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One Cop's Struggle to Make It as a Musician...
What's your day job? Well, singer-songwriter Jesse Weeks sometimes has a day job, other times a night job. You see, he's a Toronto police officer, and pursues his musical career while off-duty. And, he's done okay, winning a $15,000 songwriting competition and major radio and label attention. Still, it's been a struggle, and after grabbing lunch ...
Music That Needs to be Heard: Is Anyone out There?
[Full disclosure. I am the Vice President of the Twin Cities Jazz Society.] The Twin Cities Jazz Society sponsors a series of concerts every year, dubbed Jazz From J to Z. The series title is intended to describe the wide range of music that falls under the jazz label, from trad to swing to big band ...
Bryan Adams: 'I Feel Sad for Young Musicians.'
Cake's John McCrea of and Bryan Adams must be friends. Earlier this month, McCrea said that music will be a hobby for most in 5 or 10 years. Adams is now echoing similar thoughts. “I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly... It doesn't matter ...
Why RCRDDEALS Matters More Than Spotify
Post by: Robin Davey, Head of Music and Film Development at GROWVision. Spotify has been the crux of music industry chatter when it comes to proclamations of a musical revolution, but the announcement of RCRDDEALS is a major step forward, and could prove to be a real game changer for breaking new acts and building established ones. RCRDDEALS appears ...
My Midlife Jazz Crisis - Stage 4: The Brand of Jazz
The issue of branding has increasingly become a driving force in everything we do both personally and professionally. Just think of Facebook and how we brand ourselves through accumulating the most friends or associating ourselves with certain activities or groups, etc. Facebook has become the quickest and most accessible form of personal brand recognition. I recently ...
A Stamp of Approval for Jazz
We're a society of pack rats, of collectors. Or so it seems. Some of us collect a few things we find meaningful, others have made it into a warehouse-style art form. In general, jazz fans collect live music memories and savor the special moments. Many collect them in hard copy as well—CDs, LPs, 78s, images. You ...
C is for Civilization
Once upon a time there were grownups in the music business.They were around to insist that artists meet standards and to step in when they went too far. Artists, by definition, don't have limits. Many also don't have taste or restraint, nor do they care about such things. Which is why there were record producers some ...
Why SXSW is Bad for Your Business...
Stop kidding yourself. Because for most music companies, SXSW is simply an awful place to do business. It's just an expensive party, one full of extreme barriers to good dealmaking and business-building. And, one so full of noise it's questionable whether any marketing dollars make sense here. Sure, it's fun to hop around venues and soak ...
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross "The Social Network"
One of my recent Facebook rants involved my stupefaction for the surprising nomination and even more shocking Academy Award win of the Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score to the David Fincher film The Social Network. I was surprised that something like this could have stood alongside any of the great musical masterpieces that came before ...
Bon Jovi Thinks Steve Jobs is "Personally Responsible for Killing the Music Business."
Well, Jon Bon Jovi has learned from his peers how to get press. Just argue that the Internet is destroying rock, liken it to an atomic bomb, or, in this case, declare that, “Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business." Since Hypebot readers are fully capable of vetting the validly of that quote, ...
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