OTAir Selected for Text Message Voting at Richmond Chili Cook-Off
Richmond, VA (OTAIR LLC) - OTAir, a national mobile marketing and media firm specializing in text message marketing, announced today their partnership with Richmond-based radio station 102.1 The X to conduct text message based voting at the 23rd Annual Chili Cook-Off. Patrons of the event will be able ...
| MTV To Super-Serve U.S. Latino Youth Market With MTV TR3S
(MTV) - MTV: Music Television's president Christina Norman announced today that the network is re-energizing its offerings to super-serve today's 12 – 34 year-old bicultural U.S. Latinos with the establishment of MTV Tr3s (MTV Three). MTV Tr3s will be a convergent entertainment destination rooted ...
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Viral Video Helps Amateur DJ Secure Record Deal with Sony BMG
LOS ANGELES, CA (StupidVideos.com) - DJ Keltech, an amateur DJ whose real name is "Lloyd," uploaded two of his favorite scratch videos to StupidVideos.com to share his exceptional mixing style with millions of viral video fans. In the videos, the intrepid mix master scratches in a Darth Vader costume ...
| Global Groove Music Festival Comes To Temple Bar For One Night Only - May 4, 2006
Santa Monica, CA (INNOVATION ENTERTAINMENT GROUP) - Like perhaps no other time, Innovation Entertainment Group presents live musical performances that make people want to groove. Thursday, May 4th at Temple Bar will be an evening of world groove music performed by Kwanza Jones and the Global Groove ...
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Music Memorabilia Show
NEW YORK (musiccollecting.com) - On Saturday, May 6th the Music Memorabilia Show will offer over 10,000 items including rarities from the 1800s to the 1980s. There will be vinyl LPs (33 1/3 rpm), 45rpm and 78rpm records in jazz, rock and roll, R & B - soul, blues, gospel-spiritual, soundtracks, shows, ...
| ASCAP 'I Create Music' Expo Hits High Note; Sold Out Conference to Feature Obie Bermúdez, Desmond Child, Jimmy Jam, Linda Perry, Tom Petty, John Rich, Jill Scott, Timbaland, and Many More
NEW YORK, NY (ASCAP) - ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman today confirmed that over 1,000 songwriters, composers and music industry professionals will converge at the ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO in Los Angeles later this month to participate in the first and only national conference dedicated ...
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Groove Rock Radio Official Launch at University of Michigan Noir Evolution Fashion Show
Los Angeles, CA (GROOVE ROCK GEAR, INC.) - Groove Rock Gear, Inc. today announces that it has partnered with Fifth Ave Magazine (www.fifthavemag.com) to co-sponsor the Noir Evolution Fashion Show held on April 2, 2006 at the University of Michigan. The event will be over two hours featuring 60 models ...
| Music-Media Offers Royalty Free Music Over the Internet
MADRID, Spain (Music-Media Official Website) - Music-Media, a company dedicated to the composition of music for films, television, publicity, and web sites, is revolutionising the music market by offering royalty free music over the Internet. At the same time it is proposing a semi-exclusivity system ...
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Promo Only MPE Introduces Artist Liner Sessions at Gospel Music Association 2006
Nashville, TN (LCO - Levine Communications Office) – Promo Only MPE, the official digital distribution system to the Christian music industry, announced today from the Gospel Music Association (GMA) in Nashville, Tennessee, that it will exclusively provide artist liner sessions to GMA attendees. ...
| Song Contest Offers Something For Everyone
Los Angeles, CA (Goodnight Kiss Music) - Goodnight Kiss Music is presenting a great opportunity for independent artists to earn royalties via their three-topic song and music competition. Musicians compete for an actual royalty-earning CD placement, TV ad/show placement, or Radio theme song, as well ...
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International Songwriting Competition Winners Announced
NASHVILLE, TN. (INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETIITION) - The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is pleased to announced its 2005 winners. Almost 15,000 amateur and professional songwriters from 82 countries participated in the 2005 competition, consolidating ISC's status as the leading songwriting ...
| Digital formats continue to drive the global music market; Digital sales nearly triple in 2005 to $US 1.1 billion!
LONDON, UK (IFPI) - Global digital music sales figures are being officially reported for the first time today as part of IFPI's total world music sales statistics showing continuing growth in online and mobile music worldwide. Record company trade revenues from digital sales globally nearly tripled ...
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IFPI sees China's actions against pirate disc plants as 'a promising step'
LONDON, UK (IFPI) - The international recording industry today welcomed reports of stepped up action against pirate CD and DVD plants by the Chinese government and called for a sustained campaign of anti-piracy enforcement to control unacceptably high levels of piracy in China. Reports from Beijing ...
| Pan-African Youth Empowerment Conference & Benefit Concert
CAMBRIDGE, MA (SMT) - This April 7-9 the Sweet Mother Tour (SMT), a global youth movement with a mission to use the tools of popular culture to present empowering images of Africa & the African Diaspora, will host its first annual Conference & Benefit Concert at Harvard University entitled "Youth and ...
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MusicIP Collaborates with Creative Commons on Digital Music Licensing
Monrovia, CA (MUSICIP) - MusicIP, the first global music search engine, and Creative Commons, a creative music licensing non-profit, announced today a partnership that enables musicians to distribute their digital tracks through MusicIP's ListenerLink service while maintaining usage control of their ...
| Media-Clubs Expands to Include Nine New Clubs
LOS ANGELES (VERTIVE, INC.) - Media-Clubs.com was launched in 2005 as the one-stop source for finding, comparing, reviewing, and joining movie clubs, music clubs, and video game clubs online. 'One of the things we heard from site visitors time and time again,' said site developer Ryan Edwards, 'was ...
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Brevard Launches Annual Conference on Music Entrepreneurship
Brevard, NC (Emma Candelier) - Brevard Music Center, a leading summer institute and festival, announced today the establishment of the first conference to help turn musicians into entrepreneurs. The Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship (BCOME) to be held July 14-16, 2006, at the Brevard Music ...
| Warner Music Group Corp. Announces Acquisition of Ryko Corporation
NEW YORK (By Will Tanous/ Warner Music Group) - Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ryko Corporation, a leading independent, integrated music and entertainment company from an investment group led by JPMorgan Partners for $67.5 million. ...
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City Canyons Records Showcase Number Eleven is Simply Heaven
New York, NY (CITY CANYONS RECORDS) - City Canyons Records in conjunction with Black Dog Promotions and the New York City Guitar School presents one of the most exciting young bands in America along with some other top-flight independent musicians at its Eleventh Showcase at Manhattan's famous Red Lion ...
| Chicago Chapter Presents The Recording Academy Honors 2006 Celebrating Common, Jam Productions, Chaka Khan And Les Paul
LOS ANGELES (Recording Academy) - WHO: Honorees: Common, Jam Productions (Arny Granat and Jerry Mickelson) Chaka Khan, and Les Paul. Presenters: GRAMMY winner Jimmy Jam, GRAMMY nominee Billy Corgan, WGCI's Elroy Smith and Tiffany Green, Recording Academy Chairman Terry Lickona, Jerry Butler as well ...
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