Music Industry News

Old 97's Summer Tour

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2008

INDIE ROOTS ROCK FAVES HIT ROAD WITH BRAND NEW ALBUM

Old 97's Old 97's, one of the most acclaimed and beloved bands to spring from the '90s indie rock scene, released their seventh studio album, Blame It On Gravity, May 13th via New West Records. Forming 15 years ago, the band credits the new album's enthusiasm and spark to their return to its native Dallas to record for the first time since their debut. Produced by up and ...

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Back to the Future Set Sent Back to the Past

Source: Michael Ricci
June 1, 2008

Major fire burns on Universal Studios back lot A soundstage and several sets are lost as billowing smoke raises health concerns. Low water pressure hampered efforts today to fight a fire that raged through the Universal Studios back lot in Universal City, destroying a soundstage, the theme park's King Kong attraction, a video vault and sets such as the Courthouse Square seen in Back to the Future and the New York streetscape from Bruce Almighty. As the equivalent of two ...

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Musicologists May Score Mozart's Work

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2008

Musicologists may find new works by Mozart Scores “could be unknown authentic Mozart," says the head researcher

WARSAW, Poland - A team of musicologists is reviewing 19th-century copies of musical scores from a Polish monastery's archives in hopes that some might prove to be previously unknown works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the lead scholar said Tuesday. The team is focused on nine scores, though the musicologists will review 2,000 from the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, southern Poland. ...

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Grimes Times! June 2008

Source: Margaret Davis Grimes
June 1, 2008

Sunday, June 1st (tonight!), 8 p.m: Julie Patton's “Ghost of a Chance Defense Fun(d) Band" rent party, w/ Julie Patton ("voicesays"), special guest Henry Grimes, “Poet of the Air" (words, instrumental voicing), Brad Jones (bass), Drew Gardner (percussion), Rod Williams (piano), Paul Van Curen (guitar), and more, at the Stone, northwest corner of Ave. C at 2nd St., Manhattan (NYC), 212-473-OO43. Julie says: “So accustomed to throwing my own voice I no longer own it. Who does? I exchange the ...

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Sat Eye Candy: John Bonham

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2008

WE MISS YOU, BONZO

John Bonham would have turned 60 today. The Led Zeppelin drummer was a majestic beast, equally capable of shaking Olympus as he was at turning a tear with his delicacy. Possessed of Keith Moon's brutality and the complexity of Elvin Jones, Bonham was all things rough 'n' tumble about rock with a much more complex undercurrent than history often affords him. From the water-on-leaves softness of “The Rain Song" through crushing blues workouts like “When The ...

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Weekend Extra: Butch Warren

Source: All About Jazz
June 1, 2008

Butch Warren played was a fixture on Blue Note albums in the 1960s. One of the bright young bassists of his generation, he recorded with Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Jackie McLean, Thelonious Monk and others. Then he disappeared.

Reporting for MSNBC, Antoine Sanfuentes found Warren, traced his success, downward trajectory and attempt to re-etablish his career. The piece includes a link to a video profile of Warren. Thanks to Larry Appelbaum for calling our attention to it.

For more on Warren, from ...

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Cluster/Howlin Rain | 05.24 | California

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2008

Words by: Dennis Cook

Cluster/Ariel Pink/Howlin Rain :: 05.24.08 :: Brookdale Lodge :: Brookdale, CA

Cluster by Hans-Joachim Roedelius Mythology isn't just found in books or relics or tales handed down in temples. We generate our own super charged stories from profound experiences, embellishing and retelling them until they glow. Music is rife with this legend making; it's the hero worship part and the intimacy we feel as we listen to albums ...

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Summer Camp | 05.23 - 05.25 | Illinois

Source: All About Jazz
May 31, 2008

Words by: Pat Knibbs | Images by: Norman Sands

Summer Camp 2008 :: 05.23.08 - 05.25.08 :: Three Sisters Park :: Chillicothe, IL

The Flaming Lips :: Summer Camp 2008 Summer Camp 2008 set the bar for all other summer festivals, and set it pretty high. This year festival organizers pulled out all the stops. They pieced together an impressive slew of genre-spanning bands that filled the weekend with enough musical highlights to fulfill an average music fans entire ...

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