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Oakland’s Laurel StreetFair World Music Festival on Aug. 12

OAKLAND Join the Laurel District Association (LDA) from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 12 on MacArthur Boulevard at 35th Avenue as the neighborhood comes together to celebrate the 22nd annual Laurel StreetFair World Music Festival in Oakland’s beautiful Laurel District. Rich with rhythms from around the globe and around the corner, the Laurel StreetFair is dedicated to celebrating the district’s cultural roots, community and traditions that bring it together — reflecting all that is uniquely and beautifully Oakland. In […]

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Elevation Beaver Creek Announces Impressive Initial Lineup for Its Music, Wine, and Adventure Experience

To Be Held Oct. 1-3, 2023 in Beaver Creek, Colorado (Nashville, Tennessee – July 31, 2023) – Elevation Beaver Creek, the highly anticipated event combining music, wine, and adventure, is thrilled to unveil the first round of performers.  Drawing from a carefully curated selection of artists, Elevation Beaver Creek is proud to present an exceptional lineup that spans a variety of genres, including Americana, AAA, and Country. This diverse roster is sure to captivate both music enthusiasts and executives representing radio, […]

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Chef Marcus Samuelsson Dishes on Honeyland, Houston’s New Black Food and Music Festival

Marcus Samuelsson is no stranger to Houston. The Ethiopian-Swedish chef has visited Houston in years past, exploring the West African food scene in an episode of PBS’ No Passport Required. Now, he's returning to the Houston area this November, bringing Honeyland — what could be one of the largest food, music, and spirits festivals in the U.S. to explore and celebrate African American culture and creativity. In a recent interview, Eater Houston asked Samuelsson to dish on the festival food […]

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Meta AudioCraft: AI Music Generator Based on Text Prompts

Meta has released AudioCraft, a new set of AI tools to generate what the tech giant claims is “high-quality, realistic audio and music from text” — for example, producing a music sequence based on the text string “electronic Jamaican reggae DJ set.” “Imagine a professional musician being able to explore new compositions without having to play a single note on an instrument,” Meta says in a blog post about AudioCraft. “Or a small business owner adding a soundtrack to their […]

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Ramon Vargas Set to Open International Music Festival of Ildar Abdrazakov at Mariinsky Theatre

Ramon Vargas is set to perform at the VI International Music Festival of Ildar Abdrazakov. The tenor will join Abdrazakov and the soloists of the Marrinsky Theatre on Sept. 25 for the opening night concert that will see the singers perform arias and duets of Russian and foreign composers. The evening will be held at the Mariinsky Theatre II. The concert will mark Vargas’ first appearance in Russia since the beginning of Russian’s invasion of Ukraine. This season, the tenor […]

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Reactional Music announces deal with music game publisher Amanotes

Business News Deals By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 2 August 2023 Reactional Music – which describes its mission as “connecting music and games creatively and commercially” – has announced a deal with music game publisher Amanotes. The partnership, we are told, will “allow Amanotes to pioneer real-time music personalisation and in-game music purchase for gamers”. “Amanotes is the number one mobile game publisher in South East Asia with over three billion downloads of its games”, an official statement […]

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Has Taylor Swift Forever Changed How Musicians Will Promote Singles?

GLENDALE, ARIZONA - MARCH 17: Editorial use only and no commercial use at any time. No use on ... [+] publication covers is permitted after August 9, 2023. Taylor Swift performs onstage for the opening night of "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at State Farm Stadium on March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona. The city of Glendale, Arizona was ceremonially renamed to Swift City for March 17-18 in honor of The Eras Tour. (Photo by John Medina/Getty Images)Getty Images […]

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Music and cinema are passionate at the 32nd Salobreña Tendencies

0 In its three decades of existence, the Salobreña Trends festival has always wanted to be that multidisciplinary showcase that refreshes the summers on the coast of Granada from a unique proposal. This year starts with the sisters Maria Jose and Cristina Martinknown as LasDelCine in their already prodigal career as filmmakers. Passionate about music and cinema, they now embody that role that the audiovisual occupies in today’s culture and especially in music. His talk “Music and cinema: combining passions” […]

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Get ready for a music extravaganza at the Mid America Music Festival

This year’s Mid America Music Festival will feature country artists August 4th and 5th. The event at the Black Silo Winery of Trenton will support Boy Scout Troops 97 of Trenton and 120 of Chillicothe, Camp Rainbow, and the Green Hills Animal Shelter. Parking gates will open August 4thand 5th at 2 pm. On KTTN’s Open Line July 31st, Mid America Music Festival Spokesperson Andrea McKown said August 4th’s lineup will start with Trenton’s own Bluegrass band Slow Leak at […]

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‘Our music didn’t build. We were anti-catharsis’: the glacial pleasures of slowcore | Music

‘We were not trying to make people dance, we were not trying to ‘rock’ – we were trying to make things that were beautiful,” says Dean Wareham, who formed Galaxie 500 in Boston in 1987 with Naomi Yang and Damon Krukowski. Their music, Wareham explains, was “slower, more introspective” than most underground rock in America during the late 80s, a scene defined by distortion, volume and velocity, dominated by hardcore punks, proto-grungers and the nihilistic fans of the caustic subgenre […]

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