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Steely Dan: Black Friday
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Adding the word black" to a day of the week began in September 1869, after Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market. Prices plunged, wealthy investors lost money and the day became known in the press as Black Friday. After the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929, newspapers referred to the day in its coverage as Black Thursday. Five days later, when the largest single number of shares were traded in stock-market history, newspapers called ...
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Record Stores Follow Black Friday with Small Business Saturday Exclusives, Sales and Events
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The team and growing network of indie stores behind Record Store Day are celebrating both Black Friday and Small Business Saturday this weekend November 23- 24 with an extensive array of exclusive releases, special sales, in-store performances, signings and events. Most exclusives (extensive list below) will debut on Black Friday. But on Saturday, Record Store Day continues its 6 year collaboration with Small Business Saturday with exclusive releases from Ben Folds, Tony Bennett and Diana Krall, Ingrid Michaelson and Kid ...
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Indie Record Store Black Friday Sales Up 13.8%, reports CIMS
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Black Friday sales reports from the Coalition Of Independent Music Stores are in and they were universally positive, according to Michael Bunnell, CIMS Executive Director. Less comprehensive data showed an up day on Small Business Saturday, as well. Sales reports from most Coalition Of Independent Music Stores show Black Friday sales increases ranged from +5% to an astounding +53%, with an average increase of 13.8%. Only two stores reported decreases from their 2016 sales, while a couple reported flat sales. Less comprehensive data ...
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Robert Trujillo Releases "JACO" The Exclusive DVD/Blu-Ray Available On Record Store Day Black Friday
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Cristina Parker
BLACK FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27TH, 2015 WILL SEE THE RELEASE OF THE EXCLUSIVE DVD/BLU-RAY JACO BY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROBERT TRUJILLO THE EXTRAORDINARY NEW FILM CHRONICLES THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF LEGENDARY BASSIST/COMPOSER JACO PASTORIUS Robert Trujillo, in association with Passion Pictures, has announced the official multi-platform release of the acclaimed new documentary, JACO. The film chronicles the brief but extraordinary life of the great American musician/composer Jaco Pastorius. JACO's official DVD/Blu-ray ...
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Limited Edition Independent Music, Courtesy of Record Store Day's Black Friday Event
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Record Store Day will be holding their fifth annual Black Friday event on Friday, November 28th. There is not an incomprehensible list of sale items being broadcasted as you've likely seen or experienced throughout this week in nearly every medium imaginible. Rather, in an effort to remove commercialized chaos from the experience, Record Store Day's Black Friday Event will offer limited edition exclusives and small-run specialty items to consumers who seek and appreciate the rarity and value of such pieces. Record Store ...
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To Celebrate Record Store Day's Back To Black Friday Event, Omnivore Recordings Announces Ten-inch Vinyl Eps
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Also from Omnivore, Jellyfish’s two-CD set Stack-a-Tracks offers rare glimpse of band in an instrumental mode LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Record Store Day comes but once a year, but its Back to Black Friday event in November brings the focus back to independent record stores during the biggest shopping day of the year. And for Omnivore Recordings, it’s an important and fun event. “Everyone at Omnivore is a fan and a collector, most of us have worked at a record ...
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Indie Music Stores Report Strong Black Friday Sales
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Black Friday provided a ray of hope for indie music retailers. Most did well, with many reporting lines of people waiting to get in," said Michael Bunnell, Director of Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS). We don't see that often anymore." Store Sales Stats: A few stores struggled with bad weather, but most saw increases of 10% to 50% on Friday and 15% to 20% for the weekend, driven in part by exclusive product offerings. Best-sellers at indie stores included ...
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How Did Music Do on Black Friday?
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(UPDATED) The music industry got at least a sideways bump on Black Friday as mp3 players remained among the season's most popular gifts. No specific numbers were released, but mp3 players along with video game consoles and computers including tablets were among the top 3 most popular electronic purchases, according to interim results from the Consumer Electronics Association's Black Friday Survey. The MP3 market is dominated by iPods," according to a CES spokesperson. And the iPad right now has 95% ...
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"Black Friday" Jazz! Download Tony Foster's "In Between Moods"- $4.99!
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Michael Ricci
Black Keys, Mos Def, RZA Release BlakRoc on Black Friday
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JamBase
BLAKROC TO BE RELEASED BLACK FRIDAY 11.27.09
Mos Def The brainchild of The Black Keys and Damon Dash, BlakRoc Records will release BlakRoc on Black Friday," November 27, the day after Thanksgiving (to be dubbed Blak Friday" by the independent record stores that will sell the album). The album will be an exclusive to iTunes digitally upon release.
Produced by and featuring music by The Black Keys, BlakRoc hosts a star-studded lineup of MCs including Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Raekwon, ...
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