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Queen Considering 'Idol's' Lambert as Frontman
"American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert's performance with rock band Queen on the finale of the TV singing contest this week has the British band thinking about a new front man. “Amongst all that furor, there wasn't really a quiet moment to talk," Queen guitarist Brian May told Rolling Stone in an interview released on Friday. “But ...
Chick Corea Endorses the Yamaha Avantgrand Hybrid Piano
Legendary jazz pianist Chick Corea recently took Yamaha's newly launched AvantGrand N3 hybrid piano for a “test drive." Initially skeptical about the world's first stringless piano to feature the sound, touch and action of a concert grand, the 67-year-old jazz superstar was quickly won over. “My standard of comparison is the CFIIIS concert grand with a ...
Wal-Mart Demands CD Censorship
We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something. BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Front man of the band Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong describing his reaction to Wal-Mart's asking the musicians to edit their latest CD for language and content. The store will not stock ...
Brian Eno's Recipe for New Music Business Success
"The pressure is on to develop content that isn't easily copyable--so now everything other than the recorded music is becoming the valuable part of what artists sell. “Of course they'll still want to sell their music, but now they'll embed that relatively valueless product within a matrix of hard-to-copy (and therefore valuable) artwork." ...
'King of Swing' Benny Goodman Would Be 100
For decades Benny Goodman and his clarinet popped up just about everywhere, and when they did, just about everyone knew it. Goodman, who would have turned 100 on May 30, defined for most people the swing era that dominated popular American music for much of the 1930s and 1940s. From Carnegie Hall and New York's exclusive ...
Self-Defense Claimed in Rapper Dolla's Killing
Aubrey Louis Berry appeared in court Wednesday in the killing of Dolla, the stage name of Roderick Anthony Burton II. After an earlier dispute at an Atlanta strip club, the accused felt threatened in a random encounter in L.A., his defense attorney says. The attorney for an Atlanta man accused of killing rapper Dolla earlier this ...
Xenovibes III - Xing Paths Available in Stores 26th May '09 & XV Guest Blogs!
XENOVIBES III - XING PATHS AVAILABLE IN STORES 26th MAY 2009 For a limited time only the first pressing can be bought for $13.98 at the Xenovibes store. SRP$16.98. What do you get when you mix synthesizers, theremins, traditional folk instruments and electronic drums with a multitalented, multicultural, classically trained keyboardist (with a degree in electronic ...
Bruce Cockburn: Water into Wine
By: Dennis Cook These fragile bodies of touch and taste This vibrant skin, this hair like lace Spirits open to the thrust of grace Never a breath you can afford to waste Bruce Cockburn There is a sense of ...
Rifftides Encore: Jazz Dispute
A couple of years ago - maybe it was three - I linked Rifftides readers to a video so clever that it's worth bringing to you again. Now that the staff has mastered the art of embedding, this time you see it right here on our screen; no linking required. When it finishes, you will see ...
A Long Road Back, but Not a Lonely One
With his wife’s help, Terence Conley walked slowly toward a piano on a recent Thursday at the Jazz Foundation of America headquarters in Manhattan. “Play something nice,” Judith Conley told her husband as she eased him onto a piano stool. Mr. Conley, 51, steadied his fingers above the keys, smiled across the room in the direction ...
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