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  Friday, July 04, 2008

nxne review
Current mood: adventurous
I had a great time in toronto at NXNE this year. I do not always love the big industry festivals but this year I met some really great people and learned a lot at the seminars.

Here is a little review of my show by Gordon Chiu:

A brief walk away was the Savannah Room where Adrienne Pierce, a singer-songwriter from Vancouver, BC, was performing. Accompanying her on stage tonight was Ari Shine, also a singer-songwriter in his own right. You may not have heard of her, but you may have heard her music: her recent songs Fool's Gold and Lost and Found have been featured on the TV shows Grey's Anatomy and Veronica Mars, respectively. More impressively, all of the songs on her first, independently produced, album, Small Fires, were licensed to TV shows one way or another.

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Album: Quartets /  Artist: Leslie Pintchik /  9 tracks / Jazz Instrumental  /

Sometimes you feel in the mood to sit and relax in a dimly lit room, slowly savor a glass of wine, and listen to music that allows you to unwind. For those nights when you want to turn your living room into a lounge, you might want to listen to the album Quartets. The album, is pianist / composer Leslie Pintchik’s second CD release. The grooves are relaxed and mellow. Even the piano somehow loses its percussive nature under her delicate touch.

Indie Pop artist Natalie Pinkis talks about her EP and her recent tour.

*Pinkis possesses a tremendous knack for allowing her lyrics to paint vivid images on her melodic canvases. Those images come to life with the stark, loneliness depicted in the life of the woman known as “Pretty Girl.”

 

Patty Larkin Continues The Storytelling Tradition

“I think that folk music is storytelling that draws from everyday life. It is music that talks about everyday life,” says folk singer / songwriter Patty Larkin. “I decided way back twenty years ago, that to avoid talking about things with which I felt uncomfortable, or that made other people uncomfortable, would make people feel sad, or was politically oriented, was going to be a sin of omission. I was not going to avoid talking about issues that I felt were important.”

Larkin’s song, “The Streets Of Birmingham Are Burning,” was written to draw attention to the working poor in America, and particularly in the Alabama city of Birmingham. “At the time that I wrote it, I knew that it was the state where you could earn the least amount of money, and still pay income tax on it.

Is The CD Really Dead?

It seems that many print publications, web publications and other forms of media which focus on music have articles concerning the imminent death of the CD.  While I can’t honestly say I have read all of these, or any of these from start to finish I can say that I don’t think a) its totally accurate and b) I don’t think the writers have extended their research far enough to back up the big bold headlines that THE CD IS DEAD.

Cellar Live, the record label that I own, has a catalogue of forty plus records, and although we are not making millions, we are self-sustaining and having fun, while producing some great music. 

 

 

Jessica Jones At The Bowery Poetry Café

Jessica Jones  / June 12th, 2008 / The Bowery Poetry Café  / New York City, NY

Composer/pianist/tenor sax player Jessica Jones presented a mini concert July 12^th, at the Bowery Poetry Café, in celebration of the release of her new CD, Word. The Café was packed, unusual for a hot summer New York afternoon. Backed up by a group of exceptional New York musicians (some of them on the CD) Ms. Jones, a short, energetic woman, was always in control. For the record, the outstanding quartet featured her husband, Tony Jones, appearing on tenor sax, French horn player, Mark Taylor, bassist Ken Filiano and drummer James Windsor-Wells.

 

Gig of the Month

Gypsy Soul

 

CD of the Week

Maria Muldaur

 

Nicole Atkins--Totally Personal

New Jersey rocker Nicole Atkins is one of the most intriguing recording and performing artists on the music scene today. Although she has been performing since high school, she is still relatively closer to the beginning of her career than she is to the midpoint, yet she and her band The Sea have appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and the Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson.  Earlier this summer, Atkins and her band The Sea, twice toured Europe, performing in festivals and promoting the current album Neptune City. In 2007, Nicole Atkins and her band were featured in a major commercial plugging the merits of American Express. Riveting Riffs Magazine caught up with the talented singer /songwriter / musician, with the stunning vocals, while her band was driving through the mountains, on the way to another gig. Our conversation covered a number of topics including her recent tour, her musical influences and her current CD.