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Angela Ortiz has an album titled All About You and it serves as a very descriptive lead in to what is inside the CD sleeve. This recording seems to be a biographical and storytelling adventure. I suppose its all in the perception of the listener as it would be with any album. It is hard […]

Delta, B.C. – October 26, 2006 - www.MP3Musicgrams.com, a free music promotion site featuring free MP3 music uploads and Musicgrams, announces the artist winner for the most sent MP3Musicgrams for the week of Oct 16 - Oct 22, hip-hop singer Spotrusha, with song “Mary Warner”.
The MP3Musicgrams.com Music Fan and Artist contest officially started October 16, […]

Calling on Indie Bands and New Artists – Upload your Music for Free and Win a Guitar for Most Sent MP3 Musicgrams
Music Fans: Spread Your Music Around and Become the Featured Fan and/or Win Great Prizes
Delta, and B.C. – October 9, 2006, www.MP3Musicgrams.com, a free music promotion site featuring MP3 music uploads and Musicgrams, calls […]

Clearly, ELO was a progressive band, although most people never looked upon them as that because of their long run on the pop charts. They had it all going for them-a unique brand of rock music with parts of an orchestra mixed in and a singer/songwriter/guitar player on level with the best in the world. […]

Delta, B.C. - September 27, 2006, MP3Musicgrams.com, a free music promotion site featuring music uploads and downloads, will officially launch its fan and artist contest October 15, 2006, with full contest details available October 1, 2006.
Artists and bands in all musical genres from rock to country to Hip Hop can upload a promo MP3, image […]

Matthew Fogg & Nicole Hajj had a history before this album came together. They met and found a mutual admiration and respect for one thing, the art form of jazz.
It is unusual to release a debut album as a live recording, but the duo decided this was the best way to present their music at […]

Kellylee Evans decides to take flight rather than fight on her new recording Fight or Flight? The title of the CD will have different interpretations by each individual listener no doubt. I see it as an artist deciding to do what comes natural-sing her heart out and record one fine album filled with jazz […]

Do you get excited or do you break out in cold sweat when you hear the word “open mike?” Tom Heany has some great advice on how to prepare yourself for bearing your soul in front of an audience.
Here’s a cool idea: Openmikes.org is an online database of Open Mikes occurring in the US and […]

New York, NY, August 30, 2006 - MusicDish, an Internet music magazine publisher and artist marketing/ development firm, along with Manhattan-based radio promotion and PR company Organic Entertainment are proud to announce the launch of a monthly showcase series called Listen Liberally. Supported by the NYC chapter of Drinking Liberally, the series will […]

When is the last time you heard a band from Norway that sounded like the Jimi Hendrix Experience playing blues-rock as if they came from suburban America? Nickles & Dimes is that band. The have released albums every three to four years since 1993. So they do have a record of accomplishment as […]

Artist: Cactus
Title: V
Genre: Blues-Rock
Label: Escapi Music
Cactus Website
Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice are one of the greatest rhythm sections in rock music history there is no denying that. They helped to put Vanilla Fudge and countless other bands on the map over the last 40 years. Cactus was one of those bands that came and […]

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August 21, 2006 – Calgary, Alberta — Bluessmyth may be Canada’s answer to ZZ Top after the release of their sizzling new album Bluessmyth. In the tradition of that little old band from Texas, they are a power trio with the drive and authority that makes people stand up and take notice. […]

Artist: Patrick Yandall
Title: Samoa Soul
Genre: Instrumental Jazz
Label: Zangi Records
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Patrick Yandall’s Website
Patrick Yandall continues to improve with each successive release. Samoa Soul is his seventh album. Yandall is talented in many ways musically however his instinct for applying the rudiments of jazz outweighs everything else. That is the one most important aspect of […]

Colorado-based Jazz chanteuse Mellani Day announced the release of her first full-length, genre-breaking album ‘Mostly True’, co-produced by renowned jazz pianist Eric Gunnison. The original vocal jazz-centric tunes feature a rich mix of genres from smooth jazz & blues to reggae & calypso, as well as a bluesy version of Huey Lewis’ hit, “I Want […]

Brazilian music is as deep and as wide as the nation itself. The traditions and styles of their musical heritage include concert forms like choro, which features violins, woodwinds and piano; samba drumming, which is the melding of the European marching drum corps and African drumming; and jazz music that blends samba rhythms […]

Artist: Halie Loren
Title: Full Circle
Genre: Jazz-Rock-Pop
Label: White Moon Productions
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I often wonder how such beautiful women, both with voice and physical presence, can sing cut-to-the-bone lyrics, and mean it with every fiber of their being. Even after all these years of listening and writing reviews, it still catches me off guard. My […]

Artist: Sue Merchant
Title: Fool
Genre: Folk
Label: Bandit Records
Website
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Sue Merchant has released an acoustic folk masterpiece called Fool. The simplicity of the instrumentation, beautiful melodies (notably on the opening title track) and Merchant’s clear and atmospheric voice, at times classically influenced with a definitive English accent, along with her descriptive and thoughtful lyrics, […]

Artist: Steve Kopandy
Title: Scripted
Format: CD EP
Genre: Pop-Rock
Label: Independent
Website
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Steve Kopandy introduces his rock-pop genius with Scripted, a four song EP. This CD is a superb introduction that everyone should hear. While Kopandy has many influences, actually a long list is on his My Space site, he manages to create some clever pop […]