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Q4: Uphill Struggle

Read "Uphill Struggle" reviewed by Roger Farbey


Saxophone quartets are a relatively infrequent phenomenon in jazz. Perhaps the last one to cause a stir was the Delta Saxophone Quartet whose albums Crimson! (Basho Records, 2016) and Bowie, Berlin & Beyond (FMR Records, 2018) offered new perspectives on the music of King Crimson and David Bowie respectively. But even the DSQ relied on occasional instrumental augmentation and on Crimson! this was supplied by virtuoso pianist Gwilym Simcock. With Q4's Uphill Struggle there is no such respite nor any ...

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Music Industry

2018 On-Demand Music Streams +42%, Paid Streams +50% In Q4 [BuzzAngle Music]

2018 On-Demand Music Streams +42%, Paid Streams +50% In Q4 [BuzzAngle Music]

Source: HypeBot

On-demand audio streams set a record high of 534.6 billion in the US in 2018, up 42% over the previous year, according to the BuzzAngle Music Industry Year End Report.  But the best news for artists and labels came thanks to 50% growth in streams by paid subscribers. Those 157.4 billion higher paying subscription streams now account for 85% of all on-demand audio, according to the respected music data monitoring service. Competing formats continued their rapid decline.    In 2018, ...

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Technology

Blockbuster Confirms Set-Top Will Launch in Q4

Blockbuster Confirms Set-Top Will Launch in Q4

Source: PC Magazine

Video rental chain Blockbuster plans to launch a set-top box into the consumer market before the end of the year, Blockbuster executives said late last week. During the company's third-quarter earnings call, Jim Keyes, Blockbuster's chairman and chief executive, said that the company's transformation from a movie-rental brick-and-mortar organization into a “multichannel platform" will include a set-top box. Keyes implied that the set-top will be a trial offer, and not a full-fledged product. Blockbuster representatives did not return calls for ...

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