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News: Festival

Denmark is All Jazzed up for Summer

June 19, 2009

With warmer days and longer nights, Denmark is swinging into summer with an exciting calendar of Jazz festivals and performances across the country that will have visitors tapping their toes in delight. Ideal for a short break from the UK with Denmark just under two hours flying time away, holidaymakers can easily jazz up a few ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Warning: Collision Ahead for Jazz and Hip-Hop

June 19, 2009

Detroit native Karriem Riggins will give fans a glimpse into the future of jazz and hip-hop. Vtech presents “The Karriem Riggins Virtuoso Experience" a unique and imaginative live event for the 21st century. June 22nd at Seattle's premiere venue Triple Door, two worlds will collide in a spectacular musical event. Featured guests include Mulgrew Miller, Warren ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Low Show II in Nashville July 17th: Features Bryan Beller, Doug Johns, Sean O'Bryan Smith, and Roy Vogt

June 19, 2009

POWERHOUSE BASSISTS BRYAN BELLER, DOUG JOHNS, SEAN OBRYAN SMITH AND ROY VOGT BRING THE LOW SHOW TO NASHVILLE NAMM AT THE RUTLEGDE ON FRIDAY 7/17 Nashville, TN -- Bassists/bandleaders Bryan Beller (Steve Vai, Dethklok), Doug Johns (Buddy Miles), Sean O'Bryan Smith (Billy Ray Cyrus, Rebecca St. James) and Roy Vogt (Dickey Betts, Jerry Reed) will band ...

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News: Performance / Tour

NPR Music Presents Triple Bill at Joe's Pub July 21

June 19, 2009

NPR Music presents three (big) bands in concert at New York City's Joe's Pub on Tuesday, July 21 at 9:30PM (ET): soul singer Lee Fields & The Expressions; New York-based indie collective The Phenomenal Handclap Band; and nine-piece jazz ensemble Fight the Big Bull, joined by Steven Bernstein. Tickets are $18, and are on sale now ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Triassic Tour 2009

June 19, 2009

From July 24 - 30, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, featuring founding member Roger Miller (of Mission of Burma), will be playing five East Coast shows in support of the recent 2-CD release Dawn of the Cycads on Cuneiform Records. This package contains their complete recordings plus unreleased material for the Boston-based Ace of Hearts Records (Mission ...

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News: Recording

Danny Thompson, Allan Holdsworth, John Stevens: "Propensity" Art of Life CD Release

June 19, 2009

Art of Life Records is pleased to present a previously unreleased recording by three legendary British musicians. Bassist Danny Thompson (Pentangle, John Martyn, Tubby Hayes, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson), guitarist Allan Holdsworth (Igginbottom, Nucleus, Tempest, Soft Machine, Gong, Bruford, U.K., Tony Williams New Lifetime) and drummer John Stevens (Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Tubby Hayes, Derek Bailey). Recorded ...

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News: Video / DVD

Video: Twitter and the Death of Rock Criticism

June 19, 2009

THIS IS A MUST WATCH: At the 140 Characters Conference, Rolling Stone and Idolator critic Christopher R. Weingarten shared a witty and all too true overview of how music blogs, album leaks and Twitter are changing the role of the music critic. “Crowdsourcing killed indie rock...because people have awful taste...". Watch it, chuckle and ...

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News: Technology

Your Online Music Marketing Report Card

June 19, 2009

This guest post is from Nick Crocker who runs Native, a digital agency based in Australia. You can read his blog or follow him on Twitter. Not every artist needs an A+ online. But everyone needs at least a C-. The challenge for independent artists, label managers, artist managers and anyone working with artists ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Territory of Two Norwegian Trumpeters

June 19, 2009

At first blush Arve Henriksen and Nils Petter Molvaer might seem nearly indistinguishable. Both are pristine-sounding Norwegian trumpeters with conspicuous investment in electronics. They share a fondness for fragile lyricism and rippling atmosphere, building on a 40-year tradition that began with the Miles Davis album “In a Silent Way.” Both have pushed toward modern fusions, imbuing ...

News: Music Industry

Let's Prove That Artists Don't Need Major Labels to "Make It"

June 19, 2009

Help Build A Database Of Music 2.0 Success Stories During every interview, convention panel, startup negotiation or conversation with an industry peer, there is inevitably a moment when someone says something like, “All this talk about social networking, new media and digital marketing is exciting, but does it work? And if it does, where are all ...