Legendary Earth, Wind & Fire Founder Maurice White Relaunchesd Label Kalimba Music
16 June, 2014
The highly-anticipated relaunch of legendary Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White's Kalimba Music label (www.kalimba-music.com) is off to an explosive start.
"Never," the lead single from the re-mastered collector's edition of Earth, Wind & Fire's hit album The Promise, continues as a rising ...
| Placido Domingo Addresses International IP Enforcement Summit
16 June, 2014
Plácido Domingo, the world renowned artist and chairman of IFPI, has addressed the International IP Enforcement Summit being held in London.
Domingo urged governments not to allow copyright to be eroded in the digital age and highlighted the importance of intellectual property enforcement for ...
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Reprise Records Artist Mastodon To Accept Bitcoin With Bitpay For New Album, Once More 'Round The Sun
12 June, 2014
BitPay, the world’s leading bitcoin payment processor, today announced a partnership with Warner Bros. Records artist, Mastodon, making them the first major label band to accept bitcoin through BitPay. Mastodon’s new album, Once More ‘Round the Sun, is scheduled ...
| Disc Makers Drops The Needle
12 June, 2014
The market for vinyl records is growing by leaps and bounds—35% per year for the last five years, despite a continued decline in total recorded music sales revenue. Due to vinyl's niche status and strong growth, production capacity has lagged behind, leading musicians and labels to turn to pressing ...
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Honda Makes Massive Investment In Music With Launch Of Honda Stage
11 June, 2014
Honda Stage Music Platform Bold Shift in Brand Advertising and Experiential Marketing to Reach Youth Market!
Honda assembles music 'Dream Team' to launch massive youth marketing initiative.
Honda Stage to provide one-of-a kind curated music content live and online through: hundreds of pieces of ...
| Rising Summer Sales Of School Band And Orchestra Instruments Trumpet Encouraging Signs
05 June, 2014
Back-to-school season retail sales of traditional school band and orchestra instruments including brass, woodwind and strings have consistently risen over the last two decades, short a hiccup at the recession's peak in 2009. Sales during the July-September timeframe have more than doubled over the last ...
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America's Music School To Host Semi-Annual Jam Band Showdown
02 June, 2014
Bach to Rock (B2R), America's music school for students of all ages, announced today that B2R Battle of the Bands XIV will take the stage in June for another jam band showdown. Hundreds of local students will bring their musical talents to Empire, The Fillmore Silver Spring and Bethesda Blues & Jazz ...
| 222 Quarterfinalists Announced For Music Educator Award Presented By The Recording Academy And The Grammy Foundation
30 May, 2014
The Music Educator Award was established to recognize current educators (K - college, public and private schools) who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools. ...
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CCI Provides First Copyright Alert System Progress Report Highlighting Initial Accomplishments
29 May, 2014
The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) released a report today on the Copyright Alert System (CAS), which for the first time since the system's launch included specific information about the size of the program. Specifically, the report showed that 1.3 million Alerts were sent out in the initial ...
| RIAA Suggests 'Bold Steps' To Modernize Music Licensing System
29 May, 2014
Simplifying the licensing system for musical works is key to further expanding the digital music marketplace, providing fans with more music options and creating healthier revenue streams for music creators, according to the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) official comments filed ...
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The Recording Academy Statement Re: Maya Angelou
28 May, 2014
Three-time GRAMMY winner Maya Angelou was a true Renaissance woman who literally did it all. Fearless and uninhibited, she was a trailblazer who broke color and gender barriers through her passionate and articulate prose and poetry, ultimately becoming 'the people's poet.' Her eloquence and honesty ...
| The Finnish Musician's Union: Fight Over Internet Music Rights Goes To Market Court
Two sons of late Albert Järvinen, best known as guitarist for the Finnish rock'n'roll band Hurriganes, have taken Universal Music Finland to the Market Court of Helsinki over internet music rights. The subpoena states that the original record contract from the early 1970's does not allow for Universal ...
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NMPA Files Suits Against Two Unlicensed Lyric Sites
22 May, 2014
Today the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) announced it has filed lawsuits against SeekLyrics.com and LyricsTime.com, two unlicensed lyric websites that have refused to license or remove infringing content. NMPA has also sent takedown notices to additional unlicensed lyric sites, all identified ...
| Gibson Donates New Self-Tuning Guitar to SAE Institute Nashville
22 May, 2014
Gibson Guitar Corporation, one of the world's leading guitar manufacturers, donated a 2014 Les Paul Standard guitar with the patented Min-ETune self-tuning technology to SAE Institute's Nashville campus. The guitar will be used by SAE's Audio Technology Program students in their studies and studio work.
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Music China 2014 Expands To Nine Halls For Its Largest Ever Show
22 May, 2014
Music China, Asia's leading musical instruments show, is adding one more exhibition hall to its 2014 line-up, and will now offer nine halls covering 98,000 sqm. The show, which is organised by Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd, the China Music Instrument Association (CMIA) and INTEX Shanghai, will take place ...
| Unsigned Vibe Auditions Richmond
21 May, 2014
Last weekend, Unsigned Vibe hosted the talent search in Richmond, VA. This unique event presented by Spliff Bangaz Entertainment, Entertainment Concierge and LP Firm, Inc. Unsigned Vibe is designed to give undiscovered artists an avenue to expose their talent. Contestants would have the opportunity ...
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Gibson Brands Unveil Gibson Custom's Tribute To Southern Rock 1959 Les Paul
20 May, 2014
Gibson Custom, a division of Gibson Brands, is excited to announce the industry's first tribute to a genre of music with the launch of the Southern Rock Tribute Program and the corresponding guitar, the Southern Rock Tribute 1959 Les Paul. The Southern Rock Tribute Program celebrates the cultural importance ...
| 2014 Grant Program Recipients Named
16 May, 2014
The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program announced today that more than $200,000 in grants will be awarded to 15 recipients in the United States to help facilitate a range of research, archiving and preservation projects on a variety of subjects.
Research projects include a study on memory retention ...
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Bid On Signed Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica Memorabilia
14 May, 2014
The GRAMMY Charity Online Auctions has launched an auction offering music memorabilia signed backstage at the 10th annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert honoring GRAMMY-winning Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne and The Village studios owner/CEO Jeff Greenberg.
Now through May 22, the auction ...
| Round Hill Music Acquires Publishing Rights To TESLA
13 May, 2014
Round Hill Music ("RHM") is pleased to announce their acquisition of 100% of the publishing for the band TESLA's entire song catalog.
"Tesla is simply one of the most iconic bands from the hard rock era of the late eighties and early nineties," states Josh Gruss, founder and CEO of Round Hill Music. ...
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