Walking Man Live

In 2003 Radiohead completed their obligation with EMI Records and decided not to renew their contract. This effectively makes them an un-signed band free of any recording obligations. How can this happen and will they miss EMI?

Record labels are only a small part of a very complicated music industry. The label’s job is to provide the support necessary to help a recording artist record an album. This is a very simple and broad definition of their responsibilities.

Lets break down all the different components that make up a popular musical artist. (more…)

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On January 23rd from 7 to 10pm the Bob Morris Irish Band will be having a fundraiser at Nag’s Head in the heart of Huntington Village. The band is a traditional Irish group featuring 14 band members playing an assortment of traditional instruments, all in the name of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal. This is a church that was built in 1936 and was severely damaged by arson last month. The band is hoping to play a variety of shows across Long Island to raise support, awareness and funds to rebuild and get the church going again. (more…)

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Ani Difranco, the “righteous babe” is on tour this year and happens to stop by Huntington Village in Long Island to perform at the local concert hall, the IMAC center. The show is on January 17th, at 8pm (more…)

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Its official, the holidays started with the mad rush of Black Friday after Thanksgiving dinner. Welcome to the Holiday Season, 2007 everyone!

Everywhere you go stores are getting ready for their golden quarter, people are cheerful, lights are blinking, and the music keeps on playing. Everyone interprets the holidays in their own way. I personally see it as a reminder of winter and the dreadful snow and cold, but that’s me.

To Huntington Village in Long Island, NY, the holidays have a special meaning. The town decorates the lamp posts with reefs and promotes business owners to take part in the festive spirits. Sounds nice, except for one part. (more…)

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The American Music Awards take place every year towards the fall. I have never been one to watch awards shows ::lack of time in my busy schedule:: and ::lack of attention span to remain seated and watch the entire show::. (more…)

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Huntington Village’s Starbucks is in for a treat. It will be one of the first locations in the world to offer Apple’s new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Anyone with an iPhone, iPod Touch or a laptop with iTunes can go in the store and shop at the store.

So now the question is, what is an iPhone, an iPod Touch, and the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, and why Long Island?

To learn more about the iPhone, see this previous post detailing the release in June 2007.

The iPod Touch is one of the newest iPods released by Apple. It fulfills the desires of many for a widescreen iPod, and the cool interface of the iPhone. Built on the same body structure of the iPhone, the iPod Touch is in many ways the iPhone- without the phone. It features Wi-Fi access, the Safari browser, and access to YouTube videos.

The iPod Touch comes in 8GB and 16GB models starting at $299. You can purchase them at your local Long Island Apple Store or other authorized resellers.

The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store is Apple’s new wireless music store. The same songs available for purchase using iTunes can now be bought using the new Wi-Fi Store from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Although right now, it only offers music and not videos, games, or audio books like iTunes itself. After you purchased your songs, you can sync your device at home and transfer the songs to your computer or no additional cost.

The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store is not just another wireless music store, which Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T already offer. What makes it shine is Apple’s partnership with Starbucks. Eventually, each user will be able to walk into a Starbucks, see the last 10 songs played at that location, preview and purchase the recently played songs,

Now why Long Island? Apple decided to launch this program in a few select locations to see how it works. The first two regions are Seattle, Starbucks’s home city, and New York. One can assume that the New York region won because it has well over 500 locations within 50 miles of Manhattan. The Huntington Village Starbucks is one of the lucky ones to be entered in the program. Other regions to receive the new service in the near future include: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

Here’s a few useful links to finding a Starbucks or Apple store in Long Island:

• CAFES IN LONG ISLAND, NY
• COFFEE SHOPS, COFFEE BARS, AND COFFEE HOUSES IN LONG ISLAND, NY
• COMPUTER STORES IN LONG ISLAND, NY
• SHOPPING MALLS: ROOSEVELT FIELD MALL, GARDEN CITY, NY

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On October 27th at 8 PM
Sun, Moon and Stars performs original NewAge-FolkJazz with 2 guitars, flute and vocals at the Soul Growth Cafe at 50 W. Montauk Hwy, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 (inside Body Awareness) 631.957.4692

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The Connetquot High School Concert Choir is hosting a benefit concert on Sunday, August 19th at 2pm. The concert will be held at Fin’s Pub in Oakdale, NY. Admission is only $5.

The goal of the benefit concert is to enable the students of the choir to travel and sing in China in the spring of 2008.

In addition to helping the choir head over to China, the date will also serve as the CD release party for The Radio Spirit. They’re a local Long Island out of Bohemia, NY with a very strong pop indie sound. This will be the first album for the band, after forming in the fall of 2004. The band got its name from the Rush album, The Radio Spirit. (more…)

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Charley from Sun, Moon and Stars was kind enough to share with me his band’s next performance on August 10th, Friday night. The band will be playing on the Northport Village Park from 7pm-8:30pm. The park is on the end on Main Street in Northport, NY. Hey, guess what - its free!!

Based on the mp3’s available on their website, their sound is extremely mellow and almost dreamy. Although the band describes themselves as a new age jazz folk, I find it hard to pinpoint their sound as just that. Its not the usual jazz with saxophones and a lounge piano, and nor is it the usual folk you’d expect to hear by a campfire out in the west. Its just great relaxing music that hypnotizes you as you listen to their awesome acoustic picking.

I’m kinda glad to see great musical diversity here in Long Island like this.

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The Long Island Traditional Music Association (LITMA) will be hosting their 23rd annual Fiddle Festival. The festival will be held on Sunday, August 26th at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook, NY.

The Long Island Traditional Music Association is a non-profit, all volunteer group of community musicians, dances, singers, and listeners who enjoy the music and dances of traditional music. Now traditional music is not only classical piano masterpieces. To these guys traditional music is jamming out to some bluegrass, cajun, jazz, and even Irish and Scottish music. Certainly not something you hear on the radio, but definitely something you’ll enjoy and move too! The group performs several concerts throughout the year in addition to this fiddle extravaganza, many of which are in a more intimate settings such as their own LITMA concert hall and area libraries. (more…)

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