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Real Band Names That Sound Totally Fake
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HypeBot
By freelance music writer Tyler Hayes (@thealbumproject). By now you must've seen the video from Jimmy Kimmel, catching people lying about being into bands playing at Coachella that the interviewer just made up. How long must it have taken to come up with band names that they knew were fake? Here are some band names that sound made up but aren't. 1) Diarrhea Planet - Try and ask someone to their face, without laughing, if they've ever listened to Diarrhea ...
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Eventbrite Raises $60 Million for Indie Ticketing
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Self-service ticketing platform Eventbrite has raised $60 million in new financing led by Tiger Global Management and new investor T. Rowe Price. After this round, the company's total funding is $140 million. While still a small player compared to Ticketmaster, today's investment comes after months of rapid growth for Eventbrite: 100 million tickets sold across 179 countries, totaling $1.5 billion in gross sales with 1/3 of those sold within the previous 9 months. The company also announced last month that ...
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Clarke-Boland: "Jazz is Universal"
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The big band era didn't come to an end at the end of World War II. People just stopped dancing to them. In the late '40s fans went to theaters and concert halls to hear bands, and in the '50s they listened to them on LPs. In the early '60s, with the rise of pop-rock in the States, bands went off to Europe on lengthy tours—thanks to lifting of bans on American artists by musicians' unions there starting in '61 ...
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Weekend Extra: Stan Getz's Model Behavior
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
here may have been times—no, there were times—when Stan Getz worked overtime to be unpleasant. Zoot Sims had his reasons for describing Getz as “an interesting bunch of guys.” It is not likely that Sims had in mind moments like those in this video. Rifftides reader Jeff Chang sent a tip about a film Getz made in 1969 in France. It turns out that his quartet was engaged to play background music for a fashion show. If you think that ...
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Can Understanding the Brain Help You Sell More Music?
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. A McGill University study found that activity in the brain's nucleus accumbens reflects one's willingness to buy music after hearing it for the first time. It's hardly surprising that a part of the brain also known as the “reward center" would be responsible for deciding whether to buy (or like/favorite/collect) a particular piece of music, but it's pretty neat that the amount of activity in that reward center even corresponds to how much one ...
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Mike Reed: Great expectations for Constellation
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Michael Ricci
For anyone who values innovation in music, the next few days could mark the beginning of a significant era in Chicago. On Monday, Chicago jazz drummer and music producer Mike Reed will launch Constellation, a performing arts center that will feature an array of music—from experimental jazz to classical avant-garde — plus dance, film and other eclectic work. Equally important, these genres often will intermingle at Constellation, as in the “Collision Theory" series produced by the Links Hall organization, which ...
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Concord Music Group Sold to Wood Creek Capital
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Concord Music, one of the largest independent label groups in the U.S., has been bought by Wood Creek Capital Management, a division of MassMutual Financial Group. The acquisition is being made on behalf of funds which Wood Creek advises, and an individual investor group that includes members of Concord's senior management and industry veterans Steve Smith and Scott Pascucci. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Glen Barros will remain Concord's President & CEO. Concord Group labels include Concord Records, ...
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