Results for "AAJ Staff"

Overheard @ Bandwidth (#bandwidthsf)

August 21, 2010

From Hypebot's eyes and ears at Bandwidth @DannyDee Promoted Tweets: (allows company to sponsor a tweet) roll out in the fall & 2011..will be self serve in the future 1 in 4 tweets links to content (70 million a day.) 7Digital powers Spotify's downloads...surprising % of users want to own vs. stream music “Unless you know ...

Band Creates a Free Music Video Using Flickr

August 21, 2010

Great Music And A Little Bit Of Imagination. Not everyone has friends with nice camera equipment or the persuasive power to swindle some young film students into recording their next music video. That's the situation Changing Clocks found themselves in. So they teamed up with the world of Flickr and created this neat video for free, ...

One Day... Albums as Single Unbreakable Files

August 21, 2010

Fans are cherry-picking your songs. You hate it, hate it, hate it. Artists make albums, not songs. If only there were a way to make fans consume your vision as you saw fit. In Wired UK's edition, Russell Davies poses an interesting question: “MP3s, Napster and iTunes have turned the natural unit of music consumption into ...

Book Review - Warning Shadows - Home Alone with Classic Cinema - By Gary Giddins

August 21, 2010

Scratch a film critic, and you're likely to find a jazz buff. That the opposite is also true was suggested as far back as the 1930s by Otis Ferguson, the startlingly prescient critic who covered jazz, when it was a genuinely popular art, along with Hollywood movies, then entering their classical phase, for The New Republic. ...

Chicago Live Jazz Music (August 20-August 27, 2010) Schedule

August 21, 2010

Here is what's happening with the live music Chicago Jazz Scene for the dates August 20th thru August 27th, 2010...(image: Hey it's Lynn, everybody's favorite greeter at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago!) Andy's Jazz Club 11 East Hubbard St. Chicago, IL 60611 312.642.6805 ANDY'S WEEKENDS FRIDAY & SATURDAY HEADLINERS! $10 Admission until 8:30 pm; $15 Admission ...

Ben Webster - "Poutin'" (1964)

August 22, 2010

The Friday Morning Listen: Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny - Beyond the Missouri Sky (1997)

August 21, 2010

By Mark Saleski Have you ever been minding your own business when an old experience, one you hadn't thought about in years, just pops into your mind? That happened to me the other night, and I have no idea why. I had been up late reading, had just returned from the bathroom tooth-brushing thing, and was ...

How Not to Write a Press Release, Courtesy of Vice (Part One)

August 21, 2010

[The following article, originally titled “$ell Your Music With Prose," first appeared in much longer form in the Anti-Music Issue of Vice Magazine. It was written by Oliver Hall. We thank him for his invaluable contribution, and hope sincerely that every music publicist in the free world reads his words, whether they read them here or ...

How Not to Write a Press Release, Courtesy of Vice (Part Two)

August 21, 2010

[Part two of Oliver Hall's magnificent “$ell Your Music With Prose" continues below. Part one is here]Emotions and the Chatechrestic Pitch According to a recent press release about a debut album that “has sunshine seeping through every note," the members of the band that made it “evoke a grand sense of nostalgia with their heartfelt melancholy." ...

"Helsinki Fest Meets Minnesota Madness"

August 21, 2010

from This Is Finland Minnesota trio The Bad Plus, who play the Helsinki Festival's Huvila Tent on August 22, have a reputation for playing jazzy covers of tunes by Pink Floyd, ABBA and Nirvana. But now those covers are on the back burner as they cook up more original tunes. Over the past decade, The Bad ...