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News: Recording

Bruce Springsteen: The Promise: Houston '78 Bootleg (2010)

November 18, 2010

By Mark Saleski The Darkness on the Edge of Town tour has taken on a sort of mythic quality, mostly because there has been scant video evidence. This “bootleg" tape unearthed by Camp Springsteen confirms what fans lucky enough to have seen one of the shows have known all along: this was the E Street Band ...

News: Event

A Brubeck Birthday Concert

November 19, 2010

Dave Brubeck's 90th birthday is on December 6. Observances are beginning. This weekend in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under music director William Schrickel will play a celebratory concert with three pieces by Brubeck.They include one of his first extended orchestral works, Elementals, and the U.S. premiere of an adaptation for solo violin and strings ...

News: Interview

Latin Jazz Conversations: Jovino Santos Neto (Part 3)

November 19, 2010

Spending time with an influential musician during the height of their artistic output means a lot of different things. It's an amazing growth opportunity that results in one of the finest educations available—performing regularly with an innovative musician simply demands artistic evolution. The opportunity to experience the development of the artist's musical development is a priceless ...

News: Interview

Interview: David Amram at 80

November 19, 2010

David Amram turned 80 yesterday. If you know David, you know that hitting that age is almost a ridiculous concept. The musician and composer has the metabolism and mind of a 25-year old, and he's constantly traveling the country like jazz's Johnny Appleseed, performing and motivating all who cross his path. One grows winded just listening ...

News: Interview

Carl Broemel: Heaven Knows

November 19, 2010

By Dennis Cook Some albums seem illuminated by twinkling, magic catching light, birthed in quietude and redolent of domesticity and other simple pleasures that sustain us amidst the hustle 'n' bustle. This is the atmosphere of the solo debut from My Morning Jacket lead guitarist Carl Broemel, whose work outside MMJ has the shimmering, comforting timelessness ...

News: Performance / Tour

Trombone Shorty/Los Amigos Invisibles 2011 Tour Dates

November 19, 2010

CO-HEADLINE TOUR DATES SET FOR FEBRUARY 2011 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue join forces with Los Amigos Invisibles for what promises to be a knockout, high-energy tour that celebrates the new year. The February co-headline tour includes such highlights as a double bill at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore Auditorium, a Grammy eve performance at L.A. Live's ...

News: Performance / Tour

Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation | Cali | Review

November 19, 2010

Words & Images by: L. Paul Mann Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation :: 11.05.10 :: Santa Barbara Bowl :: Santa Barbara, CA In the biggest double bill to descend on the Santa Barbara Bowl in the last few years, new music masters Thievery Corporation and Massive Attack closed out the 2010 season. As part of the Santa Barbara ...

News: Interview

How 550,000 Artists Collaborate and Create Together

November 19, 2010

(Read part 1 of the interview here.) The proliferation of social production tools and aligning them with the intrinsic motivations of musicians isn't enough to bring about cultural change though; musicians need real-life opportunities to act on too. The way that musicians understand the opportunities available to them has changed drastically over the course of the ...

News: Technology

Big Facebook, Myspace Joint Announcement Today

November 19, 2010

(Updated) MySpace and Facebook will make a major joint announcement at Noon PST today according to a press invitation sent last night. Mike Jones, CEO of MySpace, and Dan Rose, VP of partnerships and platform marketing for Facebook will be handling the presentation, but no other details were offered. Several sources are pointing towards increased integration ...

News: Recording

The Friday Morning Listen: Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)

November 19, 2010

By Mark Saleski Clearly I have been spending an awful lot of time with Darkness on the Edge of Town this week. Too much time maybe? What does that mean? It's an interesting question and, as it turns out, it doesn't have meaning...at least not for me. Last weekend, me and TheWife were out running our ...