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News: Music Industry

The Connected Car and the Future of Music

March 1, 2011

The connected car will shift the music landscape. Experts argue that in little as four years' time, we will see “near saturation" in the U.S. market. This development has real implications for the future of music. Once cars become a Wi-Fi enabled, voice-controlled credit card on wheels, it shifts the paradigm. The Connected Car The first ...

News: Music Industry

Sonicbids Replaces Most Gig Fees with Tokens

March 1, 2011

EXCLUSIVE: Responding to member requests, today Sonicbids unveiled a new system that replaces submission fees for most gig opportunities with tokens offered free as part to their membership plans. Last Fall, a Musician's Friend sponsorship made some Sonicbids listings free. But starting today, 60% of all opportunities become part of the tokens program with that ...

News: Video / DVD

D.I.Y. Bootcamp: SoundCloud [video]

March 1, 2011

EXCLUSIVE: Scion A/V has produced a video series that provides a virtual tour of the new music industry and many of the best the sites and tools that make it work. Hypebot will feature one every day for the next few weeks. In this installment, David Haynes of SoundCloud describes his popular online platform that lets ...

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News: Performance / Tour

RTF IV Hymn of the 7th Galaxy Tour : First Stop, Australia

March 1, 2011

Earlier this month the newly re-constituted jazz/rock supergroup Return To Forever kicked off its RTF IV Hymn Of The 7th Galaxy world tour with two weeks in the land Down Under. Jean-Luc Ponty's superb violin has been added and Al DiMeola's guitar has been replaced by Frank Gambale's. All five musicians in RTF IV possess famously ...

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News: Recording

Robben Ford - The Inside Story (1979)

March 1, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Two weeks from today the Yellowjackets are set to release their 20th or so proper album, Timeline, and we'll gonna give you the lowdown on it soon. But as the 'Jackets celebrate thirty years of making records, it might be a good time to cast a gaze back on the record where ...

News: Recording

Something Else! Featured Artist: Grover Washington Jr.

March 1, 2011

By Something Else Reviews Credit, or discredit, the late Grover Washington Jr. with setting the template for the whole smooth jazz thing. There was always more to him than that. Really. For all of the knocks he's taken, dig deeper into Washington and you'll see why retains the title of Mister Magic for us: “SAUSALITO" (LIVE ...

News: Opinion

Peace

March 1, 2011

Dear Brilliant Corners peeps,. Matt Lavelle here.Anybody that has spent any time with me here on B.C. It's mad appreciated. My time here,.is at an end. Brother Chris Rich gave me my start as a writer by hooking me up right here on B.C. Chris suggested I become a regular contributor and then hooked me up ...

News: Opinion

Unions-Bah! What Are They Good For?

March 1, 2011

This past weekend, the motley musical crowd I play with-The Second Line Social Aid Pleasure Society Brass Band (SLSAPS)- played at a rally at the MA State House in support of Wisconsin unions-and unions everywhere(put into decent context here) and at a rally for the Student Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Maybe it ...

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News: Interview

Interview | Nate Wooley

March 1, 2011

On March 5, Ars Nova Workshop presents a performance at Vox Populi by trumpeter Nate Wooley, violinist and electronicist C. Spencer Yeh, cellist Okkyung Lee, and percussionist Paul Lytton. With expansive avant-garde affiliations – noise, jazz, free improv, downtown – Wooley assembled this quartet “to see if a collision of forward thinking practitioners of each of ...

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News: Recording

John Surman - Flashpoint: NDR Jazz Workshop - April 1969 (Cuneiform, 2011)

March 1, 2011

Saxophonist and composer John Surman was at the beginning of a lengthy and successful career when this was taped with the star-studded British group which had the likes of Ronnie Scott, Kenny Wheeler and Mike Osbourne on board. The big band frames the music nicely, and Surman is featured as a soloist, playing soprano and baritone ...