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News: Trends

Does the Music Industry Spend Its Own Money on Music? [survey Results]

Does the Music Industry Spend Its Own Money on Music? [survey Results]

Intro: Two Mondays ago, I left work early with a migraine. After a long shower and a nice nap, I woke up completely in a daze like any time I nap. I was in the mood for something laid back. At that moment I got an email that Sigur Ros was doing a “Cyber Monday" email ...

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News: Technology

Diaspora's Early Adopters Launch the Diaspora Noise Project

Diaspora's Early Adopters Launch the Diaspora Noise Project

Diaspora, the long-anticipated alternative to social networks that invade your privacy and monetize information about your interests and habits, has started opening up to newcomers. I recently joined and, in addition to a simple, clean interface, found an emerging community of interesting folks some of whom are involved in a musical experiment known as The Diaspora ...

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News: Technology

Does Google+ Hope to be the Next MySpace Music?

Does Google+ Hope to be the Next MySpace Music?

Japanese pop group AKB48 is leveraging the social functions of Google+ to regularly host Hangouts with fans and broadcast concerts live through Hangouts on Air, Google+ VP of Product Bradley Horowitz recently announced. When MySpace was still in its prime, it served as the go-to place for keeping track of what songs artists were creating. In ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Discover Roxbury Hosting Discussion on Jazz History and Civil Rights on December 14

Discover Roxbury, a non-profit group taking pride in the history, culture and community life of Roxbury, is hosting a discussion about jazz and its connection to the Civil Rights Movement in Roxbury during the 1950s. The event takes place at Haley House Bakery Cafe, 12 Dade Street in Roxbury, on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 7:00 ...

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News: Recording

Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero - Rodrigo Y Gabriela (2007)

Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero - Rodrigo Y Gabriela (2007)

There was a time when I was pretty consumed with, and you could make an argument that it could be considered “obsessed with," Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft legion—the California Guitar Trio, the League of Crafty Guitarists, and various smaller splinter groups. There was something about the shared skills of the many guitarists balancing complex pieces of ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Ten Tumbao, Afro-Cuban Band, Performing at Bond Lounge at Langham Boston Hotel on Wednesday, December 14

Ten Tumbao, a funky, soulful Afro-Latin-Caribbean band, performs at the BOND Restaurant | Lounge at the Langham Hotel in Boston on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Tumbao is a Cuban word signifying rhythm, flavor, style and flair and the band lives up to those descriptions. Located at the Langham Boston Hotel, BOND ...

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News: Recording

Box Sets for the Holidays

Box Sets for the Holidays

Looking back, we're likely to view 2012 as the year of the box set. Almost weekly over the past 12 months, boxes of CDs were released documenting a year in an artist's life, a classic album with all of the outtakes, or everything the artist ever recorded. This year Sony even unveiled PopMarket.com, which features the complete ...

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News: Festival

NY Guitar Fest: Keller, Mike Gordon, Kaki King, Thurston Moore

NEW YORK GUITAR FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ITS 2012 SERIES OF CONCERTS JANUARY 6—JANUARY 29 No instrument has spoken in more voices to more people than the guitar, and no festival has sought out the modulations in those voices and the range of the guitar's cultural expressions than the New York Guitar Festival. Following its many successes since ...

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News: Technology

Twitter Begins Brand Page Rollout

Twitter Begins Brand Page Rollout

Twitter is introducing brand pages and just as many of us haven't yet experienced the new Twitter account changes, the first brand pages being rolled out aren't even necessarily viewable to all. In fact, the demo video of Twitter's account changes has been marked private and you can't even see those. Fortunately, screenshots are available. Rafe ...

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News: Technology

Music Hack Day London: Spotify Hacks and More

Music Hack Day London: Spotify Hacks and More

Music Hack Day London took place December 3 and 4 resulting in the usual mix of stuff that didn't work, stuff that kind of worked, stuff that worked but was just for fun and stuff that's clearly headed for market at a future date. Spotify's efforts to further open its API were richly rewarded with numerous ...


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