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You Bet! California Lottery and Warner Bros. Records Make Music Together
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Just Roots PR
Warner Bros. Records and the California Lottery announced a unique partnership that will be music to players’ ears. On September 1, 2009, Warner Bros Records Scratchers will hit stores. The first-ever music promotion offers players the opportunity to win the usual instant cash prizes, but also includes unique second-chance prizes, such as music downloads and concert tickets.
“We are excited to partner with Warner Bros. Records to bring a one-of-a-kind game to our players by combining the fun of winning ...
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British Music Label Abandoning CDs to Release Songs as Open Format Music Playapps
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Just Roots PR
British music label, Re-Interpreted Performance Records, foreseeing the eventual demise of plastic disc media, CDs and DVDs, has partnered with PlayApp to release all their upcoming artists’ records as downloadable, multimedia, open format playapps.
As the music industry lost billions of dollars and music fans have turned away from CDs to easy-to-use and portable songs in the MP3 file format, PlayApp, a Dallas, Texas-based business has released a new multimedia, open format that is even easier to use, and collectible, ...
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Future of Music Coalition Announces Additional Speakers for Policy Summit 2009
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Just Roots PR
Top names in music, law, technology and policy will gather in Washington, DC from October 4-6, 2009 for the eighth Future of Music Policy Summit, which provides an unprecedented forum for artists, advocates, policymakers, attorneys, entrepreneurs and industry leaders to discuss the crucial issues facing the music community.
Future of Music Policy Summit 2009
Widely praised by advocates and industry alike, FMC’s Policy Summits have gained a reputation as “a kind of Geneva where all sides in any number of ...
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Saxophonist and Composer Sarah Manning Signed to Posi-Tone Records
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Michael Ricci
New York City based alto saxophonist and composer Sarah Manning has signed on to Posi-Tone Records and will be recording a new album this fall, with an anticipated release of Spring or Summer of 2010. The Posi-Tone release will be Manning’s third album as a leader, and the first to feature her regular quartet, Shatter the Glass, with Art Hirahara on piano, Linda Oh on bass and Kyle Struve on drums. During performances at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola After Hours ...
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US Digital Music Sales to Bury CDs by 2010
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Just Roots PR
Is it time to bid farewell to the CD?
It is if you listen to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
According to Arts Technica, the IFPI is claiming that “If current trends hold, U.S. digital music downloads will rake in more money than physical formats next year. Worldwide, digital will overtake physical by 2016.”
The United States is ahead of the technological curve, with consumers buying “the most digital music relative to their total music purchases.”
The ...
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Detroit Musician Creates Music Videos for the Hearing Impaired
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Just Roots PR
Sean Forbes was born into a family of musicians. According to Detroit Make it Here, a Web site powered by Crain’s Detroit Business and Detroit Renaissance, Sean’s stepmother is a pianist, his brothers play saxophone and bass and his father and uncle lead the Detroit country rock band The Forbes Brothers. Therefore, the odds were good that Sean would also have some musical genes. He does.
The 27-year-old Farmington Hills resident plays drums and bass. But one thing differentiates him ...
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Party On, Dudes! Partyband.Us Launches New Site for Professional Musicians
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Just Roots PR
In these recessionary hard times, more so than ever, to ensure your odds of finding gainful employment as a musician, it’s important to register with as many possible services as you can. Some of the leads you are offered may prove rewarding, others may not go anywhere at all, you never know unless you do. PartyBand.US is a newly launched website service which is poised to carve out a niche for itself.
PartyBand.US enables event/party planners to search a database ...
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MTV and ourstage.com Partner to Engage Emerging Artists and Their Fans
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Just Roots PR
MTV and OurStage (http://www.ourstage.com/), the leading music discovery destination providing professional opportunities for top-ranked emerging artists, announced an ongoing partnership to create engaging experiences for up-and-coming musicians and their fans via the OurStage platform.
By teaming up, MTV and OurStage look to develop online integrations that harness the enthusiasm fans everywhere show towards their favorite musicians, combined with the music discovery and mass audience that MTV and its related networks – MTV2, mtvU, MTV Tr3s – are known for.
Additionally, ...
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