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Colbert Lampoons Music Licensing with Black Keys vs. Vampire Weekend Indie Rock "Sellout Off"
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HypeBot
(Updated) Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert took an only half tongue in cheek whack at the recent glut of music licensing in commercials with a “sellout off“ featuring the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney and Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig. The two heavily licensed indie rock bands each aired commercials featuring their songs in a competition based on their nominations for the 2010 Best Alternative Music Album Grammy. As one commentator advised, it was time to “leave your souls at ...
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Orange then Blue Hands It off to Either Orchestra
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Coming up Next Week at Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's take a look at some videos of musicians who will be performing next week at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. First up is trombonist, composer and electronic musician Christian Pincock, who's playing on Friday, January 14 at LNAC. Pincock performs using a valve trombone and a computer-based instrument he created using MAX/MSP software, and draws on “diverse styles such as improvised experimental music, contemporary classical, avant-garde jazz, noise, and electronica." Pincock ...
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A Cool Ocean Breeze of Jazz
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
For anyone who hasn't seen Bert Stern's jazz documentary, Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960), go rent it immediately. This immensely enjoyable film, shot at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, is visual and aural candy. It is equal parts great jazz and people watching and both prove fascinating. The jazz audience of fifty years ago is like an exotic species under Stern's filmic microscope, and you can't take your eyes off the hats and sunglasses, the drunken dancing, the children ...
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The Viklicka1/2-Robinson Concert: A Video Report
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
At the end of the piece two exhibits below, I wrote that I would depend on Rifftides readers to tell us about the Emil Viklický-Scott Robinson concert the night before last. Even better, journalist and blogger Michael Steinman took his video camera to the Bohemian National Hall of the Czech Center in New York. Viklický played a lovely Petrof grand piano. Robinson used only three of the instruments from his armory—soprano and tenor saxophones and euphonium. No ophicleide or slide ...
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A Confession in Triplicate: Spyro Gyra, Guilty Pleasure
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Something Else!
By Something Else Reviews We attempted to give ourselves some cover by assuring one another that Spyro Gyra started out more in the vein of Weather Report than, say, David Sanborn. We really did. But, after pulling out the actual albums, it didn't take long to see how baldly ridiculous that premise so quickly became. Spyro Gyra, whatever their initial intent, are the living embodiment of everything that went wrong in the 1980s when a radio format called “smooth jazz" ...
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