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Monday night’s album launch was amazing - thanks to all who came along. More on that v. soon, as well as all the other blog posts I’ve been promising to write for so long…
But in the news dept, I’ve just had an email telling me that I’m a featured artist this week on the front […]

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Right, I’ve got loads of fascinating stuff to blog about (no, really), but that can wait, cos right now, I’ve got loads of great free music to tell you about. First up, Lobelia is giving away a whole album of voice ‘n’ piano stuff on Reverb Nation. The album, called 040515 (the date it was […]

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Andrew Dubber over at New Music Strategies has just posted a fantastic blog post - Do I Really Have To Blog?.
His answer (initially, ‘yes of course’ but much longer and in detail) is just about the best list of reasons I’ve ever read for musicians blogging.
I’ll add just one thing to it - a […]

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Thanks so much for all the comments and feedback about the first Managing Information Streams post. Some GREAT stuff in the comments there.
I want to follow that up with what is fast becoming my favourite web-filter, and will hopefully become my primary interface with my network - Twitter.
The tech media has been full of articles […]

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This will (I think) be the first in a series of posts about this, mainly because it’s an ongoing struggle and area of conceptual development.
So, I’ll start by saying where my problem lies - a lot of the stuff online about being overwhelmed by email starts by talking about spam. Apart from when I’ve had […]

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Jeff Schmidt just linked to this article via his Google Shared Items (find them in the side bar on his blog and grab the RSS feed) -
Facebook Music Rocks, in which the author waxes lyrical about how functional the Facebook music pages are. Which is true, they are, functionally, kicking the ass of MySpace, with […]

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I’ve written before about the need for filtering in the online music world - there’s just too much music and not enough time to leave it all to chance. As Jeff Schmidt just expressed it on twitter - “curation is vital”.
Which is why I’ve just started To The Left Of The Mainstream - a twitter-based […]

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Via the Guilt By Association compilation album, I headed over to Petra Haden’s MySpace Page which features three utterly blindingly amazing a cappella cover versions that you absolute HAVE to hear. She’s magic, go and listen!
Then you can go and have a listen to The New Standard stuff that Julie McKee and I did a […]

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Found via the the lovely Susan Enan’s myspace blog -
sleeveface.com - a wonder to behold.
It’s amazing - the internet is often a breeding ground for all that is icky in humanity, bringing out the worst in so many people, but then occasionally something like this comes along, utterly frivolous, joyous and hilarious. It’s magical.

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Just saw this on Jonatha Brooke’s Myspace blog - she’s working on a bunch of Woody Guthrie songs, with access granted to the archives by Woody’s daughter, Nora.
As a HUGE fan of what Billy Bragg was able to do on the ‘Mermaid Avenue’ records, and a huge fan of what Jonatha does on her own […]

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