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'Zat You, Santa Claus?
We Americans and our religious holidays are hard to figure, that's for sure. First, you hear us demanding tolerance and equal time for people who choose to affiliate with an anti-religious philosophy, or no religious practice at all. The next minute, we are decrying the absurd religious discrimination being ...
What's Wrong With Today's Live Jazz
by Richard Lawn
What's wrong with today's live jazz scene? There has been a great deal of whining about the climate for live jazz these days. The complaints are sometimes accompanied by speculation about why jazz seems to have slipped off the radar, particularly in many major cities such as Philadelphia. The complaints, however, are often unaccompanied ...
Music from Norway: Just How Important Is It, Really?
by John Kelman
[Note: This article was first published by Music Norway] When asked, by the newly minted Music Norway, which brought two separate organizations together at the beginning of 2013--Music Export Norway (responsible for exporting the country's music to the world) and Music Information Center (responsible, for many things, including acting as an archive/information source)--to write ...
Crooner, Actress Cynthia Basinet Petitions The United Nations
New York - The Singer, Actress Cynthia Basinet Addressed the United Nations Sixty-eighth General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara, last Thursday. From the UN official site: “CYNTHIA BASINET, actress, singer and humanitarian advocate, lamented that thousands of people of Western Sahara had lived as refugees, without the opportunity to fully ...
Why Musicians Make Little While Music Services and Distributors Make Billions [Jeff Price]
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By Jeff Price, the founder of TuneCore and now founder/CEO of Audiam. In today's new music industry of peer-to-peer file sharing, download stores, and on-demand streams, it's hard enough for an artist to make money by selling their music. So what happens when the world's largest music distributors and stores carry all the songs in world ...
Naples Jazz Orchestra Spared, for Now
Tourism is so hot in Naples, Florida that its town council is considering ways to limit traffic and parking issues, including shutting down concerts at the Cambier Park Bandshell, where all of the jazz concerts happen with multiple bands, including the facility's anchor tenant, The Naples Jazz Orchestra, in its fifth season. At a meeting to ...
Kevin Spacey on Stopping Piracy: Give the Fans What They Want
Kevin Spacey gave a speech at the International Television Festival in Edinburgh late last month with a big focus on the implications of Netflix's “House of Cards" for the tv industry. He emphasized a number of points about piracy and giving the fans what they want that are quite relevant to the music industry as well. ...
Why Telling Artists to Stop Selling Music and Just Make Money Through Live Shows is Ridiculous
Giving away all your music for free and trying to make your living via other revenue streams can be a valid approach. Except that I don't know of any musicians actually doing that. The ones who do make all their music available for free are also selling it and some are doing just fine without touring ...
The Reasons Paid Music Downloads Are Going Downhill
By Tom Dillon of Evolver.fm. Paid downloads, the songs people pay for individually the way they do with CDs, have officially stopped their ascent. According to Nielsen SoundScan data, digital song sales dropped 2.3 percent over the first half of 2013 over the same period last year. In terms of the straight numbers, music fans purchased ...
mp3.com Domain for Sale for $1m+, is It Worth It? [michael Robertson]
By Michael Robertson, a seriel music tech entrepennuer and founder of the original MP3.com. His current projects include Dar.fm. I recently got a call from the owner of this iconic domain name asking if I was interested in buying the MP3.com domain name. MP3.com was the digital music pioneer I founded which offered free MP3 downloads ...
