smartphone release Age of Obama musicHonoring the Masters Minnie Riperton (1947-1979) - She was most noted for her abilities in the whistle register and her 1975 hit "Lovin' You." Her rare five octave vocal range had the ability to imitate birds! (c) wiki last.fm
This Boston Black music thing is grit and sometimes green dollars. Our culture is environmentally friendly. Heavyweight international influences are visible. Boston Massachusetts is a mecca for music, Ya Heard?
Boston music bloggers have gone
GA GA
but not about the ladyG.
It was early August when leading Boston music blog writers on TWITTER who are: Ryan Spaulding @theRSL, and Brad Searles @bradleysalmanac met on stage at the Middle East music club to discuss with the public what's been going on.
Its like a friendly unintended tribal war up in Boston. If you ship consignment to Newbury Comics, you have to have patience for it to appear in stores. It'll take a month or more. Music is personal and a business.
Plato said "music is a moral law." In Boston, the black and white continue to check what they like, influenced by backgrounds and cultural leanings. Diversity rules.
Musicians from other countries impact the conversation if they have bubbled up. But, no Boston music band has done better than Peter Wolf and AeroSmith in terms of brand recognition. We were there at Fenway Park when they played and 100% of EvERYONE knew all their songs.
DJ club scenes and the museum, arts patio performance spaces have become their own unique tribal gatherings. Live Nation concert concepts have had their challenges up in here. Many have done good. Some cancelled. But, most of the smaller venues are doing great! Enter CRASHarts - promoting World Music choices like Baba Maal, the Carolina Chocolate Drops and others very well.
Actually, Plato was right! The morality of the Boston music culture mix stirs total democratic sense among venue makers and club owners. LEEDZ Entertainment knows this. Fans provide money flow and you gotta give them LIVE performance as often as you can or else. YouTube has killed many many a ticket sale when people can view that "great" artist they wanted to see live, streaming their best performances on YT for free.
play b u t t o n the new kid on the block
Jesse Winfrey.Catch Wreck.RAH.INTELLIGENCE
Perhaps this is why the laid back Ryles Night Club booker embraced the idea for ARTIST LIVE and R&B on the backend, which has become, in less than a year, part of the front end trend pacing Boston music scenes. AL deserves to sit on that high throne cause they do important work for the Nu-Soul, R&B style song maker genre.
Did you see Berklee's "what's happening at Berklee" PR madame Soul Rock singer/writer/performer "Shea Rose," of Dorchester, in the Ebony summer magazine edition recently with Queen Latifah and Cover Girl cosmetics? Go grrl! We posted that noteworthy link to the piece on our myspace.com/spiritdatatree (ASCAP) profile.
Yeah... Starbucks once tried to make out in the Boston music scene, fall 2007. They sought to discover new artists to build up inventory for their Hear Music catalog here and from other states, but it didn't work out. The coffee beverage giant's record label operation was sidelined when core business growth slowed during the recent recession. A lot of local talent moves is going on. continued
August 2010: Big Respect for Sky and Catch Wreck - Bean Town Bounces when Sky Darling and crew kicks into overdrive to put on the Beantown Bounce show at the Reggie Lewis Center each year. We spoke to Sky today and more news about her work with Bay Holla and others will be forthcoming here.
And, on Aug. 21st, a Twitter voice (@sdtmusic for movef.com blog) wrote "Boston Phoenix cultural news writer Chris Faraone places local artist Catch Wreck on path to lead hip hop trends."
So we sey in Boston.. "tweens and Millenium Y music tribe lovers have more quality choices than ever before to dig."
Urban Music Awards 2009 show @Strand Theatre - MP3 track | For the first time in four years, since the Urban Music Award show held its first debut at Berklee Performance Center on the IRS deadline night, April 15th, 2006 - the UMA 2010 show went uncovered by our rep. Still, we'll post material from UMA 2010 when we get it. U got some? Can you send it over via e-mail or Twitter to info@movef.com or @sdtmusic on twitter if you have rights to use? Thank you for consideration.
Rusti of Funky Fresh Records invented The Boston Marathon Music network for Boston area Rap and Hip Hop artists driving music -- the HOTTEST ONLY, in New England. His radio show airs on weekend nights on the Touch FM 106.1 black radio media powerhouse in town.
Venue Considerations - there are thousands of Boston musicians in the city struggling to make it. They make good music anyway on the way up. But, some have the luxury of a CPA, lawyer and manager of their profitable music business enterprises.
In Boston, the home studio market continues its spiraling incline! Corporate and privately held media publishers advertise heavily with big dollars. MySpace plays a role. The in-town stores CD SPINS (closed some stores), CheaPo Records, Funky Fresh Records, Newbury Comics, Skippy White's, the UnderGround Hip Hop store, and mall shops compete for sales with the iTunes music store, Best Buy and Circuit City. They all target Boston music lovers who want virus free tracks LimeWire can not Guarantee.
BREAKING NEWS !!! its a new year 2010 How to Get YOUR Music Played
on Black Boston Radio
From Rusti... "This year I plan to make the bean’s HIP HOP SCENE better than last year...I’m offering free promotion to every artist in New England who is getting it in hard...
I’m on the radio every weekend..
Tune to the show "Funky Fresh Radio Boston Marathon"
Fri and Sat. 10PM – 3AM
FM radio TOUCH FM 1-6.1 FM
the fabric of the Black community
streaming 24/7 at www.touchfm.org."
DO THIS: 1. Send the music - > .
on a mix-cd or album. it should be OFFICIAL w/case,cov, print
send over at least 10 copies for RADIO CONTEST .
this goes out on the air...
ship or drop packages to the radio studio on
Chaney St. Grove Hall / Dorchester, MA 02121 or
or Buy a SUB and drop package with
UGI’s at 68 Warren St. Dudley Square
Roxbury, Ma. 02119
put Rusty “Mr. Funky Fresh” on packages.
there is a big "tween market" here! To enage them, U gotta compete against Disney music export! Boston club owners and indie promoters love this town. But, they also know you might may want to do their open dates for little to no money.
Oh, well. In Boston, twenty-six Boston neighborhoods birth music art and genius. This is the Black Boston music scene. It serves two hundred fifty thousand college students, six hundred thousand residents, and everybody else anywhere in hearing range. That right! Boston music artists provide a whole lot of pleasure.Berklee City Music Program for young urban musicians.
free music business lessons from Berklee College of Music.
(Niggaz With Attitude) - was a Compton, California-based hip hop group widely considered one of the seminal acts of the gangsta rap sub-genre. Active from 1986 to 1991, the group endured controversy due to the explicit, violent, and often misogynistic nature of their lyrics.
They were subsequently banned from many mainstream U.S. radio stations and even at times prevented from touring - yet the group has still sold over 9 million units in the U.S. alone. Their second album, Straight Outta Compton, marked the beginning of the new gangsta rap era as the production and the social commentary in their lyrics were revolutionary within the genre.
Rolling Stone MAGAZINE ranked N.W.A. eighty-third on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Although largely unknowns at the group's inception, rappers Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and MC Ren would all go on to be platinum-selling stars in their own right, retroactively making N.W.A hip hop's first supergroup. http://www.last.fm/music/N.W.A.
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