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Jill and Julia bring comedy, music mashup to Park CitySalt Lake Tribune"The Jill and Julia Show," featuring singer-songwriter Jill Sobule and comic Julia Sweeney, is a variety show, a music show, a comedy show, ...The Jill & Julia ShowSalt Lake City Weeklyall 4 news articles »
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Kathy Griffin Will Bedazzle Her Own VaginaQS (blog)First Margaret Cho got groped by bears in a Jill Sobule video, and now Kathy Griffin's getting a poolside pap smear after having her vagina bedazzled, ...and more »
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RelixJustin Timberlake and Bill Withers to Share the Stage at ASCAP EXPORelixAlso confirmed to participate in the EXPO are Kerry “Krucial” Brothers, Toby Gad, Allison Iraheta, Mark Isham, Lenny Kaye, Jason Mraz, Jill Sobule, ...
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It's the Jill & Julia ShowPark RecordJill Sobule and Julia Sweeney met about three years ago at a party at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. There they were, staring into the bulging eyes of giant ...
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Step Inside the Studio With John Doe and Jill SobuleHuffington Post (blog)Jill: My pal John Doe (of X and Knitters fame, etc) and I have decided to share a band for a day to record separate EPs -- although we will hopefully play ...
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CWA Preview: Q & A with Julia Sweeney, actress and comedianDaily CameraI've been doing the Jill & Julia show for a few years now, I met Jill (Sobule) at the TED conference in 2006. We have had a blast and are doing about 10 ...and more »
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NY Times Trashes Crowdfunding Without Looking At A Single Big Success StoryTechdirtHmm. Jill Sobule raised over $80000 in less than two months. That seems like more than gas money. Ellis Paul raised over $100000. That seems like more than ...
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Jill Sobule Goes Into The Studio With CwF+RtBTechdirtSinger Jill Sobule was one of the more high profile musicians to successfully embrace a crowdfunded album using a tiered approach, successfully raising the ...
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YouTube du Jour: “When We Swam”OffBeat Magazine... Rebecca Gates, Toshi Reagon, Matana Roberts, Jill Sobule, Jon Theodore of One Day as a Lion and Bonerama, which often serves as the house band. ...
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NOLA.comGuitar Shorty, Booker T., Robin Thicke, the Zion Harmonizers and more music in ...NOLA.comThe sixth “Musicians Bringing Musicians Home” benefit teams up Bonerama with Jill Sobule, Ryan Dobrowski, Israel Nebeker and more at One Eyed Jacks. ...
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...Jill Sobule recently made headlines by having fans fund her record, but she's refrained from commenting on the fact that pop star Katy Perry copped her 'I Kissed A Girl' song title. When Spinner spoke to Sobule back in February, she was mum on the subject....
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The Decemberists and The Derek Trucks Band added as headlining acts performing August 14-16, 2009 at Old Pool Farm!
Special Thursday night "Campers' Exclusive" concert added featuring Jill Sobule, Deer Tick and Get The Led Out!
PHILADELPHIA, July 7
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Dar Williams will headline the scaled-down 2009 Boston Folk Music Festival at UMass Boston on Sept. 12-13. Among other performers this year are Jill Sobule, Jake Amerding, Michael Tarbox, and Cape Cod band Tripping Lily. But no one on the bill has
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You might not think that Tempe "humorcore" band Psychostick and Jill Sobule (a.k.a. that chick who sings the other "I Kissed a Girl" song) have much in common, but it turns out they both have some seriously loyal fans. Last year, with the country mired
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In 2008, we reported on indie rock musician Jill Sobule's experiment with a new way to create and fund music. After multiple contracts with major and independent record labels, Sobule decided to make music on her own. She launched a website asking her
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...been a fan of Jill Sobule for quite some time. She’s always flown just under the radar in the music industry, but she has always been a well-respected songwriter and her true fans have stuck with her from the beginning. After all, she IS the girl who “Kissed...
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Singer Jill Sobule sang at the All Things Digital conference earlier this week, where she was asked by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to come up with a song about their boss, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch.
With Swisher holding the lyrics, here it is:
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Singer/songwriter Jill Sobule took the stage this morning to start day 2 off on a musical note. No more songs about Rupert Murdoch (yet) but she promises to sing about the end of the world tomorrow.
It’s like that Seinfeld episode, the service about
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Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule opened D7 with a hastily written and pretty funny homage to News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. Unfortunately, no cameras on Murdoch as she sang but we have the performance video for you after the jump
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After Kara Swisher assists Jill Sobule with a song penned for (and about) Rupert Murdoch, Walt Mossberg joins her on the stage and they thank the audience. “We double-mean it this year,” says Walt.
Walt and Kara explain their “Web 3.0″ thesis, which
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At last year’s D6 Conference, singer/songwriter Jill Sobule was introduced to media mogul Rupert Murdoch–and apparently, he made quite an impression. To commemorate the occasion, Jill composed a song about their meeting and performed it from the stage
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You have also worked with so many amazing musicians including Warren Zevon. What do you learn from collaborating and performing with him?
I'll say especially with Warren, someone who I admired for so long, he was a mentor in a lyrical way. To get to
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Jill Sobule always stands out. Growing up, she was the only Jewish kid
in Catholic school. In the mid 90s, she had a hit with I Kissed A
Girl (not the same song as the Katy Perry one). And lately, she decided to raise the money on her own for
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...- it was more to write a pop hit, not any kind of sociopolitical agenda - it [started a discussion]." I softened. WHO Jill Sobule WHEN | WHERE8 p.m. Saturday, Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington INFO $35-$40; 516-767-6444,...
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Veteran singer-songwriter Jill Sobule got fed up with business as usual three years ago, and on a new song she pinpoints the moment.
"I'm here at a meeting," she sings in a voice perched between exasperation and resignation. "Trying to impress someone
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Jill Sobule just released her Internet-funded CD, "California Years."
(Kristen Larsen, Special to The Denver Post
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Denver's native pop star Jill Sobule, the St. Mary's grad with the 1995 hit single "I Kissed A Girl," (long before Katy Perry's 2008 hit
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Robbie Daw presents a weekly pop music update here on Towleroad. Robbie runs his own site called Chart Rigger.
Last July I wrote about 23-year-old musician Vincent Frank—better known now as Frankmusik—who was working at the time with producer Stuart
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Veteran singer/songwriter Jill Sobule has finally released her new album, bringing to conclusion one of the most unusual recording processes any album in recent history. Rather than teaming with a record company — major or indie — Sobule financed the
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Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule took a uncharted path to her sixth
studio album, "California Years." Instead of the usual record
company routine, Sobule financed the recording, production and
publicity for the set with donations solicited through
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...Sobule’s latest album, The California Years, mines familiar territory for the artist: whip-smart, infectious tunes with an edge. Like her musical peers Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson, Sobule delves into the pervasive sadness of living with a sense of humor...
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Silversun sells Swoons down by the seashore, Jill Sobule's fans do her a solid, Beck kicks it old school, Pastor Troy wants to be felt or killed, Medeski, Martin & Wood complete two-thirds of their trilogy, and buy just about every Metallica song ever
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Singular singer-songwriter Jill Sobule pursued an innovative approach for the development of her new album California Years in working with her fans to finance the recording sessions. In tomorrow’s review of the record, Jill Labrack says of Sobule:
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We consider Jill Sobule to be the musical muse of ATD–which we desperately need since we are obviously way, way too jacked into the matrix.
That’s precisely why we have the gifted singer-songwriter appear annually at our D: All Things Digital
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Largehearted Boy is a music blog featuring daily free and legal music downloads as well as news from the worlds of music, literature, and pop culture.
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...this page using one of the following services: Singer Jill Sobule performs as part of the Festival of Freedom Downtown Seder at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. Note: This song contains language that may be offensive to some listeners. All Things...
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Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule made waves in 1995 with the gay-curious "I Kissed A Girl," one of many playful yet poignant songs she's written over the years about the complications of relationships. Complicating Sobule's career has been her unlucky
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Rascal Flatts fan and graphic designer Chris Kubik shows off his winning album cover design for Unstoppable, which also hangs behind him on the wall of his home office in Arlington Heights, Ill.
Chris Kubik always dreamed of designing album covers. But
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Jill Sobule
famously raised 75K from her
online fan base to pay for the recording of this album, and the pledge drive pays off: Like its namesake state, is mostly golden. Pop's original girl-kisser has a lonesome diarist's ear for observational,
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UPDATE: Voting for the 90s Movie Madness Finals closes tonight at midnight (EST), so vote and comment angrily asap!
A weekend push from Kevin Smith’s Twitter sparked a remarkable comeback from Clerks, which ended up crushing tournament favorite
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A weekend push from Kevin Smith’s Twitter sparked a remarkable comeback from Clerks, which ended up crushing tournament favorite Clueless by a 75-25% margin. To all those in the comments calling voting shenanigans, we never made a rule against (and in
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...past year, Jill Sobule was in the news more for a song she didn’t write than for any of the songs she has written. Katy Perry’s pop hit “I Kissed a Girl” shared a title (but little else) with Sobule’s 1995 quirk-pop landmark, and Sobule spent much of the year...
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One of our very favorite singer-songwriters Jill Sobule is back with a new album, California Years. Written over the last three years and produced by Don Was, the making of the record followed Jill's move to the West Coast. She says the album "was
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Veteran singer-songwriter Jill Sobule got fed up with business as usual three years ago, and on a new song she pinpoints the moment.
“I’m here at a meeting,” she sings in a voice perched between exasperation and resignation. “Trying to impress someone
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Folk-pop singer-songwriter Jill Sobule (who did a song called "I Kissed a Girl" many years before Katy Perry) is forging ahead with an interesting business model for self-producing her albums: sponsorship. It's similar to approaches taken in the past
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Asking fans for $75,000 to fund your next record takes a lot of chutzpah. Getting them to meet the goal in 53 days takes a lot of charm.
Jill Sobule raised $75,000 from fans through a Web site to fund her latest album.
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"I wanted to show the labels that I could do what they're supposed to be doing at a fraction of the cost, and do it better. I spent a couple of weeks in a studio in Los Angeles where Joni Mitchell and the Carpenters and Poison --- let's not forget
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