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Brooklyn 's psychedelic rock opera "Arizona" re-locates to North Carolina and under the tutelage of My Morning Jacket producer Danny Kadar helps define the newly emerging "Asheville sound" with their brand new melodic-rock concept album "The Glowing Bird."

Mermaid Police
Rip open the firmament as ArtFRONT's top pick for new Recording Artist!

Then...Sean Phipps of Chattanooga Times Free Press & WUTC 8.1 gives us his top 10 CD's of 2007 list.
Plus: Little Country Giants "Sing Pretty for the People" and more in
ArtFRONT's CD Reviews.

Who was good at Bonnaroo, 2008? ArtFRONT Reviews the shows by My Morning Jacket, The Avett Brothers, Sigur Ros, Cat Power, Metallica, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, The Royal Bangs, the everybodyfields and lots more.

Read the full article with lots of glorious photos and links to over 90 different bands that played the Welsh festival last year!

The Bridges
replace Neko Case as ArtFRONT's top pick for best live performance!
and John Fogerty rebuilds the foundation of American Rock 'n Roll in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
Plus new shows by Megan McCormick, The Bowmans & Freakwater!

NEW! "The A List" of upcoming live performances well worth going to see.
Keep tuned for more as they are announced.

Robert Plant & Allison Krause with T.Bone Burnett

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It's way past time to spring for a nice set of speakers for your computer. The Listening Room is a page You can easily scroll through and click to play some of the best free online music available. This is music that We enjoy enough to put up on our play list and share with You. This feature is designed so that You can listen to streaming audio immediately without having to download anything. If You want to download mp3's many of the songs in here are downloadable, though many require a small fee to do so. The links are in alphabetical order and all musical styles are represented with quality being the main requirement.

The Listening Room works best if You open it up in it's own window first, through the above link. The scrolling band names to the left should switch the audio to each band once The Listening Room page is open, or go straight to the artists audio page if You don't open the main link first. They are currently under development and mostly there to look pretty. Scroll to the bottom of this page for a few more comments on how it all works.

The requirements for included music are; 1. It has to be GOOD enough to be a part of our personal playlist.. 2. Complete songs must be streaming, no "snippets" allowed. 3. The authors of the music have to provide their streaming audio free of charge. Some downloadable material may have fees but all pages featured contain free music to listen to immediately. The Listening Room is highly selective, even some of our favorite artists are not included because we feel they do not offer their best songs on their audio pages, but there are some as yet unknown bands that are giving us some really great stuff, so go on over and enjoy discovering this new music!

There's lots of bands here that we've been impressed with enough to promote and even produce concerts for. At this time we are working on adding a large number of our favorite musical groups to The Listening Room. And it will grow continually as we discover great new music online so keep checking back!.

In The Listening Room You can link directly to streaming audio sites while keeping this section open and continue to read while You listen. You can turn on the music and kick back or crank it up and go do some chores around the house. This could be the beginning of the final solution to commercial radio. Suggestions are welcome and will be considered. It's best to contact us through the ArtFRONT Myspace page.

The Best Radio Stations to Hear new music

Once I figure out a fair way to judge which radio Stations deserve the accolades inherent in being included in ArtFRONT’s Music Section I will set up a page which lists all of the best, most innovative, influential, groundbreaking, whatever....stations that people send me evidence of as being worthy. For now, link up and listen to these few fine stations. Most are also included in The Listening Room.

WUTC 88.1 FM Chattannooga, Tennessee. Traditionally has been Southeast Tennessee's premier new music broadcaster. There's now lots more N.P.R.news programming than ever before. From 10:00am until noon Cleveland Carlson plays requests and a lot of eclectic southern style rock, blues & jams. From 1:00pm to 4:00pm weekdays (E.S.T.) You can usually catch Richard Winham's tasteful world-wide ranging cuts. Starting at 8:00pm Tommy Cotter's Evening music program spans every conceivable style of contemporary music selected from years of listening experience. This station is one of the few that excels at having live studio performances on air whenever exceptional musicians are in town for a live gig. To listen to WUTC 88.1FM's live webcast click on the logo to the left. And hats off to "Jazz with Bob Parlocha" which is one of the last remaining straight ahead jazz programs playing from midnight until morning on this and other N.P.R. stations.

WDVX is a grass roots radio station.Out of Knoxville, Tennessee. This station is one of the last fortresses of Real Country music. Not the artificial diesel smoke flavored generic commercialism that's being pumped out of Nashville and passed off as country. WDVX plays the real article which is sought after the world over. It's a seemingly endless fountain of real American heritage music. And their streaming webcast is there for You no matter where You live, unless You've got no electricity then You should get a fiddle and make your own music. Amazingly, this Public radio station was broadcasting out of a 14 ft. long R.V. trailer with dangerous looking antennas up on top until August of 2003. Recently a popular addition to their broadcast is the "Blue Plate Special" which features acclaimed regional performers playing live shows most every day at noon. Praises of fans of their webcast come from all over the planet. Their play list will surprise You with Jimmy Rogers & the Carter Family, Earl Scruggs & Johnny Cash backed up against Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & James McMurtry. Start scheduling your own traditional country and Americana education by clicking their logo and hooking up to their webcast.

I've enjoyed listening to the online broadcast by "RadioMike." Recently transplanted from New York City to Austin Texas where he can ge a litle closer to the grimy musical obssessions of the down home populous....(?) His playlist, includes a lot of new artists I've never heard of with old traditionals mixed in. If You enjoy uncovering new talent, especially artists who play small venues around NYC and Austin TX, www.thefeveredbrainofradiomike.com is quite resourceful and entertaining in a nerdy research kind of way. (Hey if it weren't for us nerdy researchers You wouldn't know didly...) Click over to his broadcast site for a pleasant break from commercial radio. I believe what RadioMike is doing will be one of the big trends for the future of music. Since commercial radio is so easy to burn out on more & more people will be turning to web broadcasts to find music that is being played by well informed music lovers rather than big corporations trying to sell their product.

ArtFRONT's "Current Music Dynamics" Archived here.

Don't think we've forgotten about the dozens of great artists who were featured in the First Edition of ArtFRONT's Current Music Dynamics because You can have that entire issue by clicking HERE!

Featuring:
Neko Case, 8mm, Freekbass, Tift Merritt, The Everybodyfields, JaneWeaver, Sista Otis, Jennifer Daniels, Charles Allison, Audra Kubat, Up With The Joneses, MC Frontalot, The Shaking Ray Levis & lots more!

To see the gallery of concert posters and flyers for all the previous ArtFRONT shows click below... Doubleclick the images to open them full size. All ArtFRONT concert posters and flyers may be downloaded and printed. Graphic design is included as part of the promotion for all concerts Produced and Promoted by ArtFRONT Presentations. We can also be contracted to design a print and interactive digital graphics package for your own concert tour! See the printing instructions or our contact page to notify us that you'd like your own.

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