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News: Opinion

A Whole New World: The Evolution of Mobile Music

July 19, 2012

When I got my first Walkman CD player, it completely changed the way I listened to music. I could listen to the songs I loved whenever I wanted, and it felt like they were being played for me personally. Mundane tasks suddenly became an excuse to listen to music. As a result, they went by faster ...

News: Trends

British Album Sales Are Officially Imploding...

July 17, 2012

When's the last time you bought a CD? A recent survey conducted by Audio-Technica in the UK found that 40 percent simply couldn't remember the last time, while 20 percent reported downloading something in the last week. So what about the rest? Nearly half (49 percent) felt that free downloading was perfectly acceptable, which probably means ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Dan White Sextet, Willie Akins-Montez Coleman Quartet, Freddie Washington's Coltrane Tribute, and More

July 19, 2012

This week's menu of noteworthy jazz and creative music shows around St. Louis includes headlining appearances by two longtime local favorite tenor saxophonists, as well as the local debut of an up-and-coming touring band. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, the Dan White Sextet from Columbus, Ohio will be in St. Louis for the first time ...

News: Recording

Drummer/Composer and Multi Grammy Nominee Bobby Sanabria Releases New CD "Multiverse" on Jazzheads Records - August 14th, 2012.

July 19, 2012

"...What sets the worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization, for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and ...

News: Interview

Duduka Da Fonseca: 'Samba Jazz'

July 18, 2012

Duduka Da Fonseca has one of the most softly insistent touches on the drums, particularly when he's using brushes. As he whisks up a rhythm, the sound is like the wind swinging through long-limbed willow trees. You hear the steady rustle of the leaves but the force is gentle and coaxing rather than trunk-splitting. This combed ...

News: Music Industry

Want a Record Deal? Sign Yourself to Any and All Records

July 18, 2012

An important aspect to the Internet as a combination global media network and digital toolbox is that it's now much easier for artists to focus on being sole proprietors or collectives and to sign themselves. Yet some musicians will always feel insecure until legitimated by a third party. Any And All Records recently launched to help ...

News: Trends

For the First Time, Records of the Past Are Outselling New Ones

July 19, 2012

For the first time since Nielsen Soundscan began keeping track of album sales in 1991, old records have outsold new ones, with the first six months of 2012 seeing album sales of 76.6 million “catalog" records (albums released more than 18 months ago) compared to 73.9 million current albums. Topping the catalog sales charts are Guns ...

News: Music Industry

Henry Rollins Shares '4 Pillars' That Took Him from Ice Cream Scooper to Black Flag [video]

July 19, 2012

Henry Rollins went from college dropout to scooping ice cream at a Washington, D.C. area Häagen-Dazs to the lead singer of seminal punk band Black Flag, actor and more. But he does not believe it was creative genius that got him there. “I don't have talent," Rollins insists in a video interview. “I have tenacity. I ...

News: Recording

Kay Starr: 'I Cry by Night'

July 19, 2012

Like many gifted singers of her generation, Kay Starr wound up a hard-boiled pop vocalist. When the LP era took hold in the early 1950s and the 12-inch LP appeared mid-decade with the ability to support a color photo on the jacket cover, many female singers with jazz and big-band chops chomped down on the commercial ...

News: Event

Advance Look at the Upcoming Bandwidth Conference

July 19, 2012

Next month in Portland, Oregon, the Bandwidth music and technology conference kicks off for its annual event discussing the evolving music space, bringing in top minds in the field from Sony Network Entertainment, Beatport, Warner Music Group, YouTube, and more. Closed discussion sessions revolve around how people discover, purchase, interact with, and are exposed to new ...