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Stop Wasting Time Sending Facebook Event Invites

July 12, 2011

This guest post comes from Dave Cool, the Blogger In Residence at musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. I have a confession to make: I stopped checking Facebook Event Invites late last year. It started feeling eerily like MySpace at its worst (and look where MySpace is now). I have an average of 80+ invites at ...

The Jazz Session #291: Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura

July 12, 2011

The Ravens on National

July 12, 2011

Back in 1947, while Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were pioneering bebop, another jazz group was developing a different style of music that would have a lasting impact on American music in the three decades that followed. The group was comprised of four black vocalists, and as The Ravens they recorded singles that wound up inspiring ...

Cosmic Leaders

July 12, 2011

Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp—Cosmic Lieder (AUM Fidelity, 2011) **** ROVA Saxophone Quartet—Planetary (SoLyd Records, 2010) **** By Stanley Zappa The play on words was unavoidable as both recordings touch on the galactic and vibrate with a dignity that “we" have come to expect only from the “masters" as recorded on the Deutche Grammaphon label. Both ...

Portishead: North American Tour

July 12, 2011

PORTISHEAD ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR THIS OCTOBER 2011 British trip-hop legends Portishead are crossing the pond for a rare North American tour set to begin on October 1-2 at ATP I'll Be Your Mirror in Asbury Park, New Jersey. From there, the trio will hit New York, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, and more before ending on October ...

The Wood Brothers: U.S. Tour, New Album out on 8.2

July 12, 2011

TOUR STARTS AUGUST 11 IN HUDSON, NY The Wood Brothers are excited to announce their US Tour will kick off on August 11 in Hudson, NY. The roots-Americana group will tour through October 9 ending in Virginia. A complete list of tour dates are below. The Wood Brothers' will release their third album, Smoke Ring Halo, ...

Elvis Costello: Fall U.S. Tour

July 13, 2011

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS KEEP SONGBOOK SPINNING WITH NEW FALL DATES Elvis Costello and the Imposters today answer the call of unanimously cheering audiences and critics from coast to coast, announcing a further extension of the massively successful Spinning Songbook tour with a string of fall dates in the Eastern U.S. At each performance, select ...

Shuffler.FM's Tim Heineke Shuffler.FM on Bootstrapping a Music Startup [video]

July 12, 2011

Fanbridge Launches New Fan-Targeting Technology

July 12, 2011

Fan management and marketing platform FanBridge has just launched a new music centered fan-targeting platform called FanFinder Suite. Using the suite, musicians can connect with targeted fans that frequent highly trafficked social networks, music blogs, lifestyle sites, and other relevant destinations. The suite is comprised of two main offerings: FanFinder Interactive Ads - Ensures that only viewers ...

Seabrook Powerplant - Seabrook Powerplant II (2011)

July 12, 2011

It used to be that when we used the term “punk jazz," we were referring to Jaco Pastorius. Let's face it, the man was a jazz bass revolutionary. But over the years—and concurrent with with Jaco's career—the idea of what jazz can be was expanded by the likes of John Zorn's downtown New York cohorts and ...