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Broadcast Radio Losing Influence As Teens Flock To Streaming And YouTube, Says New "Music And Millennials" Study
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HypeBot
On demand streaming is now the format of choice for 15-19 year olds, according to a new study by the Music Business Association and LOOP, and most of those listeners are coming from broadcast radio. 15-to-19 year olds have embraced on-demand streaming as their format of choice, accounting for 51% of their total listening time on a typical day. That's more than double the overall average of 24%, which includes all age groups, according to the new study “Music & Millennials,” by ...
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Random Touch’s "Flock" Concludes Their Career With A Bang
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Asheville, NC - Thirty-three years of collaboration and sixteen releases culminates in the masterpiece Flock, Random Touch’s final album. The ten tracks range from the bigger-than-life “Arena” to the uninhibited joy of “Dance of the Elementals” to the psychedelic final track, “She Wore Sheepskin”. In-between is found all manner of genre bending complexity and unnerving cinematic suspense. Scott Hamill’s mastery of the bass guitar is notable on the album. Its pervasiveness recreates the traditional jazz trio, and yet jazz could ...
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Gutbucket - Flock (Cuneiform, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Another band that skirts the divide between jazz and rock 'n' roll is the Brooklyn based outfit Gutbucket, whose intricate jazz based arrangements are infused with punk rock energy. Gutbucket consists of Ty Citerman on guitar, Eric Rockwin on bass, Ken Thomson on saxophones and Adam Gold on drums. Gutbucket's music isn't as much based around the traditional improvisational nature of jazz as tightly wound arrangements and strong powerful music that hits with a visceral wallop. In a sense this ...
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Lovano Flies High! (Flock to the Dakota Tonight)
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
It's been two years since Joe Lovano launched his firecracker quintet, Us Five, releasing one of the top CDs of the year, Folk Art. Initial appeals of the ensemble were the unusual 2-drum format and the presence of soon-to-be-Grammy-upstart Esperanza Spalding on bass. Although she rejoins Us Five in the recording studio and some tour stops, bass duties have pretty much been reassigned to young Peter Slavov. And on the current tour, Francisco Mela has yielded one trapset to veteran ...
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Gutbucket - Flock (2011)
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Something Else!
By S. Victor Aaron According to Wikipedia, a gutbucket is “a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator." There was even a “gutbucket blues" style of music that was played by those jug bands of long ago. And so since we're here to talk about a band called “Gutbucket," this is a band of hillbillies in overalls sporting a washtub bass, banjo and mouth harp playing mid-20th century Appalachian music, right? Couldn't ...
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Audiences, and Hollywood, Flock to Smartphones
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Michael Ricci
It might be hard to imagine watching The Office on a screen no bigger than a business card. But tens of thousands of people by the most conservative estimate are already doing just that. As Hollywood shrinks its films and television shows for the small screens of cellphones, its assumptions about mobile viewing are being upended by surprisingly patient consumers. We all thought they'd be watching video clips in the checkout line or between classes, said Vivi Zigler, the president ...
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