Life In Music Podcast Episode 8 / Inerview with guitarist Dominic Kanza

I had the pleasure of catching up with my good friend and great musician Dominic Kanza. Here is a part of his bio.
The multi-cultural Kanza has performed with a wide and diverse variety of artists, such as Zairean pop idol Papa Wemba, and Jazz legends Pharaoh Sanders, Michael Brecker and Bill Laswell. He has also [...]

One Week, 1.2 Mllion Albums Sold / Radiohead Becomes Their Own Label

That’s right, Radiohead has become their own label and in the process so far they’ve sold 1.2 million albums in one week.  Here is the article from Mashable.

Internet Pop Culture - This Is What’s Really Going On

If you don’t recognize a lot of the people on this video, you need a lot of catching up to do with the reality of our culture.

Big Labels Left In The Dust

Here it is, artists making their own decisions.
What a month for major labels: First Radiohead announces their new album is worth as much as their fans say it is, then Trent Reznor follows suit and leaves his label with Nine Inch Nails in tow, then Jamiroquai and Oasis consider a similar Radiohead move, and [...]

Life In Music Podcast Episode 7 / Interview with CEO of AIM TV Robert Rose

Click hee to check out Robert Rose’s interview on Life In Music Podcast
Robert G. Rose is the CEO of AIM Tell-A-Vision Group, a division of Artist and Idea Management, Ltd. and Executive Producer of all AIM TV programming. A media veteran, Rose’s career in the industry spans over 15 years and [...]

Los Mono - Promesas

Cool Vid

Has Carlos Santana and his Band Gone Totally Crazy?

OMG!

Simply Brilliant - The Effects of the Democratization of Production Tools

Life In Music Podcast Episode #6 / Interview with 5 x Grammy award winner John Benitez

On this episode I talked to my friend John Benitez about his life in music.  John has played with musicians such as: Chick Korea, Willie Colon, Winston Marsalis, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Ray Barreto, Eddie Palmieri, Mos Def, Tego Calderon, to name a few.  Check out this podcast to get to know a little better [...]

I Will Never Hire This Trumpet Player For A Session

OMG!!!

Justice - D.A.N.C.E

What a cool video.

Backstage At The Orishas Concert (Nokia Theatre New York City) 10.08.07

I can’t begin to say enough good things about the band Orishas , I checked them out live at NYC’s Nokia Theatre.
Orishas is a group that blends hip hop and rap rhythms with traditional Cuban music.
This was the kind of concert that you go to and you don’t know any of the songs or lyrics, [...]

P2P Not Guilty Your For Music Business Woes?

This is a very interesting article from Ars Technica on a study that claims that the P2P’s influence on the demise of the music business is not legitimate as we thought.
A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable [...]

Somebody Please Write This Man An 100% Original Song

I know this is a mash-up, but come on people, we can be a lot more creative than this.

Forward Thinkers In The Old World

That’s what I am talking about, free WIFI for everyone!
ISPs aren’t known for encouraging users to share bandwidth, but that’s exactly what BT wants UK customers to do. The Spanish WiFi specialist FON offers routers that enable people to “securely” share their high-speed connections with strangers; in return, the sharers get access to any other [...]

Life In Music Podcast Episode 5 / Ann Ruckert’s Amazing Music Sermon

I sat down and received an incredible music sermon from music veteran Ann Ruckert. She shared with me what it means to be a musician, and how we are able to change people’s lives and our own through music.
Ann Ruckert has produced, played and / or sung on over 3,000 commercially released recordings. Ann has [...]

Think Different: Throwing The Campaign Back In Your Face On Google Vid Top 10

Here is another of the effects of the democratization of production tools, somebody is making their own campaign that reaches thousands and challenges the status quo once again.  

Dove “Onslaught”

Has AT&T Gone Too Far?

AT&T has a new policy that has a lot of people talking. Here is a excerpt from an article in Ars Technica:
AT&T has rolled out new Terms of Service for its DSL service that leave plenty of room for interpretation. From our reading of it, in concert with several others, what [...]

Information Age…We Are All In The Soup