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5 Steps To Success For Every Emerging Artist

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HypeBot
Starting out as an independent artist is a huge challenge, and positioning yourself for success requires careful planning. Here we look at five marketing and general business tactics that can help guide DIY artists in the right direction. Guest post by Brian Reitz of Max Previously MAX has outlined ways artists and their managers can prepare for brand partnerships, an evolved version of music advertising that we believe will simplify marketing for brands and artists while simultaneously improving the fan experience. While ...
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TuneGo Raises $1.2 Million To Expand Emerging Artist Platform

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HypeBot
TuneGo, a music discovery platform for emerging artists, has raised $1.2 million from serial entrepreneur Chris Murray and Pasadena Angel investor Kenny Kam. Alongside the funding, TuneGo announced deals with Spotify, Slacker and APM Music as distribution partners and some heavy-hitting producers including Peter Asher, Desmond Child and Ron Dante. How TuneGo Works Still in open beta, TuneGo works to connect emerging artists both with fans and music industry insiders. TuneGO Score uses patent-pending algorithmic filtering which combines social activity, crowd-sourced feedback, ...
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Multi-Talented Emerging Artist Bria Skonberg To Make U.S. Debut With "So Is The Day" Available April 10 On Random Act Records

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Michael Ricci
Less than two years ago, trumpeter-vocalist-composer-bandleader Bria Skonberg uprooted from Western Canada and arrived in New York City. Lured by the music and those who play it so well, the already-seasoned musician hoped to thrive and to learn in the jazz mecca. The city landscape and abundance of clubs proved to be a stark contrast to the hobby farm Skonberg was raised on in Chilliwack, British Columbia, but the young musician dove in head-first, ready to make an impact with ...
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The End of Facebook as an Emerging Artist's Promotion Tool

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Moses Supposes
This week The Next Web.com posted a alarming story of how several prominent Facebook pages were deleted for unspecified copyright infringement complaints. The episode gave a rare window into the mind of Facebook, their polices and how easy the gift of a free fan-magnet can have serious hidden costs for artists. How would you like to wake up one morning and check your Facebook page to see that you've gone from 10,000 fans to zero? Scary? It could happen quite ...
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SXSW Seeks Emerging Artist Submissions

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HypeBot
Sonicbids and SXSW are looking for the best indie artists. Again, Sonicbids is hosting the online submission platform. Through them, indie artists can submit for a chance to play the festival. Last year, 2,000 bands hailing from 49 different countries, performed in 88 venues in downtown Austin, Texas. SXSW takes place from March 11-20, 2011. To help artists see what they are looking for, they have crafted these blog posts:
The Top 5 Things SXSW Looks For From Artists. The ...
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BT3 Brings Hard Jazz/Funk Grooves & Guitar Pyrotechnics to the Iridium Jazz Club - Friday, August 13 @ 11:30PM as Part of Their Emerging Artist Series

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Michael Ricci
From a lifetime of breaking boundaries, leading an award-winning, DC-based hip-hop/fusion band, Miscellaneous Flux, and collaborating with numerous musical pioneers (Vernon Reid, Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, and DJ Logic), guitarist Ben Tyree, pushes forward with his own ground-breaking, improvisational, sci-fi/jazz/funk trio project, BT3. On Friday, August 13 @ 11:30pm, Tyree will present BT3 at the Iridium Jazz Club (1650 Broadway @ 51st. Street, NYC) as part of their Emerging Artist Series. Incorporating Coltrane-esque melodic sheets of sound, funk-derived and ...
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Oran Etkin Featured as windowsmedia.com Emerging Artist

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GoMedia PR
Clarinetist and saxophonist Oran Etkin, whose debut CD, Kelenia, has been earning rave reviews from the likes of the New York Times, the Village Voice and the Boston Globe, has been selected as an Emerging Artist on Windowsmedia.com.
Windowsmedia.com is the digital media web resource available from the popular Windows Media Player, and features games, and video fun, as well as hot news from the entertainment industry.
As a Windowsmedia.com Emerging Artist, Oran joins the ranks of such up and ...
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Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival Announces Arsen Shomakhov Emerging Artist Winner

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Just Roots PR
The Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival (formerly KBBF), recognized as one of the largest free blues festivals in North America announces the 2007 Emerging Artist Contest Winner. This past year over 150 bands and performers applied to participate in the contest. A local favorite of Moscow, Arsen Shomakhov, was selected by the Festival to take the stage and show the fans their version of blues. Mr. Shomakhov so wowed the audience and our judges with his version of the Delta ...
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Veteran Stan Harrison: Suddenly "Emerging Artist"

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Seth Cohen PR
He can Make the Saxophone Come Alive with Total Energy, Roar with Passion..." Harrison cites John Coltrane as an inspiration, but his own sax work can be heard on many influential rock recordings of recent decades..." Rock/jazz saxophonist Stan Harrison, a seasoned veteran who has performed with and/or appeared on albums by some of music's most respected bands/singers (including David Bowie, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Duran Duran, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, They Might Be Giants, and more...) finds himself ...
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