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Midem Adds Showcase for Digital Music Startups

Midem Adds Showcase for Digital Music Startups

I tipped you off to this several weeks ago, but now its official. Midem has launched its new technology showcase dubbed MidemNet Labs and named the judges who will sift through submissions to find the new best of the best. The 15 most promising companies will be invited to present at MIDEM in January 2010 in ...

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New Breakthrough for Indie Hip Hop Jazz Artist Victor Valente.

New Breakthrough for Indie Hip Hop Jazz Artist Victor Valente.

Known for his 2005 saxophone rendition of Mc Lytes 1989 hit “Cappuccino," hip hop jazz musician Victor Valente seals a deal with AMI Entertainment, making Victor the first indie hip hop jazz artist to license music to one of the largest major Hybrid Jukebox Network in the U.S. Since launching his publishing and music licensing company ...

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Can Classical Music Be Cool Again?

Can Classical Music Be Cool Again?

The audiences attending symphony performances and classical music concerts has been dwindling for years, and the solutions offered have been many. From ensembles created more for their beauty and novelty then their talent, to orchestral rock music concerts like The Machine performing Pink Floyd in hugely successful shows with the San Diego and Pittsburgh Symphonies, purveyors ...

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Two YouTube Musicians Start an Indie Label for Other YouTube Musicians

Two YouTube Musicians Start an Indie Label for Other YouTube Musicians

Small indie label DFTBA - which stands for “don't forget to be awesome" - focuses entirely on acts that gained their first attention via YouTube and is run by online video stalwarts Alan Lastufka (fallofautumndistro) and Hank Green (vlogbrothers). To date, DFTBA Records has released 10 ...

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At One Manhattan Corner, Music Never Dies

God’s work--at least as it appeared two weeks ago inside an oak-paneled studio on West 44th Street in Manhattan--consisted of the following acts: A musical archivist removed from its case the sole extant copy of some 1941 session takes of Billie Holiday crooning “All of Me.” A recording engineer received this disc and placed it very ...

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YouTube to Regain Warner Music Videos

A new agreement lets Warner control the advertising around its music videos and split the proceeds with YouTube but keep most of the revenue. Licensing talks had reached an impasse late last year. The Internet's dominant video site and one of the world's largest music companies had been locked in a dispute over the value of ...

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Comcast in Deal Talks with NBC Universal

Cable giant Comcast Corp. is kicking the tires of NBC Universal, according to people familiar with the situation. Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator with almost 25 million subscribers, has been looking to increase its content holdings for several years. In NBC Universal it would get its hands on not only a big broadcast network and ...

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Retired Prosecutor Says He Lied in HBO Documentary About Roman Polanski Case

A retired Los Angeles County prosecutor who claimed in a 2008 documentary that he advised a judge to sentence Roman Polanski to prison for having sex with a minor now says that he lied on film about his role in the case. The on-camera statements by David Wells in Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired were seized ...

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Kimmel Center to Manage University of the Arts Merriam Theater

Kimmel Center President and CEO Anne Ewers and Sean Buffington, President of the University of the Arts announced today a five-year agreement to have the Center manage the University's historic Merriam Theater. The agreement allows the Kimmel Center to book theatrical productions, such as its successful Broadway series, additional Kimmel Center Presents concerts and performances, as ...

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Leo Records: Thirty Years Old and Counting

Remarkably, the latest batch of releases from Leo Records marked the labels thirtieth anniversary. In those three decades, proprietor Leo Feigin has released a prodigious amount of music on the Leo, LeoLab, Golden Years, Long Arms and Feet First labels, achieving an enviable balance between releases by established stars and those by lesser known artists that ...


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