Archive for April, 2009

International Jazz fair “jazzahead”

Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 17 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Concerts, Music, Uncategorized

From April 23rd - 26th, the International Jazz fair “jazzahead” will take place for the fourth year in a row in Bremen / Germany.

“jazzahead’s” motto is “start talking Jazz”, and they will be hosting live concerts, panel discussions, exhibitions and symposiums.
At the fair you can find alot of interesting exhibitors like the Jazz [...]

Music database www.discogs.com

Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 08 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Music, Uncategorized

Are you familiar with the feeling of searching desperately for detailed information and full discographies on certain artists, records or labels on the internet? For example, other than his own, what productions has Wayne Shorter been involved in? The music database ‘Discogs‘ is the perfect solution for this!

Discogs was created in 2000. It’s original purpose [...]

Beat the mainstream!

Posted by Louise Neill on 01 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Music, Uncategorized

The UK music industry has seen massive change over the last decade, which has been widely covered in the mainstream media.  The Big 4 music labels stand accused of being stuck in a time warp as they blame falling music revenues on piracy, rather than waking up to the inevitable long-term impact of the digital [...]