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"Concert for Kids" Kicks Off 53rd Monterey Jazz Festival Weekend,

September 15, 2010

The “Concert for Kids" is a twenty-year tradition at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The Festival invites children from Monterey County middle and high schools to attend the free event every year, with an estimated 500 students attending. The concert is part of an outreach effort on the part of the educational programs of the Monterey Jazz ...

Royce Campbell: Playing Pretty

September 15, 2010

As a jazz guitarist, it's not easy to play pretty. You have to worship harmony, you have to love the sound of the instrument, and you have to want to seduce audiences. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, guitarists like Barry Galbraith, Jimmy Raney, Chuck Wayne, Mundell Lowe, Wes Montgomery and others understood the conversational quality ...

T Bone Burnett: The Speaking Clock Revue

September 15, 2010

MULTI-ARTIST EXTRAVAGANZA FEATURING ELTON JOHN, LEON RUSSELL, JOHN MELLENCAMP, ELVIS COSTELLO, GREG ALLMAN, AND OTHERS T Bone Burnett will premiere The Speaking Clock Revue—a multi-artist concert extravaganza—on October 16 at the Wang Center in Boston and October 20 at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Both evenings of the Revue will feature performances by Elton ...

Auctions for Phil Lesh's Unbroken Chain Charity

September 15, 2010

PROJECT TO BRING CLEAN AND SAFE DRINKING WATER TO PEOPLE IN DEVELOPING NATIONS Phil Lesh has begun work on his Box of Rain campaign. To help raise more funds, Phil has put together the following auctions: 1) “The Deal Package"—A Post-Show Black Jack Tournament with Phil Lesh in Vegas! Winner receives 2 tickets to the show, ...

Tom Whalley Exits Warner Bros. Records. as WMG Names New Executive Team

September 15, 2010

(UPDATED) Tom Whalley, who has served as Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records since 2001, is leaving the label in a shakeup that substantially changes the makeup of the exectuive suite. The new team includes Rob Cavallo (currently WMG's Chief Creative Officer), who will serve as Chairman, Todd Moscowitz (currently EVP at Warner Bros, CEO ...

"The Mystery is Gone and Artists Just Start Looking Like Normal People That Aren't so Special," Says Kevin Breuner of CD Baby. Interview Part Two.

September 15, 2010

In the second segment of my interview with Kevin Breuner, who is the Marketing Project Manager at CD Baby and host of the DIY Musician Podcast, we talk about the singular model of success that the record industry operated under, why musicians need to think of themselves as entrepreneurs, and The Great Reset occurring in the ...

Mitchell Wolk Leaves ADA, WMG Names New Leader

September 15, 2010

Alternative Distribution Alliance, the indie distribution arm of Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) just announced a succession plan that will see company veteran David Orleans named President succeeding Mitchell Wolk. Orleans will not inherit Wolk's other title as CEO and will instead report to Mike Jbara, President and CEO of WEA, WMG's U.S. Retail Sales and ...

Indaba Music Adds on-Demand CD Production, Offers Hypebot Readers Free Trial of Service

September 15, 2010

Online collaboration community Indaba Music now provides its users with on-demand and personalized CD production services. In partnering with CustomCD, the company will expand its growing collection of third party applications, information resources and lifestyle benefits. The pricing that Indaba Music is offering with this service: they charge $5.50 per disc and the user keeps 100% ...

McAfee Study Says Free Music Comes at a Price

September 15, 2010

It's seems that all this free music may be almost as bad for your computer as it has been for the bottom line of the average record label. A new report by anit-virus software maker McAfee outlines the threat of “free" MP3s, software, streaming video, fan pages and malicious ads that appear even on well-established web ...

A Graphic Surprise: iPhones and Androids Do Not Dominate Smartphone Market

September 15, 2010