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Nils Lofgren - Old School (2011)
You could forgive Nils Lofgren, best known these days as a 27-year member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, for issuing a contemplative record after such a difficult period. And there's some of that here. Yet, in the wake of losing both E Street saxophonist Clarence Clemons (who passed in June at age 69 from complications ...
Shows I'll Never Forget: Wilco and Calexico, Nov. 20, 2004
By Tom Johnson Wilco brought its amazing conglomerate of musicians to Tempe's Marquee Theatre in support of the terrific A ghost is born, with the equally talented, although unfairly publicly ignored opening act Calexico. The 45 minutes allotted to Calexico was far from enough, but the band made the most of it, packing their setlist with ...
RPM Orchestra - Afterglow (2010)
By Mark Saleski Being the musical egghead that I am, I tend to be very fond of Frank Zappa's thoughts on composition. In particular, the idea that anything can be music. Yes, anything—"Anything can be music, but it doesn't become music until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to ...
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning / Complete Chess Masters (1951 to 1960) (Hip-O Select, 2011)
Chester Burnett, aka Howlin' Wolf was one of the most primordial and influential figures on the blues scene from the 1950's to the 1970's. His protean voice and harmonica, and rudimentary guitar were a force of nature. Born in Mississippi, Wolf was in a sense a transitional figure who straddled the gap between the great pre-war ...
Something Else! Interview: Jazz Trumpeter Nicholas Payton
Trumpeter Nicholas Payton may have begun his journey as part of the traditionalists in the early-1990s Young Lions movement, but he couldn't have emerged any further afield. In fact, Payton's upcoming R&B-infused project Bitches is only just now seeing the light of day, in a completely remixed format, after being rejected last fall by the stalwart ...
Clear Channel Radio Has Efficiently Eliminated Your Position...
Ah, that authentic, local radio flavor, as only a highly-efficient programming restrategization can deliver. We're not sure exactly what the retooled strategy is, though we do know that Clear Channel Radio is now chopping hundreds of station positions, according to early estimates. “It looks like a huge rank-and-file chop across radio stations' personel," one source told ...
Twitter is Now Following the Music Industry in a Serious Way...
Twitter is expanding its strategy of brokering high-impact media relationships, and that could mean some very interesting music deals ahead. Already, the company is putting the final touches on a big partnership with 'The X Factor' in the US, one that involves realtime voting and feedback. But that's just a humble beginning. 'The X Factor' handshake ...
Getz and Sauter: Focus, the Video
A recent discussion among jazz researchers disclosed what to many of us was news, that there exists video of Stan Getz and Eddie Sauter performing portions of Focus. There has never been anything else quite like the 1961 Verve album of Getz soloing over, around and inside Sauter's dazzling score for orchestra. Getz was widely quoted ...
Part 7: What Musicians Expect from Music Critics and Journalists
This is Pt. 7 in our series of dialogues with musicians where we pose the following burning question: When you read music journalism and criticism, what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing? This week's correspondents: Drummer-bandleader Allison Miller, and flutist-bandleader-composer Nicole Mitchell. Allison Miller “I look for writers who are open ...
The Essential Role of Artist Management in a Post-Label World
James Barton and Brian Message are London-based music managers and representatives of the Music Managers Forum UK. They recently shared “Lessons from the Industry Formerly Known as 'The Record Business,'" via the Harvard Business Review's Blog Network, addressing the emerging role of artist management in the careers of musicians as the focus shifts from selling records ...
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