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| NPR Music’s Online Concert Series Continues: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, NPR Music’s series of live online concerts, available on www.NPR.org continues with a performance by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on Monday, February 20. The new concert will be streamed live from the prestigious 9:30 Club, a Washington, D.C. venue known for booking breakthrough performers in all genres, including rock, punk, hip-hop and country. Besides streaming live, the concert will be archived on NPR.org, which allows fans to enjoy the full concert on-demand, any time. NPR Music’s concerts have been listened to via NPR.org more than 1 million times, and concert-related NPR.org pages have been viewed more than 2 million times. NPR Member station KRCW Santa Monica has been credited with discovering Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in 2000 when they gave the band’s first demo extensive airplay on their weekend music program New Ground. Soon after, B.R.M.C. signed a record deal and released their self-titled debut album. Their latest, Howl, unveils a new blues, country, and gospel-inspired sound evolving from their original rock sound. Named after Marlon Brando’s gang in the 1953 film The Wild One, B.R.M.C. has been featured on All Songs Considered, NPR’s online-only music program, and World Café, WXPN Philadelphia’s influential contemporary music program distributed by NPR. The hit audio webcasts, produced under the All Songs Considered banner, launched in January 2005 and have featured 18 live events to date. With listener response coming from around the world, the concerts have showcased an eclectic group of past performers, including James Brown, the White Stripes, Wilco, Sigur Ros, Sinead O’Connor, Death Cab for Cutie and David Gray. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |