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News: Technology

Spotify: We're Not Cannibalizing Download Sales!

February 27, 2010

But Offer Little Proof Responding to a recent NPD survey, that it “cannibalizes" download sales, a Spotify spokesperson told Fast Company: “There is other data out there to prove the exact opposite of that report," a spokesman says, pointing to a report in Billboard magazine in which Scott Cohen, the London-based founder/VP of The Orchard, ...

News: Technology

MOG Gets $12.5m, Expands into Spotify Territory

February 27, 2010

Music discovery and subscription service MOG.com has announced another $9.5 million in funding and a pending expansion into Europe. The round was led by Menlo Ventures which was joined by new investor Balderton Capital. Dharmash Mistry, partner at Balderton Capital, has been appointed to MOG's board. The company had raised $12.5 million in previous rounds. MOG ...

News: Event

Skerik/Radioactive: Music Class

February 27, 2010

Blue Bear School of Music Master Class Artist Series Presents: Skerik + Radioactive = SKERDIO!!! skerik Seattle's highly acclaimed madman saxophonist and Bay Area favorite Skerik will physically appear along with worldwide underground legend emcee and beatboxer Radioactive as the newly formed duo SKERDIO. The event will take place at the Blue Bear School ...

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News: TV / Film

Kevin Eubanks Leaving Tonight Show

February 27, 2010

Jay Leno may have beat Conan O'Brien in the battle of The Tonight Show, but one of the casualties of the late-night war may have been his bandleader Kevin Eubanks, who will reportedly abscond from the 11:35 p.m. time slot to pursue other opportunities. According to the New York Times, while Eubanks will have guitar in ...

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News: Recording

Jazz Star Herbie Hancock Goes Global with Album

February 27, 2010

Jazz icon Herbie Hancock has rounded up another all-star cast for the multimedia follow-up to his Grammy-winning tribute to Joni Mitchell. “The Imagine Project" aims to unite “a myriad of cultures through song and positive creative expression," according to a statement. Collaborators include pop singer Pink, guitarist Jeff Beck, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, Irish folk group ...

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News: Music Industry

Singer Anita Baker Avoids Jail in Royalty Dispute

February 27, 2010

Grammy-winning singer Anita Baker reaches deal in music royalty dispute, avoids jail Anita Baker and her attorneys have worked out an agreement that will help determine how much the Grammy-winning singer's ex-husband is owed in music royalties as part of a divorce settlement. Baker was ordered to a Detroit court Friday after the 52-year-old R&B singer ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Medeski, Martin and Wood to Perform at the Showbox

February 27, 2010

The jazz trio Medeski Martin and Wood first performed together in 1991 at the now-defunct Village Gate nightclub in downtown Manhattan, in a style neither they nor others put a name to. They sounded as much like a rock band as a jazz group, creating some new fans, and puzzling some others. In retrospect, the trio ...

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News: Award / Grant

Bob Dylan, Clint Eastwood Get White House Awards

February 27, 2010

President Barack Obama honored actor and director Clint Eastwood and singer Bob Dylan with arts and humanities awards Thursday. The White House called Dylan “an icon of youthful rebellion and poetic sensitivity" and said Eastwood's films and performances are “essays in individuality, hard truths and the essence of what it means to be American." “Obviously, ...

News: Performance / Tour

STS9 | 02.18 - 02.21 | Northwest Run

February 27, 2010

Words by: Jonathan Zwickel | Images by: Dave Vann Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) :: 02.18.10-02.19.10 :: Crystal Ballroom :: Portland, OR Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) :: 02.20.10-02.21.10 :: Showbox :: Seattle, WA STS9 :: 02.13 :: Oakland, CA There's a bigger picture to STS9 than a song-by-song concert review allows. It's an ...

News: Performance / Tour

JFJO | 02.10 | Santa Cruz

February 27, 2010

By: Dennis Cook Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey :: 02.10.10 :: Moe's Alley :: Santa Cruz, CA Wow, what a different band. JFJO by Jeremy Charles Tilted gently but firmly by Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's fully interlocked, supremely slinky sound waves at Moe's Alley, I couldn't escape the feeling of newness and excitability generated by the ...