Thursday, December 28, 2006

Jamglue

Jamglue - An online community for creating and sharing original music and audio. Upload as much music as you want, create mixes, and share your creations

Lala

Lala - Trade CDs for $1, listen to music, participate in forums

Abrazos: 2006

Second 100% not-for-profit compilation CD benefiting The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation featuring Sleeping At Last, The Gufs (with Rob Thomas on additional vocals), Howard Jones plus 16 other great artists
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Mozart piano score discovered in Salzburg

A hitherto unknown piano score extremely likely to be by the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been discovered in the composer's birthplace Salzburg, Austrian broadcaster ORF said. The score's facsimile will be officially presented and played by clavichordist Florian Birsak on Friday, it said

Art Pepper: Art Pepper: Unreleased Art, Vol. 1

Spectacularly emotional, soulful, tender, and swinging. Legendary Alto Saxophonist Art Pepper's concert in Abashiri Japan in bright snowy November, 1981 with George Cables, David Williams, Carl Burnett. Many never before released tracks
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Geoff Lapp Trio

Geoff Lapp Trio - Features discography, biography, news, and contact information of the Montreal based band. Also includes music downloads

Jason Greenberg

Jason Greenberg - Includes a filmography and biography for the composer for film and musicals

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

The Music Sack

The MusicSack is a database with 15 million rows of factual data about one million people who have been involved in music. The MusicSack stores the location of 1.8 million sources of information about these one million people and the activities they have been involved in, and much more. The MusicSack is an index to almost every music biographical dictionary published since 1595!
The MusicSack has information on:

8,963 bands and the 26,958 people who have played in them
880 churches and the 7,900 musicians who made music in them
11,793 concerts given by 1,956 pianists
151,482 musical perforamances at 134 theatres

The MusicSack includes 111 complete bibliographies that have been converted into electronic format

Monday, December 25, 2006

iJamr

iJamr - A music social network and also a network of other participating website owners. Provides musicians, comedians and digital publishers with a viral media engine to help them propagate their works, get maximum exposure at no cost to them and make money

Soul star James Brown dies at 73

Singer James Brown, known as the "Godfather of Soul", has died at the age of 73, his agent has said. He was admitted to hospital in Atlanta after being diagnosed with severe pneumonia but died at 0145 local time (0645 GMT), said Frank Copsidas. The star was famous for hits including I Got You (I Feel Good), Papa's Got a Brand New Bag and Living in America

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Bluegrass Works

Bluegrass Works - Read about bluegrass bands or search for upcoming music festivals and concerts. Also find other bluegrass news and information

RUSH'd

RUSH'd - Information on the Connecticut based Rush tribute band. Includes band information, forum, and contact

Anandadhara

Anandadhara - Online resource for subscribers interested in learning Rabindra Sangeet, the Bengali music genre created by Rabindranath Tagore

Friday, December 22, 2006

Michelle Carr: Change

With a confidence that never becomes sass, a strength that never becomes haughtiness, Michelle Carr is a gracious singer whose rapport with the audience gives an air of familiarity and relaxation to her performances. She's clear as a bell, hitting every note with a voice that sparkles. Her warmth and pleasure in being able to share her songs emanates from her radiant smile - singing is what she was meant to do
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Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert

Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert - Personal page features profile of the Jazz guitarist. Also provides music sample clips, performance, and workshop details

Shaking Tree

Shaking Tree - Band that combines rock, pop, and, country music styles. Includes audio clips, images, band information, forum, and concert schedule

Cecilia Arditto

Cecilia Arditto - Personal page features music composers profile, musical works, and projects. Also provides listening to her music facility

Arnau Bataller

Arnau Bataller - Official web site of composer Arnau Bataller. Includes biography, news, MP3 sound files, and lists his work in various mediums like films and TV

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Eighth Annual Native American Music Awards

Eighth Annual Native American Music Awards - December 28 2006. Each year the annual Awards show program features over one dozen mesmerizing and dynamic performances by some of today’s leading Native American artists along with awards presentations in over 30 categories including; Lifetime Achievement and Hall of Fame. The Awards show is an extraordinary and unprecedented celebration of today’s best contemporary and traditional musical performances and recordings by Native American artists. The Awards program is an innovative, visually advanced production using prerecorded music of the nominees, voice over, live presentations and performances, and IMAG and large screen imaging. This critically acclaimed Music Awards show and its high production values have been featured in Billboard Magazine, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, NY Times, Boston Globe, and CNN

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Kirk Joseph

Kirk Joseph - a New Orleans musician who has expanded the usual repertoire of the sousaphone beyond marching bands

Paris - Paris Hilton's Official Album Site

Paris - Paris Hilton's Official Album Site - Official site of Paris Hilton's debut album PARIS, with details about the CD and audio samples

Monday, December 18, 2006

Denis Payton of UK band The Dave Clark Five dies

Denis Payton, from rock group The Dave Clark Five which toured the United States in the 1960s and spearheaded the "great British invasion" alongside the Beatles, has died after a long illness aged 63. Friends and relatives said in a statement that Payton, who played the saxophone, guitar and harmonica and sang backing vocals, died on Sunday. "He had an amazing philosophy on life and will be greatly missed by me and all who knew him," said Dave Clark, one of the group's founding members. "Denis was extremely brave and not afraid of death."

2532|Gigs

2532|Gigs is a php/SQL gig lister designed for bands and music sites alike. The web based Control Panel allows admins to add, edit, and delete shows and artists. The script also supports multiple users. Our web-based installer walks you step by step through the installation. No need to edit any files. The lister includes an RSS Feed for upcoming shows, archives of past shows (that can be hidden), mini-calendar with upcoming shows inserted, the ability to search past and future shows, and a unique flyer generator

Saturday, December 16, 2006

DJ Twist & Burn

DJ Twist & Burn is a complete music mixing and burning software that enables you to create seamless Audio CDs/DVDs with automatic beat synched fading, beatmatching, BPM adjustments and much more. For Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

The Chapin Family: Harry Chapin: A Celebration In Song (Volume I)

"Harry Chapin was one of our most passionate, political, prolific and inspiring songwriters. Twenty-five years after his death, his family thought it might be fun to get together, sing some songs, and show you that the legend is a family thing"
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Warrior Poetes: Anticipating Arrival

Out of the box pop rock, three sisters, kick you in the face harmonies, life changing lyrics, raising the bar. Keys. Guitar. Violin. Percussion. And then some
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Play On Lyrics

Play On Lyrics - Search thousands of song lyrics from all genres at Play On Lyrics. Create and contribute your own parodies and misheard lyrics

Tevet Sela

Tevet Sela - Official page of jazz saxophonist, featuring photo, audio and video gallaries

The Lenny Kravitz Website

The Lenny Kravitz Website - Features Kravitz Lenny's biography, songs, gallery, videos, and forum

Friday, December 15, 2006

Out And Badd Radio

Out And Badd Radio - Music from the Carribean, includes news, forums, chatrooms, and downloads

Elina Christova

Elina Christova - Official site of the Bulgaria-born pianist, features biography, sound clips, and instructions

Kevin Carroll

Kevin Carroll - Official site of Kevin Carroll, features biography, video clips, concert dates, and contact details

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Concert For Diana

Concert For Diana - Prince William and Prince Harry will mark the 10th anniversary of their mother's death with an event to celebrate her life. Proceeds will go to charities supported by the late Princess. Concert will feature Elton John, Duran Duran, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joss Stone, Brian Ferry, Pharrell Williams, English National Ballet, and more...

EKSOmusic

EKSOmusic - Provides online music forums, chat, blogs, photos, and links to other music websites

The Slackers

The Slackers - New York City ska revival band

Monday, December 11, 2006

Auto DJ

Auto DJ - provide your clients with a professional control panel for their shoutcast account. This control panel also allows you the admin to allow auto DJ capabilities and the upcoming nsv video streaming integration soon (online TV channel). This control panel will cater for all your online streaming needs and with updates regally coming out with fixes and upgrades the control panel is ever growing

Tzome

Tzome - an elite music community designed to give artists a platform to display their talent and musical endeavors. The ideology is to create a music warehouse (Garden) of artists, and of course consumers in search of cutting edge talent

56 songs queue for 2006 Oscar

Fifty-six songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are being considered in the Original Song category for the 79th Academy Awards®, it has been announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Saturday, December 09, 2006

composersnewpencil.com

composersnewpencil.com - Offers information on software, books, scores, schools and music tools. Includes forum and blog with articles, interviews, tips and reviews for composers of music

Vitas

Vitas - Russian pop-star Vitas who produces music in a wide range of genres -- from techno music to classical opera. Site includes recent news, appearances, photos, and a discography

Basement Jaxx

Basement Jaxx - Official site of duo Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton, better known as Basement Jaxx, South London-based purveyors of progressive house anthems

Friday, December 08, 2006

In a Turnabout, Record Industry Releases MP3s

The music industry has long resisted selling music in the MP3 format, which lacks the copy protections that prevent songs from being duplicated endlessly. But now, Blue Note Records and its marquee artist, jazz-pop singer Norah Jones, are selling her latest single through Yahoo Inc. as an MP3 - despite the risk that it may add to piracy problems. WSJ

RateThisTune.com

RateThisTune.com - Allows users to upload their own music for everyone to listen to, rate, and discuss in order to help their band get noticed

Thursday, December 07, 2006

49th GRAMMY Nominees Announced

Nominations for the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced today by The Recording Academy, reflecting a year in which multiple genres were represented in top categories, new up-and-comers were nominated alongside established artists and a diverse array of producers and other creative professionals garnered multiple nominations. The 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held on "GRAMMY Sunday," February 11, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and once again will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT)

Copyright pirates face crackdown

Copyright criminals must face far tougher regulation to protect the entertainment industry, a report says. The Gowers Report was commissioned by the government to look at modernising UK copyright laws for the digital age. While it proposes new powers against copyright infringement, it also says private users should be allowed to copy music from a CD to their MP3 player. It also recommends the 50-year copyright protection for recorded music should not be extended

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

CSO returns to radio, gets own record label

After more than five years, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will return to the national radio airwaves early next year as part of a comprehensive new media agreement that includes the launch of a new in-house recording label for compact discs and digital downloads, it was announced Thursday. The agreement by the CSO Association, the Chicago Federation of Musicians and the WFMT Radio Network is made possible by a three-year, $3.4 million gift from the petroleum company BP. Local and national broadcasts of in-concert performances by the CSO will resume in March as part of a 52-week series called the BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts, produced by WFMT-FM 98.7 and syndicated by the WFMT network

The Rapture Announce Record Label

Like many before them, the Rapture have formed their own record label, the tuff-named (perhaps after Akira Kurosawa's Macbeth-based film) Throne of Blood Records. Its initial purpose is to house the slew of vinyl singles and remixes culled from their latest album, Pieces of the People We Love, as well as the vinyl version of Pieces

LyricWiki

LyricWiki is a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads

Monday, December 04, 2006

BandChemistry

BandChemistry - A musician's network, where you can make your band and find your sound

Saturday, December 02, 2006

CollegeMusicRadio.com

CollegeMusicRadio.com - Offers downloads of submitted files by upcoming music artists. Includes charts, information on artists and videos

Friday, December 01, 2006

Musiclocated

Musiclocated - A project that uses Google Maps and Ajax to let musicians or bands from all over the world locate themselves on a map, so that they can be found geographically and connect

Virtual Ticket

Virtual Ticket - A content rich media player that encourages members of the fan sites to spread clips to non-members. Funded through concert ticket sales, entitling every fan free access to the exclusive content that is produced - and the ability to follow the tour before and after it plays each market

The Beatles: Love

The Beatles: Love - Official site of the Love CD based on the Cirque du Soleil show celebrating the musical legacy of The Beatles. Videos, music clips, and purchase details