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Social Media Impact for Musicians: How Conan O'Brien Beats out Other Late Night Shows
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HypeBot
By Liv Buli (@lbuli)), Resident Data Journalist for music analytics company Next Big Sound. Last March, jazz-funk jam band Galactic took to Conan O'Brien's stage and performed the track Hey Na Na" off their recently released album Carnivale Electricos. Joined by R&B vocalist Corey Glover and brass ensemble The Soul Rebels, they brought a little bit of New Orleans to the stage," as Conan himself put it. Over the next 24 hours, Galactic saw a 335 percent increase in daily ...
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Max Weinberg Leaves Conan; Jimmy Vivino New Bandleader
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JamBase
STEPPING DOWN FROM THE DRUM STOOL AFTER 17 YEARS Max Weinberg has confirmed that he will not be joining Conan O'Brien when Conan debuts on November 8. Says O'brien, Max has been a huge part of my life for the past 17 years and he is an incredible band leader and musician. I hope he can find time to stop by the new show, sit in with the band, and pretend to find my monologue funny. A statement from Weinberg ...
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Conan O'Brien: Live Album and Spoken Word
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JamBase
OUT NOW ON THIRD MAN RECORDS Third Man Records presents a new release from the one and only Conan O'Brien recorded in Nashville at the Third Man studios this past June. The spoken word 7" entitled And They Call Me Mad? is available now for pre-order in the Third Man Records online shop. On June 10, 2010 Conan O'Brien visited Third Man Records for a surprise performance during his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour." Over 1000 people ...
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Conan's Lone Tweeter Followee: It's Just Nuts!
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All About Jazz
CONWAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000 -- as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her wedding.
The unsuspecting rural Michigan woman has one out-of-work late-night talk show host to thank for her newfound online popularity -- Conan O'Brien. O'Brien decided last week to pick Killen as the only person he would follow on Twitter, turning the 19-year-old's life ...
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Conan O'Brien's First Public Act Since He Left 'The Tonight Show' is a Tweet
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Michael Ricci
Conan O'Brien joins Twitter and doubles Jay Leno's follower count in two hours. O'Brien may not have had any fans in the NBC Universal boardroom, but there was perhaps no stronger congregation of Coco supporters than on Twitter.
The social network quickly rushed to a profile page for @ConanOBrien that began tweeting on Wednesday. Twitter spokesman Sean Garrett confirms that the account does indeed belong to O'Brien, and the page has since been updated with the company's verified" stamp of ...
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The Spring Standards Get Conan on Friday
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Seth Cohen PR
No Label? No Publisher? No Problem. Conan O'Brien Performance Confirmed for The Spring Standards, This Friday The Spring Standards are proud to announce their national television debut for this Friday night, August 29th, on NBC-TV's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. An independent band in virtually every sense of the word (no label, no publisher, etc,) The Spring Standards have let their music speak for itself, and have seen a path unfold for them that just seems to get better and ...
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Electric Harpist Deborah Henson-Conant NYC Concert Friday, March 21st
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AMT Public Relations
Known as the wild woman of the harp," Grammy-nominated composer/performer Deborah Henson-Conant brings her fusion of music, theater, stories and humor to Manhattan's Symphony Space. The self-produced One Way... and Another showcases two separate concerts: One Way @ 7:30pm featuring her favorite works from the past 15 years; and ...and Another @ 9:30pm premiering new pieces. Both concerts are soaked with cross-genre music ranging in style from flamenco and blues to heart-wrenching ballads, all complimented by Henson-Conant's singing and story-telling. ...
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Rachel Z to Appear on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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All About Jazz
Keyboardist Rachel Z -- with a new CD about to be released, and now touring with Peter Gabriel -- will perform (with Gabriel's band) on national television twice today (Friday, September 27).
* The Today Show (NBC) * Late Night with Conan O'Brien (NBC) Peter Gabriel's U.S.- Canada "Growing Up" Tour: November Atlanta - 5 Cleveland - 7 Columbus - 8 Wash ...
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