Results for "Music Industry"

James Blood Ulmer - In and Out (2010)

May 15, 2010

By PicoPart Sonny Sharrock, part John Lee Hooker, James “Blood" Ulmer resides in his own unique space overlapping blues, whack jazz, straight jazz, rock, funk and a smattering of other forms. His ragged vocals and jagged guitar form a trademark weathered sound that's sometimes calm, usually stormy and always unpredictable. We at SE tend ...

Priceless Musical Instruments Are Silent Victims of Nashville Flooding

May 15, 2010

Facility that stored equipment for country stars such as Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban and Vince Gill, and housed instruments belonging to Jimi Hendrix, the Who's Peter Townshend and Johnny Cash, spent six days under nine feet of water. As symbolically devastating as the recent flooding in Nashville was to the home of the historic ...

RIAA Wins Major Court Ruling Against Limewire

May 15, 2010

The RIAA and the major labels have won a major court ruling against LimeWire which, much like previous lawsuits with Grokster, Kazaa and Morpheus, contends that the service deliberately encouraged users to violate copyrights and profited from the infringements. The court ruling listed 5 factors that, taken together, establish that LimeWire “intended to encourage “ infringement: ...

The Rolling Stones Shine a Light on 'Exile on Main St.' Reissue

May 15, 2010

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and recent producer Don Was discuss the band's 1972 album and the rerelease's previously unheard material. Keith Richards remembers the period in the early 1970s when the Rolling Stones were working on “Exile on Main St." as a fairly down time. The parts he remembers at all, that is. That's partly due ...

The Princeton Record Exchange: For Music Lovers, Something for Everyone

May 15, 2010

By Lauren Zumbach The Princeton Record Exchange just off of Nassau Street was founded by Barry Weisfeld in 1980. The store sells more than 140,000 LPs, CDs and DVDs. The town of Princeton may be best known as home to the University, but a store just off of Nassau Street has garnered fame of its own. ...

For Musicians, Economy is the Mother of Invention

May 13, 2010

Enterprising music makers are turning to the Internet and micro-financing through donations. Los Angeles singer and songwriter Sam Phillips turned up recently for a small-scale show at Hollywood's Hotel Caf. Playing for an intimate audience of several dozen, she was testing on a live audience new material she's been working on in her home recording studio. ...

EMI Back on Terra Firma?

May 13, 2010

Terra Firma appears to have raised the funding it needs to prevent lender Citigroup from foreclosing on embattled music giant EMI Group, according to unconfirmed reports on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal is claiming that Terra Firma chairman Guy Hands succeeded in persuading 75% of his fund's backers to inject a further 105 million ($156 million) ...

Graphic Proof of the Death of the Album

May 12, 2010

Ask the Readers: Choice, a Paradox or Paradise?

May 12, 2010

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor-- (@kbylin) There's an essay I've wanted to write for quite awhile now, tentatively titled: Paradox or Paradise: Music Choice in the Digital Age; it would explore the topic as to whether or not the shift in the music landscape from scarcity to abundance has resulted in a positive or negative experience when ...

Notes from the Net: Miles Davis' Blue Moment; Clark Terry Honored in KC; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More

May 12, 2010

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* Starting with some Miles Davis news, “We Want Miles," the exhibit about the trumpeter's ...