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News: Technology

Youtube Uploads Soar After iPhone 3g S Ships

June 26, 2009

uploads to YouTube jumped 400 percent last Friday, the day that Apple released its iPhone 3GS, which contains a video recorder function and easy sharing features. In the last six months, meanwhile, the Google-owned video site has seen mobile uploads increase by 1,700 percent, the company said in a blog post. “This growth represents three things ...

News: Technology

Myspace Cuts 66% of International Staff

June 26, 2009

In a second wave of major restructuring, MySpace announced this morning that it will cut 300 of its 450 international staffers and close at least four overseas offices.. The moves on the heels of Facebook passing MySpacein both visitors and page views in the US and worldwide and just a week after the social networker reduced ...

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News: Festival

Info-Festival - Thursday, June 25, 2009

June 26, 2009

Official opening in 4 days! Only five days remain before the opening of the 30th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, which will be held from Tuesday, June 30 to Sunday, July 12, 2009! The press room-the heart of the Festival New this year, the Festival press room is located in the Maison ...

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News: Interview

Mixing the Prepared with the Impromptu

June 26, 2009

Nearly all jazz balances improvisation against composition, but a band like Floriculture makes you realize how many degrees there are of striking that balance. That’s because it takes each side to extremes, and pulls together some far-apart traditions. In the band’s music, the composition — by the group’s leader, Carl Maguire — is serene and complicated, ...

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News: Video / DVD

Brubeck on the Beeb

June 26, 2009

YouTube has posted a few excerpts from programs the Dave Brubeck Quartet did for BBC television in 1964. The musical and the black and white video quality are superb. In the first one, I am struck by Brubeck's delicacy at the keyboard and by the fullness of Paul Desmond's alto saxophone sound. The critic Steve Race ...

News: Recording

Beastie Boys' 'Hot Sauce' Due Sept. 15

June 26, 2009

The Beastie Boys have confirmed that their eighth studio album, “ Hot Sauce Committee Part 1," will be released Sept. 15 by Capitol. The set will include 17 tracks, including “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win" featuring Santigold and “Too Many Rappers" featuring Nas, which the artists performed together at the Bonnaroo festival in ...

News: Recording

Spinal Tap Springs 'Back from the Dead'

June 26, 2009

Spinal Tap is “Back From the Dead." At least according to the title of the group's new album. The June 16 release commemorates the 25th anniversary of the cult-classic film “This Is Spinal Tap." David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) have “revisited and reimagined" their 1984 soundtrack compositions. ...

News: Festival

Reggae Rising Artist Additions

June 26, 2009

Reggae Rising Music Festival Announces Lineup By Day Plus New Additions Toots and the Maytals Reggae Rising Music Festival is proud to announce our latest lineup additions (Toots and the Maytals, Sister Carol, Rebelution and DeMarco) plus artist lineup by day, the all new late night dancehall “Club Umoja" with special appearances by Million Stylez, Norrisman, ...

News: Music Industry

Success Begins in the Niche

June 26, 2009

niche: a specialized market; a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fitted; a habitat supplying the factors necessary for the existence of an organism or species In the new music industry, success begins in the niche. Start where you are wanted. Use that base to ...

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News: Event

An All-Star Tribute Recalls the Downtown Loft Scene

June 26, 2009

Mark Morganelli waited until the last possible moment to blow his horn at the Rose Theater on Monday night. Walking out during the concert’s finale — “Ow!,” a standard Dizzy Gillespie ditty — he joined an all-star jam in progress, sidling up to the clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera. His fluegelhorn solo was brief and by no means ...