns 50, and More
This will be a relatively short post by the usual “Jazz this week" standard, both because yr. humble editor has some time constraints due to other pressing matters, and because there's a slight lull in the St. Louis concert scene this weekend with regard to jazz and creative music. Specifically, we're at the time of year ...
What Ever Happened to Ron Crotty?
One of the pleasures of the 3000-mile motor excursion down and up the west coast of the US was silence. Except for conversation between two people who don't seem to get enough of it at home, and a modicum of music, we cruised along luxuriating in the glorious spring scenery. We saw shades of green I'd ...
Next Music Battle: Hulu vs. Vevo
Music videos started life online as giveaways to win bands new fans — much as they did when MTV actually showed videos. But now, as the future of music sales seems dim, music labels see gold in what they used to handout for free. The change started about five years ago when labels began charging distributors ...
Japanese Rights Body Fights Back
JASRAC denies monopolistic practice charge The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC), a major rights org, has filed an appeal to the Fair Trade Commission against a February FTC ruling that Japan's current set-up for compensating holders of rights to music used on TV and radio constitutes a monopolistic practice. Broadcasters currently ...
People's Music Store Adds 300k Universal Tracks to Fan Retail Offering
Universal has become the first major label to embrace fan powered download retailer People's Music Store. Using the UK based site, fans in set up online stores, choose music, write reviews, and market via their blogs and social pages. But People's is not another multi-level marketing scheme. Fans-turned -storekeepers earn 10% of each sale in points ...
Harmonia Mundi - An Indie Classical Label That's Thriving in Tough Times
Classical Record Industry Down 30% In '09, Harmonia Mundi Up 9% All this week on Hypebot, we're exploring how the double whammy of falling sales and the global economic downturn is effecting the music industry. This guest post by Charlie Dahan, which first appeared on his Center Of The Indie Label Universe blog, shows how one ...
Diverse Musicians in Crosswalk, Pianist Lays Dead, Rapper Too Hip for His Own Good, Jailed
Defense invokes 'Crash,' blaming chance encounter for man's death Witnesses say an enraged David Jassy punched, kicked and ran Osnes over with his SUV. He faces a murder charge and is being held on $1-million bond. Witnesses describe a brutal attack in which a driver punched, kicked and ran over a pedestrian who had hit the ...
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