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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Ray Vega, Chris Botti, "Soundart" with Troupe, Bell and Bluiett, Craig Pomranz, Todd Clouser, and More

February 16, 2011

This week's noteworthy jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis include visits from two traveling trumpeters, and two shows featuring St. Louis expats coming home. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, trumpet player Ray Vega (pictured) brings his Latin jazz-meets-hard bop quintet to town to open a four-night engagement at Jazz at the Bistro, continuing ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Dianne Reeves: Consummate Vocal Artist

February 16, 2011

Last evening at the sumptuous Strathmore Music Center in suburban DC a robust audience was treated to an intimate and surpassing performance from Dianne Reeves, one of the consummate vocal artists of our time. Years from now I have little doubt that Dianne Reeves will be judged in the royal pantheon of vocal stylists in the ...

News: Recording

Moby: Free EP and New Album

February 16, 2011

FREE EP AVAILABLE NOW FEATURING THREE SONGS FROM NEW ALBUM; DESTROYED OUT MAY 17; PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK TO BE RELEASED WITH ALBUM Moby and Mute are pleased to announce details of Destroyed, a new album and book of photography set for release on May 17, 2011. Destroyed the album will be available in CD, vinyl, and digital ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Meshell Ndegeocello: Three Nights of Prince Covers

February 16, 2011

TWO SHOWS IN LOS ANGELES; ONE IN OAKLAND AND ONE IN SAN FRANCISCO Meshell Ndegeocello will be performing four shows on the West Coast next month: March 3 and 10 at Cafe Largo in Los Angeles, March 12 at The New Parish in Oakland, and March 13 at the Independent in San Francisco. For the March ...

News: Music Industry

Why Artists Should Ditch MySpace for Bandcamp

February 16, 2011

This post is by Vince Neilstein, the Editor-In-Chief at Metal Sucks. There aren't any reasons to be using MySpace in 2011. I suppose it can't hurt to have a band profile there just in case someone happens to stumble upon it, but that's about it; MySpace is a useless, out-dated, cluttered, piece-of-shit platform and there are better ...

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News: Music Industry

Indies See Grammy Sales Bump, Majors Stay Flat

February 16, 2011

Do the Grammy's still sell albums and for who? The answer: not Lady Gaga or Train. While the awards show didn't hurt them either, artists like Arcade Fire, Lady Antebellum, and Eserpanza Spalding saw the largest gains. In other words, the already well-known hit makers of the last year mostly stayed flat, with the exception of ...

News: Interview

Exfm: The Web is Your Music Library [interview]

February 16, 2011

This post is by Alison McCarthy (@aliiimac). She's an intern at Hypebot. Recently I spoke with Charles Smith, Founder and COO of exfm, a new music discovery service that works as a browser extension for Chrome, turning the entire web into your personal music library. As you browse any website that hosts MP3s, exfm automatically catalogues every ...

News: Technology

Music Listening - The Least Popular Mobile Activity

February 16, 2011

ComScore published its 2010 Digital Year in Review report. In their analysis of what Americans are doing with their mobile devices, listening to music didn't fare well, which is a nice way of saying that it ranked dead last. Instant messaging is even more popular than music listening. And even if you make room for the ...

News: Music Industry

Guy Hands Wants to Buy EMI Back

February 16, 2011

Just a week after loosing control of EMI to Citigroup, Terra Firma's Guy Hands says he'd be interested in buying EMI back. “It's about price," Hands said in a speech to that was his first public appearance since losing the label group. But Hands didn't stop there... “Terra Firma and Citigroup agreed on what EMI was ...

News: Performance / Tour

Bond Restaurant at Boston's Langham Hotel Launches a Wednesday Night Jazz Series Starting February 16

February 16, 2011

Silvina Moreno A cool new place to hear live jazz in Boston is starting up on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 when BOND Restaurant & Lounge kicks off The BOND Jazz Experiment with Argentinean Silvina Moreno, a singer and songwriter specializing in Tango. BOND Jazz Experiment, which runs from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. each Wednesday, highlights emerging ...