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News: Performance / Tour

Mr. Ho's Orchestrotical! Performs at Club Passim in Cambridge on Sunday, January 30

January 29, 2011

Mr. Ho's Orchestrotical! led by Boston percussionist Brian O'Neill, is performing at Club Passim in Harvard Square, Cambridge, on Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $12 and can be ordered online. The 21-piece big band, created by Mr. O'Neill, is devoted to the “space age bachelor pad" sounds of Juan ...

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News: Recording

Sam Trapchak's Put Together Funny - Lollipopocalypse (2010)

January 29, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Growing up in the Detroit area, Sam Trapchak's dad played electric bass, and like most musically interested young boys in America, Sam wanted to play guitar. But his father persuaded him to take up bass instead with a piece of irrefutable logic: Everyone always needs a bassist. From there, young Sam was ...

News: Music Industry

Why Creating a Perfect Digital Music Service is Really, Really Hard

January 29, 2011

If you've ever wondered why these dadgum deals involving cloud music or Spotify or eMusic or whoever seem to take forever, well, this will be of great interest to you. At MIDEM this week, Music Ally put on something called a Music Licensing Crash Test, in which ...

News: Book / Magazine

10 Things Musicians Can Learn from Douglas Rushkoff's Program or Be Programmed

January 29, 2011

[Editor's Note: The following guest post is by Marc Weidenbaum.] In an age of digital downloads, virtual instruments, and social-media fandom, everybody, musicians especially, must learn how technology is controlled. People who fail to do that run the risk of leaving themselves open to manipulation—i.e., to being controlled. That anxiety-stoking thesis is central to a new ...

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News: Recording

Champion Jack Dupree - Blues from the Gutter (Atlantic, 1958)

January 29, 2011

Blues singer and pianist lived a fascinating life (someone really should cobble together a biography) and this may be his best known LP. Cut with a wonderful band under perfect conditions for Atlantic, the music is a rare combination of fascinating and wry lyrics (about some pretty heavy topics) and just spot-on playing. He does cover ...

News: Music Industry

Worth the Gamble? Rdio Lands the Latest Round...

January 29, 2011

Rdio's got that shine that attracts investors, but is this a horse that'll still be trotting in five years? Well, the guys at Mangrove Capital Partners think so. The Luxembourg-based VCs are the latest to plunk down on Rdio, according to details confirmed by partner publication paidContent. The tip-off was an off-the-cuff tweet by Mangrove cofounder ...

News: Economics

Is This Working? 95% of the Top-Charting iTunes Singles Are $1.29...

January 29, 2011

Is this strategy screaming for change? We just took a look at the top 100 singles on the iTunes Store (for Friday afternoon), and found that 95 of them were priced at $1.29. The remaining 5 were $0.99, and none were $0.69. Meanwhile, paid downloads are flattening (up just 1% in the US in 2010 last ...

News: Interview

Latin Jazz Conversations: Wayne Wallace (Part 2)

January 28, 2011

The evolution of jazz charges into the future with the ferocity of a tidal wave, and the strongest musicians ride the momentum into the future. The conglomeration of musical styles and improvisational approaches that shape emerging trends in jazz push the musician through a test of flexibility and durability. Sometimes the musician successfully sails over the ...

News: Interview

Alan Trustman on Bullitt

January 28, 2011

Yesterday afternoon, an email arrived in my in-box with a curious subject line: “That's MY car chase. MINE!!" The writer was, of course, referring to my article in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal here on the famed car chase from Bullitt, the 1968 film starring Steve McQueen. Over the past weekend I was in San Francisco driving ...

News: Recording

Omar Rodriguez Lopez: Telesterion, Live Dates

January 28, 2011

COMPILATION GATHERS SWEET MEAT FROM MASSIVE SOLO CATALOG Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) has announced the spring 2011 release of a quadruple LP / double CD collection culled from his multiple solo and collaborative albums entitled Telesterion. In celebration of this, Rodriguez Lopez's eponymous band will perform at this year's Coachella Festival ...