Music Industry News

Reporter Tackles Origins of Rock and Roll

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2008

Lately, I've been wondering if I was born in the wrong time period. Although I like all types of music, I believe the origins of rock and roll lie in the late 1930s-1950s.

With a nod to the rhythm and blues, jazz, country, gospel and boogie-woogie music of the 1920s and the 1930s. Rock really goes back further. It took a lot of mixing together of various popular, regional and cultural musical genres throughout time to create the music we ...

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Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight Creates Hot New R&b Music Style Called "Drag & Push

Source: entertainmentPR
July 20, 2008

Minneapolis Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight signs Administration/Publishing Deal with Missing Link Music Hoboken, NJ R&B/NuJazz Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight creates hot new music style called “Drag & Push" Minneapolis - Music Producer/Composer Spud Too Tight - recently signed a Publishing/Administration Deal with Missing Link Music - Hoboken NJ, www.missinglinkmusic.com one of the music industry's leading music publishing and copyright administration companies covering all genres of music from R&B and Rock to Hip-Hop to Jazz and all styles in ...

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Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2008

Without Woody Guthrie, there would be no Pete Seeger and no Dylan, Donovan or Byrds.

There would be no “This Land is Your Land," “If I Had a Hammer," “Turn, Turn, Turn," and no Dust Bowl Ballads. The trajectory of American folk music would be forever thrown off its established vector. The poor, oppressed and otherwise dispossessed would be without an acoustic champion. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma in 1912, and spent the rest of his life fighting the ...

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Jazzing It up in India

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2008

Miles Davis fan's and Jazz enthusiasts can look forward to some unusual fusion music. India's foremost musicians have compiled an album titled Miles From India, a cross-cultural celebration of the music of Miles Davis who is considered one of the most important figures in jazz history. He was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer and was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. “Miles experimented with all kinds of music from acid jazz, street ...

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Flight of the Conchords

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2008

By: Scott Caffrey

Bah! I shoulda known better. In my heart of hearts, I thought Flight of the Conchords' self-titled full-length was going to give me more than a partial soundtrack to the show. So fine, maybe I wasn't paying attention. But did they really have to go and mine most of their Grammy-winning EP, The Distant Future, to fill it out? Especially when they left off a solid handful of gems? Maybe I'm misguided, but I think they're better ...

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Phish Name That Jam Contest

Source: All About Jazz
July 19, 2008

On July 22, 1997 Phish performed the second show of their United States summer tour at Walnut Creek Amphitheater in Raleigh, NC. During the show, a thunderstorm of biblical proportion passed directly over the venue letting loose a torrential downpour of rain, thunder and lightning that accentuated the electric nature of the event.

On August 1, 2008 Phish will release Walnut Creek, a 2-DVD set featuring more than 2 1/2 hours of 5-camera footage with 5.1 Dolby Surround or optional ...

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China Bans "Threatening" Musicians Following Bjork's Tibet Outburst

Source: All About Jazz
July 18, 2008

China has banned all overseas performers that “threaten national sovereignty" following a performance by Bjork in Shanghai earlier this year.

At that concert, the Icelandic singer led the crowd in a chant of “Tibet, Tibet!" after performing her song “Declare Independence."

The ban will also fall on artists who “threaten national unity", “whip up ethnic hatred", “violate religious policy or cultural norms" or “advocate obscenity or feudalism and superstition." Plus, all performances must be approved beforehand, right down to what ...

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Natalie Cole Diagnosed w/ Hep C

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2008

NATALIE COLE DIAGNOSED WITH HEPATITIS C

Natalie Cole Grammy Award-winning singer Natalie Cole has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C, it was revealed today. The virus, found during a routine examination, is likely the result of her drug use many decades ago, which she fully revealed and documented in her autobiography Angel On My Shoulder (2000).

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne infectious disease often asymptomatic. The symptoms of infection can be medically managed, and ...

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