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Final MacWorld Hits Us With Very Sexy News About ... Variable iTunes Pricing

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2009-01-06 17:36:30 by Stereogum in stereogum
...significantly impact your music lifestyle unless it's your dream for Garageband 09 to offer music lessons from Sting, John Fogerty, and Norah Jones for .99. That dream has finally come true, so nice work. There is a new 17" MacBook Pro with environmentally friendly batteries, but I won't mention it because this is a music blog. HOWEVER, there...
 
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On the Charts: Taylor Swift Reigns As 2009 Begins With Slow Sales

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2009-01-07 18:05:49 by Daniel Kreps in Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
...significantly discounted after the holidays were over Last Weeks Heroes: Swift continued to be the big winner in a losing week, as sales were down 55 percent from the previous week and 14 percent below the numbers from the same week last year. This month promises to bring icy sales until January 27th, when Bruce Springsteens Working on a...
 
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Coleman Hawkins and David Murray, and the idea of the progressive musician

2007-11-28 16:59:09 by wallofsound in Wall of Sound
 
...significantly different cultural practices, which attempted to solve a crisis in the wider jazz world. Most importantly, though, the adoption of a methodology akin to that of DeVeaux namely, studying a single musician through the concrete practicalities of a jazz career allows a fundamental research question to be addressed What did it mean...
 
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Now's the Time: Ahmad Jamal

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2008-01-04 09:12:00 by Happy In Bag in Plastic Sax
 
...significantly different than his most popular recordings. I'd be lying if I claimed that I wouldn't prefer Jamal play in this "cocktail jazz" format, or better yet, hear him revive his funk fusion sound Even so, Kansas Citians have a chance to see a 77-year-old jazz giant in an intimate setting on January 19. These French fans would happily...
 
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Joanna Newsom Played BAM

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2008-02-01 13:45:00 by kyle in Caf� Eclectica Music
...significantly since The Milk-Eyed Mender ). Once I got acclimated, I really fell hard for her music - most significantly to her 2006 release Ys. I'd kind of forgotten Joanna in 2007 as hundred of other releases fell in my lap, but last night I remembered her appeal when I finally got to see her perform live with The Brooklyn Philharmonic at...
 
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MARS VOLTA, THE - The Bedlam In Goliath (2008)

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2008-02-06 15:16:38 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
...significantly shifted in sound between albums, but in a display of democracy at work, fans who resented the noise and psyche content of the previous albums got their wish, as The Bedlam in Goliath rocks almost from start to finish. To this reviewer, that's a shame, because it gives the band too much time to fall into grooves, stretching the...
 
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LJC Community Conversation: The Return of Big Bands

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2008-04-15 14:52:26 by chip in The Latin Jazz Corner
...significantly throughout its history; while it has always been valued as a major piece of the style, it has not always been the most practical instrumentation. When jazz garnered major attention in the pop music market, big band performance served as the norm - big bands worked regular gigs in clubs and traveled across the country. As rock...
 
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Kanye, Jay-Z hope to change the rap on hip-hop shows

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2008-04-17 08:02:30 by Jim in The Concert Blog
...significantly higher and guys like McCartney and Bruce Springsteen have relatively little trouble filling up arenas, but usually dont see the kind of record sales enjoyed by raps royalty. That says plenty about where the emphasis lies in each genre The rock experience is all about the live show, says Rick Mueller, president of Live Nation...
 
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You Better Axe Somebody! ('Bout The White T-Shirt Party!) featuring Ludachrist 05/03/08 @ Pearl!

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2008-04-22 01:27:00 by RIPROC in Rest In Peace Rochester
...significantly limit the capacity of the venue to almost half of what it would normally be With that said, we have come up with a number of presales that we are allowed to sell, and once that number is reached, we will be pulling tickets from our outlets and representatives. If we exceed that number, the possibility exists that we won't be...
 
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