Monk Tribute Albums That Aren't Terrible Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:15:00 -0400 Thelonious Monk, who would have been 91 on Thursday, wrote many great songs. But a great many covers of his music wind up butchered by interpreters who seem not to understand it. From the scores of full-length tributes, here are five which demonstrate the good sense to keep Monk weird. Birdmonster: Music For All Stages Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:42:00 -0400 At first coming off like Fugazi raised on Bruce Springsteen, Birdmonster offers a nostalgic but innovative take on indie-rock. Now constantly on the road, the band took a tour-friendly approach to its new CD, with a nod to Tom Petty. Duffy: The British Invasion Continues Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:39:00 -0400 Welsh singer Duffy sings with a roughness and soul that's well suited to her style of Motown-influenced pop. She joins host World Cafe host David Dye with songs from her debut album, Rockferry.
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Ringtone royalty rate gets big boost Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:47:00 -0500 Songwriters and music publishers say they're pleased with a U.S. Copyright Royalty Board ruling issued Thursday that sets a higher rate for ringtones but keeps a 9.1-cents mechanical royalty on all other music, including compact discs and digital download services. SESAC cooks up fun for The Grascals Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:51:00 -0500 The first clue that something was up at the oft-quiet performing rights organization SESAC this week was the large powder blue-and-turquoise tour bus emblazoned with an assortment of Mayberry's Finest baking mixes parked across the street from its Music Row offices. SESAC cooks up fun for The Grascals Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:51:00 -0500 The first clue that something was up at the oft-quiet performing rights organization SESAC this week was the large powder blue-and-turquoise tour bus emblazoned with an assortment of Mayberry's Finest baking mixes parked across the street from its Music Row offices.
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Make-Believe Maverick Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:23:06 -0700
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
• VIDEO: Five Myths About John McCain
• The Double-Talk Express
• Mad Dog Palin: The Full Story
• Karl Rove's A-Team
At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former POWs. It's the spring of 1974, and Navy commander John Sidney McCain III has returned home from the...
The Easygoing Patriot Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:51:54 -0700
Jackson Browne on Obama's chances, what he learned from Dylan and living off the grid
Making music is one of the greatest pleasures I've ever experienced — and I'm one who sought pleasure," Jackson Browne says with a quiet laugh on an early-autumn afternoon in a New York hotel room. But, he adds, "the heart of my activism is the belief that these pleasures are for everybody. If we continue what we're doing as a country . . . " He pauses. "We're all in the same boat. That's always been the subject of my songs. We only have a little time. It's a mess, so you do everything you...
Q&A: Chrissie Hynde Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:17:19 -0700
The Pretenders singer on moving back to Ohio, opening a vegan restaurant and her rootsy new record
• Video: Behind the Scenes of the "Boots of Chinese Plastic" music video
After her 2007 tour with the Pretenders, frontwoman Chrissie Hynde vowed not to return to the stage until she wrote some new material. "Frankly, it was just embarrassing that I hadn't had a record out in so long," she says. Now, after recently resettling in her childhood home of Akron, Ohio — she has lived primarily in London for the past 35 years — Hynde can hit the road and draw from a brand-new batch...
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Tesla: 'Forever More' Listening Party On UG Profiles Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:09:36 -0000 Tesla is set to release their seventh studio album "Forever More" on October 7, while it is already available for listening at the band's official UG Profile! Snow Patrol: 'Take Back The Cities Tour' Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:41:56 -0000 Snow Patrol announce a two-day concert tour of four capital cities across the UK and Ireland to launch their new album "A Hundred Million Suns". Oasis: Listening Party On Myspace Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:34:26 -0000 Oasis is set to release their seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul on October 7th.
Anne Potter Wilson Music Library - Housed in the Blair School of Music, it serves the Vanderbilt University community and the city of Nashville. 40,000 scores and books on all historical musical periods, reference materials and periodicals, CDs, LPs, cassettes and laserdiscs.
Archives of African American Music and Culture - Provides access to oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, and educational broadcast programs.
Meta Description: [ The Archives of African American Music and Culture is a repository of materials covering various musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. ]
Arthur Friedheim Library - Serving the faculty and students of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, the Peabody Preparatory Division and all other divisions of The Johns Hopkins University.
Bodleian Library - The main research and copyright deposit library of the University of Oxford.
Center for Popular Music, The - An archive and research center for the study of American popular music from the pre-revolutionary era to the present.
Cornell University Music Library - Contains a collection of printed music, sound/visual recordings and writings consisting primarily of Western music and dance. It does include a representative body of non-Western, folk and popular musics.
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library - Harvard University's principal resource for music books, scores, sound recordings, and videos. It also serves the international community as a research facility for musical scholarship.
Lewis Music Library - Located on the MIT Campus in Cambridge, MA. Includes hours, location and map, services, an overview of the collections, web resources organized by subject, a help section, research material, policies, news and FAQ.
Lila Acheson Wallace Library - Located at the Juilliard School in New York. Contains more than 60,000 scores, 20,000 books, 20,000 sound recordings and 700 video cassettes. Includes numerous rare printed editions, manuscripts and manuscript facsimiles, and scholarly editions of composers' collected works.
Music Libraries Directory - An extensive list of academic and public music library sites and archives in the United States, Canada, England and Australia.
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Stanford Music Library - Located in the Braun Music Center at Stanford University in California. Includes collections, resources, services, facilities and general information.
UC Berkeley Music Library - Features a large collection of music manuscripts and archival materials. Includes links to indexes, databases and music journals. Reference services are available.
Meta Description: [ Music Library, University of California, Berkeley. ]
University of North Texas Music Library - Includes staff and contact information, policies, and information on special and general collections.
Meta Description: [ The Music Library, one
of the largest university music collections in the United States, contains over
250,000 volumes of books, periodicals, scores, dissertations, and reference
works in all languages. In addition to the printed collection, there are over
250,000 recordings of all kinds, fro... ]
William and Gayle Cook Music Library - Located at Indiana University in Bloomington. Includes general information, collections, resources, user services, reference and instruction, a computing/digital library and information about the Performing Ensembles Division.
Meta Description: [ Indiana University's William & Gayle Cook Music Library's Home Page,
Bloomington, IN ]