Results for "Video / DVD"

MP3tunes CEO Says "CDs Are Going to Zero."

March 8, 2011

CNET has a posted a fascinating round-table discussion between MP3tunes CEO Michael Robertson and reporter Greg Sandoval. It starts off talking about Robertson's new venture DAR.fm and quickly shifts into the future of Pandora and subscription music. Some of the points made are well-known, but it's quite interesting to watch the two go back in forth ...

D.I.Y. Bootcamp: Nimbit Direct-to-Fan Platform [video]

March 8, 2011

A Cup of "Ko-Ko"

March 7, 2011

"Ko-Ko“ was a songrecorded on this date in 1940 by the famous Blanton-Webster version of the DukeEllington Orchestra (bassist Jimmy Blanton and saxophonist Ben Webster werefeatured soloists). Ellington said that the song was meant to evoke CongoSquare in New Orleans (where Louis Armstrong Park is now), a place whereAfrican-Americans gathered on Sundays in the pre-jazz days ...

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Mardi Gras Time with Glen David Andrews

March 6, 2011

It's parade Saturday of Mardi Gras week in St. Louis, which makes it a doubly appropriate time to check out some clips of New Orleans trombonist and vocalist Glen David Andrews, who will be in town next Wednesday, March 9 to play The Gramophone. A protege of New Orleans ...

Sat Eye Candy: Dire Straits

March 6, 2011

WE COULD DO WORSE FOR OUR SULTAN When Dire Straits went looking for a player to tour the more keyboard heavy Making Movies in 1980, whoever got the job had big shoes to fill—the E Street Band's Roy Bittan had played on the album. Enter Alan Clark, whose deep skill and compositional dexterity strongly influenced the ...

D.I.Y. Bootcamp: Audiolife Virtual Storefronts [video]

March 5, 2011

George Howard on the Importance of Entrepreneurial Spirit

March 5, 2011

Frishberg, Wellstood and Sullivan, Restored

March 4, 2011

The Rifftides staff discovered, by chance, that an essential element in a two-and-a-half-year-old entry about Dick Wellstood and two other pianists had suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous YouTube fortune. The video of Wellstood playing was removed by whoever posted it. We managed to find an even better one, so here is the reconstituted piece, ...

D.I.Y. Bootcamp: ReverbNation's Michael Dorenberg [video]

March 4, 2011

EXCLUSIVE: Scion A/V has produced a video series that provides a tour of the tools that make a D.I.Y. career it work. Hypebot will feature one a day for the next few weeks; and today Michael Dorenberg of ReverbNation shares a look at that site's popular multi-faceted artist marketing and monetization toolkit and the philosophies that ...

Webb City

March 3, 2011

I'm still tucking in the frayed ends of daily life after extended duty in the trenches of extracurricular writing. Soon, there will be a new batch of Doug's Picks as the blogging routine returns to normal, whatever that is. I am told that the first rule of survival in the weblog game is to keep the ...