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Background for Bigfoot: Marc Hoffman Creates Music Bed for Unusual Website
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CHARLOTTE, NC - North Carolina composer and musician Marc Hoffman has arranged and orchestrated the music bed for an unusual website devoted to Sasquatch - or Bigfoot - explorations and research. The music bed is for the home page of Bushloper.net, the website of Bigfoot researcher Michael Greene. Greene, who holds a Master's degree in Behavioral Psychology and is a court-qualified Questioned Documents Examiner, has spent the past 20 years on Bigfoot-oriented explorations from Bella Coola, British Columbia to the ...
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Annie Leibovitz Salvages Her Portfolio
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Michael Ricci
If you have any ideas for how famous pictures of famous people might be exploited to earn a bundle, give a holler to Santa Monica real estate investment giant Colony Capital LLC, which now has some $24-million worth of reasons to convert Annie Leibovitz's body of photographic work into cash.
The story behind this development, which, apart from the borrower's identity is more in the realm of high finance than arts news, has to do with a deeply indebted Leibovitz ...
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Sixth Annual Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition
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Seattle Jazz Scene
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitrious Jazz Alley presents for one night only the Sixth Annual Sister City Female Jazz Vocalist Audition. Doors open at 5:30pm, auditions start at 6:30pm and the evening will end around 9:30pm.
The 6th Annual Sister City Female Vocalist Jazz Audition at Jazz Alley is right around the corner so mark your calendars! The Seattle Kobe Sister City Association (SKSCA) is pleased to announce its sixth Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition. SKSCA will select one ...
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Guest Post: With Mixtapes and Social Media, is the Album so Far Gone?
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HypeBot
Alex Mann is the director of Trendrr, a business intelligence platform for social and digital media. You can read more by Alex on his blog here and follow him on Twitter here. At first glance, Drake's success as an artist appears similar to his hip-hop peers. The actor turned Grammy-nominated rapper performed at the 2010 Grammy Awards and starred in a recent Sprite commercial during the NBA All-Star game.
Here is what's new: ...
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Other Matters: Return of the One-Man Band
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
No, not the Sidney Bechet “Sheik of Araby" kind of one man band, but the television news kind. Today, Howard Kurtz devotes his column in The Washington Post to a phenomenon brought about in broadcast news by the convergence of technology and economic hard times.
Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel. “Here's how bad it is for the U.S. Postal Service," the WUSA reporter ...
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RIAA Tells Fans to Stop Nibbling
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HypeBot
In a post on the RIAA blog, VP of Reaserach Joshua P. Friedlander titled “Nobody Stole The Pie“ argues that the decline in music sales is like the story of the same name by Sonia Levitin. In it the town of Little Digby annually bakes a giant lollyberry pie. When one year the celebrated pie is gone, all the townsfolk who had picked away at it bit by bit claim it was “Not I who stole the pie".
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Overheard at Billboard's Music and Money Symposium
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Vevo Pres/CEO Rio Caraeff replaced L.A. Reid as the morning keynote.
“Vevo creating new programming directly with brands and bands. 30 second music videos for new artists, brought to you by a brand."
“When there's no money, people get smart" - Cynthia Sexton (EMI)
Hot Topic chief music officer John Kirkpatrick: “We've almost completely moved away from the idea of sponsorship...We focus more on the experience and connecting fans with what they love inside of our store in some ...
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