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9 Mar

It’s Finally Here: Music Xray’s Diagnostics!

Author: The Uncle Earl

 

Music Xray Diagnostics: GPS-like tracking of a song’s path and potential

 

Now learn the potential of your track and the steps you need to take to reach it

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  • No more navigating your career in the dark. Always know exactly where a song stands, how it stacks up against the competition, and how fans are reacting.

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  • See customized recommended next steps to help guide you through the industry and plan your next actions.

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  • With Music Xray Diagnostics, not only will you know where your track stands, but we’ll give you insight driven recommendations on how you can improve and ultimately gain traction in the industry.

  • Diagnostics will be able to identify your song’s strengths and weaknesses, and lets you know where to focus your efforts. For example, your song might receive consistently high ratings from industry professionals. Thats a sign that your track has a high level of industry appeal, and you should keep submitting to opportunities.

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What you get with Music Xray Diagnostics

 

  • Your song will be heard and rated by five industry professionals who are specialists in your genre.

  • Your song will be heard by 45 potential fans (you can opt out of this part if you want).

  • You will get customized recommended next steps based on the results.

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7 Mar

“Exceptional Women & Those Who Admire Them!” Special Guest: Professor VERA KATZ!

Author: The Uncle Earl

THE UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE & UNCLE EARL Celebrates WOMEN’S MONTH in March Featuring

“Exceptional Women & Those Who Admire Them!”

 

Special Guest: Professor VERA KATZ!

Musical Artists: Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, Jenny Burton, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Bryan Brown, Spike Rebel & The Street (Scott Pollack)

VERA J . KATZ (DIRECTOR) -has taught both acting and directing for 32 years at Howard University in the Department of Theatre Arts where she is a full-time, tenured Professor. She has directed more than 60 productions, originally working under the famed playwright-director-author, Moss Hart. She holds a BFA, in Theatre Arts from Brooklyn College, a WA in Directing and Acting from Boston University, and has studied Film at both the University of Southern California and the University of California/Extension. She won an award for directing the Best Production in Dundalk, Ireland’s International Festival.

She has taught such notables as Debbie Allen, Charles Brown, Phylicia Rashad, Clinton Turner Davis and Lynn Whitfield. She has taught acting workshops for such groups as Actor’s Center, Everyday Theatre, Serenity Players, Playwright’s Forum, Howard University Student Film Association, African Continuum Theatre Coalition, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. She is an associate member of NCBI, a prejudice reduction organization, which produces leaders in cultural diversity, and she is a member of Operation Understanding: DC; which is dedicated to enlightening Black and Jewish youths about each other’s culture.

Professor Katz has been profiled in The Washington Post, The Village Voice, U.S. News & World Report, Baltimore Jewish Times, The Washington Jewish Week and Sister to Sister. She has been interviewed for a number of radio programs including National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition. Professor Katz has written numerous articles on Black Theatre for Black Masks for which she is a contributing editor. Her articles have been published in the Black American Literature Forum, Howard University’s New Directions, Studies in American Drama (Ohio State Press), Washington Review and the American Medical Journal of Education.

She is responsible for the establishment and the administration of the Dr. Andrew A. Allen Creative Arts Scholarship, funded by Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad for the Department of Theatre Arts. She appreciatively thanks Tom (her husband). Anita and Larrv (her children), Howard and Joy (their spouses), her 5 grandchildren and her steadfast girlfriends for their supportive nurturing and love.

 

EBONY CABARET

A creative haven of mutual artists where they can grow and experiment their perspective crafts, nurture and support one another!

The mission is to entertain, and embrace the performance community at large.

Come share an evening of live music, dance and art with some of LA’s finest performers from stage and screen.

Hosted by Uncle Earl of The Ultimate Underground Experience Radio Show and features Burlesque Dancer Jessebelle Thunder, Jenny Eloise Rieu aka The Lady in Red,the Brown Betties, Annabel Lee, Pamela Threats, The Ebony Cabaret Trio: Aaron Provisor, Brandon & Aneesa Al-Musawir and The Ebony Cabaret Dancers!

Joining us will be the all star cast of DOMA theatre’s production of Dreamgirls..come get a peek at this amazing show!

Lastly come and celebrate Desiree’s Big 40! A great night of dancing singing and swinging!! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Next Show: Thursday, March 14, 2013

Special Guests: The Cast Of Doma’s “DREAMGIRLS”

 

Location: M BAR1253 Vine Street LA, CA 90038

 

Dinner and Show at 8p $20 tickets $10 food/drink min.

 

Pre-sale Tickets $15 @ www.plays411.com/ebony

Must RSVP 323.856.0036

For more info: http://www.ebonycabaret.com

Air Date: Thursday 3/7/13  on KLED Live FM (91.1FM)  www.KLEDLive.com  @ 9AM & 9PM (PST) 

 

Broadcast # 163A

 

Direct Links also on website: www.UltimateUnderground.com

Podcast will be available on iTunes. Podomatic and Website!

 

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Bryan Brown

Lena Horne

Billie Holiday

Jenny Burton

Sandra Reaves-Phillips

Scott Pollack aka Street

Spike Rebel

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5 Mar

“Exceptional Women & Those Who Admire Them!” Special Guest: MS. VANDA GUZMAN

Author: The Uncle Earl

THE UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE & UNCLE EARL Celebrates WOMEN’S MONTH in March Featuring

“Exceptional Women & Those Who Admire Them!”

 

 Special Guest: MS. VANDA GUZMAN

 

Air Date: Monday 3/4/13  

Broadcast # 162B

Duration: 1:00:02

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4 Mar

Ebony Cabaret: Grown-Folk Goodness! (Review by LA Jazz.com)

Author: The Uncle Earl

Ebony Cabaret: Grown-Folk Goodness(Feb 22, 2013, 12:39 PM PST)

Tha Sangers & Host

Courtesy of  www.lajazz.com

Perhaps the one thing that stands out most is the high-quality level of talent.

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Lacy Darryl Phillips

Hollywood touches everything in the LA area, including jam sessions. In any other city, jam sessions, in particular for singers, are straight to the point – sing your song, who’s next?

But here in Tinsel Town, there is a touch of cabaret infused in many jams, mainly because many of the singers are out of work actors. That means each song is preceded by some monologue, followed with an over-the-top performance.

In the wonderful production, “Ebony Cabaret” (I’ll call it EC for short), the spirit of the LA jam is captured in live, living color with a naughty dash of sexy!

I don’t think the producer, Desiree Parkman, was going for that vibe, but after covering numerous jam sessions for this blog, EC feels more like a jam, then a linear, story based musical – and that’s just fine with me.

Perhaps the one thing that stands out most is the high-quality level of talent.

Let’s start with the host of the show, Lacy Darryl Phillips. His performance, alone, is more than worth the price of admission, – $15 at the red-velvety M Bar in Hollywood. It is really refreshing to see and hear Broadway level talent up close and personal here on the left coast. People are born for things, whether it’s practicing medicine, architecture, engineering, etc. This man was born for the stage. Serving as the MC for the show, Phillips’ charm and talent combined to keep the show flowing with an easy pace. Topping it all off was his profoundly cool and cunning performance of the tune, “Viper”. That alone will make the cover charge, plus food minimum (a policy that’s an entertainment world plague) bearable.

Other treats included an elegant performance by Pamela Threats. Don’t let her runway-model figure fool you. Threat’s voice has the richness and depth of a Cassandra Wilson or Lala Hathaway combined with the mature sassyness of a Debra Cox or Kelly Rowland. Put that name in your mental Rolodex. You’re going to be hearing more about her in years to come.

Also, the mysterious Annabel Lee is worth noting. Opening up the show, it was clear from her first note EC is something special. Powerful and haunting in a Grace Jones sort of way, Lee had the audience on lockdown from start to finish. Her rollicking, rhumba version of Cole Porter’s 1930 smash, ‘Love For Sale’, was a nice way to get the crowd right and ready.

The show also included a poetry routine by journey woman, ShyButFly. Although her voice is a bit high, borderline childlike, her words were deep and profound. She performed two poems, but the one that stood out was the sensual, ‘I Just Want To Make Love To You”. Spoken word poetry can be inaccessible to a lot of people. But Fly brought you in, set up the message and delivered. Nice work, here.

Add to all of this, spectacular dancing and a burlesque routine by Ashleeta Beauchamp that was one of the sexiest performances you’ll ever see. Warning to men with female dates – try your best not to get yourselves in trouble during Beauchamp’s performance. It won’t be easy.

Kudos to the band, as well. Led by the always wonderful work of Aaron Provisor on piano, the trio (bass, drum) kept the music nice and tasty. Of note, the bassist, Aneesa, has a touch that’s going to take her places. Choice chops!

But even with all of this goodness, there are some things that can improve – mainly, punctuality. EC advertises that doors open at 7p, showtime at 8p. On this night, February 21st, 2013, the show didn’t start until 8:40! That’s unacceptable. Starting 10, or at the most, 15 minutes after the advertised time is bearable. Anything more is downright sloppy. After working 25 years in TV, film and stage one thing I know for sure is that that kind of tardiness will get you run right out of town – for good. Hopefully, that’ll get cleaned up for the next performance.

Also, in that time, with members of the audience already seated, cast members were practicing ON STAGE – LOUDLY. That’s a no-no. I want to be surprised by the music I paid to hear – not sitting there thinking ‘Oh, this is the song from rehearsal.’ It may be a venue issue (no Green room to rehearse or relax in). If so, I’d suggest rehearsing quietly.

Finally, the show screams for a wireless microphone. Phillips did an admirable job keeping the acts flowing, but there’s only so much you can do when you have to deal with dragging a clunky mic and mic stand on and off the stage between acts. The wireless is worth the investment.

But don’t let these minor issues deter you from seeing this show. It is fine entertainment that will hold your attention from start to finish. With a little polish, EC would be a delightful off Broadway treat. Catch it here in Hollywoodland – while you can.

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4 Mar

THE UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE Presents “Exceptional Women & Those Who Admire Them!” Special Guest: MS. VANDA GUZMAN

Author: The Uncle Earl

THE UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE & UNCLE EARL Celebrates WOMEN’S MONTH in March Featuring “Exceptional Women & Those Who Admire Them!”

 

Special Guest: MS. VANDA GUZMAN

Host of “Life Is So Beautiful” Radio Show @ www.blogtalkradio.com/lifeissobeautiful

Every Tuesday 12 Noon (PST)

 

With a seemingly infinite temperament and an expressive voice, she thrills her audiences.

Vanda Guzman is from New York and has lived for more than ten years in Germany. She sings soul, jazz, gospel, R & B and dance classics on various occasions.  She also teaches gospel lessons.

Singer, song writer, performer, Vanda Guzman started singing at age three. She remembers in the mirror everyday dancing too. She remembers entertaining herself a lot and as she grew up she never stopped. By age 7 she was singing in her local church in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

Vanda started to recognize and respect all types of music. She begin to travel and later in life after going through many of life’s challenges, she saw the need to keep singing and  that’s when she decided to move to Germany . She then began performing in musicals, playing Dion in “Hair” for a few years and other musicals like “The Rent Party” in Berlin and others in Hamburg.

She formed her own band and began to do solo work as an artist fo comparnies like BMW, Mercedes, Price Water House & others.

She says ,“I am here to serve, to lift the hearts and bring happiness to people when I sing.” 

Vanda has performed with The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, The Golden Singers, Voices of Praise, and her own Mighty Gospel Explosion since 2005. She also has shared stages with Patti Labelle, The Weather Girls, Liza Minnelli, Michael Bolton, Three Ladies of Blues and American Diva’s.

Vanda acknowledges that her gift comes from God and so she uses it to bring god glory. She has many new ideas that she is now putting in motion to not only help herself but to help others who are born with these gifts and just need some support to get it out there. She lives in Germany right now but also sees herself serving more all over the world to help dreams come true for others. She is thankful to have had an opportunity to live in Germany and travel all wonderful countries in Europe to share her story of music…

www.VandaGuzman.com

 

EBONY CABARET

A creative haven of mutual artists where they can grow and experiment their perspective crafts, nurture and support one another!

The mission is to entertain, and embrace the performance community at large.

Come share an evening of live music, dance and art with some of LA’s finest performers from stage and screen.

Hosted by Uncle Earl of The Ultimate Underground Experience Radio Show and features Burlesque Dancer Jessebelle Thunder, Jenny Eloise Rieu aka The Lady in Red, The Brown Betties, Annabel Lee, Pamela Threats, The Ebony Cabaret Trio: Aaron Provisor, Brandon & Aneesa Al-Musawir and The Ebony Cabaret Dancers!

Joining us will be the all star cast of DOMA theatre’s production of Dreamgirls..come get a peek at this amazing show!

Lastly come and celebrate Desiree’s Big 40! A great night of dancing singing and swinging!! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Next Show: Thursday, March 14, 2013

Location: M BAR1253 Vine Street LA, CA 90038

 

Dinner and Show at 8p $20 tickets $10 food/drink min.

Pre-sale Tickets $15 @ www.plays411.com/ebony

Must RSVP 323.856.0036

For more info: http://www.ebonycabaret.com

Air Date: Monday 3/4/13  on KLED Live FM (91.1FM)  www.KLEDLive.com  @ 9AM & 9PM (PST) 

 

Broadcast # 162B

 

Direct Links also on website: www.UltimateUnderground.com

Podcast will be available on iTunes. Podomatic and Website!

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3 Mar

THE UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE & UNCLE EARL Celebrates WOMEN’S MONTH in March Featuring “Exceptional Women & Those Who Admire Them!”

Author: The Uncle Earl

THE UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE & UNCLE EARL Celebrates WOMEN’S MONTH in March Featuring

 

“Exceptional Women & Those Who Admire Them!“

 

This is Going To Be A Very Interestingly Intoxicating Mix Of Women Sprinkled With A Few Good Men Who Salute, Pay Tribute To & Admire Women….You Never Know What To Expect From UNCLE EARL :O))

The Fun Begins Monday, March 4th Until Saturday, March 30th…………

 

Every Monday, Thursday & Saturday @ 9AM and 9PM (PST) www.KLEDLive.com

Every Wednesday @ 4PM (PST) www.KCLAFM.com

Featured Guests Include: Vanda Guzman, Shine On Hollywood Magazine, Freda Payne, Joyce “DJ Wonder Woman” Parker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Professor Vera Katz, Peggi Blu, Irina Maleeva, Marion Ramsey & Many More Surprises!

 

Direct Links to the broadcast also on website: www.UltimateUnderground.com

 

Podcast will be available on iTunes, Podomatic and Website!

Women’s History Month 2013

Vanda Guzman

Shine On Hollywood Magazine

Freda Payne

Professor Vera Katz

Sandra Reaves-Phillips

Joyce “DJ Wonder Woman” Parker

Peggi Blu

Irina Maleeva

Marion Ramsey

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3 Mar

Music industry ‘on the road to recovery’ as it records growth for first time in 15 years!

Author: The Uncle Earl

Music industry ‘on the road to recovery’ as it records growth for first time in 15 years

Digital revenue streams such as Spotify and YouTube have fuelled growth according to an IFPI report

TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2013

It has been decimated by web piracy and the decline of physical CDs but the global music industry claimed to have turned a corner after recording its first increase in revenues for 15 years.

Industry bosses hailed a return to growth, fuelled by rising digital revenues as music fans sign up to subscription streaming services such as Spotify, which offer instant access to millions of songs.

“The industry is on the road to recovery,” claimed Frances Moore, chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which reported that global recorded music revenues rose by 0.3 per cent in 2012.

The traditional music powerhouses of the UK, US and Germany are still struggling to make the transition to digital. The new growth is being driven by the spread of smart phones and tablets offering legal digital music services in Brazil, India, Mexico and Sweden.

Global hitmakers will increasingly come from South American and Asia. The biggest hits of 2012 included “Gangnam Style” by the South Korean rapper Psy, which attracted 1.2 billion YouTube views and “Ai Se Eu Te Pego” by Brazilian singer Michel Teló. The Portugese-language song sold 7 million downloads after its video went viral and football players adapted the dance for goal celebrations.

The IFPI’s Digital Music Report found that digital revenues increased by 9 per cent to $5.6 billion in 2012 and now account for around 34 per cent of global industry revenues. Legal digital services now operate in 100 markets, helping to drive people away from unlicensed file-sharing services.

The number of people paying to use subscription services has leapt 44 per cent in 2012 to 20 million.  Subscription revenues are expected to account for more than 10 per cent of digital revenues for the first time in 2012. The Spotify service now has 5 million paid subscribers, up from 3 million in 2011. In its native Sweden an estimated one-third of the entire population uses the service.

The arrival of Cloud-based music services from Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, allowing people to access their entire music collections from a variety of different devices has helped improve the user experience for licensed services, the report found.

Google is poised to make a major intervention in the market with the launch of its own music streaming service which will include millions of songs from major recording artists. A music streaming service would place Google, which owns video-sharing site YouTube, in direct competition with Spotify.

Google already distributes music via Google Play, where users can purchase songs and albums in a similar way to Apple’s iTunes.

But the IFPI called on Google, which is in talks with major labels over accessing their catalogues for the new service, to do more to prevent copyright infringing music files from leading its music search engine results.

Ms Moore said: “This growth is still fragile. Google needs to priorities legal sites in its searches. Far from copyright ‘smothering innovation’, music, based on copyright, is driving the digital economy. Music is driving social network sites. The highest number of searches on Facebook and Twitter are for music artists.”

The report said that the recording industry annually invested 26 per cent of its trade revenues ($4.5 billion) in developing and marketing new talent. British stars helped fuel the return to growth with Adele’s 21 the biggest selling global album of 2012, selling 8.3 million copies. One Direction sold nearly 9 million copies of their two albums.

However the report found that around one-third of internet users globally (32%) are still regularly using unlicensed file-sharing sites.

Ms Moore said the first growth for 15 years was “a hard-won success for an industry that has innovated, battled and transformed itself over a decade. The music industry has adapted to the internet world and learned how to meet the needs of consumers.”

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3 Mar

“UNCLE EARL OUT & ABOUT AROUND TOWN”

Author: The Uncle Earl

 

The Underground Experience Presents “UNCLE EARL OUT & ABOUT AROUND TOWN”

 

This show is a potpourri of sights, sounds and happenings around LA & Hollywood from The Sunset Strip to Sunset Junction to The Westside!

Features Include: The Band “HALFWAY” at The Viper Room, Opening Party for VINTAGE VORTEX V & HENRY REEVE ANTIQUES, Lunch with Maestro NOAH SILVER and A Thunder Funk Explosion at Good Hurt with the TONY NEWTON TRIO featuring RON CIAGO & BILLY WISEMAN!

Broadcast # 162A

Air Date: 3/2/13

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3 Mar

“The Power Of Black Music Sessions” Series # 12“ Featuring DOUBLE EXPOSURE RE-VISITED!

Author: The Uncle Earl

THE UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE Presents “The Power Of Black Music Sessions” Series # 12“

Featuring DOUBLE EXPOSURE RE-VISITED!

Join UNCLE EARL & DOUBLE EXPOSURE For Another Journey Through Time & Sounds!

Air Dates: 2/27/13 &  2/28/13

Broadcast # 162

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3 Mar

“The Power Of Black Music Sessions” Series # 11 Featuring EBONY CABARET & Special Tribute To MATTHEW DICKENS!

Author: The Uncle Earl

The Underground Experience Presents “The Power Of Black Music Sessions” Series # 11

Featuring  EBONY CABARET & Special Tribute To MATTHEW DICKENS!

Musical Artists: Duke Ellington, Gregory Hines & Cast Of “Jelly’s Last Jam”, Jenny Eloise Rieu, Annabel Lee, Pamela Threats, Rogue, C.C. Campbell, Marishka Phillips, Sonia Russell, Matthew Dickens & Sandra Reaves-Phillips!

Air Date: Monday 2/25/13 

Broadcast # 161B

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