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News: Performance / Tour

Jimmy Webb, Singer/Songwriter, Performs at Bull Run Restaurant on October 29

October 29, 2011

Singer/Songwriter Jimmy Webb is performing at the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, Massachusetts on Saturday, October 29, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $24 and can be purchased online. Webb is a prolific composer known for a string of hits, including By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Up, Up and Away, the ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jay Geils Jazz and Blues Revue in Concert at Shalin Liu Performance Center on October 29

October 29, 2011

The Jay Geils Jazz & Blues Revue takes the stage at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. It's an all-star cast led by rock guitar legend Geils, and includes Gerry Beaudoin, Cassandre McKinley, Fred Lipsius of Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Doug Bell of Bellevue Cadillac. ...

News: Video / DVD

Halloween Special: Frank Zappa - The Torture Never Stops DVD (2008)

October 29, 2011

What better way to spend Halloween than with (as it's lovingly referred to in the liner notes) this thing? “The Torture Never Stops"—a 24-song, two-hour blast of almost indescribably brilliant/crazy rock from an Oct. 31, 1981 concert by the equally brilliant/crazy Frank Zappa—affords us a unique opportunity to experience one of popular music's most original guitarists, ...

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News: Recording

Album of the Week: Chora Baiao, Antonio Adolfo

October 29, 2011

Chora Baião Antonio Adolfo AAM Music Artistic voices don't just appear out of nowhere; even the most original and innovative musicians were influenced by someone. With such a vibrant emphasis upon creativity in jazz, we tend to forget this fact when discussing established artists. Connecting influences to an artist is much easier ...

News: Recording

Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris - Broken Partials (Nottwo, 2011) ****

October 29, 2011

By Paul Acquaro The music starts getting tense midway through 'Two' on Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris' vibrant new duo recording 'Broken Partials.' Shipp extracts all the sound he possibly can from the piano while Morris, intense and focused on upright bass, contributes a swarm of sound below the piano. Soon, like Shipp, he is digging ...

News: Technology

Dave Allen: Supporting Musicians on the Social Web

October 29, 2011

The online music “business" has long been a minefield for musicians, especially unsigned independent musicians. When the default business plan for streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora and Mog, is to raise investor money, license music from the recording labels and then launch a service that requires advertising in the stream, one has to wonder what's in it for ...

News: Music Industry

5 Tough Lessons Former CEO Mike Jones Learned from MySpace

October 29, 2011

Michael Jones spent the last two years at MySpace, first as co-president and then as CEO, attempting to turn the company around. Despite a wide range of changes the relaunch never quite worked and Jones left in August as new owners took over. Now he shares the lessons he learned. When Michael Jones took what probably ...

News: Music Industry

Michelle Shaprow's Facebook Friends Help Her Get a BMG Publishing Deal

October 29, 2011

When we first checked in on singer Michelle Shaprow, she was getting big in Japan while struggling with how best to maintain personal contact with her growing fanbase on Facebook. Since then she's continued to build her Facebook following while developing business contacts facilitated by her Facebook activities and expanding her activities to other countries. She ...

News: Music Industry

Let's Get Physical: Even in the Digital Age, Musicians Shouldn't Forget About CDs, Vinyl and Tapes

October 29, 2011

Regular readers of musician advice blogs like ours at PerscriptionPR will no doubt have picked up on the fact that much of the advice that has been imparted relates to digital aspects of music industry—whether that's to do with recording, distribution, PR or marketing. And for good reason really: to misquote Madonna, we are living in ...

News: Music Industry

Jazz Trombonist Curtis Fuller Lectures at Harvard on Monday, October 31

October 29, 2011

Blue Note jazz trombonist and composer Curtis Fuller has been invited as a Visiting Artist at at Harvard University's Office of the Arts on Monday, October 31, 2011, 7:30 p.m, .at the New College Theatre Studio, 10-12 Holoyke Street in Cambridge. Fuller will discuss his work in a conversation with Tom Everett, Director of the Harvard ...