Paste mPlayer digital mag integrates music with reviews
Very interesting. Surfing the music blogs today, I came across and an ad for something called Paste Magazine, unbeknownst to me a leading print mag, award-winning, that went all digital after eight years of publication. Clicking took me to a subscription form, and since I’m in an exploratory mood, I pop for $2.99 per month. Here’s [...]
Continue ReadingWolff Clark Expedition killin’ @ The Jazz Standard: Review
Pianist Michael Wolff and drummer Mike Clark put together a truly stellar lineup of musicians for the launch of their new band Wolff Clark Expedition at The Jazz Standard in NYC last night. Even though, full disclosure, I’m friends with the band, I have trouble not viewing last night as one of the best jazz shows I’ve seen or heard [...]
Continue ReadingWolff & Clark Expedition playing The Jazz Standard, NYC
My great friend, Michael Wolff, the jazz pianist not the biz exec, has formed a new band with the awesome drummer Mike Clark, oft-called the most sampled drummer in hip-hop and famous for his work in Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters. Michael W. is an alum of Cal Tjader, Cannonball Adderley, and was also the musical director for the Arsenio [...]
Continue ReadingBlogging the Blogs »» January 20, 2012
Two helpful posts from blogger @hishamdahoud on Hypebot, the first an overview of the 2011 State of Online Music from NextBigSound: … the numbers are quite staggering: 64 billion new plays, 16 billion profile views, and 3.5 billion new fan connections. Metrics include data taken from SoundCloud, Twitter, Vevo, Facebook, YouTube, [...]
Continue ReadingPRS Launches New Guitar at NAMM 2012
PRS launches new guitar this month, the P22. This guitar melds a solidbody electric with a PRS LR Baggs piezo pickup. The beauty of this new guitar is the ability to get sweet acoustic tones and sounds out of a solidbody that also lets you rock out. PRS has used the piezo tech from their hollowbody line, and made it small enough to fit into [...]
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