What is the Jazz Audiences Initiative? The Jazz Audiences Initiative will tackle fundamental questions about how and why people engage with jazz. Jazz artists and presenters nationwide will learn new ideas for building audiences, and infusing the art form with new energy. Over the next 21 months, the project team will research and test new strategies for overcoming barriers to jazz participation and...
Remember the halcyon days when to be considered a university, you had to have six or seven accredited colleges as well as graduate and professional divisions? In our society's more recent cavalier and clever language-mashing, it seems anything goes.It started with Hamburger University, then Dunkin...
What do you call a CD that retails for more than $9.99? Answer: A return. "...Our
 customers have spoken loud and clear. They love their CDs and they love
 purchasing them from indie record stores. The only problem we're
 currently facing, and will continue to face in the future, is the
 current price point...we've inherited the $9.99 price
 point from the...
Before the Rifftides staff gets back to business as usual, whatever that is, we're finding it difficult to let go of thoughts about Johnny Mercer. Lines from his songs won't go away -- ever. There's a dance pavilion in the rain, All shuttered down... I remember, too, a distant bell and stars that fell like rain, out of the blue...
The former Genesis frontman on fan funding, reliable filters, and why he would commission an alternative to The X Factor When I blogged about the lack of women in the music industry , one manager claimed that this is because girls are less interested in who worked on a record than what the band looks like on the cover. I'm not sure that's entirely true. After all, I was one of those girls who studied...
Dupri says some interesting things here and he talks about the labels’ needing to pay more attention to the... (read the rest of the story by clicking the headline)
As you hopefully know, back in 1999, the RIAA had a Congressional staffer named Mitch Glazier slip four words into a totally unrelated bill on satellite retransmission of broadcast TV, literally in the middle of the night, that effectively changed the way copyrights worked on songs by major label artists. It effectively took much of the control out of the hands of the artists and handed it right to...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Jean Rah Fya Records recording artist Bobby Tinsley won the award for Best R&B/Soul Artist at the 2009 HMMA awards alongside some of Hollywood's music industry greats. Also taking home awards were legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dave Mason and Oscar-nominated film composer John Debney with Outstanding Career Achievement honors; Steve Rushton,...
What do you get when you mix cameras, music, video phones, and two of the biggest divas in the U.S. music industry? A music video with Beyonce and Lady Gaga, remixing Beyonce’s original “Video Phone” score. In the newly-released video, the two larger-than-life diva’s storm around in trench coats, bathing suits and heels. It opens up [...]
No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidContent has learned from multiple sources. We have also learned that Lachlan Murdoch—yes, that Lachlan Murdoch— is considering joining the consortium. The parts being sold are the print and online, while events...
Sherwin Siy (one of the few people who actually was allowed to glance briefly at parts of the proposed ACTA treaty, though under strict NDA) has written about yet another letter sent by the entertainment industry to the government in support of ACTA. This letter includes pretty much everyone who benefits from abusing copyright laws and is afraid of the internet: Advertising Photographers of America...
Elton John's Greatest Hits is the ninth album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released on MCA Records, catalogue MCA 2128, in November 1974. Spanning the years 1970 to 1974, it compiles ten of John's singles, with one track variation for releases in North America and for Europe and Australia. It topped the album chart in both the United States and Great Britain, staying at #1 for ten consecutive...
Fail Safe Records have announced a special live double CD to benefit Harvest of Hope . Like the festival that shares it' name, the disc will feature live and studio performances from Against Me! , Bouncing Souls , The Casting Out , Propagandhi , Bridge and Tunnel , Joe McMahon of ( Smoke or Fire ), Virgins , Strike Anywhere , New Bruises , No More, Flatliners , Austin Lucas , Fake Problems , Monikers...
Holy fucking ape shit I'm really excited about this record coming out. I just found out, thanks to Blabbermouth.com , that the tracklist and label have been confirmed for Shining's Black Jazz record. If you rememeber us writing about this a few months ago in out response to listening to their last record Grindcore and being in awstruck of what we where hearing. Well from the looks of it in their comments...
The "virtual fifth label" is now friends with MySpace. Merlin, an organization that represents independent music companies, is supposed to have signed a deal with the social network that should nicely complement MySpace's existing partnerships with EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner. Merlin's association with indie artists and late arrival to the music scene (it launched in January of 2007)...
The newly remastered CDs of the Beatles' original albums and singles, which EMI and Apple Corps, the Beatles' company, are releasing today, have less of a gee-whiz factor than The Beatles: Rock Band, which also hits stores today. But for those of us for whom the music is paramount - and who will forever refer to Rock Band as "the toy" - the game is a plastic tail wagging a cartoonish dog.
Three months after its launch, the RSA, the income of active solidarity, seems to be difficult to implement. The RIAA, which should provide additional income to the working poor is perceived, for the moment, only 10% of potential beneficiaries. More ... (more. ..)
Despite all the fever pitch hype surround the recent Global Gaming Factory buying The Pirate Bay and turning it into a legal service TMV has discovered that it is now highly unlikely the purchase will ever occur. TMV has learned that the Swedish bankers quoted by GGF as investing in the venture, clearly stated they would not be proceeding with any investment. TMV obtained a leaked email sent to many
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