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Norah Jones New Album w/ Ryan Adams, Okkervil and Harris
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JamBase
NORAH JONES TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ON BLUE NOTE RECORDS IN NOVEMBER 2009 Album Features New Band Members and Songwriting Collaborations with Ryan Adams, Okkervil River's Will Sheff, and Jesse Harris
Norah Jones Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will release her fourth studio album on Blue Note Records this November. Jones wrote nearly all of the songs in the past two years since completing tours in support of her 2007 global chart-topping, U.S. ...
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The Siren's Sound Reviews "Jazztap"
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All About Jazz
Sonace is a progressive jazz, electronica and rock composer from Houston, Texas. Only 35 listeners on their Last.fm.
Lets push that up guys, cause its purely music worth listening to. 'Specially the experimental side of the project - which is quite catchy and the whole album is also pretty diverse and reaches some different, some ultimate progressive barriers.
Considering all the combinations and elements involved this is not a bad listen.
Artist - Sonace Album - Wiretones Jazztap ...
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Chloe Temtchine's "Where in the Truck Tour" Thrills NYC
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Seth Cohen PR
Flatbed Pick-Up Truck is an Outdoor Stage for Indie Artist Chloe Temtchine Innovative ‘Where In The Truck Is Chloe?’ Tour Adds Wheels and an Engine to the Concept of Guerilla Marketing Four-Star CD Review: “The album does not sound like an album from a debuting artist, but from a pop veteran” Indie artists have to use whatever means possible to get their music listened to by the public. But pop/soul/R&B singer Chloe Temtchine has taken guerilla marketing to the next ...
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Kraftwerk: Box Set
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JamBase
Kraftwerk To Release Four Decades of Werk As Box Set - 12345678 The Catalogue Select CD, Vinyl & Digital Releases To Accompany
Kraftwerk Electro pioneers Kraftwerk are celebrating the 35th anniversary of their landmark 1974 hit Autobahn by releasing 12345678 The Catalogue, a special collector's CD box set featuring remastered versions of eight of Kraftwerk's albums on October 6. Rolling back musical barriers with every forward-thinking phase of their career, Dusseldorf's Zen masters of electronic minimalism laid the ...
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Actual Proof's "Paradigm Shift" Now Available on CD Baby
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Michael Ricci
Actual Proof's full-length debut CD is now available for download on CDBaby. Individual tracks, the entire album, or a hardcopy of the album can be ordered through the site.
About Actual Proof
Actual Proof is a unique jazz-fusion/funk quartet that utilizes mallet percussion (xylophone, vibraphone, marimba), keyboards, electric bass, electronic and acoustic drums. The group's music is groove-oriented and draws on many traditions including Jazz, Funk, Afro-Cuban, and World-Beat. The group is inspired by artists such as Herbie Hancock, Galactic, ...
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Sleepthief "Labyrinthine Heart" LP to Hit Streets on 9.1.09
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Michael Ricci
With the release of The Dawnseeker in 2006, the debut full-length recording from the act Sleepthief brought critical praise as well as an adoring fan base to a new, and up and coming star. Driven by the desire to write real songs, and to work with and create music with other artists he's admired or whose career he's followed, Justin Elswick aka Sleepthief created a masterpiece of renaissance imagery and melodic pop that has since been modeled as a 'new ...
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Moby: Album/Live Band Tour
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JamBase
Moby Announces U.S. Tour Dates In Support Of New Album Wait For Me
Moby Moby will tour the U.S. this fall in support of his new album Wait For Me, which Rolling Stone has called A return to form." For his live show, Moby will be on guitar, piano, percussion and occasionally singing lead. Joining Moby on stage are regularly collaborating vocalists Joy Malcolm and Kelli Scarr as well as an additional percussionist, bassist and violinist. This will be the ...
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Pianist Eric Muhler Set to Release Fifth Album "The Jury is out" on September 22
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DL Media
Pianist Eric MuhlerSet To Release Fifth Album The Jury Is Out on September 22Eric Muhler is poised to achieve the success he has long deserved - and he's earning it through a unique combination of talent, planning and a readiness to break all the rules.The music on The Jury Is Out, Muhler's breakthrough fifth album, establishes this Bay Area pianist and composer's formidable gifts. It comes as the decisive step in a meticulously conceived ...
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