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News: Performance / Tour

Hugh Masekela: U.S. Dates

October 2, 2010

MUSICAL LEGEND BRINGS TRUMPET GROOVES TO NORTH AMERICA Hugh Masekela , born out of apartheid South Africa, has consistently toured worldwide and his genre-bending dynamism has led to his own icon status. His uncategorizable sound comes to life on his October 2010 North American tour. After many years spent in exile from the violence and oppression ...

News: Performance / Tour

Marco Benevento: North American Tour Dates

October 2, 2010

NYE WITH SURPRISE ME MR. DAVIS AT CAFE DU NORD Marco Benevento is getting ready to load the old 1927 upright into Panthro (the van) to play dates all over the States and Canada in the coming months. For these upcoming shows, Marco returns to Canada after appearing at a number of festivals up across the ...

News: Performance / Tour

Gorillaz to be Joined by Lou Reed and Mos Def at 10/8 MSG Concert

October 2, 2010

DE LA SOUL, LITTLE DRAGON, BOBBY WOMACK & MORE ALSO JOIN GORILLAZ THROUGHOUT THE TOUR Gorillaz have confirmed that Lou Reed and Mos Def will join them for one night only performances at the October 8 stop of the “Escape To Plastic Beach" tour at New York's Madison Square Garden. On October 7, the day before ...

News: Technology

Forecast Predicts Strong Digital Download Growth

October 2, 2010

At present there are 105.4m paid users of digital music in North America. A new forecast predicts that number will grow to 227.2m by 2014. As well, it argues that the number of paid download users in the US and Canada—from the period of 2010 to 2014—will increase from 105.4m to 227.2m. However, they expect that ...

News: Trends

Survey: 20% Listen to Pandora, Alt Rock Tumbles and Other Major Shifts in Youth Listening Patterns

October 2, 2010

Edison Researh's American Youth Study 2010 offers a significant survey of the media and technology habits of America's 12-24 year-olds. The new study reveals signifigant shifts in their musical preferences, the sources they prefer to discover music and increasingly even the devices they use to listen. Highlights of their findings: 20% of 12-24s have listened to ...

News: Recording

4 Reasons Why Fans Are File-Sharing Your Music (That You Can Change...)

October 2, 2010

(UPDATED) If you follow the arguments surrounding file-sharing close enough you'd assume that file-sharers are the kind of moral lacking scum of the Earth that would consider pushing their own grandma into moving traffic or, that on the weekends, they shoplift from Best Buy and are slowly working up the confidence to start robbing banks. Of ...

News: Economics

Nielson Clarifies Digital Sales Report

October 2, 2010

After a stating last week that U.S. digital sales we're flat, Nielson is now clarifying their findings. “The initial Nielsen analysis was focussed exclusively on digital single sales and did not look at the strong growth in digital albums, which we expect to continue. Or, the impact variable pricing for singles has had on increasing industry ...

News: Interview

"Free Music is Always Going to Win," Says Lee Parsons, CEO of Ditto Music; Interview Part 1

October 2, 2010

Recently, I spoke with Lee Parsons, who is currently the CEO of Ditto Music. As of midsummer, they were distributing around 12,000 artists online and had 7 UK top 40 singles with unsigned artists. In this interview Parsons talks about the record industry's attitudes toward technology, why labels have trouble seeing value in disrupts their core-business ...

News: Award / Grant

BT Digital Awards Best for Music Discovery, Promotion, Music Blog, App, Site and More

October 2, 2010

At last night's BT Digital Music Awards in London, one of the few awards that honors musicians as well as the digital media and technology sectors, Songkick, iTunes, YouTube, BBC Introducing, Gorillaz and Muse were among the big winners. 2010 BT Digital Music Award Winners: Best Innovation or Gadget BandCentral BuzzDeck Pledge Music Songkick SoundCloud SoundOut ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Passengers Stage Their 'Reunited' Album

October 2, 2010

The Jazz Passengers wrapped up their first set at the Jazz Standard on Wednesday night with “Reunited," a No. 1 hit for Peaches & Herb in 1979. Some liberties were taken, of course. The song, in its original form, is a lush disco ballad, sticky-sweet enough to spread on a biscuit. Here it began music-box prickly, ...