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FanFueled Brings "Clean Energy" and Fan Rewards to Concert Ticketing

November 23, 2011

Last week yet another ticketing company intending to disrupt established players like Ticketmaster announced its launch. At first, though FanFueled offers an interesting mix of fan rewards and low fees, I was bit underwhelmed by covering yet another contestant in a crowded field. But after speaking with Founder and CEO Anderson Bell, I realized there's a ...

Highlights from Billboard's Futuresound Conference

November 23, 2011

The theme of last week's Billboard FutureSound Conference in San Francisco was centered on defining problems and finding actionable solutions in the areas of entrepreneurship, music licensing, as well as leveraging the social web in the digital music marketplace. Among the speakers sharing insights were key music industry execs, pioneering music/tech and social web start-ups, investors and venture ...

New York Voices Performing at Shalin Liu in Rockport on November 25

November 23, 2011

Jazz vocal group New York Voices is appearing at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport on Friday, November 25, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $19, $28 and $34, and can be purchased online. Formed in 1987, New York Voices is a Grammy Award-winning quartet that has emerged as one of the exemplary vocal jazz ...

Greek Jazz Pianist Lefteris Kordis Performs at Langham Boston Hotel on November 23

November 23, 2011

Greek-born jazz pianist and composer Lefteris Kordis is performing at the BOND Restaurant | Lounge at the Langham Boston Hotel on Wednesday, November 23, 2011, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Kordis is a Fullbright Scholar who graduated with honors from the New England Conservatory, where he now teaches piano, jazz ear training and music theory. He ...

Paul Motian (1931-2011): An Appreciation

November 23, 2011

Drummer Paul Motian, who first came to prominence in the late 1950s with pianist Bill Evans' pioneering trio, has died. A representative from ECM Records confirms he passed at 4:52 a.m. in New York City. A cause of death has not been disclosed. He was 80. After this groundbreaking association with Evans, Motian later collaborated with ...

Forgotten Series: Peter Frampton - Frampton (1975)

November 23, 2011

Children of the 1970s know the story of this guy: Played guitar in Humble Pie. Formed Frampton's Camel. Put out a few studio records (including this one) that more or less went unnoticed. Then ... out comes Frampton Comes Alive! The rest is history. Well, almost. After those heady times came, in what chronology I don't ...

Matt Baker - Underground (2011)

November 23, 2011

If pianist and composer Matt Baker's new recording has the tempo and feel of a jet-set traveler, there's a reason for that: Baker, an Australian native, has kept busy since moving to New York City in mid 2010—playing a series of well-received engagements at jazz venues like Smalls and the Zinc Bar, among others, having already ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Pandora is Now Profitable...

November 23, 2011

Wall Street was mostly unimpressed, but by music industry standards, this is a moment. On Tuesday, Pandora revealed something remarkable: profitability, at least for a fleeting three months. During its quarterly wrap-up today, Pandora (P) reported a slim profit of $638,000, a reversal from a year-ago decline of $1.77 million. The number translates into break-even on ...

The Lick, the Lick, the Lick, the Lick, the Lick--

November 22, 2011

The Way to San Jose

November 22, 2011

A few weeks ago I was sitting next to Burt Bacharach on an overstuffed sofa in his living room at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. We were the only ones in the house, and it was a gloriously warm early autumn afternoon, with the ocean fog just starting to roll in. I was there to ...