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Milano January 6 at Beat Kitchen
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January 2012 Concert Guide in photos thanks to RedEye Chicago.
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Milano January 6 at Beat Kitchen
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January 2012 Concert Guide in photos thanks to RedEye Chicago.
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What is Spotify? A new online music service that might or might not revolutionize your life. Though it's been popular in Europe for several years (with more than 10 million registered users), the site just launched in the U.S. on Thursday, after months of speculation.
How is it different from all the other music services? It's still a little unclear. With Pandora's soaring IPO and the recent launch of Turntable.fm — a site that allows you to play songs for others as if you were a DJ — it's hard to keep track of the competition. But Spotify is different from those in at least one important respect: It has secured contracts with all the major record labels, along with some independent ones. That means you can listen to just about any well-known song past or present whenever you want, without being beholden to the tastes of either your friends or Pandora's customized artist algorithm. Instead of typing in the Rolling Stones and getting Creedence Clearwater Revival, you'll just get the Stones.
So should I be using this? It definitely sounds good. Spotify empowers its users with lots of options — in addition to streaming songs, you can import the ones you already own and share playlists. And unlike Rhapsody, a similar on-demand music-listening service, it's totally free. (There are also paid options that get rid of the ads.) But there are still plenty of restrictions: Users will be capped at 20 hours of listening per month, and you can only play a single song so many times. That means it might make a nice preview of a new album you heard about, but no, it will never replace your vinyl edition of Exile on Main St. (Will anything?)
via www.esquire.com
Are you using Spotify? Has it surpassed iTunes or Pandora as your source for new music?
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Check out Today's Top Tune on KCRW -- "Foregone" by The Decemberists. A smooth, twangy mellow jam from a new EP that features b-sides from one of my favorite albums of the year, The King Is Dead.
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This summer, when All Songs Considered asked listeners to vote for their favorite albums of the year so far, there were a handful of shoo-ins. Instantly beloved releases by Bon Iver, Adele, Fleet Foxes, The Decemberists and others all made a predictably strong showing.
via www.npr.org
Top albums of 2011 according to All Songs Considered listeners. What are your favorites on this list? What did All Songs listeners miss? I can think of a dozen or so albums on my list that don't show up here (of course, my 2011 list is long). If I had to add one, it would be the dynamic release by Garland Jeffreys, "The King of In Between."
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Great season for "best of" music lists. Looks like there are more than ever this year. Daytrotter continues to be one of my favorite destinations to find new music. The Trotters were busier than ever in 2011 shining the light on new and upcoming artists and providing the DT touch to some established performers like Rodney Crowell. Now Daytrotter is asking its listeners to share their best songs of 2011.
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This week, my son Jonathan asked, "Dad, where do you find new music?" Well, son, here are the top 3 places I go to discover new tunes:
Other places I turn to hear new tunes:
I’m also experiencing an emerging obsession this week with Tom Sharpling’s newly launched musician interview podcast, Low Times. The first ep featured Wild Flag drummer Janet Weiss, Owen Ashworth of Advance Base, and bassist Catherine Popper, who's played with Ryan Adams, Willie Nelson and -- don't take my word for it, listen yourself -- Chevy Chase. Low Times is freaking awesome. Thanks, Tom, Maggie and Daniel. I eagerly await episode 2.
Jonathan, I hope I answered your question.
Where do you go to find new music? Let me know and I'll post the resources you share.
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Just announced, the second round of bands playing at SXSW 2012:
Alabama Shakes (Athens AL)
Asking Alexandria (York UK-ENGLAND)
Atlantic/Pacific (Brooklyn NY)
Bad Weather California (Denver CO)
Belligerence (Portsmouth UK-ENGLAND)
Ben Howard (Devon UK-ENGLAND)
Blouse (Portland OR)
Capsula (Bilbao SPAIN)
Choir of Young Believers (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Dikes of Holland (Austin TX)
Duran (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Edison Chair (Austin TX)
Electric Eel Shock (Tokyo JAPAN)
Electric Wire Hustle (Wellington NEW ZEALAND)
Elias Haslanger (Austin TX)
Extrawelt (Hamburg GERMANY)
Fallulah (Copenhagen DENMARK)
Films of Colour (London UK-ENGLAND)
Go Back To The Zoo (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS)
Hunters (Brooklyn NY)
Idiot Glee (Lexington KY)
J.R. Patton (Dallas TX)
Juan Cirerol (Mexicali MEXICO)
Lanie Lane (Sydney NSW)
Led Er Est (New York NY)
Lilly Wood and the Prick (Paris FRANCE)
Lonsdale Boys Club (London UK-ENGLAND)
Lucero (Memphis TN)
Miles Zuniga (Austin TX)
New Look (Hamilton AB)
Nick Jaina (Portland OR)
Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children (Nuuk GREENLAND)
Oh Mercy (Melbourne VIC)
Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders (Los Angeles CA)
Polarsets (Newcastle UK-ENGLAND)
PUJOL (Nashville TN)
Psychic Ills (New York NY)
Radiation City (Portland OR)
Schmillion (Austin TX)
Teengirl Fantasy (New York NY)
The Abramson Singers (Vancouver BC)
The Record Summer (New York NY)
Turbo Fruits (Nashville TN)
Wheelchair Sports Camp (Denver CO)
You Can't Win, Charlie Brown (Lisbon PORTUGAL)
Zulu Winter (London UK-ENGLAND)
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- Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys (Austin TX)
- Against Me! (Gainesville FL)
- Agent Fresco (Reykjavík ICELAND)
- Ambition (Halifax CANADA)
- ANR (Miami FL)
- Antoine Reverb (Guadalajara MEXICO)
- Avalanche City (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
- Balthazar (Gent BELGIUM)
- Bare Wires (Oakland CA)
- BeatauCue (Caen FRANCE)
- Bestial Mouths (Los Angeles CA)
- Big Deal (London UK-ENGLAND)
- Big Scary (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
- The Black and White Years (Austin TX)
- Black Books (Austin TX)
- The Black Ryder (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
- Michael Guy Bowman (Los Angeles CA)
- Cashier No.9 (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
- Class Actress (Brooklyn NY)
- Cloud Nothings (Cleveland OH)
- Com Truise (Princeton NJ)
- Delay Trees (Helsinki FINLAND)
- Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver CANADA)
- Marianne Dissard (Tucson AZ)
- Duck Fight Goose (Shanghai CHINA)
- The Ettes (Nashville TN)
- Fanzine (London UK-ENGLAND)
- Fat Tony (Houston TX)
- FEAR (Los Angeles CA)
- Free Blood (Brooklyn NY)
- THE GRANNIES (San Francisco CA)
- Guadalupe Plata (Andalusia-Ubeda SPAIN)
- He's My Brother She's My Sister (Los Angeles CA)
- Howler (Minneapolis MN)
- Ice Choir (Brooklyn NY)
- I Got You On Tape (Copenhagen DENMARK)
- il abanico (Bogota COLOMBIA)
- Matthew Perryman Jones (Nashville TN)
- Jonquil (Oxford UK-ENGLAND)
- Just A Band (Nairobi KENYA)
- Marit Larsen (Oslo NORWAY)
- Letting Up Despite Great Faults (Los Angeles CA)
- Library Voices (Regina CANADA)
- Love Inks (Austin TX)
- Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven (Silverlake CA)
- Mahogany (Chicago IL)
- Marmalakes (Austin TX)
- The Men (New York City NY)
- Mind Spiders (Forth Worth TX)
- Motopony (Seattle WA)
- Mujeres (Barcelona SPAIN)
- Musikanto (Chicago IL)
- My Education (Austin TX)
- Niki & The Dove (Stockholm SWEDEN)
- Not In The Face!! (Austin TX)
- Of Monsters and Men (Reykjavík ICELAND)
- 120 Days (Oslo NORWAY)
- Outfit (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
- The Parlotones (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
- Parlovr (Montreal CANADA)
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Waitsfield VT)
- Pure Love (Brooklyn NY)
- Molly Rankin (Charlottetown PE)
- ROGe (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
- Peter Rosenberg (New York NY)
- Rosie and Me (Curitiba BRAZIL)
- Royal Canoe (Winnipeg CANADA)
- Gabriel Santiago Quintet (Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL)
- Sauti Sol (Nairobi KENYA)
- Say Hi (Seattle WA)
- The Scoundrels (Las Vegas NV)
- Shout Out Out Out Out (Edmonton CANADA)
- Skewby (Memphis TN)
- Skinny Lister (London UK-ENGLAND)
- Soft Metals (Los Angeles CA)
- Some Community (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
- Something Fierce (Houston TX)
- Sore Losers (Lancaster TX)
- SPEAK (Austin TX)
- Spectrals (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
- Spycatcher (London UK-ENGLAND)
- Sudakaya (Quito ECUADOR)
- Talking To Turtles (Leipzig GERMANY)
- Team Me (Elverum NORWAY)
- Telebit (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
- Thee Oh Sees (San Francisco CA)
- THULEBASEN (København V DENMARK)
- Timbuktu (Toronto ON)
- Truth Universal (New Orleans LA)
- Turbogeist (London UK-ENGLAND)
- Uncle Bad Touch (Montreal CANADA)
- Uncle Lucius (Austin TX)
- UV POP (Doncaster UK-ENGLAND)
- Vampillia (Tenjinmachi JAPAN)
- V for Volume (Bogota COLOMBIA)
- VHS or Beta (Brooklyn NY)
- WAX (Dunkirk MD)
- We Are The Ocean (London UK-ENGLAND)
- We Barbarians (Brooklyn NY)
- The Wedding Present (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
- Chelsea Wolfe (Los Angeles CA)
- Young Magic (Brooklyn NY)
- Yukon Blonde (Vancouver CANADA)
- Yuksek(Paris FRANCE)
- The Zoltars (Austin TX)
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Gone 20 years, Stevie Ray Vaughan stands forever tall in Austin
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