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News: Education

Music.Nature Camps at Victor Wooten's Wooten Woods

August 23, 2011

FLECKTONES MAGICIAN EDUCATES NEXT GENERATION Five-time Grammy winning bassist Victor Wooten will continue hosting a series of educational music and nature camps in late summer and fall at his own Wooten Woods, which is located just an hour outside of Nashville. Wooten Woods is a newly built camp/retreat and private event center located in Only, TN, ...

News: Rights

Judge Rules DMCA Protected MP3tunes from EMI Lawsuit, Roberston Guilty of Some Infringement

August 23, 2011

(UPDATED) U.S. District Judge William Pauley for the Southern Distinct of New York has ruled that digital locker MP3tunes.com was protected by the DMCA's safe harbor provision when users stored illegally obtained songs there. The decision is a partial victory MP3.com and MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson, but plaintiff EMI did prevail on several fronts. Robertson was ...

News: Technology

Reelr.TV - Discover Your Inner Tweej

August 23, 2011

Reelr.tv is another contender in the growing arena of streaming music services like Chill featuring freely embeddable music videos. Originally launched as MTweeV.com, MTV nixed that move even though they aren't really associated with music videos anymore, and so Reelr.tv was born, leveraging the combined power of Twitter and YouTube. The basic concept of Reelr.tv is ...

News: Technology

10 Top Twitter Tools Used by Social Media Experts

August 23, 2011

With so many Twitter tools out there, it's hard to know which ones to trust with your Twitter account management. So why not take a look at what the social media and industry experts are using! Here are ten Twitter applications and tools used by some of the top Twitterers. The following list is presented in ...

News: Recording

Mark Segger Sextet - The Beginning (2011)

August 23, 2011

Debut albums can often be fun to explore, since you're not just exploring the music, but the artist, too. They're funner still when the artist bolts out the gate with his/her own unique plan of attack instead of the timid, first steps of an artist who's still feeling his way around by mimicking his influences. Canadian ...

News: Recording

The Grateful Dead - What a Long Strange Trip It's Been (Warner Brothers 1977, 1990)

August 23, 2011

During my college years, the dormitories rocked and rolled with the sounds of Pink Floyd, Bob Marley and especially The Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia was still alive during this period and I have vivid memories of people I knew bailing out of classes if there was a Dead show within 500 miles of campus. While they ...

News: Rights

H-U-G-E: Court Says MP3tunes Protected by DMCA...

August 23, 2011

Cloud-based MP3tunes is solidly protected by DMCA safe harbor provisions, thanks to a federal court ruling issued today in Manhattan. That potentially sets the stage for a completely different cloud-based music environment, especially following the massive entrances by Amazon (Cloud Drive) and Google (Music Beta). The case, a long-running battle between MP3tunes founder Michael Robertson and ...

News: Technology

Why Artists Might Want to Consider LinkedIn...

August 23, 2011

LinkedIn is for business contacts, right? Exactly, which is why bands may want to consider a LinkedIn profile—on top of everything else. Not for existing fans, but for the business connections that can bring more fans. Here's a rundown of how to approach this network from Kelli Richards of the All Access Group, who just released ...

News: Recording

Claudio Scolari Defies Expectations with "Colors of Red Island"

August 23, 2011

Colors of Red Island (Principal MISV04) has what you might not expect to find. It's a disk by two drummers (Scolari and Daniele Cavalca) plus a trumpet (Scolari Simone). OK fine, you think, I can imagine what this will sound like. Well it does not, to my ears. First off, the drummers play other instruments as ...

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News: Performance / Tour

From Playtime to Prime Time: Miguel Hurtado

August 23, 2011

I think he was about 14 when I first heard Miguel Hurtado play the drums with a quartet of young teens. They were on the MacPhail Youth Stage at the Hot Summer Jazz Festival. Maybe 2003? 2004? The group was known as the Eggz, headed by a young saxophonist named Owen Nelson. The Eggz played around ...