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Chick Corea, George Benson to Headline Playboy Jazz Festival
The Playboy Jazz Festival announced the lineup for its 32nd annual summer music party at the Hollywood Bowl, and fans of the festival's crowd-pleasing mix of mainstream jazz paired with diversions into pop and world music aren't likely to be disappointed. Scheduled for June 12 and 13, Saturday's show will be headlined by the Chick Corea ...
Bluesman to Storm Santa Monica
When noted bluesman Guitar Shorty blazes into Harvelle's nightclub in Santa Monica on Saturday, he'll come armed with his trademark fiery ax and a crack backup band. He'll also be packing a new CD, “Bare Knuckle," chockfull of fresh blues tunes seemingly designed to be played live. The 70-year-old virtuoso cut his first record for Chicago-based ...
iPad Apps Could Put Apple in Charge of the News
Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers. That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper. The past weeks controversy swirling around Apples retroactive ban of sexy apps in the App Store seems trivial, but the implications of Apples arbitrariness should be disconcerting to ...
Managing Your Digital Remains
Hamlet, that lucky stiff, only had to worry about being or not being what a nice, binary Denmark he lived in. We modern mopes, on the other hand, must consider not only our too, too solid flesh but also our online infinitude. From banking to book-buying, from Facebook pages to busty Warcraft avatars to scrupulously Tumblrd ...
Music Biz Back to Playing the Blues
Since the days of Napster (version 1.0), the music industry has been mired in a funk. But then legitimate digital music services came along to help salvage sales, and the industry rejoiced. Now comes a return of bad news. Last year saw a 21% drop in the number of people in the U.S. buying music -- ...
Dave Holland Goes Digital, Offers $1 Concert Download
Influential and still-going-strong bassist Dave Holland is embracing the Web in a big way with his new Topspin-enabled site, and to celebrate its many bells and whistles, Holland is kicking off a new downloadable Archive Series of live performances. The first installment is an hour-long, four-song recording from a 2007 European tour with his water-tight quintet, ...
Of Course On-Demand Music Replaces Sales - It's Supposed To
At the Digital Music Forum East in snowy New York, executives gathered to hear new data comparing what happens to music sales when people use interactive radio services such as Pandora as opposed to subscribing to unlimited streaming services such as Rhapsody and Spotify. The Pandora-like radio model has a promotional effect on music sales, increasing ...
Motorola Wants to Mash-up Phone and TV Functions
Motorola Seeks Tighter Link Between Phones, TV Boxes. Barcelona Spain, Motorola Inc. plans to bring a new email and social-networking function to its television set-top boxes, an early move to share features between its cellphone and home-product divisions. The two divisions long made products that were treated separately, but they will start moving closer now that ...
Italy's Google Verdict Launches Debate over Internet Freedom
It was one of those Internet links that triggers the same morbid instinct that makes motorists slow down to stare at a highway accident scene: Bullying: disabled boy abused in school. The three-minute clip, which was posted to the Google Video platform in 2006, showed four youths in the Italian city of Turin teasing an autistic ...
Drum! Continues Diversity of Coverage; from Slayer's Dave Lombardo to Switchfoot's Faithful Chad Butler
San Jose, Calif., -- Last month, Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip/drum percussion magazines worldwide, featured the new loud and aggressive playing techniques of Slayer's Dave Lombardo. Continuing its diversity of coverage, the March Issue explores Switchfoot's Chad Butler straightforward approach and faith to drumming. “Chris' style of drumming seemed like a good contrast to Lombardo ...
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