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Get Your Band National Media Coverage with Pendulum Pitching

August 10, 2011

I'm kicking off a series of posts about successful approaches to music marketing with some insights from Adisa Banjoko, a marketing professional based in the Bay Area who I first met while blogging at ProHipHop. Adisa has employed an approach he calls “Pendulum Pitching" with great success both before and after the Internet kicked in. Adisa ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Return to Forever Performing at Bank of America Pavilion in Boston on Thursday, August 11

August 10, 2011

Return to Forever, one of the most formidable jazz ensembles of modern times, is performing at the Bank of America Pavilion along Boston's waterfront this Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $45-$80 and can be ordered online. Premium tickets are also available for $133.50. The band includes Boston native Chick Corea on piano, ...

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News: Recording

Steve Cropper - Dedicated (2011)

August 10, 2011

Tribute records are a tricky things; star-studded tribute projects even more so. It takes a strong unifying voice, some central character beyond the featured composer, to save them from sounding like choppy compilations. Steve Cropper, on today's 429 Records release Dedicated, is that voice. Co-founder of Booker T and the MGs, and a key sessions player ...

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News: Recording

America - Back Pages (2011)

August 10, 2011

The last week of July was an occasion of joy and pain for the folk-rock group America. Two days after founding ex-member Dan Peek passed away at the age of 60, America released their first album since 2007's return-to-form Here And Now. Back Pages continues with the return to the classic sound, but with a twist: ...

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News: Recording

Deep Blue Organ Trio - Wonderful!

August 10, 2011

Carrying the torch of the great blues, bop and ballad organ trios of the past, the DBOT plays straight-ahead swinging jazz, that is accessible to fans of Hammond Heroes like Jimmy Smith and Richard “Groove" Holmes. The trio is a deeply integrated unit consisting of Chris Foreman on Hammond B3 Organ, Bobby Broom on guitar, and ...

News: Music Industry

Wal-Mart Shuttering Its MP3 Download Store...

August 10, 2011

And today's lesson? It looks like price isn't the most important thing when it comes to music downloads. Once upon a time, Walmart was an 'iTunes-killer' with deeply-discounted, 88-cent MP3s. But discounts meant little compared to integrated iPod and iPhone integration, a superior iTunes user interface, and the tether created by stored credit cards (which Apple ...

News: Recording

John Blum Astrogeny Quartet and Farewell Denis Charles

August 10, 2011

John Blum played piano on several cuts of Sunny Murray's excellent Perles Noires Eremite two-CD set. Beyond that his Astrogeny Quartet (Eremite 049) is my first exposure to his playing in depth. The album has a classic free-new thing ring to it, thanks to all involved. William Parker centers the music with his usual very strong ...

News: Recording

Mace Hibbard - Time Gone by (2011)

August 9, 2011

They say everything is bigger in Texas. Waco-born Mace Hibbard cuts an imposing figure, like someone who spent his Friday nights (and perhaps even Saturday afternoons) on the gridiron as a teenager. But to this son of notable Texas trumpet player Dave Hibbard, “big" means the full, dulcet sounds coming out of his saxophone. The younger ...

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News: Recording

Vincent Poag - Circling Back (2011)

August 9, 2011

He sings something like Bob Dylan, plays guitar something like Mark Knopfler, but doesn't fall into easy mimicry of either. Credit a long journey to get here, as Vincent Poag took some time away from his dream of becoming a singer-songwriter for the straight life and starting a family. Now older, wiser and possessing a complexity ...

News: Music Industry

Spotify: 1.4 Million American Users; 175,000 Paying...

August 9, 2011

Spotify has quickly amassed 1.4 million American users, according to stats just shared by the Wall Street Journal. And ofthat, 175,000—or 12.5 percent—are premium subscribers. Spotify has declined any official confirmation on the numbers—perhaps a worrying detail—though they did note that uptake “exceeded expectations" upon launch. Sounds like a great start, especially considering that Spotify has ...