Archive for 'General'
Someone May Be Stealing Your Music from iTunes
Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
New paradigms, like everything else, bring pros and cons. I just read one of the cons in the USA Today newspaper while I was on vacation, which indicated that hackers are getting into people’s iTunes accounts and obtaining (out of your unknown generosity) gift cards codes that they can then resell at a discount openly [...]
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Ruben Blades Reflects on Availability of Opportunities for Individuals
Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
With his ”Todos Vuelven” tour over, Ruben Blades reflected on some of our social problems and focused on examining the impact of the availability (or lack thereof) of opportunities for individuals in our societies and the degree to which these opportunities are used. Ruben Blades wrote the article for the Spainard newspaper “El Pais” and therefore, the [...]
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Is it Cool to Fileshare Music?
Posted on 20. Jul, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
You go to your favorite music store or simply go online and buy a new music album (not sure I can call it a CD if its downloaded from the web). You listen to it and you love it. Then you’re having a conversation with a friend and you mention this great music you just [...]
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A San Francisco Music Festival that Goes Beyond its Tribe
Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
The Bay Area celebrated a Jewish Music Festival that uses all aspects of music to bring a whole community together. The World Music News Wire blog details how the festival involves everything from building musical instruments to attracting people of all ages and backgrounds, not just for Jewish.
You can read another interesting post by our partner [...]
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Why Musicians Get the Short End of Our Money?
Posted on 11. Jul, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
For every $1000 you and I spend in music CDs, the artists we support get only $23 while the record label and distributors share $870. Wow! Talk about not knowing who you work for. Something is wrong with this picture, and I believe this is an unsustainable model that is about to change.
Music Industry’s Funny [...]
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Your Latin Music Search Options Just Got Better
Posted on 06. Jul, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
I recently blogged about Bing’s music search feature. Now Google is joining the game which means more options for you, and more features to help us find, select, and consume the Latin music we like. Of course, these features apply to all types of music, but I assume you and I are mostly interested in [...]
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Is Puerto Rican Singer the next Susan Doyle?
Posted on 01. Jul, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
In case you haven’t seen this video, this 24 year-old Carlos Aponte, who went to the TV show “America’s Got Talent” and did a great job. Glad to see a latino shine in this popular TV show. Perhaps he’ll become the next “Susan Doyle” phenomenon.
What do you think? Do you believe he can get as [...]
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4 New Ways You Can Create, Find, and Consume Music
Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
In the past weeks there have been several articles in the news regarding new technologies which bring new ways to create, find, and consume music. You read Latino Music Cafe because as me, you like music and it’s an important part of your life. I therefore want to share with you these new technologies that [...]
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Too Much Solos in Jazz?
Posted on 18. Jun, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
I recently wrote about my impressions or Terence Blanchard at the Bellevue Jazz Fest, indicating that I found a certain part of the performance less that exciting because of the long and consecutive solos. This had nothing to do with the virtuosity of Terence and his band, which I found to be integrated by extraordinary [...]
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Bellevue Served a Jazz Festival for the Community
Posted on 14. Jun, 2010 by Hector Aviles.
There are events for a specific focused group of people that love a particular specialty, be that a particular type of music, art, dances, food, cause, or interest. The Bellevue Jazz Festivalwent beyond its focus group to share the jazz experience with the broader Bellevue area community. The combination of premium pay events with nationally [...]
