Holcombe Waller, right, with band, in Loft 1011 at the Ace Hotel.
In the past couple of years, hotels have started to more fully embrace the role of music presenter: series like the Renaissance Hotel’s RLife Live and venues like the Maritime Hotel’s Hiro Ballroom offer guests access to big-name artists, while almost any hotel with a restaurant or a large-ish lobby offers exposure opportunities to the right kind of artist.
Recently, the chamber folk artist and composer Holcombe Waller has been showcasing his music in hotels in an even more exciting way: the bed-in. [click to continue…]
Welcome to version 2.0 of our series Behind the Blogs, in which we interview the bloggers and thinkers who are following the music business changes that affect us all.
Youth is one of the biggest, loudest, most powerful engines of the music industry. Kids buy the most music, go to the most shows, and as We Are The Kids reminds us, they also dream of entering the music industry one day. [click to continue…]
This summer, the surviving members of Stick Against Stone will join forces with some local musicians to play some gigs for the first time in close to 30 years.
In addition to these shows, a documentary about the band’s history and its deceased frontman John Creighton, Get It All Out, is currently in production, with an eye towards a 2012 release. And on top of that, Creighton’s writings and poetry have been compiled into an interactive eBook which will see release later this year.
All this activity would be impressive for any indie band. But how – and why – has all this activity come together for an obscure no-wave/post-punk/free jazz band from the early ‘80s? [click to continue…]
