Music Industry (Trade)

Business, Children's Music, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Music Industry (Trade), Pink Floyd, Record Labels May 24, 2007

Rocking Your Baby To Sleep

May 24, 2007 Soothing interpretations of rock songs provide an alternative to typical lullabies GRAMMY.com Nick Krewen Songs like Metallica‘s “Master Of Puppets,” Nirvana‘s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Tool‘s “Opiate” don’t exactly conjure visions of cribs, prams and diapers, but one Los Angeles-based record label is working to change that perception. With such sonic pacifiers as the glockenspiel, vibraphone and harp subbing for wailing guitars and hammering drums, Baby…

Business, Music Industry (Trade) April 16, 2007

Powering Up The Music Marketing Video Game Plan

Video games provide the latest medium for exposing artists to new audiences GRAMMY.com Nick Krewen April 16, 2007 When Green Day was on the verge of recording their epic American Idiot in the spring of 2004 and facing any number of deadlines, one of the first people they called was Steve Schnur. “The guys in Green Day had asked us to come to the studio,” recalls Schnur, worldwide executive of…

Business, Music Industry (Trade) April 5, 2007

The Latest Ticket Option: The Auction

Concertgoers endure a brave new world of ticket bidding wars and ultimate VIP packages   Nick Krewen GRAMMY.com April 5, 2007 Christina Aguilera may be going “Back To Basics” on her 2007 35-date North American tour, but that philosophy isn’t being applied to her legions of concert-attending fans. Where once they stood in line, made phone calls or surfed the Net to instantaneously obtain the best available seating for shows…

Business, Indigenous (Native), Literary, Music Industry (Trade) August 7, 2006

Native Musicians’ Influence Dates To Early Jazz

Native Musicians’ Influence Dates To Early Jazz August 7, 2006 Encyclopedia Of Native Music contains 1,800 entries on Native American musicians   GRAMMY.com Nick Krewen She discovered Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, mentored jazz legend Billie Holiday, influenced Tony Bennett and was one of the first female singers to professionally perform with an orchestra. But one of the truly obscure facts about jazz singer Mildred Bailey — known as “Mrs….

Business, Music Industry (Trade), Record Labels January 13, 2006

Unlocking the Vaults

January 13, 2006 Major labels have put catalog mining into the hands of specialized divisions GRAMMY.com Nick Krewen If you’re a Ray Charles fan, Christmas has come early. To celebrate what would have been his 75th birthday, Rhino Entertainment recently issued a pair of Ray Charles albums — a posthumous duets project called Genius & Friends and the more elaborate Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959), an eight-disc set…