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2011 Bridge School Benefit: Neil Young, Arcade Fire, Santana
STAR-STUDDED LINEUP FOR TWO DAYS AT SHORELINE The Bridge School Benefit is an annual non-profit charity concert held in Mountain View, California every October at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. The concerts are all organized by musician Neil Young and his wife, Pegi Young. Proceeds benefit The Bridge School. The first concert was in October 1986, and, with ...
Ponderosa Stomp Daily Schedule
PAYING TRIBUTE TO OUR MUSICAL DNA The full, nightly schedule for this year's 10th Annual Ponderosa Stomp Concert is now available here. The concert will take place September 16 and 17 at the Howlin Wolf in New Orleans, Louisiana. Click here to get tickets. Ponderosa Stomp 2011 Allen Toussaint Dave Bartholomew William ...
The Skinny on Promotional Packages and Booking Agents
OK, you're ready to get out there and perform. You have the skills, you have a promotional kit and you can visualize yourself working five nights a week and making pretty good bread. Your plan is to network with other musicians at jam night and find out who's gigging where and how much they're getting paid. ...
The Echo Nest to Help Power Clear Channel's Pandora-Like iHeartRadio
In what may be the music intelligence platform biggest deal to date, The Echo Nest today announced an agreement with Clear Channel Radio to help power their iHeartRadio digital music platform. Some in the industry believe that iHeartRadio—which allows listeners to build custom radio stations—is the biggest threat yet to slow or even reverse Pandora's meteoric ...
Dropkick Murphys, Dangerbird Records Talk D.I.Y. and Fan Engagement with Ian Rogers [video]
(UPDATED) Ken Casey of The Dropkick Murphys and their new manager Jeff Castelaz, the CEO Dangerbird Records join Topspin Record's Ian Rogers on This Week In Music to talk about the band's success, most of which has been self-created outside of the mainstream music industry. Roger's daughter Zoe, who is a dj and GM of Boston's ...
Clear - Never Falling Again (2011)
With Never Falling Again, Clear explores the devastation left behind as relationships end—yet somehow comes away with a collection of songs that's startlingly beautiful. That's no easy feat. But the Canadian band's deft blending of pop, folk and jazz styles ensure that no matter how dark the subject matter, this album never falls into lonely crepuscular ...
Tim Collins - Castles and Hilltops (2011)
As a musician, Collins is the complete package: performer, composer, bandleader. This we know from his 2007 debut Valcour, when he was largely introduced to the world as a vibraphonist with great range and inventiveness in the manner of Bobby Hutcherson. On that record, he led a sextet of equally hungry young players over a dynamic ...
Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo - Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music, 2011)
Tenor and soprano saxophonist Branford Marsalis pares back to a saxophone and piano duet format, joined by longtime colleague Joey Calderazzo for a subtle ballad oriented program. Slow themes abound, but on the two pieces where Marsalis switches to tenor saxophone, the opener “One Way" and “Endymion" his unique muscularity on the bigger horn comes through. ...
Photostory: John Reynolds on Zoot
Writer John Reynolds [pictured] in Burlington, Ontario, sent along a clutch of photos he took in the summer of 1960 in Provincetown, Mass. Here's the story in John's own words: “In the summer of 1960, when I was 20 years old, a buddy and I drove from our home near Toronto, Canada, to Boston and then ...
Freddie Mercury's Birthday Celebrated with Google Doodle and Freddie for a Day
Today is Freddie Mercury's birthday and Google is celebrating it with the second longest Google Doodle animation they've ever done. The homage pays tribute to a man who is also celebrated by the now annual fundraising event, Freddie For A Day! DETAILS & VIDEO: Freddie Mercury Google Doodle Google celebrates Freddie Mercury's birthday with an elaborate ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
Phil Schaap's Jazz Room
Franc Williams: Live From The West End
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Monktober continues with covers from Abbey Lincoln, Art...
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