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News: Performance / Tour

Tony Williams Lifetime Tribute Vernon Reid, Medeski, Jack Bruce

January 29, 2011

FOUR MONSTER TALENTS GATHER TO SALUTE VISIONARY MUSICIAN & BAND Tony Williams Lifetime Tribute featuring legendary bassist of Cream and one-time Lifetime member Jack Bruce, guitarist Vernon Reid (Living Colour), organist John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood), and ace drummer Cindy Blackman brings their unique take on Williams' revolutionary music to The Blue Note in New ...

News: Performance / Tour

MMW: 20th Anniversary Shows

January 29, 2011

REQUEST SETS AND OLD SCHOOL SHACK PARTIES! Medeski Martin & Wood have announced the first details of their 20th anniversary plans for 2011. A statement from the band emailed to fans reads: MMW Fans: Request your favorites! MMW's entire first set of their March tour will be comprised of song requests. Their second set will be ...

News: Festival

Lollapalooza Chile: The Killers, Jane's, Kanye, Fatboy

January 29, 2011

CHICAGO FEST GOES TO SOUTH AMERICA The lineup for the inaugural Lollapalooze Chile has been announced. 50-plus acts will perform on five stages at the two-day festival set to happen Saturday, April 2 and Sunday, April 3 in O'Higgins Park, Santiago, Chile. “The job we did to gather these artists for 2011 was remarkable," says fest ...

News: Performance / Tour

Wilco and Jeff Tweedy Live Dates

January 29, 2011

FULL BAND SHOWS IN MAY, SOLO GIGS IN MARCH Wilco and their leader Jeff Tweedy have announced their first spring and summer tour dates for 2011. JEFF TWEEDY SOLO DATES MAR-22—Toronto, ONT—Queen Elizabeth Theatre MAR-25—Montreal, QUE—L'Olympie de Montreal MAR-26—Portland, ME—State Theatre MAR-28—Madison, WI—Capitol Theater MAR-29—Rochester, MN—Mayo Civic Center Presentation Hall MAR-30—Iowa City, IA—The Englert Theatre WILCO ...

News: Technology

Facebook's Reverbnation Block Was Just "A Mistake", but Serves as Reminder of Larger Issue

January 29, 2011

Yesterday, ReverbNation told its tens of thousands of active artist users that Facebook had disabled RN links on their site. “This was a mistake in one of our automated systems for preventing spam," a Facebook spokesperson told Hypebot and by late in the day, the problem had been fixed. But the incident serves as a reminder ...

News: Technology

Sonicbids Adds Its Own Facebook Profile Builder Plus a Video Tour

January 29, 2011

RootMusic is getting kudos for its program that creates great looking Facebook Profiles and ReverbNation has a popular tool that makes it even easier by pulling from assets already stored in its system. Now Sonicbids has added a Profile builder with a feature that encourages fans to “Like" an artist: As you might expect, Sonicbids pulls ...

News: Rights

Piratebox: A DIY File-Sharing Network in a Lunchbox

January 29, 2011

2011 is going to be a sad year if music pirates, academics, and hackers are able to create more things to get people excited about music than a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Fans have The Music Bay to look forward to in April and today they have PirateBox, an offline file-sharing network. David Darts, a ...

News: Career

Warner Music Group Tech Guru Ethan Kaplan Exits

January 29, 2011

Ethan Kaplan, the popular SVP of Emerging Technology for Warner Music Group has left the company. Kaplan has not announced where he'll land, but he will continue running the R.E.M. fan site Murmurs.com. While praising his team, Kaplan was also not without criticism: “This business is changing, and one of the things that has always remained ...

News: Education

It's Official: First Master Degree in Beatles Awarded

January 29, 2011

Back in 2009, Liverpool Hope University launched a Master Of Arts course, titled The Beatles—Popular Music and Society. A Canadian woman has become the first person to graduate with the degree. In the course, Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy told the BBC that she studied, “how The Beatles came to be. What the political and social climate was and ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Chicago Live Jazz Music (January 28 - February 4, 2011) Schedule

January 29, 2011

Here is what's happening with the live music Chicago Jazz Scene for the dates January 28th thru February 4th, 2011(Matt Ferguson -Von Freeman's bassist @ The New Apartment Lounge Tuesday night gig")... Andy's Jazz Club 11 East Hubbard St. Chicago, IL 60611 312.642.6805 ANDY'S WEEKENDS FRIDAY & SATURDAY HEADLINERS! $10 Admission until 8:30 pm; $15 Admission ...