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pIt looks like Return to Forever fans won#039;t have to wait long for the jazz fusion supergroup#039;s next reunion.br / br / The well-credentialed quartet of keyboardist Chick Corea, guitarist Al di Meola, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White toured together for the first time in 15 years in 2008, yielding the live album and DVD Returns. Now, Corea tells Billboard.com, We#039;re talking to one another about putting something together for next summer, actually, and are currently nailing down details./p pbr / Clarke, meanwhile, says that the group is thinking about having a Forever Festival. We#039;ll pick locations to play and have a bunch of our friends come and play. We go to a city for a week, and every night we have…a different person or different group of people come in. Clarke adds that the festival concept could turn into an annual event.br / br / The group members have plenty happening in the meantime, however. Clarke has just released a new electric album, The Stanley Clarke Band, and is in the midst of a tour to support it. Corea, meanwhile, is juggling a variety of projects that will keep him busy, alongside Return to Forever, this year and next.br / br / He#039;s currently on the road with the Freedom Band, an all-star ensemble that includes saxophonist Kenny Garrett, bassist Christian McBride and 85-year-old drummer Roy Haynes. All three played on Corea#039;s 2000 album Remembering Bud Powell, while Garrett and McBride were also part of Corea#039;s recent Five Peace Band and Haynes also played on the Now He Sings, Now He Sobs album in 1968. It#039;s just the sweetest environment for me, Corea says of the quartet. It#039;s just wonderful playing with these guys. We speak the same language, all of us, and it#039;s like home ground. It#039;s the improvisation and the challenge of coming up with something every time we step to the plate. That seems to be the ongoing way we do it. I think that#039;s part of the agreement of the (jazz game).br / #160;br / The Freedom Band shows are being recorded, and Corea expects to release some sort of album from the tour. He#039;s also finishing work on an album of recordings from last year#039;s tour with Clarke and White which may also include some material from a Hollywood Bowl show that also featured Jean-Luc Ponty, Bill Connors and Chaka Khan. Corea has a trio tour later this year with McBride and drummer Brian Blade, while next year will bring the premiere of his second piano concerto./p

pTechCrunch#039;s recent discovery of a Google Music logo is also offered up as solid evidence that the search engine giant is looking to soon pair its search and customization capabilities with a web-based a-la carte music service. /p

pGoogle recently moved further in the direction of competing with the dominant duo in the music world, Apple#039;s iTunes and iPhone (or iPod), with its acquisition of Simplify Media. As the company demonstrated at its Google I/O conference, Google will use Simplify Media#039;s technology to allow Android users to stream music directly from their desktops to their phones. Already, some are questioning whether or not this, in addition to a Google music service, could overthrow Apple#039;s complete dominance in this sphere. /p

pThe one real question we have for both Google and Apple is what#039;s taking you so long? While both companies lumber along and talk about cloud-based music, companies like MOG and a slew of others already offer a plethora of online music for pennies on the dollar. MOG, for example, offers more than seven million songs on demand for $10 a month. /p

pOf course, none of these services have the immediate market reach and influence that a service by either Google or Apple would have, so we#039;ll just have to wait and see which one gets there first. A first-place finish by Google could, however, lure some leery iPhone users in the direction of Android./p

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pRumors of a Google-backed music service aren#039;t necessarily new by any means but CNET has recently re-fanned the flames by citing ldquo;multiple music industry sourcesrdquo; as saying ldquo;Google could launch a music service that offers song downloads and streaming music as early as this fall.rdquo;/p
pThe search engine giant has several things going for it when it comes to trying its hand at a music service. For startersmdash;and perhaps most importantly–it#039;s already got several million user accounts in place, so trying to convince people to sign up for a new service won#039;t be much of an issue./p
pGoogle#039;s also made no qualms about its development efforts being ldquo;mobile firstrdquo; as far as priorities go. With Android phones starting to really take hold, it#039;ll have plenty of connected devices for streaming and downloading music through an integrated software player on Android handsets. And let#039;s not forget about Chrome OS that#039;s due out this fall as well. Seems like an opportune time to announce a cloud-based streaming music service, too./p
pGoogle has plenty of experience in the cloud, so the idea of an iTunes-like music store that kept all of your music online for easy streaming isn#039;t too hard to imagine. You#039;d think there would have to be some sort of downloading option as well, so perhaps Google would offer different pricing schemes based on whether you just wanted to stream your music to connected devices or download it for good./p
pSo a lot of potential customers, a solid mobile market in place, and the infrastructure to store everything online are all big advantages for Google, but what are some of the obstacles it might have to overcome?/p
pI#039;d venture to say that out of all of Google#039;s productsmdash;perhaps with the exception of Gmailmdash;the user interface for Google Music absolutely has to be done right the first time and it should be fully baked before it#039;s released. If Google wants to seriously compete with iTunes, it can#039;t dump out a directory of links, slap a beta tag on it, and incrementally update it along the way. It needs to give people a reason to leave iTunes and never look back. Forget us early adopters and go directly after the masses with this one./p
pGoogle also needs to make it easy for people to transfer their music libraries into Google music. I#039;m not quite as worried about this one because I think the company#039;s got the chops to make it relatively seamless, but it#039;s still important that it#039;s not overlooked. Again, you want people to leave iTunes, not start a second music collection on Google music. People want all their music in one place just like they want all their e-mail in one place. People switched to Gmail because it had a better interface and offered better features than other free e-mail services like Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail./p
pFinally, I realize not everyone uses iTunes but I#039;m using it as an example since it#039;s arguably the most popular music service around. The thing iTunes has going for it, as well, is that it doesn#039;t just sell music anymore. Perhaps not right away, but very soon, Google will need to expand beyond music and start offering TV shows and movies too. It#039;s got the infrastructure in place since it already owns YouTube and has been experimenting with paid content on that platform. If people had the option to buy TV shows and rent or buy movies on Android handsets and Google TV as easily as it can be done on the iPhone, Google could leverage its paid YouTube content much more efficiently./p
pThoughts? Would you switch to Google Music from whichever platform you#039;re using now? If not, what would it take to get you to switch?/p
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When looking for the latest and greatest way to get music on your BlackBerry there are loads of options. Streaming apps like Pandora and Slacker come to mind, but there are also apps that give you direct on-demand access to artists and albums. Thumbplay does just that, and quite possibly better than anyone else. With Thumbplay Music, you can find the music you want, when you want it. You can listen even when you#039;re offline, and build your own personal music collection on the fly. The full service runs $9.99/month, but we have b30 free 90 day subscriptions to give away/b. Just leave a single comment on this post to enter. Contest ends this Sunday at midnight PDT.
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pAnother week, and the pile of review material does not abate. We have a good variety this week and I hope you will find something that suits your fancy./p
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pbVarg: iBlutaar/i/p
p/bHere we have Germanic pagan metallers who seem to be more of the death metal variety than the power metal kind. There is not as much fun on this release as say, something from Tyr or its ilk. As its sung in German you have an idea if its pagan or satanic anyway. What it seems to lack are the catchy choruses and sing-a-long even if you donrsquo;t know what the hell they are saying vibe to this release./p
pThere is something a bit less than impressive about this release. There is nothing really interesting about any of the tracks. It just seems to be a bit bog standard death metal plod of a Central European variety. There is nothing here to really distinguish this release to much of what else is out there. I canrsquo;t seem to think of one track that actually left an impression on me. /p
pThen again, considering some of the quality releases in the genre, it#39;s probably quite hard to hit the mark. This sort of metal should get you all feisty and fired up about it. This just doesnrsquo;t do that one bit. In fact, by the end of the release, you find yourself feeling rather bored as the tracks are a bit samey. Lots of potential, but not fulfilled on this release. /p
pbJane Bogeart: iFifth Dimension/i/p
p/bShe#39;s been playing piano since she was 10 and she is a former Miss Switzerland, but does she have the chops to sustain an album? Well, she represented her country at Eurovision and was a lecturer in music at a Swiss university. With a great voice and a whole bunch of classy friends along for the ride, it would be a shame if it were all wasted. And thankfully, for a change on this sort of release, it isnrsquo;t. This a better than decent hard rock album that has some pop sensibilities./p /li/ul

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I feel obligated to inform most of you (some know) that this ain#039;t country music. It#039;s Nashville pop. they take elements of country music such as fiddles, steels or dobros, hang on a sometimes phony southern accent of indeterminate regional origin, throw a cowboy hat on the guys, cute boots on the girls, write soppy lyrics, feed the gossip machine and leave nothing of consequence behind except a trashed culture. If you want real country music , which can be beautiful beyond description, start in Austin, TX that oasis of sanity in hell. br /
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pWe wanted to spread some positive music for you and at the moment there is no better new artist to fulfill this goal than California#8217;s Vital. Not only is his music inspiring, but his story is also encouraging (check it out after the jump). Some may think his earnest sound veers into sappy territory, but we believe music is meant to be to convey emotions and this is sure to connect with some people out in the world. If we can aid in this connection between people and music/positive-emotions, then we have done our job. /p
pBelow are two of our favorite songs, and if you like what you#8217;re hearing you must go to his official page and download the entire album for free./p
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#8220;Duranta D. Cook (born December 31 1980 in Vallejo, California, USA), is an indie singer-songwriter that goes by his artist name Vital./p
pVital was born in Vallejo, California in 1980. He was raised by his mother, Theresa McCall, a struggling parent who raised him and his sister Shalon by herself. Vitalrsquo;s first performance came at the age of six, singing and acting in a local church play entitled ldquo;The Return of The Messiahrdquo;. Less than one year later, when Vital was only seven, his mom was shot. Luckily she survived the tragic incident, however, the circumstances forced the three of them to move to Chicago to stay with relatives and friends./p
pVital moved back and forth between the two cities until he was twelve-years-old when he moved back to California to attend junior high school./p
pPrior to starting his solo career Vital wanted to be behind the music scene, writing and contributing by recording demos for other musicians in the Bay Area./p
pAfter being persuaded by the many people he met, he released two EPrsquo;s in the genre of Hip Hop and R#038;B. ldquo;I never found my true self while doing what the society expected me to do, I never felt at home doing whatrsquo;s expectedrdquo;./p
pWanting to experiment more with the music he felt was a better reflection of himself he went into the studio to record his first solo album in the summer of 2008. Now, almost two years later he is anxiously waiting to let the world hear his music.#8221;/p
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pDowntown Pasadena will explode with music for the third annual Make Music Pasadena on Saturday, June 19, from 11 am until 11 pm. The city will turn into a massive musical playground as hundreds of musicians flood the streets to play in buses, parks, courtyards, alleys, and other unconventional spaces for a free twelve hour music festival. Make Music Pasadena will include more than 50 concerts throughout the city showcasing Grammy -award winning, platinum-recording artists, along with homegrown and emerging artists offering something for everybody. A preliminary list of confirmed acts follows; more will be announced in the coming weeks./p

pThis free, all-day, all-ages music festival will feature an adventurous mix of performers. The event hosts a variety of genres and musicians appealing to people of all ages./p
pThis festival of sound will feature an eclectic six main stage line up of artists including MTV Video Music Award winning dance pop indie sensation Matt amp; Kim, four-time Latin Grammy nominee chanteuse Natalia Lafourcade, National Public Radio supported folk trio The Antlers, Los Angeles based funk soul group Breakestra, and American jazz artist Barbara Morrison./p
pMake Music Pasadena aims to popularize musical practices for all ages and from all cultural and social backgrounds. The festival creates an opportunity to communicate and share a very special connection through music./p
pMake Music Pasadena is presented produced by Old Pasadena Management District, Playhouse District Association, and South Lake./p
pOther exciting new event features for the 2010 event will be announced shortly./p
p2010 Make Music Pasadena Confirmed Artists:/p
pMatt and Kim: MTV Video Music Award winning indie pop sensation Matt and Kim create giddy, punk-peppered pop music. The band#039;s latest CD Grand has instantly embraced by critics and fans alike. Matt amp; Kim have a dynamic live show and have performed such high profile festivals such as Coachella, Lollapoolza and Austin City Limits./p
pNatalia Lafourcade: Four-time Latin Grammy nominee Natalia Lafourcade, is one of Mexico#8217;s brightest talents. This singer-songwriter has received commercial and critical successes with her latest release Hu Hu Hu which was also nominated for a Grammy award in 2010./p
pWarpaint: What do you get when you cross the moody atmospherics of Cat Power with a keen eye for skewering expectations of an all-girl band? Answer: Warpaint. The Los Angeles quartet was recently signed to Rough Trade Records on the strength of their 2009 EP, Exquisite Corpse, and a stunning set at last fall#8217;s CMJ Music Marathon. Combining dreamy ambiance with razorblade-sharp lyrics./p
pVoxhaul Broadcast: These National Public Radio favorites craft hook-filled anthems of love and longing and have established themselves as a #8220;Next Big Thing#8221; wherever they#8217;ve taken the stage./p
pThe Antlers: A Brooklyn based band whose debut album has been touted by NPR All Songs Considered One of the most beautiful and moving works I#039;ve heard in a long, long time. Just astonishing.#8221;/p
pBreakestra: The Los Angeles based ensemble is based in deep funk, soul, jazz fever and musical friendships. A Breakestra show is about dancing and swinging #8212; eight men on stage getting loose, playing serious grooves./p
pMonte Negro: is one of the most promising Los Angeles band#8217;s of bi-cultural and bilingual rock. The band recently played the massive Vive Latino and has frequently headlined The Roxy and House of Blues./p
pAnd many more, over 500 musicians performing!/p

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pAfter a brief tease the other day, Lady Gaga has released the full video for her newest hit, Alejandro, and it#039;s as epic and brazenly self-indulgent as you think./p pAt this point, did you expect anything less from Lady Gaga?/p pFilmed by acclaimed photographer Steven Klein, Gaga calls the nine-minute video pure celebration of love and appreciation for the gay community./p pThat might explain the shirtless men with bowl cuts dancing in high heels, plus Gaga stripping for them in a giant orgy, plus the obligatory Catholic imagery./p pIt#039;s as if she wants it to be controversial or something./p pShe#039;s set the bar high (musically, and with Lady Gaga hermaphrodite rumors), so she#039;s got a lot to live up to. Does Alejeandro do it? Watch and vote …/p
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psoul (Middle English, from Old English sawol) ndash; 1. the animating and vital principle in human beings, credited with the faculties of thought, actions and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. 2. a sense of ethnic pride among African-Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion and music./p
pspan id=more-789675/spanIn the mid-to-late Fifties, rhythm and blues was essentially ldquo;taken overrdquo; ndash; re-routed from its original status as the popular music of African-Americans#8211; to become the popular music of the whole world, with a new name: rock and roll.nbsp; Around that same time, a distinctly black music genre evolved, borrowing heavily from the music of the African-American church.nbsp; Soul music was a blending of the vocal techniques, chord progressions and call-and-response patterns of gospel, with the blues of Ramp;B. Itrsquo;s no coincidence that one of the first great voices of soul music came from the gospel world.nbsp; Sam Cooke, son of a Baptist preacher, born in the Mississippi Delta and raised in Chicago, was the first huge star of gospel music. His gospel fans were outraged when he abandoned the Soul Stirrers gospel group in 1957 to sing ldquo;the devilrsquo;s music.rdquo;nbsp; Cooke went on to become the first star of the emerging soul style.nbsp; Cooke wrote one of the first overtly political songs of the genre, ldquo;A Change Is Gonna Come,rdquo; and was an entrepreneur, starting the SAR record label. SAR released records by the Soul Stirrers, Johnnie Taylor, and the Valentinos, a quintet of gospel-singing brothers named Womack from the Fairfax neighborhood of Cleveland. Lead singer Bobby Womack went solo and became a soul star in his own right./p
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pAretha Franklinrsquo;s style of soul is representative of the Atlantic Records sound, which ran the gamut of all the distinctive regional styles that emerged in soulrsquo;s mid-Sixties heyday. Atlantic was an early soul pioneer, starting with the genius of Ray Charles, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, and of course, the ldquo;Queen of Soul,rdquo; Aretha Franklin.nbsp; The regional styles included gritty, earthy Memphis soul ndash;represented by the work of artists like Al Green, Rufus Thomas, and Luther Ingram. The silky-smooth Chicago and Philadelphia sound included Chi-townrsquo;s Impressions, Jerry Butler and the Chi-Lites, and Phillyrsquo;s unmatchable production team of Gamble and Huff, who brought us the Spinners, Stylistics, Orsquo;Jays and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.nbsp; Detroit soul, associated primarily with the artists of Motown Records, like the Temptations and Supremes, became ldquo;the sound of young America,rdquo; in the words of the Motown company slogan./p
pOne primary impetus in the development of soul music was the growth of the civil rights movement.nbsp; Love and human relationships were the overriding themes of much earlier African-American music, and soul singers certainly covered that territory.nbsp; But the power, urgency and prescience of soul music developed when artists strayed from the relative safety of romance and addressed social injustice, racial pride, black militancy and protest.nbsp; Peter Guralnick, music scholar and author of emDream Boogie:The Triumph of Sam Cooke/em, says that the development of soul music paralleled the civil rights movement stylistically as well as chronologically, ldquo;emerging with stealth at first, slowly gathering strength, learning to assert itself without apology, then forced to retrench in the face of a series of traumatic events and jarring disappointments.rdquo; As the end of the Sixties approached, soul music made way for a more militantly Afrocentric genre of black music, funk. The assassinations of our leaders, the inferno of our neighborhoods and the disillusionment brought on by failures of the civil rights movement called for a different sound, and the shape of black music was changing, yet again./p
pem#8211; Meredith Rutledge for the Rock amp; Roll Hall Of Fame/em/p
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pAs you#8217;ll know if you read our earlier liveblog, the rumours that Apple would have an iTunes announcement during CEO Steve Jobs#8217; keynote at its WWDC show today were inaccurate. No cloudstreaming iTunes, and no web-based iTunes.com store. Sorry folks./p
pIn fact, music had a distinctly low-profile role during the keynote. Jobs showed Pandora#8217;s app running in the background as a demonstration of the multi-tasking in the new iOS 4 software, and Activision showed off its upcoming Guitar Hero game for iPhone, complete with an in-game store for track downloads. That was all./p
pThe iTunes rumours had been fuelled by Apple#8217;s decision to close its acquired Lala service at the start of this month, on the basis that it would presumably have a replacement to talk about at WWDC. It#8217;s perhaps not a surprise that this wasn#8217;t the case though: Apple has tended to save its big music announcements for separate events, rather than conference keynotes./p
pspan id=more-4351/spanThere was still plenty to chew on in the keynote though. Music services considering launching ad-supported iPhone apps heard that Apple has already bagged $60 million in brand commitments for its new iAd mobile advertising network, for example./p
pMeanwhile, there was a blizzard of other stats from Apple: five billion App Store downloads, 35 million iPad app downloads, and the fact that the company will soon sell its 100 millionth device running the iPhone OS (or iOS, now that it#8217;s been rebranded). The fact that the company now has 150 million people#8217;s credit card details via iTunes accounts was also a figure to conjure with./p
pThe iPhone 4 handset was the big reveal of the keynote #8211; and while the impact was lessened by the fact that it had already been unveiled in an infamous post on tech blog Gizmodo, there were still new aspects to talk about./p
pMost important for iPhone 4 is the big focus on the hardware. Previous iPhones have focused on the user experience, and the tightly-controlled iTunes / App Store ecosystem. However, in the face of increasing media chatter about various Android phones being better than the iPhone, Apple has clearly decided to try to trump them on specs as well as experience./p
pEven so, as the dust settles, it#8217;s still a fact that the music industry is waiting to see what Apple#8217;s next move will be for iTunes, in the face of challenges to the download/ownership model from Spotify, Pandora and new startups like Rdio. What price a summer event devoted to music? Watch this space#8230;/p
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