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News: Recording

Lee "Scratch" Perry: Rise Again

April 2, 2011

NEW ALBUM PRODUCED BY BILL LASWELL; FEATURING TUNDE ADEBIMPE, BERNIE WORRELL, AND MORE As one of the most prolific, influential and irretrievably eccentric record producers ever, Lee “Scratch" Perry continues to reshape and refine an adventurous style all his own with his latest studio outing, Rise Again (Out May 10). A long-awaited collaboration with New York-based ...

News: Performance / Tour

Robert Plant: Spring/Summer Dates

April 2, 2011

ROBERT PLANT AND BAND OF JOY CONFIRM LATE SPRING/EARLY SUMMER TOUR DATES Robert Plant has confirmed an 11-date North American tour that begins in San Diego, CA on June 8, and ends at the Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, NJ on June 25. These new dates, which feature a stop at Bonnaroo, are the ...

News: Technology

Bands! - Social Networking is Not Just Online.

April 2, 2011

Post by: Robin Davey, Head of Music and Film Development at GROWVision. Before the internet was so ubiquitous with social networking, bands with a little knowledge of connectivity with their audience, would keep their own social network in the form of a physical mailing list. Email had yet to make an impact and artists were forced to get peoples ...

News: Trends

Does Pandora Imbue Impulsive Behavior?

April 2, 2011

In the past several months, I've spent lots of time using Pandora. Due to this, I've wondered if Pandora imbues impulsivity in us like email does. The reason why email is addicting is because it comes at varied times. In this sense, email is like a slot machine. We keep “pulling the lever" in hopes that ...

News: Event

Jazz Appreciation Day Taking Place in Salem, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 2

April 2, 2011

The Salem Jazz & Soul Festival in Salem, Massachusetts is putting on a Jazz Appreciation Day concert at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, 2011 at the Salem Five Community Room, 210 Essex Street in Salem. The free event features the SJSF All Stars, starring Henley Douglas, Jr. on sax, Garret Savluk on trumpet, Squantch on ...

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News: Recording

One Track Mind: Kermit Driscoll with Bill Frisell and Vinnie Colaiuta, "Great Expectations" (2011)

April 2, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Pardon me as I continue on the topic of Bill Frisell The Sideman on an interpretation of a Miles Davis fusion deep cut. In the back of a Paris taxicab, probably sometime in the mid 1970s, three aspiring musicians were gobsmacked from the music playing on the radio. It was the early ...

News: Interview

Interview: Discovr's Dave McKinney on the Limits of Music App Popularity, and What Happens to Your Data

April 2, 2011

Yesterday, we posted the beginnings of an interview we conducted with Dave McKinney, the multi-talented founder of Jammbox and the creator of Discovr, a highly touted music discovery application available on the iPhone and the iPad. Today, we present its conclusion, which includes a conversation about the state of the digital music market, and what his ...

News: Music Industry

The Crazy Bond Between Artist and Entrepreneur...

April 2, 2011

The music industry has a notoriously high rate of failure—not just for entrepreneurs, but also for artists. In fact, both groups are pursuing dreams with helaciously bad odds. And great business ideas—just like talented artists—often fail to break through. Hey, that's the sandbox, but if there's any place where the stigma of failure's been defeated, it's ...

News: Trends

RIAA Declares: Being Signed to a Major Label Rocks!

April 2, 2011

It turns out that 3 out of 4 artists want to be signed to a label, according to a joint survey conducted by Digital Music News and ReverbNation. Most of the participants saying 'yes' wanted major label deals, but does that mean that major deals “rock"? Well, according to the RIAA, that's exactly the conclusion we ...

News: Trends

Is This Going Somewhere? Rhapsody's Grown 15% in Just One Year...

April 2, 2011

It's easy to write Rhapsody off as a hopeless niche play. In fact, that's exactly what JV partners RealNetworks and MTV Networks did one year ago. Yet oddly enough, that's just about when things started to grow! Today, Rhapsody celebrates its first year of independence (no, this isn't a formerlycolonized island nation), and its newfound freedom ...