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Peter Gabriel - New Blood (2011)

October 13, 2011

By Tom Johnson Somewhere out there, music fans cower in fear. The day has come again: Peter Gabriel returns with yet another album of orchestral covers! But fear not. This time he's covering his own songs. Luckily on New Blood the results are far, far more pleasing to long-time fans than his previous effort, last year's ...

Forgotten Series: Groundtruther - Latitude (2004)

October 13, 2011

By Mark Saleski Drummer Bobby Previte and bassist Charlie Hunter got together to record some completely improvised music. The twist was that they rotated in a different third player for each recording in the trilogy entitled “Latitude, Longitude, Attitude." The project was named Groundtruther. For the first installment, the third member was saxophonist Greg Osby. This ...

Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris - Broken Partials (Not Two, 2011)

October 13, 2011

Pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist and guitarist Joe Morris have been long time compatriots on the improvised music scene, but I believe that may be the first time they have recorded in the duet configuration ( at least with Morris sticking strictly to bass.) It works very well, with Morris adhering to acoustic bass and Shipp's ...

Frank Carlberg's Piano and Compositions Come to the Forefront in "Uncivilized Ruminations"

October 13, 2011

Frank Carlberg is not just a new jazz sort of fellow. He's doing something actually rather new. If you start with the sort of angular abstractions Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi used to do, you get a stepping off point for where the music on Uncivilized Ruminations (RPR Red Piano Records) begins. Unfortunately the graphic design ...

For Fun: Weiss, Most and Co.

October 12, 2011

Mort Weiss identified himself in a comment here as “the world's greatest out-of-work Jewish bebop clarinetist." That may be, but he found work one night not long ago at Steamers jazz club in the Los Angeles area. Weiss led a band with Sam Most, tenor sax and flute; Ron Eschete, guitar; Luther Hughes, bass; and Roy ...

Interview: Sol Schlinger (Part 2)

October 12, 2011

In the 1950s, the two baritone saxophonists who were mostoften called for studio sessions on the East Coast were Sol Schlinger and the late Danny Bank. Though Bank was a studied musician and tended to play forcefully in the lower register, Sol was a spirited swinger and sharp reader who favored playing a little higher. Both ...

30 Top Indie Labels Partner for Music Discovery Site thenewrecord.com

October 12, 2011

Community building doesn't only happen on Facebook, and a new indie music discovery site founded by Bill Armstrong of Side One Dummy hopes to build a community of indie music fans more tied to the creators than to Mark Zuckerberg. To help make that happen, Armstrong assembled a unique partnership of 30 top independent music labels ...

9 Critical Things You Should Know About Music Publicity Before You Make Your First Move

October 12, 2011

By Ariel Hyatt, a regular contributor to MusicThinkTank, whose Ariel Publicity is an indie music focused digital pr firm and educational experience wrapped up in one very cool package.. I just got back from teaching social media master classes throughout Finland, Norway and Iceland and many musicians asked me to help them understand what traditional publicity ...

Watch: Steve Jobs Introduce 1st iPod at Apple Music Event 2001

October 12, 2011

Just How Much Does Rhapsody Pay Artists?

October 12, 2011

Last week, Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News asked some basic questions about how much the music streaming services pay labels/artists. He had a hard time getting detailed responses from any of the firms he contacted, including Rhapsody. Here's how I'm paid for my self-released albums in the Rhapsody catalog: 1. A penny per stream. For ...