GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN: When it’s this cold outside, huddling up together makes perfect sense. With this week’s release of Brooklyn Heat – a collection of singles recorded by six BKLYN indie bands in six days last summer – we can all hope to feel the searing goodness of NYC rock and Read more...
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), the leading U.S. performing rights organization, and Music Unites, a non-profit organization supporting musical artists and professionals through performance and education opportunities, have teamed up to present four workshops on integral aspects of the music business.
The third of four sessions, “Managers Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: There’s more than one way to be a rock star. For Walt Ribeiro, Founder of NYC-based For Orchestra, the path to a global music stage is paved with bass clarinets, bowed tremolos – and a brainy, instinctual knowledge of the ‘Net.
Driven with a by-all-means-necessary mindset when it Read more...
MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: As if becoming a master of your craft weren’t challenging enough, now in the world of apps we must invent entirely new crafts to master.
Not surprisingly, Jordan Rudess, virtuoso mad-science keyboardist of cornerstone NY prog-rockers Dream Theater, is always up for just such a task. To that Read more...
SOHO, MANHATTAN: Whether you know it or not, you’ve been listening to Jesse Harris a lot. For this NYC music man, the song — sung by him or somebody else — really is the thing, and his songs get around.
It was Harris’ pen that produced one of the most Read more...
