Music Industry News

Heaven on Wheels

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

Choosy actors choose designer Jane Hallworth's dapper caravan for on-set repose People with sophisticated tastes generally construe the term luxury trailer as an oxymoron.

There's certainly no shortage of mobile homes tricked out with all manner of modern conveniences, high-tech gimcracks and swiveling bucket seats large enough to swallow a baby elephant. But luxury? The answer is almost invariably no. Jane Hallworth's 1955 Spartan Aircraft Imperial Mansion All-Aluminum Trailercoach dares to defy the stereotype. Completely reconstructed and re-imagined, the caravan ...

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L.A. Band Tries to Cash in with Free Monthly Album

Source: All About Jazz
March 22, 2010

In an instrument-filled garage almost every day for the past year, musician John Wood has tried to find a new way to make a living.

Wood and a bunch of other artists use the soundproofed space with an extra-high ceiling to create a new album every month. It's a staggering feat when you consider it means recording a new song every three days. And then they essentially give it away for free. Wood is at the vanguard of how musicians ...

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Jim Knapp Orchestra Goes On Hiatus

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 22, 2010

from Jim Knapp:

The Jim Knapp Orchestra will no longer be performing on a regular basis. We have been going 18 years and that seems to be the lifespan for this group as a regular performing organization. I am eternally grateful for the musicians of such great talent who have made up the band including several who have been in the group since its inception.

And thanks to you listeners, friends and fellow musicians. It has been a particular pleasure ...

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Mining Brooklyn's Jazz Legacy

Source: The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
March 22, 2010

Brooklyn had more jazz clubs and related venues than Manhattan in the 1950s and '60s. So say Randy Weston and numerous other observers and historians of the bigger, brilliantly-multi culti, undeniably colorful and richly historic borough across the East River. This and other fascinating facts of Brooklyns storied jazz history are becoming clearer by the day through a rewarding new research project Ive just begun in Central Brooklyn.  As they say in radio land... stay tuned!

Weeksville Heritage Center is a ...

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"Allowing Merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation Was Pretty Immoral"

Source: Michael Ricci
March 21, 2010

As industry conference and festival South by Southwest enters its home stretch, independent label heads such as Matador's Gerard Cosloy and Domino's Kris Gillespie raised concerns about the recent merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, and they also spoke on the ever-controversial, all-encompassing 360-label deals. “Allowing the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation was pretty immoral," Gillespie said at the start of a state-of-the-union panel, becoming a voice of opposition from the independent community. The recent formation of Live Nation ...

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Exclusive Deal for Hendrix at ScatterTunes

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2010

Experience Hendrix, LLC in partnership with Sony Legacy inked an exclusive deal with ScatterTunes to re-release the partial catalog of Jimi Hendrix as well as his latest, “Valleys of Neptune," via their V-Album technology.

The V-Album, short for Virtual-Album, was created by ScatterTunes founder and CEO Witt Stewart of Texas. A music veteran of more than 30 years, Stewart aims to fortify catalog items with digital technology that bridges the gap between conventional releases and a product packed with bonus ...

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Jimi Hendrix's Last Days and Lost Music

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2010

On August 26th, 1970, Jimi Hendrix celebrated the official opening of his Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan's West Village.

It would be the last time he ever set foot in his beloved recording sanctuary; he died three weeks later in London at age 27 after ingesting a powerful dose of the sedative Vesperax.

But a month prior to the party, the man Rolling Stone would later name the Greatest Guitarist of All Time laid down a few special tracks, including ...

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ReverbNation Expands Music Distribution Service

Source: HypeBot
March 20, 2010

ReverbNation launched an expanded digital music distribution platform this morning and the company's co-founder and COO Jed Carlson shared the details with Hypebot.

HYPBOT: I'm sure it was a long night getting ready for today's launch. Can you introduce the new ReverbNation digital distribution products for our readers.

CARLSON: In addition to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic, and Napster, we've added 29 more including Spotify, Last.fm, MySpace Music, Zune, Wal-Mart, Lala, iLike, MOG, and Pandora and bundled them into two packages: ...

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