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News: Interview

Eyewitness: Toni Harper

February 1, 2011

Back in December, I wrote about an exceptional album that teamed an up and coming vocalist with a well-known pianist. The album is Toni Harper Sings, with the Oscar Peterson Trio. Recorded in December 1955, the Verve album was a rare example of Peterson accompanying a singer relatively new to jazz at the time. Questions naturally ...

News: Event

Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal Added to Tibet House US Benefit

February 1, 2011

MARCH 3, 2011 AT CARNEGIE HALL IN NEW YORK; TICKETS ON SALE NOW Tibet House US is thrilled to announce that The Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal have joined the bill of their 21st Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on March 3, 2011. The Flaming Lips and Taj Mahal will join an esteemed line-up of ...

News: Technology

What Makes Facebook Fan Pages so Succesful: Lessons from Linkin Park and the Major Brands

February 1, 2011

Almost overnight, Facebook Pages have become one of the most powerful tools in the music marketing toolkit. But beyond the massive number of eyeballs that Facebook offers, why are Fan Pages so powerful? During a MIDEM session last week with Rachel Masters of Red Magnet Media, Aaron Ray of management and new media firm The Collective ...

News: Music Industry

Record Label Rule Book Gets Startups No Where

February 1, 2011

We're learning something important about music startups. If a company is cool and people like it, there's a good chance that they're either getting sued or working their way up the magical list. Grooveshark is a perfect example of this. More and more people are getting turned onto the site because the interface is pretty and ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Effortlessness is the Enemy of Cloud-Based Music.

February 1, 2011

If you like, just skip ahead and read my latest MTT essay here. Early in January, I did a rather extensive review of Thumbplay Music. In it, I suggested features that were missing from the cloud-based music service. Soon thereafter, I was in a book store and I started flipping through The Upside of Irrationality by ...

News: Music Industry

Buzzdeck - Social Analytics for Bands and Managers

February 1, 2011

BuzzDeck is a music analytics tool developed by AWAL, a London-based music distributor. It's been floating around for a couple months now. The service enables artists and their managers to track everything from their Twitter followers to who is watching their videos online. All of this info is pulled into a dashboard wherein the activity across ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jim Rotondi at Tula's This Wednesday

February 1, 2011

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 TULA'S JAZZ CLUB 2214 2nd Ave Seattle 206-443-4221 2 sets starting at 7:30pm, $12.00, All Ages Former New York City trumpeter Jim Rotondi, who recently moved to Graz, Austria, is passing through town on Wednesday, February 2, to perform at Tula's before heading up to ...

News: Performance / Tour

Musical on Gospel Star Mahalia Jackson at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, February 4-20

February 1, 2011

An inspiring musical play on the life of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson opens at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center on Friday, February 4 and runs through Sunday, February 20, 2011. The performances, presented by Mixed Magic Theatre, take place Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 4:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $15-25 ...

News: Recording

Ralph Bowen - Power Play (2011)

February 1, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron It seems like it was not even a year since we were last here chatting up a new Ralph Bowen CD, and checking back, there actually is less than twelve months between his last one, Due Reverence and this one due out on February 8, Power Play. That makes his third Posi-Tone ...

News: Music Industry

If Everything in Music Has Changed, Will That Change You?

February 1, 2011

Earlier today, Digital Music News's Paul Resnikoff posted an alarming quote from an interview with famed film director Francis Ford Coppola. You have to remember that it's only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists ...