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News: Performance / Tour

Kilgore and Frishberg Head East

July 28, 2009

I am not in the business of promoting night club engagements. Nor do I intend to be. However, this is so rare an event on the east coast, I would hate to think that Rifftides readers in and about New York might fail to hear about it. As a companion unsolicited plug, allow me to call ...

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News: Recording

20 Year Old Seth Glier's "The Trouble with People" out November 3

July 28, 2009

20-Year Old Seth Glier Has a Voice for the Ages Glier’s Silky Vocals Evoke Comparisons to Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall MPress Records Sets Digital Release for October 6th via iTunes, Brick-and-Mortar Release is November 3rd; Major Tour is Set 20-year old Seth Glier’s voice catches you off guard, like the first time you heard Simply Red’s ...

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News: Recording

Iconoclasts Random Touch Find "A Way from the Heard" with New CD Release

July 28, 2009

Algonquin, IL - Random Touch's Scott Hamill (guitars), James Day (keyboards) and Christopher Brown (drums/vocals) first collaborated in the 1970's. Pure improvisation was one among many sound experiments. Over time it became the preferred mode for music making. With the music of A Way From the Heard (Token Boy Records, 2009) Random Touch has arrived at ...

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News: Performance / Tour

From Babble to Rhythm, Cuban Style

July 28, 2009

Near the close of his roughly hourlong concert at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday night, Dafnis Prieto stepped out from behind his drum kit with a pair of claves in hand. He struck up a familiar pattern--the syncopated heartbeat, also called clave, that underpins virtually all Afro-Cuban music--and proceeded to scat in a polysyllabic ...

News: Music Industry

Where You Make Music Does Matter

July 28, 2009

music & the entertainment economy I've written before about how where you make music may matter more than you'd think it might in a globally connected world. It's not just the size of the music industry where an artist as located that matters. In fact, more important appears to be the size of the music scene ...

News: Technology

Digital Music Market: Evolving Business Models, New Challenges and the Future

July 28, 2009

A new Digital Market Outlook study says that the increasing adoption of broadband and mobile technologies and the widespread adoption of smartphones and portable music devices continue to drive the digital music marketplace. Key findings: The global digital music market will grow from $4.81bn in 2009 to $13.74bn by 2013 The industry is characterized by rapidly ...

News: Technology

Could an Apple "Cocktail" Bring New Life to the Album and the Music Inudstry?

July 28, 2009

Apple and the four major label groups are reportedly collaborating on an interactive album bundle that would add additional content like liner notes, lyrics, videos and more to every album download. Code named Cocktail, “It's all about recreating the heyday of the album when you would sit around with your friends looking at the artwork while ...

News: Recording

40th Ann Space Oddity EP

July 28, 2009

David Bowie And Virgin/EMI Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Space Oddity With Commemorative Digital EP and iPhone/iPod touch App David Bowie To celebrate the 40th anniversary of David Bowie's Space Oddity Virgin/EMI will release a commemorative digital EP and a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch. The digital EP, available now for download ...

News: Recording

Taking Woodstock Soundtrack

July 28, 2009

Soundtrack To Ang Lee's New Comedy Taking Woodstock About The Road To The 1969 Event Includes Unforgettable Songs By The Artists Who Played Woodstock Taking Woodstock the new film directed by Oscar winner Ang Lee was inspired by the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, who with his family inadvertently played a role in making the ...

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News: Interview

Art Pepper: Art History

July 28, 2009

Art Pepper is one of only a handful of jazz artists whose life story is perhaps as well known as his recordings. Thanks largely to the publication of Straight Life in 1979, a searing autobiography written by Pepper with his literary wife Laurie, Pepper's music has much greater meaning and dimension today now that the back-story ...