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Not All Music Artists Are Big Fat Lip-Synching Social Media Babies
This post is by marketing thought leader David Meerman Scott of WebInkNow. A few weeks ago I spoke at the San Francisco MusicTech Summit, an event that brings together smart people at the intersection of music and technology. I spoke on a panel called Engaging Your Community. And later in the day I sat in the ...
Why Depression and Great Music Go Hand In Hand
Artists are among the top ten professions likely to suffer from depression. In a study published by Health.com, people working in the arts ranked as the fifth most likely to suffer from depression. About 9% of creative people reported an episode of major depression in the previous year. They also have higher rates of mood disorders. ...
Why Musicians Should Partner with Nonprofits
Cause Marketing has existed for a while now and has been rapidly spreading throughout many U.S. businesses. Besides businesses, many celebrities and musicians have joined in on cause marketing and philanthropy. Most recently, several celebrities including Alicia Keys, Ryan Seacrest, Justin Timberlake, and Usher participated in a digital death campaign where they could not update their ...
Correspondence, with Music: Moody Concerned
The Norwegian pianist, composer and bandleader Per Husby writes:I'd like to share a little remembrance of mine of James Moody—from Oslo, Norway somewhere around 1990: I had been playing piano with Moody on some gigs atthe Molde jazz festival in 1979, and had met him sporadically here and there after that. On this occasion in 1990 ...
10 Christmas Gift Ideas for Old-School Record Execs
Next week, things around the record industry will be winding down. Just in case you've run out of gift ideas as to what you should get the record executive in your life, we've taken the time to compile a list of books to choose from. All of them are great titles to curl up with by ...
If You Share a 30 Second Song Sample on My Facebook Wall, We're No Longer Friends.
We're all well aware that Facebook lacks music functionality. Music WithMe is a music app, recently upgraded, that seeks to circumvent this situation. Trouble is that Music WithMe does a terrible job at it. If you don't use iTunes, the app is useless. If you haven't yet downloaded the song that you desire to share, the ...
The Music Publishing Sham
By Steve Provizer On the more-or-less 143rd anniversary of the invention of the phonograph, the right to physically publish sheet music has become largely irrelevant-especially for jazz musicians. Yet “publishing" continues to exist as an anachronistic impediment to the recording careers of musicians. The imposition of publishing into the process of making a recording is a ...
How to Waste Five Dollars, End of Year Edition
Regular readers know that we like Sonicbids, that we like The Deli magazine, and that we favor creative schemes to get publicity for your band. We do not, however, like this. As you can see in the above picture, The Deli magazine is accepting submissions for its End of Year poll. For the first few days, ...
A Little Softer, Please?
Although I am not traditionally religious, I think jazz and creative improvisation are holy. One of the great puzzlements for a devout jazz listener like myself is that some people in bars and clubs where musicians are playing talk through performances. Given the greater formality (and higher ticket prices) of a concert hall, this is less ...
The Transition.
By Matt Lavelle Whew! You have to hit the ground running when you're in the midst of the grand transition.In an attempt to create an actual functioning life of music I'm dashing through the snow to leap over old worn out rope bridges over caverns to try and reach my holy grail.An actual stable life in ...
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