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News: Performance / Tour

Independent is the New Signed: Fan Funded Soul/Blues Artists Debut Album at Somerville Theater

January 6, 2010

Dwight & Nicole Release Their Independent Album Signs Feb 5th at Somerville Theater Friday, Feb 5th at Somerville Theater 8pm with Tim Gearan & Will Dailey 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144 “Dwight Ritcher and gorgeous dusky-voiced Nicole Nelson lay down sultry, soulful music" - Boston Globe “Magnificent!"- Dr. Maya Angelou “A ...

News: Music Industry

Music Tech Investments up in '09 Despite Economy

January 6, 2010

Band Metrics founder and CEO Duncan Freeman has completed his annual review of investments in music technology companies for his Indie Music Tech blog. Despite the down economy and what many believed to be a retrenchment from music tech investments, Duncan found some very hopeful trends: There were almost $4 billion in transactions, up from ...

News: Music Industry

eMusic Payments Don't Rise Despite Price Increase

January 6, 2010

This guest post on third quarter artist and label payouts from eMusic in the post-Sony era comes from David Harrell who blogs at Digital Audio Insider and plays with indie rockers The Layaways. The first full-quarter label/artist payout from eMusic after the introduction of the Sony catalog (and the restructuring of its subscription plans) was just ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Vocalists Shirley Crabbe and Dexter Porter to Perform Live at the Metropolitan Room, February 5th, 2010

January 6, 2010

Jazz Vocalists Shirley Crabbe and Dexter Porter to perform live at the Metropolitan Room, February 5th, 2010 New York, NY - Jazz vocalists Shirley Crabbe and Dexter Porter are joining forces in February to bring a night of unique jazz sounds to the Metropolitan Room. Long-time friends and no strangers to the New York jazz scene, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Buddy Rich Tribute Tours the UK

January 6, 2010

September 2007 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of one of the true giants of jazz: drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich. To celebrate, award-winning British drummer Pete Cater played a special one-off concert at Cadogan Hall, London. Such was the success of this event that Pete and his big band will be doing a number ...

News: Recording

The Layers of Master Percussionist Jerry Leake Emerge on "Cubist"

January 6, 2010

Jerry Leake produced his new album like a mad rhythm scientist. He was methodic and resourceful, precisely mixing and pouring one ingredient into the next. It could have ended in disaster with sonic fragments left strewn about haplesslybut it did not. Cubist (Rhombus Publishing; Jan 1, 2010) comes to life with mathematical precision and beauty where ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Standard Swings into the New Year - January 2010 Line-Up

January 6, 2010

JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nations premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in January. From January 710 we present master pianist Kenny Barron with an all-star quintet, followed on January 1214 by guitarist David Gilmore and his exceptional new band Numerology. ECM recording group FLY the trio of Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier, and ...

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News: Education

Registration Ends Monday Jan. 11th for Berklee Online Courses

January 6, 2010

Registration for the popular online classes offered by the Berklee College Of Music ends on Monday January 11th. Judging from the number of Hypebot readers that are taking it, there appears to be great interest in Mike King's new Topspin based Online Music Marketing course. I'll be teaching The Future Of Music And The ...

News: Music Industry

A Framework for Music Marketing in 2010

January 6, 2010

Most know Bruce Warila as the glue that holds the Music Think Tank blog together. But he's also an entrepreneur who has been involved in many tech startups over the last 15 years (the last 5 in music tech), and the chart above is the conceptual framework for his next project. On the chart, the outer ...

News: Technology

A Riff Between Google and Lala? Maybe Not...

January 6, 2010

On Monday, Digital Music News lead with an investigative piece, “Suddenly, Google Focusing Music Results On MySpace". DMN content partner paidContent also featured the post. A sample of Google music searches had apparently shown many more results pointing to MySpace Music than towards Lala, which was recently purchased by Apple. The reason for the emphasis on ...