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King Crimson To Release Meltdown In Mexico – Live In Mexico City 2017
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
This 3-CD/1-Blu-Ray set features over three and a half hours of material performed during King Crimson's five night residency at Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City in July 2017 plus audio extras. The Blu-Ray contains over two hours of multi-camera HD recorded footage, audio soundtrack in 24/48 LPCM, hi-res stereo and 5.1 DTS HD-MA (with 'picture off' mode allowing the music to be heard independently in lossless audio). Meltdown in Mexico includes, for the first time with this line-up, audio recordings of ...
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The Music Startup Meltdown - And it’s going to get worse before it gets any better…
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HypeBot
After a strong year for music tech investments in 2015, things have gotten much tougher for music and music tech startups. The money tree is bearing less fruit and the sexiness of music startups has faded. But its going to get even worse before it gets any better, says Cortney Harding. By music industry and music tech consultant Cortney Harding, author of How We Listen Now: Essays and Conversations About Music and Technology. In Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” Mike Campbell is ...
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Mitch Marcus Quintet, "Countdown 2 Meltdown," 2010
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Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
The West Coast is alive for music. It's not a West Coast jazz in a cool sense for the most part these days. It's something else. San Franciscan (but also New Yorkian) Mitch Marcus and his quintet show us some of that in the riotcap avant romp Countdown 2 Meltdown (Porto Franco 009). It's notable for the presence of the very nimble electric guitarist Mike Abraham, the two-reed threat of Mitch (tenor) and Sylvian Carton (alto), and the very lively ...
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AT&T iPhone Orders 'Temporarily Suspended' After 600K Meltdown
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All About Jazz
If you were wondering why both Apple and AT&T melted down when taking orders for the iPhone 4 on Tuesday, we have the answer.
Apple sold 600,000 of the things.
According to Apples press release, “It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions."
It wasn't helped by AT&Ts new ordering system which, according to an AT&T insider was ...
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Full Programme Announced for Ornette Coleman's Meltdown
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All About Jazz
The complete programme has been announced for Ornette Coleman's Meltdown festival, which runs at London's Southbank from June 13th to 21st. As well as the headline acts that had already been announced--and for which tickets are selling fast-- the full programme now includes all the support acts, the free events, and the opportunity for a limited number of musicians to join a tuition week of Harmolodics, in partnership with Trinity Laban.
The new additions increase the British contingent at the ...
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First Acts Announced for Ornette Coleman's Meltdown
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All About Jazz
Following weeks of speculation about the acts that curator Ornette Coleman would select to include in his Meltdown, which begins at London's Southbank on Saturday June 13th, the mystery is almost over.
With more acts still to be revealed, those already announced have raised eyebrows and set pulses racing. Despite Coleman being the festival's first jazz curator, in true Meltdown fashion the acts cover a broad spectrum of music and cannot be easily pigeonholed. There is plenty of jazz but ...
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Ornette Coleman Curates Meltdown 2009
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All About Jazz
Over the years, London's annual Meltown festival has had an impressive list of guest curators.
They include Elvis Costello, Scott Walker, John Peel, Patti Smith, Jarvis Cocker, Lee Perry and Robert Wyatt. This June's festival will break new ground with its first jazz curator--Ornette Coleman.
The city is already buzzing with speculation about the acts that Coleman will include in the festival. Although none is yet confirmed, smart money is already on Lou Reed, Charlie Haden or John Zorn being ...
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