From Exsubel Records, a fine local label:
This past year, our recording studio (Exsubel Recordings) took to the road to record several live shows. Two of them are special to us and we wanted to tell you about them.
The first is a bell choir from the town of Newfane Vermont. In December of 2006, we recorded [...]
OK, say it with me – “summer’s best has yet to come.” I have to believe that this past rain-soaked, windswept month was simply Job-like preparation for splendid days ahead.
Are you ready? I certainly am.
So too are the many are venues presenting my favorite hot weather pastime, outdoor music. Here [...]
Regular readers of this column are familiar with the travails of Middle Earth Music Hall, the fine little basement club in Bradford, Vermont. Although owner Chris Jones successfully beat back legal attempts to shut him down, his vigorous defense, aided by musicians and fans far and wide, came at a [...]
Sunday, July 15 was destined to be the “day the music dies,” but as the sun rose Monday morning, Live365.com, Pandora, MVY Radio and other webcasters were still streaming. On Thursday, the nascent Internet broadcasting industry emerged alive from a closed-door meeting convened by Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey, yet still [...]
James Taylor made a couple of little-noticed records before signing with the David Geffen-era Warner Brothers label, where he released his breakthrough album, “Sweet Baby James.”
Prior to that, however, Taylor was in England, one of the first artists signed to the Beatles’ Apple Records. He wrote “Fire and Rain,” “Carolina in My Mind” [...]
Remember when Rod Stewart’s “Unplugged … and Seated!” CD came out? It was a great record because he reunited with Ron Wood and stuck mostly to music from their time together in the Faces.
That was a good call, because pretty much everything Stewart recorded after 1976 was self-parody, with the exception of “Young Turks” [...]
The list of portable devices capable of streaming Rhapsody Channels grew by one the other day, as the iRiver Clix debuted via a joint press release. At first glance, it’s a bit different from the Sansa Rhapsody. The Clix has a 4 GB solid state drive, but no SD expansion slot. It [...]
Concert promoter Bill Graham was a well-known packrat. His collection of posters, tickets, t-shirts, backstage passes and other memorabilia sat in a warehouse after his death in a helicopter crash in 1991. In early 2004, entrepreneur Bill Sagan paid Clear Channel, then-owner of Bill Graham Presents, $6 million for the entire collection and began [...]
There are many reasons Pat Budnick got involved with the Susan G. Komen “Race For the Cure.” Her years as an oncology nurse, for one, and the friends she’s lost to breast cancer.
But her commitment, evidenced by her status as a “Pink” (over $1,000) donor to the charity, and her work spearheading this [...]
With eager anticipation, I peeled the shrink-wrap from my new Apple TV and plugged it into the flat screen set.
Like everything Apple, it required almost no time to set up.
Sadly, it took just a little more than that for me to realize I’d been suckered.
Not seeing the value in paying for what I [...]
