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WAR with Malo At Stern Grove

by Walter Atkins
WAR with Malo Stern Grove Stern Grove Summer Festival 2017 San Francisco, CA August 13, 2017 WAR, led by Lonnie Jordan rolled into Stern Grove to an enthusiastically packed house, and fired up the faithful with all cylinders working smoothly on a relatively cool Sunday afternoon. The gold and platinum award winning band, originally from Long Beach CA, consisted of: lead vocalist & keyboardist Jordan, guitarist Stuart Ziff, bassist Rene Camacho, saxophonist Scott Martin, ...
Continue ReadingViolins & Poems 'war' Set For February 3, 2024 At The Delancey

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Robert C. Ford
On Saturday February 3, 2024 at 6:30pm at The Delancey (168 Delancey Street, NYC), Composers Concordance presents Violins & Poems 'War'. A concert where violinists & poets meet to explore the subject of war. The poets for this event are Robert C. Ford, Erik T. Johnson, and Imelda O'Reilly. They will be joined by violinists Lynn Bechtold, Funda Cizmecioglu, Tasos Papastanou, and Mark Zaki. Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Michelle Shocked will also participate and premiere a new arrangement (by Randall Woolf) of ...
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Spotify's Ongoing War With The Music Industry

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HypeBot
Spotify has a long and sordid history of failing to pay proper mechanical royalties to creators and publishers, and has already been hit with two major class action lawsuits relating to such. Here we take a look at the legal details negating Spotify's claim that it doesn't need to pay these royalties. Guest post by Erin M. Jacobson of The Music Industry Lawyer Spotify has waged a war with the music industry. The streaming company has a history of not ...
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Is The Record Industry Really At War With Free Music?

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Although some claim that the record industry is opposed to alternative music distribution services like streaming, a cursory look at the RIAA's data from 2015 reveals that this may not be the case, and that traditional music platforms such as radio could deserve more industry ire. Guest post by Cary Sherman of the RIAA The business landscape is more complicated than critics think. In Matt Ingram’s Fortune article earlier this month, he seems to be under the impression that the music industry is “at ...
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Epic Fail: The War On Piracy

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HypeBot
The final chapter in the long, sordid story of the pirate site, Grooveshark, finally played out in a New York Courtroom last week. The principals, after years of litigation, have finally shut down their website and signed an agreement stating they will never own or operate a pirate site again or face millions of dollars in fines. Guest Post by Will Buckley on Fare Play “An RIAA statement issued on Thursday (April 30) goes on to say under terms of the settlement, Grooveshark ...
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Inspired By The 150th Anniversary Of The Civil War, Concert And Exhibition At The Rosenbach Feature Original Work By Renowned Pianist & Composer Dave Burrell

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The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia
World-renowned jazz pianist Dave Burrell will once again debut original work at The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia in exclusive concert performances on Thursday, April 10 at 6:00 pm and Saturday, April 12 at 7:00 pm. The fourth in a five-year series of concerts commemorating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War, Burrell’s work for 2014 explores fascinating new territory. Entitled Listening to Lincoln, the piece is inspired by both the massacre of black Union soldiers at the ...
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Who Will Win the Home Music War?

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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. The cassette player, compact disc, MP3 player, and today’s smartphones and tablets were all portable music evolutions. Newsflash: Humans are not always in motion. Sometimes — a great deal of the time — we are at home. And yet as a general population, we are all hackers and settlers-for-good-enough in this place where we spend most of our time. Touring the homes of your friends and family will reveal a hodgepodge of iPod decks, ...
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Cold War Jazz At The Coral Springs Museum Of Art, FL
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Les Blachut
Cold War Jazz is a music project sponsored by the Coral Springs Museum of Art and a grant from the Chautauqua Institution. On January 5, 2013, at 3PM the Coral Springs Museum of Art csmart.org will host the International Jazz Ensemble to play music, discuss the issues and display artwork of Cold War era by jazz musicians from Poland and Hungary. The jazz movement in Eastern Europe is believed to have contributed to the fall of Communism and the increased ...
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Music Apps Become Pawns in Platform War

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Guest post by Kyle Bylin of sidewinder.fm Apple did not debut a Pandora rival at the recent iPhone 5 unveiling. Sentiment among analysts about the possibility, however, did reveal something about how the ongoing platform war will impact music apps. Often we regard a good" idea with great timing as having the potential to capture a market, and perhaps, even obtain for its owners a lucrative exit. What we have learned recently is that a third and equally important element ...
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Composer Dave Burrell’s Civilians During War Time Premieres at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Jan. 18 & 21

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Canary Promotion + Design
World-renowned jazz pianist performs new compositions inspired by Civil War research Wednesday, Jan. 18, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, 2:00-3:30 p.m. and 7:00-8:30 p.m. Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2008-2010 Delancey Place, Philadelphia Free with museum admission, but RSVP is required. To RSVP, call (215) 732-1600, ext. 123 or email [email protected]. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for students and free for children under five. For more information visit rosenbach.org. The Rosenbach Museum & Library welcomes ...
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Time to Declare War on Aftermarket Ticketing?

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Digital Music News
It's hard to wage a morality war against high-priced concert tickets, especially when fans are voluntarily paying through the nose. But concert ticketingespecially aftermarket ticketingis oftentimes a shady affair, one that could be bad for the longer-term health of this sector. And, for festivals that rely on their brand name and reputation to attract repeat attendees and even lifelong followers, it's a problem worth solving. Which is why a new collective of British festivals has decided tomove in a new, ...
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