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Watch Railroad Earth Spin New LP on Facebook
SPINNING NEW ALBUM ON THE DENON 100 TURNTABLE Railroad Earth's new self- titled album is out on October 12 via One Haven Music. Tomorrow at 1pm EDT the band will test-drive a vinyl copy of the new album, in its entirety, at the HQ of legendary electronics-maker Denon. They'll spin the album on a new Denon ...
Dear Walter Pincus: Music is a Not a Waste of Money
Walter Pincus, an award winning journalist from the Washington Post, has recently been suggesting that Military Bands are a waste of taxpayer dollars.I must respectfully disagree. Here's how: By asking the following questions . . . Is it a waste of taxpayer dollars to instill a little patriotism, with some John Philip Sousa, and see my ...
Old-School Major Label Executive Knows His Stuff
In just about any good rant on the record industry, a reader can expect to find two elements. First, that record labels are evil empires that prey on our children and sell them the image of Hannah Montana. Second, that they're run by a bunch of old and struggling dinosaurs that have no idea what they're ...
Music Would Suck Less if You Savored It More
Jeff Pollack, CEO of Pollack Media Group, made some very interesting assertions in his most recent column at The Huffington Post. In it, he expresses his concern about the number of comments he's received in the last few months that berate the quality of popular music and present that as reasoning behind the decline in the ...
'Most Ways That Artists Try to Earn Money Will Fail.'
Guardian columnist Helienne Lindvall had some choice words for the proprietors of free last week. Among those charged with misleading artists and telling them to give everything away for free was Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing. Funny thing is, Doctorow is a Guardian columnist too. So, when accused of charging high speaking fees on one ...
ASCAP Cuts Payments Just Months After Issuing a Glowing Forecast
In April of this year, ASCAP announced, “Music is performed more often, in more places, in more ways by more businesses than ever before. That expanded music use, combined with dramatic ASCAP Membership growth, market share increases and effective strategic management have led to stunning revenue and distribution growth for 2009." 2009 collections had risen $48 million ...
Buddy Morrow Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Info: Tommy Dorsey Orchestra Leader for 33 Years Dies at 91
Buddy Morrow (a.k.a. Muni Zudekoff), big band era trombonist (with a mastery of the upper range), hit-making recording artist, studio musician and most notably, bandleader of The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ghost band for over thirty years, passed away at age 91 years on the morning of September 27th, 2010 in his sleep... a resident of Maitland, ...
Aaron Goldberg Trio Performing at the Regattabar in Cambridge on Friday, October 8
Jazz pianist and composer Aaron Goldberg and his Trio are performing two shows at the Regattabar on Friday, October 8, 2010, at 7:30 and 10:00 p.m. Tickets are $22 and can be ordered online or at the club. The Trio, which includes Goldberg, bassist Omer Avital and drummer Eric Harland, is celebrating the release of its ...
The Friday Morning Listen: John Lennon - Imagine (1971)
By Mark Saleski I remember exactly where I was when I found out. I was hanging out in a friend's first floor dorm room in Aroostook Hall at the University of Maine. The only things I can remember about him are that his name was Fred and he was from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. I walked into the ...
Deep Cuts: George Benson "Valdez in the Country" (1976)
By Pico When we last visited a George Benson recording, it was about his remake of the still fresh-out-the-oven Abbey Road. Fast forward seven years later, to 1976: Benson had just ended his long and artistically successful stint with CTI Records, having been enticed back to the majors by Warner Brothers. Warners put Tommy LiPuma in ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
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Six new releases from Michael Pagan Big Band, Ron Vincent,...
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Fred Lipsius: The Blood, Sweat & Tears Sax Voice Still...
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