Recording Academy announces Key National and Chapter Executive Promotions; Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Recording Academy names new Executive Director
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Recording Academy press release) - As part of its ongoing restructuring, the Recording Academy(R) announced Daryl Friedman as Vice President, Advocacy and Government Relations and Doug Gore as Vice President, Asset Management and Production. Michele Rhea Caplinger and Jon Hornyak ...
| Record business undervalues music - Tess Taylor of NARIP
LOS ANGELES (NARIP) - "The record industry is taking its lead from merchants who use music to sell other things like computers, advertising, soda and iPods. Music has been denigrated to the cheap lure of promotional value," said Tess Taylor, President of the National Association of Record Industry Professionals ...
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'Upbeat & Aggressive' Drums On Demand offers more control in drum track creation
NEW YORK (Drums On Demand) - For both Mac and PC, Drums On Demand's new "Upbeat & Aggressive" is a 2-CD set featuring 1,700 royalty free loops, Loop Layers™ and matching single hits in 25 easy-to-use Song Sets. Users simply drag and drop from an average of 45 modular verse, chorus, fill, bridge, ...
| SIRIUS Satellite Radio and Graceland create all-Elvis Presley Radio Channel
NEW YORK (SIRIUS Satellite Radio press release) - SIRIUS is the only satellite radio service bringing listeners 100 streams of the best music and entertainment coast-to-coast. SIRIUS offers 60 music streams with no commercials, along with 40 world-class sports, news and entertainment streams for a monthly ...
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Sergio George and George Zamora join forces to launch SGZ Entertainment, a new record label
LOS ANGELES (Angelis Media Relations) - George Zamora, former president of Warner Music Latina and multiple Grammy Award winning Producer Sergio George, today announced a joint venture to form a new record label dubbed SGZ Entertainment. The label will be based in Miami, FL and will cater to the Urban ...
| KOCH Records announces new partnership with Diplomat Records
NEW YORK (KOCH Records) - KOCH Records is proud to announce a new deal with Diplomatic Man Records (commonly known as Diplomat Records). The new venture between KOCH and Diplomatic Man encompasses label services including distribution and some marketing support from KOCH. Diplomatic Man Records is owned ...
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Music industry sales slump as artists look for new web distribution
LONDON, UK (www.symbiosgroup.co.uk, www.stayaround.com) - The music industry is playing catch-up for a platform of legal downloads from the Internet. There is wide spread confusion in the industry today as many solo artists and record labels cash in on the value of the web. The Internet and web-technology ...
| CD Baby members use SML's Weed to sell music
SEATTLE, WA. (Shared Media Licensing press release) - Under an agreement announced today, Portland, OR-based CD Baby will offer its 65,000+ affiliated artists the option to distribute their music online using the Weed file format. Developed by Seattle's Shared Media Licensing, Inc., Weed(SM) files can ...
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Musicrypt & Sonic Arts partnership to market DMDS in the UK
LONDON, UK (Musicrypt Inc press release) - Musicrypt Inc. of Toronto, Canada is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic partnership with Sonic Arts Ltd. of London, England to market and support its Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) in the United Kingdom and Ireland. DMDS is now the ...
| EMI Music selects SunnComm's MediaMax content management technology for pre-release CDs
PHOENIX, AZ. (SunnComm International Inc) - SunnComm International Inc. today announced that its exclusive marketing arm, QuietTiger, has signed an agreement with EMI Music, in which EMI will test the SunnComm MediaMax M4 content management technology for select promotional products on a worldwide ...
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95North Recording Corporation is beginning operations in Swanzey, New Hampshire
SWANZEY, NH (95North Recording Corporation press release) - 95North Recording Corporation announces the launch of an aggressive and innovative independent record company brings the best in New England regional and national Blues and Americana Roots music to the public. 95North is developing and implementing ...
| The Doors of the 21st Century break new ground by using Immediatek's NetBurn at Denver concert
DALLAS, TX. (Endicott Public Relations & Consulting) - Friday's Show Represents First-Ever Implementation of NetBurn by DiscLive in the U.S. Immediatek, creator of NetBurn Secure digital delivery and copy control solutions, and parent company of DiscLive, Inc., (https://www.disclive.com), announced today ...
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Indie Music Artists to win CD 'Distribution' prize from Blockbuster as Top 10 finalists of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival
TEMECULA, CA (www.tviff.com: Temecula Valley Int'l Film & Music Festival Website & www.blockbuster.com: Blockbuster Website) - The greatest challenge of any unsigned independent music artist or band is to have their music heard. This year the Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival (TVIFMF) ...
| Warner Music Group and Guy Oseary to extend Maverick Records joint venture
NEW YORK (Warner Music Group) - Warner Music Group (WMG) and the partners of Maverick Records have reached an agreement in principle to settle their litigation and extend and restructure the term of the Maverick Records joint venture. As part of the agreement, Maverick partner Guy Oseary will sign a ...
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Madonna's settles feud with Warner Music
NEW YORK (Warner Music Group) - Warner Music Group (WMG) and the partners of Maverick Records have reached an agreement in principle to settle their litigation and extend and restructure the term of the Maverick Records joint venture. As part of the agreement, Maverick partner Guy Oseary will sign a ...
| Clive Davis will be the Keynote convention speaker
NEW YORK (NARM announcement) - One of the recording industry's most innovative, outspoken, and influential executives, Clive Davis, Chairman & CEO of BMG North America, will be the Keynote speaker at InSights & Sounds.04, the 46th Annual Convention of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers ...
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Jim Ed Norman exits Warner Bros. Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Warner Bros.) - Warner Bros. Nashville President Jim Ed Norman has exited the company he joined 21 years ago, a company spokesperson confirmed Monday (June 14). Instrumental in the careers of Faith Hill, Dwight Yoakam, Travis Tritt and Randy Travis, he was the longest-tenured head ...
| Plum Projects, the independent UK record label offers online free limited song editions
LONDON, UK (Plum Projects Records) - You may know Plum Projects as the label set up by the artist Chiller Twist, dance remixer for the esteemed labels Perfecto, Postiva and Combined Forces and most recently in the public eye for his remix of Brainbug "Nightmare". His own "Stringz Ultd." was a highlight ...
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A new independent record label 'Visible Lyrics Record' has been launched
CLEVELAND, Oh. (Visible Lyrics Records press release) - The launching of a new Hip-Hop/Urban record label, with fresh ideas and real industry know how has been announced today. The new independent record label has just been launched from the mid west. Visible Lyrics Record Company is going to make a ...
| BPI have sent 175,000 instant message warnings to UK uploaders
LONDON, UK (BPI) - The BPI announced yesterday that its campaign of sending instant messages to file-sharers is gathering pace. The BPI announced on March 25 that it would use the instant messaging facility offered by networks like Kazaa to warn uploaders that they run the risk of legal action. "We ...
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