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Have Your Promotional Toolkit Ready
It's important to take charge of your own promotion and not assume that anyone else is doing it for you. But doing so requires making sure that you have all the important tools readily available. Post them somewhere that they can be found easily on your web site (for those writers on a 2AM deadline) and ...
Nat King Cole Remixed
RE:GENERATIONS FEATURES REVAMPS FROM TV ON THE RADIO, BEBEL GILBERTO, STEPHEN MARLEY, THE ROOTS During the past several months, Nat King Cole has virtually been in the studio and on the mic with some of today's hip-hop, Latin, reggae and rock artists and producers. On March 10, 2009 a new recording entitled RE:GENERATIONS arrives ...
Daptone Records Robbed
MASSIVE THEFT HURTS GREAT INDEPENDENT LABEL The Budos Band On Monday, February 16, Daptone Records' studio in Brooklyn, NY was broken into and robbed. Unfortunately, lots of valuable equipment was stolen and damaged. Daptone Records is asking for everyone's help in keeping an eye out for the stolen stuff showing up on ebay/craigslist/local music shops, and ...
Languages Are Dying Around the World
Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away. Those are just two of the nearly 2,500 languages that UNESCO says are in danger of becoming extinct or have recently disappeared. That's out of a total of 6,000 world ...
Take Charge of Your Own Promotion
Never leave promotion to someone else. Is it realistic to believe that the guy who counts the beer is also going to do the best job of promoting your next gig? Or is the overworked indie label staffer always going to make you their #1 priority? You certainly should empower your fans to help, but is ...
Some Broadcasters Reach Net Royalty Deal
SoundExchange and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) have reached agreement on internet streaming rates for broadcast radio stations that simulcast programming over the net or that create new internet stations. Under the agreement, rates for simulcasts or web channels operated by local radio stations are reduced 16% in 2009 then gradually increase through 2015 - ...
Jessica Lurie Ensemble:Shop of Wild Dreams
By: Dennis Cook Artists that offer one tremendous satisfaction and surprise throughout their career are rare. The temptation to embrace a profitable rut is strong, especially in these downturn days. So, with a quiet smile glued to my face, I can report Jessica Lurie is such a rarity, a composer and instrumentalist of gliding power and ...
A Message from Adam Niewood
Adam Niewood posted this on Facebook: We are all deeply saddened by the loss of Gerry Niewood, Coleman Mellett, all the passengers and crew on flight 3407, and the poor innocent man who died in his own home. It is tragic and surreal. The outpouring of phone calls, emails, text-messages etc is truly overwhelming. All ...
Correspondence: On Niewood and Mellett
Gap Mangione writes from Rochester, New York, about the deaths of saxophonist Gerry Niewood and guitarist Coleman Mellett in last Thursday's plane crash near Buffalo. The three were to have played a concert that night in Buffalo with Chuck Mangione:We gathered at the hotel Thursday night. Chuck flew in from Florida to conduct and play ...
"Men at Work" Guitarist Jailed (Update)
“It’s a mistake?” One of the founders of the Australian ‘80s band “Men at Work” was jailed over the weekend in LA for a bench warrant on a charge of making criminal threats, the Los Angeles Times reported. Ronald Strykert, former guitarist in the group who rose to fame with the song “Who Can It Be ...


