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News: Performance / Tour

SFJAZZ Collective: Fall Tour

September 24, 2011

FALL TOUR PLAYING THE MUSIC OF STEVIE WONDER AND NEW COMPOSITIONS The SFJAZZ Collective will perform dates in the US and Canada in October performing material from the new CD, SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions, Live in New York 2011—Season 8. The tour and the release features new arrangements of the classic ...

News: Technology

Google Music Marketing: Will.I.AM on Hangouts, the Johnny Cash Project and Chrome

September 24, 2011

With yesterday's looming debut of new Facebook features and partnerships, it's no wonder that Google+ opened to the general public on Wednesday. That introduction included a shaky Hangouts session with will.i.am but that's just one example of how Google is currently marketing new services with music products, including their Chrome browser and even Google Music Beta. ...

News: Technology

One Major Player is Missing from Facebook Music

September 24, 2011

Yesterday Facebook transformed itself into music and media discovery, listening and sharing powerhouse. Via its API, Faccebook welcomed some of music's hottest startups: Spotify, Rdio, Soundcloud and more than a dozen more onto its pages. More will follow soon. But one major player is missing: Apple. For most music fans—particularly the casual ones—Apple provides both the ...

News: Music Industry

Indie Labels Join to Save Failing Distributor

September 24, 2011

From the ashes of failed distributor, The Independent Record Collective, three record labels—Frontier Records, Beer City, and Tribunal Records—have launched a new distribution operation for indie labels and bands: Independent Label Distribution (ILD). ILD will handle both physical and digital product and are already handling titles for these indie labels: Adolescents, D.R.I., Les Baxter, Bouncing Souls, ...

News: Technology

Music Aggregators Move from Building Features to Growing Platforms

September 24, 2011

A number of popular music sites like Reelr.tv and Chill, that aggregate content from services such as YouTube and SoundCloud, might well be described as offering a feature rather than a more complete service. Such site tend to be limited in how they can be monetized in contrast to sites that use such an approach to ...

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News: Festival

Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival is Saturday, September 24

September 24, 2011

The 11th annual Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival is taking place on Saturday, September 24, 2011, from noon to 6:00 p.m. on Columbus Avenue in Boston's South End. The festival is free and open to the public. There's a rich assortment of live music the entire day, featuring artists like Oleta Adams, Grace Kelly, Marcus Santos and ...

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News: Recording

The Friday Morning Listen: R.E.M. - Murmur (1983)

September 24, 2011

October 14, 1983. It was a long time ago. It was the one and only night I was lucky enough to see R.E.M. in concert. In the gym at the University of Maine with support acts B. Willie Smith (an R&B band from Connecticut who opened with a killer version of “My Baby Does The Hanky ...

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News: Recording

Buddy Guy - Buddy's Blues (MCA Chess, 1997)

September 24, 2011

Blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy followed the great migration route that many African-American musicians followed from the deep south to Chicago, Illinois; at that time the heart of the blues music in America. Guy scuffled for a while as most musicians do before being picked up by the legendary Chess Records as a session musician ...

News: Rights

The Net Neutrality Mixtape: Dropping November 20th!

September 24, 2011

It's a potent playlist of regulatory oversight, and it's officially dropping November 20th! That's when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially enters its net neutrality guidelines into the Federal Register, a move that will almost certainly be greeted with a fresh batch of lawsuits and opposition. At a top level, net neutrality would make it illegal ...

News: Recording

Francois Carrier Trio Blazes It up on "Inner Spire"

September 24, 2011

Francois Carrier, alto, Alexey Lapin, piano, and Michel Lambert, drums, show you what they are made of on Inner Spire (Leo 601). It is NOT sugar and spice, and everything nice. It's fire, power, the flames of focused heavy hitting, free music of the extroverted, get-it-all-out sort. They are live in Moscow, last December 2010. And ...