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This month we hit the streets to find that, despite the flu scare, marching
bands and grass root music distribution channels are thriving. You can
drop in a sessions at Avatar and Maple Jam and hear what's new at downtown's
Conga
room. We meet up with Hollywood's best in Santa Monica-- hear how Eugene
Levy and friends are helping keep the music alive in our communities.
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back to Bacharach through May 17 at the Music Box with Idol singers. Ascap
Music Award winners for 2009 are announced. Simply, music moves and changes
lives every day.
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| Spektor At Avatar This Russian-born, Bronx-bred singer-songwriter-pianist, who emerged from the NYC café circuit, continues to expand her vision."The ... Björk-style vocal acrobatics and offbeat wit are all over tunes like the spiritual plea "Laughing With" and "The Wallet," about a lost billfold," says the Rolling Stone of her new release. The style known as "anti-folk," as realized by practitioners like Ani DiFranco and Billy Bragg, is derived from a punk aesthetic, and thus tends to be spare and confrontational. Sire artist Regina Spektor, who employs this style masterfully, is recording at New York's Avatar Studio A with producer David Kahne, engineer Joe Barresi assisted by Justin Gerrish. The collaborators add cool layers and textures, like Lynne's ELO-style strings on "Blue Lips" and the rockabilly groove of "Folding Chair." "I wanted to learn from as many people as I could," Spektor says. "If I had more time, I probably would have used six more producers," says Artists who
have been recording in beautiful Avatar Studio C in March include:
Hiromi Uehara & producer Michael Bishop; Chris Potter; John
Hollenbeck Large Ensemble session and Sachal Vasandani recorded
in Studio C with producer John Clayton, engineer Todd Whitelock
assisted by Fernando Lodeiro
Dianne Krall Krall’s
twelfth album is poetic. Recorded at Capitol
studios, it uses Brazil as a musical point of reference. The
award–winning pianist and singer is not suggesting a night
out; she means to stay in. "I feel this album’s very womanly
– like you’re lying next to your lover in bed whispering
this in their ear,” says Krall whose publicity shots looks
like she has just crawled out of bed, appropriately!
Twitter for Sugar…After winning the trophy for the Academy of Country Music's Duo of the Year, Sugarland is at the top of their game. Jennifer Nettles was listed on People.com’s Best Dressed following the ACM awards and the dynamic duo recently had a successful appearance on Oprah. Sugarland has also led the 2009 CMT Music Awards, receiving six nominations. The nods include Video of the Year for “All I want to Do,” Collaborative Video of the Year for “Life in a Northern Town,” CMT Performance of the Year for the 2008 CMT Music Awards performance of “Life in a Northern Town,” and 3 nods for Duo Video of the Year for “All I Want to Do,” “Already Gone” and “Love.” You can now get news & blog updates from Sugarland send directly to your phone via Twitter. So tweet away, and vote for Sugarland on http://www.cmt.com/cmt-music-awards/vote.jhtml today. See if they win, June 17th on CMT. Listen for “It Happens,” Sugarland’s latest single from LOVE ON THE INSIDE.
A Verse Unsung has signed to Photo Finish Records, an imprint label owned by booking agent Matt Galle who books My Chemical Romance, Boys Like Girls, Metro Station, and Circa Survive. The band has upcoming dates on Vans Warped Tour. And if you're headed to The Bamboozle this weekend in New Jersey? Be sure to check out the Photo Finish Records bands while you are there. Saturday May 2nd ZUMIEZ STAGE 2:10 - 2:40 THE FRIDAY NIGHT BOYS 5:10 - 5:40 DANGER RADIO Sunday May 3rd IMAGINATION STAGE 3:40 - 4:10 3OH!3 Continue |
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at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, CA are (L-R)
mastering engineer Bernie Grundman, Lisa Greene, and recording
engineer/mixer Bruce Swedien. hoto by David Goggin.
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26th Annual
ASCAP Pop Music Awards
The Top 5 most
performed songs of 2008 (in alpha order) were:
Friends of Music In Santa Monica Celebrate with Honoree Eugene Levy
On Sunday,
April 26, 2009, Emmy® and Grammy® Award Winner, Eugene Levy
(Jim’s Dad in American Pie, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind and
Waiting for Guffman which he co-wrote) received the 2009 New
West Symphony Bravo Award.
Back To Bacharach Don’t go in expecting to hear Warwick’s vintage version of “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” or Karen Carpenter’s patented “Close to You.” The production — created by Steve Gunderson, who did the musical and vocal arrangements as well as the orchestrations, and actress Kathy Najimy, who also directed — is made to sound light hearted. Smart. Bacharach classics are jewels, with no room to improve. Led by musical director Ben Toth and genially choreographed by Javier Velasco, the show is tong in cheek cabaret. A talented foursome approaches the music in a whimsical vein, with doze of reverence for the composer. Diana DeGarmo, a runner-up on the third season of “American Idol,” maintains a loopy go-go air as she sings her heart out. Tressa Thomas seems content to snatch spotlighted moments without milking anything. Tom Lowe, another “American Idol” alum, and Susan Mosher, who was part of the show’s original off-Broadway company, are content to hit all the right notes while playing the cut-ups. the producers say Bacharach gave his green light few months back. He must have approved the larger than life images projected onto a hanging screen not so much to illustrate lyrics as establish the right ambience — a close-up of a flower, a civil rights rally and (for “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”) a poetic drizzle. Issues of gay and lesbian equality and other progressive causes.
Los Angeles-based ARTISTdirect, which operates an online consumer music portal, along with operating MediaDefender, a business which helps prevent media piracy of content from motion picture studios, record labels, and others, said last week that it has acquired MediaSentry, a unit of SafeNet. According to ARTISTdirect, it paid $936K for the business, made up of $136,000 in cash plus $800,000 in a 1-year note. MediaSentry tracks and measures digital media, including locating unauthorized digital content on peer-to-peer and user generated content sites.
So where do
you go when you come to Los Angeles? Hollywood Blvd, of course!
We found a unique distribution system on the street complete with
"starbuck like" listen then buy underground kyosks. There's
an eager audience on every corner who will listen to just about
anything offered while shopping for memorabilia from tensil town
or catching the Jimmy Kimmel show. Artists COME
TOGETHER King Krystian's
Protest Zimerman has
had problems in the United States in recent years. He travels with
his own Steinway piano, which he has altered himself. But shortly
after 9/11, the instrument was confiscated at JFK Airport when he
landed in New York to give a recital at Carnegie Hall. Thinking
the glue smelled funny, the TSA decided to take no chances and destroyed
the instrument. Since then he has shipped his pianos in parts, which
he reassembles by hand after he lands. He also drives the truck
himself when he carries his instrument from city to city over land,
as he did after playing a recital in Berkeley on Friday. On board
USS Stockdale 280 sailors moved into their new home, aboard
Scotsdale. Christened after Admiral James Bond Stockdale, the new
U.S. Navy warship is an engineering marvel. It's much like the one
that rescued the U.S.-flagged freighter and its captain taken hostage
by pirates off the Somali coast earlier this month.
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Move
over Susan Boyle! A week after the Scottish woman became a
global sensation following a barnstorming audition on "Britain's
Got Talent," a 12-year-old Welsh boy, 
Taking
Woodstock Eugene Levy is starring in the next Ang Lee directed
comedy based on the memoir “Taking Woodstock: A True Story
of a Riot, Concert, and a Life,” by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.
Max Yasgur was an American farmer, best known as the owner of the
dairy farm in Bethel, New York at which the Woodstock Music and
Art Fair was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969. 
The
Singing Road A Musical road is a road, or part of a road, which
when driven over causes a tactile vibration and audible rumbling
transmitted through the wheels into the car body in the form of
a musical tune. Musical roads are known to exist in four countries:
Denmark, Japan, South Korea, and the United States of America. To
name that tune, drive on this scenic road. in Gunma, Japan which
consist of 2,559 grooves cut into a 175 meter stretch of existing
roadway and when driven over at 50 km/h, produce the tune of "
Simplify,
Manage, Organize. The updated 
Watch an ordinary
day at New York's 
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Byrne: