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Event Review: 3 bands…from 3 cities…3 styles of music…very refreshing

Date: January 25, 2015 – Venue: The Cake Shop (NY) – Review by Dante Mann

I attended a performance at The Cake Shop with The Love Experiment, Hildegard, and aStridd. The show was perpetually danceable and the mix of styles proved to be highly cohesive each enhancing the other making for a great overall show.

Boston/New York based alternative funk band The Love Experiment headlined the bill. With three singers, keys, guitar, bass guitar, drums, and some sax on the side they managed to create a unique and modish vibe.

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Music Listings – 2/9 through 2/15/2015

1. Hypercolor / Dither & Philip White

Date: Monday, February 9, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue:  JACK (505 ½ Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238 Between Fulton – Atlantic in Clinton Hill, C or G train to Clinton-Washington)
Ticket: $10
Genre: no wave jazz-rock/electric guitar ensemble music/electronics

Jack NY presents two of New York’s great experimental music bands on Monday, February 9 as they celebrate brand new Tzadik Label CDs, both released in January 2015. Strangely marvelous no-wave jazz-rock trio Hypercolor (Lukas Ligeti, drums; Eyal Maoz, guitar; James Ilgenfritz, bass) celebrate their self-titled debut, and stellar electric guitar quartet Dither Quartet (Taylor Levine, James Moore, Joshua Lopes, Gyan Riley) celebrate the release of “John Zorn’s Olympiad – Vol 1: Dither plays Zorn”, featuring the quartet’s distinctive renditions of Zorn’s early game pieces. Iconoclastic electronics whiz Philip White opens with a solo set.

2. Andrew Hock, Pruitt/Anderson, CasTreutLips, Vape Drip

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CD Recommendation: Kaki King…The Guitar is A Shapeshifter

KAKI KINGArtist: KAKI KING
Title: The Neck Is The Bridge To The Body
Label: Short Stuff Records
Genre: acoustic experimental guitar
Release date: March 3, 2015

Kaki King’s groundbreaking new work, The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body, sees the renowned guitarist/composer joining forces with visual performance pioneers Glowing Pictures to construct an innovative multi-media production in which The Guitar itself takes centerstage. The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body debuted at Brooklyn’s BRIC House Ballroom in March 2014, and will tour extensively in 2015. An album featuring the music from the show will also be released in 2015.

The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body lays bare The Guitar’s inner life and protean power, its incalculable possibility and perpetual presence in our deepest unconscious. The hour-long production places the focus directly on The Guitar itself, the Instrument serving as an ontological tabula rasa in a creation myth unlike any other ever presented.

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Future of Music Coaltion News: Real Net Neutrality Inches Closer to the Finish Line!

Tom WheelerText by Future of Music Coaltion (submitted by kevin on February 4, 2015 – 1:59pm): https://futureofmusic.org/blog/2015/02/04/real-net-neutrality-inches-closer-finish-line

This morning, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler published an op-ed in Wired announcing the FCC’s proposed open Internet rules under a strong But flexible framework.

This announcement is a huge victory for net neutrality advocates, including musicians and independent labels who rely on the access to audiences provided by the internet as a fundamental tool for commerce and free speech. And it’s also a victory for music fans, who want equal access to the full diversity of musical expression, not just those backed by corporations who can afford to strike big money fast-lane deals with broadband providers.

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