Tagged: musictoday

Real Estate @ Astoria Bohemian Hall - 10/15/2011 ( photo by nadkisson ) Real Estate played a free record release show at Astoria Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden on Saturday (10/15). It was supposed to be their "ONLY NYC performance until their headlining show at Bowery Ballroom in November." They lied! I don't think they're playing the Domino CMJ show ( like John Maus is ), but you can catch them at Other Music in NYC tonight... Real Estate [...]

After a bit of a summer lull, I have high hopes for the next few months of music. Still, as someone obsessed with the industry and the history of music, there are so many things that I'd like to see happen in the next few years. Here, in no particular order, are a few. What are some of your ideas? A pop dynasty (Jaden and Willow Smith don’t count) I'm talking Michael and Janet Jackson level. Two (or more) siblings/relatives with similar style, enormous talent and huge pop culture impact. Can you [...]

We've been massive fans of the innovative Now Playing show on BBC 6 Radio since it launched earlier in the year. Now Playing @6Music is an interactive show presented by Tom Robinson and each week they focus on some of the biggest online music news stories and build playlists around a central theme. As well as that they invite leading blogs on to the show to discuss music and more. Each featured blogger  also brings with them three tracks they currently love. Mahogany Editor Mark Murdoch will feature on this weeks show which airs today between [...]

It seems that now and again, there is always a musician who is doing his or her leg work, playing endless streams of shows and creating heavy buzz through word-of-mouth news. Yet, someway they happen to remain out of radar. George Ellias , a singer/songwriter from Los Angeles would fall under this category. He's a musician who has been playing for more than half his life, and it shows clearly. It's that undeniable feeling a person get's when they know they are seeing or hearing something profound. That is how I felt when Ellias finished his [...]

Live Nation is hoping to take a bit of a run at the all-in-one-type page that MySpace currently offers, one that has such innovative offerings as blogs, tour dates and a convenient place to purchase an act's music. Today the company announced that it would sell MP3s from Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and EMI through pages on its web site, with the company's fan club/e-commerce division MusicToday providing the backend. Branching out into a new revenue stream makes sense, since the company is on the hook for quite a few big-ticket expenses at this [...]