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He plays in a few original bands that you probably don't know about: Glows In The Dark, ILAD and recently, the Scott Clark 4tet. (Personally speaking, Glows is probably my favorite of the jazz/"jazz" bands from River City, and I just saw Clark come into his own as a bandleader leading a riveting gig at RVA Jazzfest a few weeks ago. He has this really interesting way of swinging, especially on triple-meter songs: It's a bit square, on top of the beat. That's the usual way we talk about jazz musicians, right? Clark linked to this little interview of him online yesterday, and I was taken by it.
Not to Luke Rabin. The way these are edited is a bit bleak, like, "Don't musicians ever have any fun? Musicians don't choose to do music — it chooses them. Yea, kind of a downer. Top Tech Entrepreneurs Share Their iTunes Playlists. The iTunes Store (nee iTunes Music Store) turns eight today! To celebrate this illustrious milestone, we've asked a cadre of tech heavyweights to give us a peek at their top 10 most-played songs. Check out the gallery below, featuring folks from Foursquare, Fast Society, StumbleUpon, Vevo, Indaba Music, Formspring, GroupMe, MTV and OKCupid. Discover the answers to the following burning questions: 1). Which founder of a hot startup loves Lady Gaga? 2). Then why don't you amble on over to the comments and share your most-listened-to artists (mine are Lovett, Mister Heavenly, The Black Lips, The Tallest Man on Earth, Cee-lo, Phantogram, YACHT and my friends' band, Not Blood Paint)?
Getting Covered by Music Blogs. Fred Pessaro is a contributing editor at the popular New York City-based music blog BrooklynVegan. Originally from Washington, D.C., Fred got his start in the music industry as a fan of hardcore and punk music and started regularly attending local shows in his hometown at an early age. His interest in freelance writer and photography and his love for music brought him to New York City, where he began to write for and contribute photos to music publications including Fuse, Time Out and Decibel. He has been working with BrooklynVegan since 2007 and is also responsible for booking metal and punk shows sponsored by the blog in the New York City area.
Recently, I had a chance to sit down and chat with Fred about his role at BrooklynVegan and some tips he has for artists that want to get the attention of music publications and get their music out there. Musician Coaching: How did you first get started in the music industry? I mostly got into it as a fan. I think part of it is moving quickly. Jog.fm Suggests the Best Music for Your Workout Based on Your Performance. Music video site Vevo is now live in the UK - TNW UK. ‘Hulu for music videos’ service Vevo is now live in the UK, the first time it has been available outside the US and Canada.
Originally scheduled for late last year, a launch for the service outside North America was delayed, although some of its content was previously accessible via YouTube. It was reported last month that a UK launch was due by late April, and dead on schedule here it is. The service is a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Abu Dhabi Media, and also features content from EMI. In addition to the website, Vevo’s iPhone, iPad & Android apps are live to download in their respective UK stores. While some content from the service is available via YouTube in 200 countries, full launches in further countries are expected to follow in due course, as licensing deals are struck.
Google Looks to Spotify Again to Solve Music Streaming Woes - TNW Google. According to source knowledgeable with the talks, Google is in negotiations with Spotify for the music streaming giant to power Google’s new GoogleMusic service. The source told Cnet that Google has been in talks with Spotify for weeks. Apparently this information came to light as Google informed the major music labels, which it has been in troubled talks with, that it is considering using Spotify to power it’s service. This news indicates that Google has yet to achieve an agreement with the four major labels in the US. Google had originally intended to release it’s new music service late last year but difficulties made it push it back to a March release which also did not materialize.
This isn’t the first time that Google has taken a look at using Spotify to materialize it’s position in the music streaming space. Back in October, Techcrunch reported that Google almost purchased Spotify outright for $1b. mSpot brings more of your music to its cloud based player - TNW Apps. mSpot music now offers 5GB free storage to its popular cloud music service that now has over 1.2 million downloads. The mSpot services offers an alternative to Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. This update more than doubles its previous storage cap of 2 gigabytes. The service was launched for Android in June and for iPhone in December of 2010, and now that it has reached the over 1million download milestone, it has really stepped up its game.
So what is the deal with mSpot? Start off by visiting the mSpot website and import your iTunes collection or other music folders from your PC or Mac into your mSpot personal music storage, which is referred to as a “locker.” Once you’ve uploaded the music of your choice into its cloud-based solution, you can access it anytime, anywhere from your iPhone, Android device or any PC or Mac desktop. Here is what mSpot CEO Daren Tsui stated in his announcement : Head over to the mSpot site and give it a try. Take Five: Never Forget to Resume Music Again - TNW Apps. I’m someone who isn’t too fond of silence. So specially when I’m working at home, you’ll find me listening to my iTunes library or Rdio collection all the time. There’s something about a good E.S. Posthumus or Hans Zimmer track that gets me all pumped up. And I’m sure we’ve all been in the situation where we’ve had to pause the music to attend to a phone call or answer the door — only to realize an hour later that you never turned the music back on when you got back.
Take Five, brilliant utility from the folks at the Iconfactory attempts to solve this by letting you pause and automatically resume music after a set interval. Take Five barely has any User Interface for you to play with, but whatever little UI it does have, the Iconfactory has made it gorgeous. When you first install the app from the Mac App Store, it shows up in your Dock. To pause iTunes, just click on either the menubar or dock icon. Take Five is priced at $3.99 on the Mac App Store, but is currently on sale at $1.99. MyStream launches the first free iOS app to share music over WiFi - TNW Apps. Have you ever tried to share a pair of headphones on the subway train, only to have someone’s bulky body knock the buds painfully from your ears and disturb your listening experience?
I have, quite a few times, which is why I’m very, very excited about MyStream, the first free app that enables music sharing across iOS devices over WiFi or Bluetooth. “Back when wireless headphones came out, and I could also play a song for a friend out of a portable stereo system, I thought, why can’t I play this song for both me and a friend in both of our own headphones?” -MyStream CEO, Richard Zelson Since June 2010, Zelson has been hard at work raising funding and hiring a development team to build this desire into a reality. The resulting app, MyStream, which quietly hit the Apple store yesterday, was publicly announced today.
The app enables easy music or audio book sharing across 3rd and 4th generation iOS devices (with the iPad coming soon) via a Bluetooth or WiFi connection. How to Track the Future of the Music Industry. There is simply nothing like Twitter for being a fly on the wall. People sit at work and tweet about what they're doing. They tweet at night, they tweet in the morning and they tweet a lot on the weekends - find a vein of good tweets from a group of people you want to learn from, watch it over time and the world is your oyster. That's my theory, anyway. One of the things I'm interested in tracking are the streaming music services. So tonight I built a Twitter list of people who work at Rdio, Pandora, Mog and Spotify. (Then I remembered Grooveshark!) Give it a click and you can follow it too. Step 1 - I knew where the list of Rdio staff members was, because I had asked my darling virtual assistants at FancyHands by email to find it for me a few weeks ago.
Becky from Fancyhands sent me back great links for lists to Pandora and Spotify right away. Step 2 - I made a list of Mog employees by searching for them on LinkedIn. I did and it was AWESOME. Streaming Music Industry People. Audiotool 2.0 – Music-making on the Web just got serious. When I first started looking into Web-based music sequencers and digital audio workstations last year, Audiotool was one of the first I came across. I was instantly impressed by this slick, Flash-based tool and the features that the team of Cologne based developers had already packed into it. I’d even go as far to say that it was a big contributing factor to me deciding to cover this kind of tech in-depth over at Audio Silver Lining. Audiotool is essentially a Web-based sequencer tool that lets you create music, remix and collaborate with others all from within a web browser. It launched with a pretty impressive range of digital emulations of drum machines (essentially copies of Roland’s classic 808 & 909 boxes), a 303 style bass synth and a versatile analog synth, as well as an impressive range of FX boxes and loops.
Google begins testing Google Music internally | Media Maverick. Google has begun testing Google Music internally, a sign that the much anticipated service is nearly ready to launch. Employees at the online behemoth have begun a process commonly referred to in Silicon Valley as dog-fooding, in which employees try out a new service or product, music industry sources told CNET. Two weeks ago someone writing at the XDA Developers forum claimed to have accidentally discovered Google Music after installing the Honeycomb version of the Android operating system on a phone.
Turns out, that was indeed a working version of the service, the music industry insiders said, adding, however, that the final version could be much different. Google did not respond to an inquiry from CNET about Google Music. Technologically speaking, then, Google Music--a streaming service users would access from Web-connected devices--appears close to being ready. Licensing rights for digital lockers of this sort is largely uncharted territory for the labels. Psonar set to launch ’1 Cent per play’ mobile music streaming service. From Last.fm to Spotify and We7 to Rdio, there are plenty of mobile music streaming offerings out there, but none of them are yet to become truly ubiquitous – locally stored files are still a far more popular way of listening to music on the move. One thing all mobile music services have in common is that on-demand, ‘choose whatever you want’ music is a premium offering. While services like Spotify and We7 opt for a monthly subscription fee, UK startup Psonar is set to take a different approach by charging one Cent per play.
Aiming largely at the youth market, Psonar will use carrier billing to allow users on both contract and pre-pay phone deals to easily purchase credit to then spend on playing songs. So, buying $10 of credit would allow you 1000 plays, for example. Additionally, friends will be able to “gift” a playlist and an amount of credit to others. A recent Forrester Research report described young “digital natives” as “The Generation That Music Product Strategy Forgot”. The Secret to Pandora's Unrivaled Internet Radio Success. Mike Agovino co-founded Triton in 2006 following more than 20 years of executive experience in the radio industry. Mike's experience includes 18 years of service at Katz Media where he rose to become president of Katz Radio and Katz Interactive, and later, COO of Clear Channel Radio Sales.
When Pandora unsealed her fabled box, she unleashed all the evils of the world. As I read through the recently unsealed Pandora IPO, I instead see a lot that is encouraging. Pandora has opened its "box" and served notice that online radio can and will be a meaningful and profitable business. The monthly rankings from Ando Media show Pandora with an 11 month AAS (average active sessions — roughly equivalent to "AQH") of 440,000, from which the company generated approximately $100 million in ad sales in 2010.
Then, in December, Pandora's numbers jumped to 642,614 in AAS. How is Pandora getting so much traction with just a fraction of the amount of terrestrial radio’s commercial content? 1. 2. 3. Music and technology: Berlin is the future. Gobbler: A service for backing up, sending & organizing audio. Blues Maker. Pandora radio app cruises into cars. By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY LAS VEGAS — Before the iPhone, Pandora was a struggling Internet radio service fighting to stay alive. Thanks to the iPhone, Pandora's audience doubled in a year, and now, with 80 million listeners, it's by far the largest and fastest-growing Internet music service.
Founder Tim Westergren's next horizon: the car. By tapping into the Internet from the iPhone (and, in some cases, Android and BlackBerry phones) Pandora now can be played in many cars with special dashboard controls, including Ford Fiesta, new Minis and most new Mercedes-Benzes. Coming this year: Pandora in the new Toyota Prius V, Hyundai Veloster, new BMWs and Buick Verano. In some cases, the phone connects directly through a jack to the car audio system, in others via Bluetooth.
To bring Pandora to older vehicles, auto stereo manufacturers Alpine, Pioneer, JVC and Kenwood are offering car radios that can connect to the smartphone for Pandora integration at prices ranging from $199 to $1,200. Music - Bing Entertainment. HANDS ON: "Discovr" iPad App Shows Fascinating Interactive Maps of Music. Vox is a Minimalist Music Player and Converter for Mac OS X. Listen to Free Music Online - Internet Radio - Free MP3 Streaming.
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