Nick Edelstein

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Creative Twitter Hurdles Simfy on FB

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Creative Commons guidant les contributeurs

Some very interesting things happened online today.Twitter launched a photo sharing service. Simfy beat Spotify to Facebook. Facebook’s behavior re: Pages brought some artists to reconsider their methods of fan interaction. Creative Commons is now on YouTube. Overall it was a great day of progress, introspection and optomism.

The Twitter photo sharing thing doesn’t suprise me, honestly. NPR did an exposé on Twitpic’s Terms and Conditions clause recently, which generated a bit of negative buzz. Even Ellen DeGeneres announced she would never TwitPic again. So naturally Twitter has seized an opportunity to play hero. More suprising is Simfy! Talk about the underdog. Nobody predicted this: German music streaming service Simfy launched their Facebook player just a week after news broke that Spotify was working on FB integration. Awesome.

So, is Facebook commandeering mid-level artists’ Pages? Some successful, non-major-label artists such as Zoe Keating noticed their Pages have been reclassified (not replaced) as “Community Pages.” The official status they previously held has now been granted to a new, Wikipedia-fed Page. While it’s not clear whether the Wiki Pages were auto-generated or made by FB staff, this mystery doesn’t stop at reclassification. When I type “Zoe Keating” into the search bar, her Page doesn’t even show up! That’s right. When I do a blanket search for her name, select “show all results” and narrow the search to Pages, it does not appear. Since it’s been a few hours, this is unlikely due to propagation delays. Weird. Unsettling.
Update: Keating’s Page was restored to “Official” status hours later, after hundreds of emails and tweets and comments had been published. Other affected artists are still struggling. Luckily this did not affect any of the Pages owned by NESS Records.

In other / better news, the creative commons license - first discovered by this artist via the European community Tribe Of Noise – has now become so mainstream that YouTube offers it as an alternative to standard copyright. YouTube announced today that it now supports Creative Commons licenses and launched a huge library of 10,000 CC videos (read the official press release here). Awesome, yes. In no way do I wish to diminish the awesomeness. However, this illustrates one HUGE way that major-label artists, major news orgs, etc. will be and have always been separated from us independants. Those 10,000 videos in the library. They are from major networks. Part of the launch, the coverage, the hype. With me? No? Look at iTunes: major artists get iTunes Exclusives and other special extras. Major artists get first crack at major breakthroughs in social media and tech. Dave Matthews had a custom Page and vanity URL before any indie artist, for example. This will forever be a hurdle that indie artists attempt to jump.

I fondly remember the days when being on iTunes was impressive. It was brand new … most people still didn’t have iPods … smartphones were only found in the hands of businessmen. Telling people your music was on iTunes gave you instant street cred and often times, before you could finish uttering the sentence, you’d converted strangers into fans. Now, everyone and their brother has their music on iTunes. Who knows if an opportunity like that will present itself again?

… now, who doesn’t wanna watch Bill Cosby playing piano on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno?!? http://bit.ly/cosbyonleno

Tags: Bill Cosby, Creative Commons, facebook, itunes, Jay Leno, piano, player, Simfy, Spotify, streaming, The Grooves, The Tonight Show, tribe of noise, twitter, video, YouTube, Zoe Keating
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New Videos on YouTube

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Uploaded brand spankin’ new videos on YouTube from the Dunwoody Music Festival, thanks to super-fan Scott Brown and my wife’s iMac!

Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/user/NickEdelsteinBand OK now, blast away!
IF YOU HAVE FAN FOOTAGE or FAN FOTOS to share, please do! You can upload photos directly on the Gallery page of this website! ~Nick

Tags: arts, Arts and Entertainment, dunwoody, festival, iMac, music, Scott Brown, video, YouTube
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Bo Diddley has passed …

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Hello again friends! Last week was filled with more sadness as we learned of the passing of another Blues legend on June 2, and the great news journalist Tim Russert on June 13. I wanted to write a good obituary for Bo Diddley, but time was limited in my schedule. Fortunately the Associated Press did an excellent job in their attempt so I’ve pasted it below. Please keep the greats alive in your thoughts! ~Nick
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Tags: Blues, diddley, florida, funeral, guitar, rock, video, YouTube
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Digital Cafe Tour, Top 50 chart!

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Dear family and friends, I’m thrilled to announce our placement in the Top 50 chart on www.DigitalCafeTour.com! The congratulatory email I received is pasted here:

“Nick Edelstein Band, Congratulations on being selected as a Top 50 Winner of Live 2.0 Independents’ Day! Top 10 and Top 4 will be next in our announcement schedule. Good luck in the next round of selections!
Best Regards,
Tom Walker, President, DCT”

As always, I’ll keep you posted when I get more info. Thanks for ALL of your support, you’re the best fans IN THE WORLD! ~Nick

Tags: cafe, chart, contest, digital, live, music, nick, top 50, tour, video
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WUGA videos uploaded (finally!)

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Dear friends and family, apologies for it taking so many months to upload these videos. The truth is we were waiting on having the editing done. Not that there was THAT much to edit – on the contrary we did very little editing (basically just added a splash page and did fade-outs for endings). No, we just were so busy that we didn’t begin the editing process until last week. So here they are – all four songs which I performed live on the air on October 12, 2007. Enjoy ~NE click to watch on YouTube

Tags: 97.9, Athens, classic, FM, georgia, live, Live In 2007, North, NPR, radio, university, video, WUGA, YouTube
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Friday morning, Oct. 12

Friday, October 12th, 2007

I think perhaps I have seen more than my share of 3 AMs at the young age of 24. My eyes are heavy but I can not rest. My mind races. These 48 hours are jam-packed with excitement and “firsts.” Last night I played a concert for the University of GA. As a student I recall dreaming of the day that I would return to entertain my alma mater. While the show did not take place in Hodgeson Hall, it was in the Grand Ballroom of the student center. Also, our concert was the opening event of a Georgia Scholastic Press Association conference – the inaugural year – so the audience was comprised of about 200 high school students. While this number does not approach my personal record, it was the best/biggest production I’ve ever done to that age group. Another exciting aspect of the show was performing as a 5-piece (drum/bass/guitar/organ/sax). While this was not the first time I’ve had a 5-pc. band, it was with some of the best musicians I’ve ever played with. And, thanks to a recent run of good luck, the 5-pc. setup is increasingly more common. When I began my solo project in 2004 I dreamt of someday having a permanent saxophonist and I feel that may soon happen. So, the audience was really awesome! We got tons of applause and cheers, and autograph requests. It was great. We took video. It’ll be online (on this blog) ASAP.

‘night ~NE

Tags: 5-piece, ballroom, GSPA, high school, Hodgeson, Press, sax, scholastic, Tate, UGA, video
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