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Jazzwax List: 5 Video Clips

December 24, 2010

Rather than post prose today, I've decided to share with you some of my favorite video clips viewed over the past week. As my friends know, I'm a YouTube junkie, trawling the site daily for little-known and hidden jazz, rock and soul videos. Below are five favorites: Here's acordionist Mat Mathews from July 1997...

News: Interview

Railroad Earth: Take My Hand

December 24, 2010

By : Dennis Cook “Tell me have you heard the story going down the line? Say the name Railroad Earth and instantly images of steam engines, high crested mountains and open plains spring to mind. There's a rooted romance to this band, a sonic cousin to Terrence Mallick's Days of Heaven, the lingering Wild West imagination, ...

News: Music Industry

360 Deal Wonders Paramore Called "A Manufactured Product of a Major Label" by Former Members

December 24, 2010

Paramore represented the epitome of 360 deals. In an interview with Billboard, Lyor Cohen, the CEO of Recorded Music for WMG, confided that he thinks, “Paramore is going to be very special and demonstrate what we mean by alignment." Similarly, in a New York Times piece, writer Jeff Leeds wrote that executives and talent managers “cite ...

News: Trends

What's Ahead for 2011? Panos Panay: Consumer Brand Marketing Will Play Bigger Role in Music

December 24, 2010

As we end the year, Hypebot asked some our favorite thinkers, writers, and friends to answer two questions—one looking forward and the other back. Here Panos Panay, the founder & CEO of SonicBids, answers. Hypebot: What do you see as the most important business and consumer trends that will shape the music industry in 2011? Panos ...

News: Trends

What's Ahead for 2011? Marcus Taylor: Social Marketing and Mobile Will Continue to be Important

December 24, 2010

As we end the year, Hypebot asked some our favorite thinkers, writers, and friends to answer two questions—one looking forward and the other back. Here Marcus Taylor, the founder of The Musician's Guide, answers. Hypebot: What do you see as the most important business and consumer trends that will shape the music industry in 2011? Marcus ...

News: Technology

ReverbNation: Free "Control Room" iPhone App

December 24, 2010

ReverbNation has been having quite a run leading up to this holiday season. First they announced their one-millionth account. Then they gained an exclusive partnership with Myspace, which made their tools baked into the fabric of the social network. Now they've released a mobile app for the iPhone that enables artists to collect emails, check profile ...

News: Performance / Tour

New Year's Eve Jazz: Sculler's in Boston Featuring Pieces of a Dream

December 24, 2010

Sculler's Jazz Club at the Doubletree Guest Suites-Boston is hosting a New Year's Eve celebration featuring Pieces of a Dream on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.. Formed in Philadelphia in 1976, Pieces of a Dream is a storied jazz ensemble known for its innovation and authentic jazz roots. It takes its name from a ...

News: Music Industry

Reflections on Trudy Pitts

December 24, 2010

By Linda Dachtyl It is hard to know how to begin to talk about the recent passing of Trudy Pitts and the ways in which she touched my life in the brief time I got to know her over the last two years, so I will start at the beginning. I am always amazed at how ...

News: Recording

The Friday Morning Listen: Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

December 24, 2010

By Mark Saleski Last year, after a couple of trips to the hardware store, it appeared that we had enough hooks to decorate our Christmas tree. True to form, shortly after stocking up we managed to find the “lost" hooks and now have enough to hang stuff on a tree suitable for Rockefeller Center. Also last ...

News: Video / DVD

Ten for 2010: Year's Best Included Field Music, Ted Leo, Band of Horses and Mike Patton

December 24, 2010

By Tom Johnson Every year I start out thinking that I have a feeling what album is going to ride high on my year end list, and more often than not I'm surprised by so many other things that the album in question may not even register. This year's victim is Corinne Bailey Rae's The Sea, ...