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Share the Soundtrack to Your Life with Soundtracking
This post is by Alison McCarthy (@aliiimac). She's an intern at Hypebot. In the last few weeks, there have been a number of articles posted on Hypebot about the growing social music experience. As Kyle Bylin discussed, prior to the rise of the new social musics apps we're currently witnessing, the technology made available through our iPods and ...
Tomahawk: Next Generation Music Player?
This post is by Robbert van Ooijen; it originally appeared at Have You Heard It. Last week a new music player got its first public release: the Tomahawk Player. In an era where music is often scattered across multiple computers and multiple platforms, the player aims to solve this problem by organizing all of your music in ...
Jazz Vocalist Shelley Neill Performing at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center on Friday, April 1
Premier jazz vocalist Shelley Neill and her masterful band of musicians from Berklee College of Music are performing on Friday, April 1, 2011 at the Jazz Club at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge Massachusetts, starting at 8:00 p.m.. Tickets to the show are $15-$20 and can be ordered online. The doors open at 7:00 p.m. ...
Capitol Records Building Goes Condo - Citibank Cuts EMI Losses
With CitiBank looking to recover loses from the loans made to major record label, Capitol/EMI, it seems a Hollywood landmark may be sold for scrap. April 1st, 2011, Los Angeles. In a surprise move yesterday CitiBank, who is in receivership of EMI/Capitol Records, after its parent company Terra Firma defaulted on their loans earlier this year, ...
Something Else! Featured Artist: Chicago
Fans of their initial music could be forgiven for barely recognizing Chicago by the 1980s, as fussy power ballads eventually flushed out the band's signature horn sound. A group that had built its reputation on organic experimentation, a kind of prog-fusion that earned heavy rotation on a then-new FM radio format, never returned to the album-length ...
Interview: Discovr's Dave McKinney on Replacing Curation with Data Analysis
The welcome screen for Discovr, the first app released by Dave McKinney's company, Jammbox. The process of looking for new music has always been at least partially visual. Whether it's an interesting album cover at a record store, or a cool band photo on a blog, visual cues help us organize and process audio signals. But ...
ICP Orchestra | Three Nights in Philadelphia
In celebration of Jazz Month, on April 1 the ICP Orchestra invades Philadelphia, making a three-night stand at Christ Church Neighborhood House in Old City. A Dutch collective of improvisers and composers founded in 1967 by Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, and Willem Breuker, over 40 years later the ICP Orchestra continues to be at the forefront ...
Aram Shelton's Arrive - There Was... (Clean Feed, 2011)
Saxophonist Aram Shelton has become a fixture on the modern jazz scene in Chicago, Oakland and many other places around the globe. As a leader or participant in several different groups he has had the chance to explore many of the facets of improvised music. On this album with his group Arrive, with Jason Adasiewicz on ...
Cruel Sister: Music for String Orchestra by Bang-on-a-Can's Julia Wolfe
For all my exposure to the marvelous Downtown New York institution Bang-on- a Can, I have not had the pleasure of hearing much of the music of co-founder-composer Julia Wolfe. There is no good reason for this. It simply is an omission on my part. The situation has been rectified by listening to her new release ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, April 1-7
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and there seems to be no end of options to enhance your appreciation. Jazz is alive here, no April Fool! Highlights, Last Week Robert Glasper Trio at the Dakota (March 28). Deriving his own sound from eclectic influences (bebop to hip-hop), Glasper is one of the most lauded of his generation ...
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