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Steven Wilson at Theatre St-Denis
by John Kelman
Steven WilsonThéâtre St-Denis Montréal, Canada March 2, 2016 Perhaps one of the biggest signs of multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson's continued upward trajectory is this: less than nine months after selling out two nights at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in 2015, he brought his top- drawer band back to Montreal ...
Ben Monder: Amorphous Music
by Nenad Georgievski
Ben Monder is a guitarist with a singular and influential voice. While he has received a great acclaim for his multifaceted work and unparalleled technical facility, Monder has also demonstrated remarkable breadth both as a bandleader and composer. His debut album for ECM Amorphae is a kind of a movie for one's ears. Amorphae consists of ...
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis: Azul Infinito
by Dan Bilawsky
While the blues is a distinctly American creation, formed, fueled, and furthered by the African diaspora, the United States holds no ownership on blue-streaked sounds. They exist beyond our borders, and Azul Infinito makes that case in artful fashion by simultaneously tapping into various South American musical forms and cultures, reshaping them, and highlighting the color ...
David Bowie's Legacy On Copyright: Did He See The Future?
While all of David Bowie's predictions about copyright- like its no longer existing- may not have been one hundred percent accurate, he was correct about the panic the copyright industry would experience, causing them to enact policy which is now hurting, rather than incentivizing, the creative economy. Guest Post by Mike Godwin and Zach Graves on ...
Mike Garson: David Bowie Always Chose Good Musicians
by Nenad Georgievski
By comparison, rarely anyone has ever had as diverse career within the music business as pianist Mike Garson. A jazz pianist and a teacher, he went to become one of singer David Bowie's most trusted and longest working sideman. At the start of the '70s, he was touted to Bowie and The Spiders from Mars who ...
The Genius Behind Bowie’s Bonds
Although primarily famous for his work as a musician, David Bowie (with the help of a Wall Street investor) is also notable for being one of the first artists to use celebrity bonds as a means of extricating himself from his financial woes. Guest Post by Eduardo Loret de Mola on the Berklee College of Music: Music Business Journal David Bowie is ...
Bowie Scores First Ever #1, Makes Vevo History With 51M Video Views In Single Day
Just a week after his death, iconic rocker David Bowie’s final album Blackstar debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, his first ever No. 1 album. Bowie reached a major video milestone, as well. Vevo announced that following the music icon's passing, David Bowie's catalog drew 51M views on January 11th, the most views for any ...
David Bowie Was More Than A Music Visionary, But A Digital, Business Visionary Too
David Bowie's musical genius is celebrated, but less well known is his acumen as a businessman and digital visionary. "The internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic and nihilistic.... Forget about the Microsoft element. The monopolies do not have a monopoly," said Bowie in a 1999 interview. By Mick Masnik from ...
David Bowie and His Legacy
by Nenad Georgievski
Very few musicians can boast to having an artistic career that changed the course of music history in the way singer David Bowie has had. A legend in his lifetime, he had a more varied and influential career than any other single performer in popular music. Bowie was an example of what an artist should be--brave, ...
David Bowie (1947-2016)
David Bowie, a British singer-songwriter from South London who transformed rock into high art by combining the audacity of pop, the decadence and androgyny of Weimar cabaret, the melancholy of working class pubs and the flamboyance of the circus, died on Jan. 10. He was 69. His death came two days after his birthday and the ...
