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Rosa grew up in a musical household; her parents played in a reggae band, they toured as a family, homeschooling Rosa into her early teens, limiting her listening primarily to Sade, oldies, Brazilian and Afrobeat music. After moving to Chicago, she connected with hip-hop collective THEMPeople. Born in Chicago, Shehade fell in love with DJ culture as a kid and took up music production and engineering; his interest eventually led to professional opportunities, including studio work with Chance the Rapper, Kanye West, and music projects for MTV and Bravo.
In early jam sessions the chemistry was clear; Rosa’s soulful delivery interlocked with Shehade’s chic Chicago house-infused production style. A lovesick sound emerged over two EPs — Gallows in 2016 and Lies After Love in 2018 — and caught the ear of Ghostly International. With its founding roots in the Midwest, independent philosophy, and wayward approach to electro-pop and dance music, the label proved to be the logical home for the next era of DRAMA.
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Dramatic film depiction of guitarist Jeff Golub’s struggle with PSP to premiere in New York October 6
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All About Jazz
CurePSP provided seed funding for debut documentary by director Kyle I. Kelley The new film Train Keeps a Rolling, which dramatically documents the musical achievements and final years of the great jazz, blues, and rock guitarist Jeff Golub when he was battling progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), will have its premiere in jny: New York City on October 6. It will be released on major streaming platforms later this year. The event is sponsored by CurePSP, the foundation for prime of ...
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Music Piracy Continues To Dip Dramatically, But The Industry Is Loathe To Admit It Because It Ruins The Narrative [Op-Ed]
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In this op-ed, Mike Masnick reveals how better-authorized services have, in contrast to increased legal enforcement, been incredibly effective at reducing online piracy, but that the music industry is choosing to ignore the numbers in favor of a different narrative. Guest post by Mike Masnick of Techdirt This was wholly predictable, of course. Back in 2015, we released a detailed analytical report showing that the absolute easiest and most effective way to reduce piracy was to to enable more and better licensed ...
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Russia Welcomes Sun Ra - November 19 With The Jazz Drama Program Presentation Of "Message From Saturn"
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Sun Ra Heads To Russia! Euro-Asian Premiere November 19, 2016 “Saxophonist Knoel Scott told me Sun Ra came into rehearsal and said, 'I just got a message from Saturn. We are not playing enough blues!' I thought about this for ten years, then joined up with Clifford Carlson to write this story." —Eli Yamin Eli Yamin and friends bring the Blues to Russia for the Euro-Asian premiere of Message From Saturn in Yekaterinburg on November 19! ...
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Tunecore Quarterly Payments To Artists Up 24% To $44 Million Driven By Dramatic Streaming Growth
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TuneCore payments to artists rose 24% to $44 million last quarter over the same quarter last year. Since TuneCore launched in 2006, their artists have earned $733 million from 36.5 billion downloads and streams. TuneCore independent artists earned $44 million in the second quarter of this year. That's a 24% increase from the second quarter of 2015. Streaming Explodes Much of the growth is coming from an explosive 82% increase in streaming: TIDAL (+157%), Amazon Music (+112%) and Spotify (+89%). Interesting there ...
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SoundExchange Reports Record Payouts In 2015, But Growth Is Slowing Dramatically
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SoundExchange has announced record royalty payments to artists in 2015. $802.6 million was paid out, but the year's 4% growth was the slowest in the digital performing right's organization's 8 year history. SoundExchange announced a new record with total year-end royalty payments reaching $802.6 million (up 4 percent from $773.4 million the prior year). 2014 growth was 30%. The fourth quarter 2015 distribution also increased, totaling $211.4 million (up 16 percent from $182.8 million the prior year). “As we close ...
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Jazz Drama Program Honors Jon Hendricks & Cobi Narita On October 14 at the DiMenna Center in New York City
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Hosted by Good Morning America News Anchor Ron Claiborne Good Morning America news anchor and music fan Ron Claiborne will host a gala evening honoring vocalese original Jon Hendricks once dubbed the “James Joyce of Jazz" by Time magazine, and producer Cobi Narita who founded and led both the Universal Jazz Coalition and New York Women's Jazz Festival for several decades. The event takes place Wednesday, October 14, from 7-9pm at the DiMenna Center, 450 West 37th Street in midtown ...
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"Strange Fruit" Radio Drama Released
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S.G Provizer
RADIO THEATER PROGRAM MARKS 75th ANNIVERSARY OF “STRANGE FRUIT" Distributed on PRX.ORG BOSTON, MA: The song “Strange Fruit," which graphically describes lynching in the South, is one of the most controversial songs in American music. The 75th anniversary of the recording of the song is being marked by a radio theatre production telling the story of the creation of this dramatic song and its performance by vocalist Billie Holiday in 1939. The program was written, directed and produced by Brookline ...
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Spotify Helps You Find the Most Dramatic Moment in Any Song
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By Eliot Van Buskirk from Spotify Insights. Music’s emotional power stems from a mix of factors, only some of which we understand. Much about music resists full explanation. One thing we do know: Some of the magic has to do with dynamics: changes from soft to loud, or from loud to soft. The most dramatic part of a song often coincides with a crescendo (when the music gets louder). That’s when everything kicks in, louder effects and guitar pedals come ...
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The Dramatics 'Greatest Slow Jams' Coming on Stax Records April 29
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conqueroo
Producer Kevin “Slow Jammin'” James has brought together a collection of the ultimate slow jams from American soul group The Dramatics, whose members included Ron Banks, L.J. Reynolds, Lenny Mayes, Willie Ford and Winzell Kelly. Titled The Dramatics – Greatest Slow Jams, and set for release on Stax Records on April 29, 2014, this compilation stems predominantly from the band’s breakout hits of the early '70s, a time when the band was recording with Stax-Volt as well as ABC Records. ...
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Successful Motema Music and Jazz Singer/Songwriter Rondi Charleston Video Release Results In $8,500 Donation To The Jazz Drama Program
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GoMedia PR
Significant Contribution Generated as a Result of 8,500 YouTube Views—almost 500 views every day during the special promotion period—of Charleston’s Live Performance of her Original Song “DNA” Thinking creatively, Charleston and her label, Motema Music, agreed in mid- December to donate $1 to the Jazz Drama Program (JDP) for every view of “DNA,” a track from Charleston’s critically acclaimed 2013 release, Signs of Life; the YouTube video captured a live performance from August of last year at Yoshi’s in San ...
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