Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
New York, NY-- It was a long and winding road that took Jacksonville's Jen Elliott to the debut of her new CD, THE SECRET'S OUT. But the CD does not serve merely as a debut of a new dazzling artist; it also serves as the unveiling of a new music genre, RBP. The innovative new genre is a winning blend of rock, blues and pop, combining the drive and heart of rock, the soul and emotional power of the blues and the hooky delights of pop.
Raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Jen has been enthralled by her love for music from a young age. She fed off of PB & J, church hymns, violin lessons and performing in various musicals. After a post-college jaunt around Europe she began to sing her original material at an open mic night in Jacksonville Beach-- no accompaniment, just standing on stage belting out her private thoughts and feelings a cappella. Recordings of some of her Jacksonville Beach a cappella performances came into the hands of A& R executives for a new indie label, City Canyons Records. They swiftly recognized a rare and fresh talent in Jen Elliott, both as a vocalist and a songwriter. Since then, Jen has been recording and performing non-stop, appearing or soon to appear in such top New York venues as the The Village Underground, Shine, The Cutting Room, the C-Note and headlining at the 2003 Global Entertainment and Media Summit at Le Bar Bat.
Following almost a year of hard work, THE SECRET'S OUT is complete. It's a CD straight from the heart. Although her music calls to mind Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt, Jen's RBP sound is truly all her own and is propelled off the stage by her boundless energy and charisma.
THE SECRET'S OUT is slated for release on May 2003.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Rock and Roll Camp For Girls benefit Concert in Chicago
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
September 18 2003--On November 1, 2003 at Subterranean (2011 w North Ave, Chicago IL), GoGirlsMusic presents a benefit concert for the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls Scholarship Fund. The show starts at 9pm, the cover is $8. (http://www.LocalsRock.com/girlsRockcamp.html)
Four independent Chicago bands (all GoGirlsMusic members) will rock the house in support of the Rock n' Roll day camp. The Locals, 1/2 Mad Poet, Blaq Lily and Big Bang Music Theory have all donated their performances for the night.
The Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls (www.girlsrockcamp.com) is a nonprofit organization located in Portland, OR. The Camp provides opportunities for girls ages 8-18 to develop their musical skills, their leadership abilities, and their voices. 2003 will be the Camp's third year. Each summer the organization works with hundreds of girls from around the world, sharing knowledge, leadership, and self-esteem through rock and roll music. 2003 will also see the launch of the Girls Rock Institute, a year-round program dedicated to these same goals. The Camp would not be possible without the support of hundreds of volunteers and sponsors. The Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and all donations are tax-deductible.
This year the Rock camp's scholarship fund is the beneficiary of the 4th annual GoGirlsMusicFest. GoGirlsMusic.com has leveraged it's nationwide member pool to host a series of benefit events for the Rock Camp. GoGirlsMusic.com the oldest and largest online community of indie women musicians, the annual music fest showcases the best local and regional indie women in music in 18 cities around the country donating the proceeds to a different cause every year. The showcases are volunteer run and coordinated to spotlight and promote local female talent. Event sponsors include Discmakers, Daisy Rock Guitars, Musician's Atlas, Sonicbids, Indie Bible, Women Who Rock Magazine, GIGPAGE.com, and Flying Coaster PR.
Madalyn Sklar started the organization in 1996 with a vision of bringing together indie women musicians from around the country. Seven years later, GoGirlsMusic.com has become a vanguard for women in music through networking and events. GoGirls produces the GoGirlsMusicFest, Invasion of the GoGirls (SXSW), LAST BAND STANDING and GoGirlsRock! events. In the last 4 years, Sklar has spearheaded 50 GoGirlsMusicFest showcases benefiting various charities, was recently named one of the People to Watch in 2003 by Outsmart Magazine and one of the 15 People You Should Know In the Biz by Indie-Music.com.
[For more information contact:
Chicago Rock Camp Event: Yvonne Doll, yvonne@localsrock.com, 773-5762745
Rock and Roll Camp for Girls: To arrange sponsorship opportunities with the Camp, please email info@girlsrockcamp.org or call 503-445-4991.
GoGirlsMusic: Madalyn Sklar, madalyn@gogirlsmusic.com
Source: free-articles
September 18 2003--On November 1, 2003 at Subterranean (2011 w North Ave, Chicago IL), GoGirlsMusic presents a benefit concert for the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls Scholarship Fund. The show starts at 9pm, the cover is $8. (http://www.LocalsRock.com/girlsRockcamp.html)
Four independent Chicago bands (all GoGirlsMusic members) will rock the house in support of the Rock n' Roll day camp. The Locals, 1/2 Mad Poet, Blaq Lily and Big Bang Music Theory have all donated their performances for the night.
The Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls (www.girlsrockcamp.com) is a nonprofit organization located in Portland, OR. The Camp provides opportunities for girls ages 8-18 to develop their musical skills, their leadership abilities, and their voices. 2003 will be the Camp's third year. Each summer the organization works with hundreds of girls from around the world, sharing knowledge, leadership, and self-esteem through rock and roll music. 2003 will also see the launch of the Girls Rock Institute, a year-round program dedicated to these same goals. The Camp would not be possible without the support of hundreds of volunteers and sponsors. The Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and all donations are tax-deductible.
This year the Rock camp's scholarship fund is the beneficiary of the 4th annual GoGirlsMusicFest. GoGirlsMusic.com has leveraged it's nationwide member pool to host a series of benefit events for the Rock Camp. GoGirlsMusic.com the oldest and largest online community of indie women musicians, the annual music fest showcases the best local and regional indie women in music in 18 cities around the country donating the proceeds to a different cause every year. The showcases are volunteer run and coordinated to spotlight and promote local female talent. Event sponsors include Discmakers, Daisy Rock Guitars, Musician's Atlas, Sonicbids, Indie Bible, Women Who Rock Magazine, GIGPAGE.com, and Flying Coaster PR.
Madalyn Sklar started the organization in 1996 with a vision of bringing together indie women musicians from around the country. Seven years later, GoGirlsMusic.com has become a vanguard for women in music through networking and events. GoGirls produces the GoGirlsMusicFest, Invasion of the GoGirls (SXSW), LAST BAND STANDING and GoGirlsRock! events. In the last 4 years, Sklar has spearheaded 50 GoGirlsMusicFest showcases benefiting various charities, was recently named one of the People to Watch in 2003 by Outsmart Magazine and one of the 15 People You Should Know In the Biz by Indie-Music.com.
[For more information contact:
Chicago Rock Camp Event: Yvonne Doll, yvonne@localsrock.com, 773-5762745
Rock and Roll Camp for Girls: To arrange sponsorship opportunities with the Camp, please email info@girlsrockcamp.org or call 503-445-4991.
GoGirlsMusic: Madalyn Sklar, madalyn@gogirlsmusic.com
Monday, December 21, 2009
Songwriters: Collaborate For Success
Author: Lathum
Source: articledashboard.com
In June, Rolling Stone.com posted the results of a readers poll for the Ten Best Songwriting Duos Ever. A quick look at the top five proves two things: England has indisputably cornered the rock royalty market, and some of pop and rock's greatest songs were created by collaboration.
1. Paul McCartney/John Lennon (the Beatles)
2. Keith Richards/Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones)
3. Elton John/Bernie Taupin (Elton John)
4. Joe Strummer/Mick Jones (the Clash)
5. Johnny Marr/Morrissey (the Smiths)
Clearly, there is no shortage of successful songwriters who prefer to work alone (Pete Townshend, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen). However, judging by the caliber of music that's been created by collaboration, there's an undeniable argument that two heads are better than one when it comes to songwriting.
Indie darling Liz Phair put this theory to task and caused a stir when she elected to write songs for her 2003 self-titled album with Top 40 production team The Matrix. Phair, who enjoyed a faithful following and critical praise from previously released material, told Filter magazine: "I wanted to get on the radio really badly. And I don't write those kinds of songs. I write stuff that's quirky or more personal. So collaborating was a way to get some people who kind of know what they're doing with chord structures, plus they're all so talented and really great people."
Famed songwriter Dianne Warren told John Braheny about the professional advantages a young songwriter has in working with others: "When you write with someone else, you get their whole network of contacts and people they deal with. You have a double shot of getting some major stuff happening."
Traditionally, songwriters have found success by sitting down together with a piano and/or guitar to develop melodies and lyrics. While this method is the most obvious, it isn't always the easiest. If you don't have someone living relatively nearby you're faced with the task of traveling to meet musicians for writing sessions. Facing this dilemma, some artists have looked for other ways to create songs together.
A few years ago, the indie-electro duo The Postal Service "wrote and recorded the better part of their debut album, Give Up (Sub Pop), with no budget and while living 1,000 miles apart," according to MTV.com. Band members Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel) overcame the distance between them by sending music back and forth through the mail, with Jimmy handling most of the music and Ben responding with lyrics and melody. The Gold-certified success of their album means the pair will repeat the songwriting formula for a follow-up release, this time exchanging song ideas over the Internet.
No surprise, the Internet has become a good source for finding people interested in sharing lyrics and music. In 1998, NME reported how legendary artist David Bowie recorded a song using lyrics "written by US fan Alex Grant, who entered a songwriting competition held by Bowie on his website."
A Google search reveals a number of sites dedicated to encouraging and connecting songwriters, such as MusesMuse, Songwriters101 and SongWriterForums. Going one step further, musicians have taken to YouTube to share ideas and invite collaborations. Once such posting by "chuckadile" includes a full backing track--complete with lead and rhythm guitars, drums and bass--with an invitation for viewers to come up with the lyrics and melody.
With thousands of people turning to sites like Echoboost.com to share their music, you might just find somebody online right now with the same taste in music who's looking to collaborate with someone you.
Source: articledashboard.com
In June, Rolling Stone.com posted the results of a readers poll for the Ten Best Songwriting Duos Ever. A quick look at the top five proves two things: England has indisputably cornered the rock royalty market, and some of pop and rock's greatest songs were created by collaboration.
1. Paul McCartney/John Lennon (the Beatles)
2. Keith Richards/Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones)
3. Elton John/Bernie Taupin (Elton John)
4. Joe Strummer/Mick Jones (the Clash)
5. Johnny Marr/Morrissey (the Smiths)
Clearly, there is no shortage of successful songwriters who prefer to work alone (Pete Townshend, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen). However, judging by the caliber of music that's been created by collaboration, there's an undeniable argument that two heads are better than one when it comes to songwriting.
Indie darling Liz Phair put this theory to task and caused a stir when she elected to write songs for her 2003 self-titled album with Top 40 production team The Matrix. Phair, who enjoyed a faithful following and critical praise from previously released material, told Filter magazine: "I wanted to get on the radio really badly. And I don't write those kinds of songs. I write stuff that's quirky or more personal. So collaborating was a way to get some people who kind of know what they're doing with chord structures, plus they're all so talented and really great people."
Famed songwriter Dianne Warren told John Braheny about the professional advantages a young songwriter has in working with others: "When you write with someone else, you get their whole network of contacts and people they deal with. You have a double shot of getting some major stuff happening."
Traditionally, songwriters have found success by sitting down together with a piano and/or guitar to develop melodies and lyrics. While this method is the most obvious, it isn't always the easiest. If you don't have someone living relatively nearby you're faced with the task of traveling to meet musicians for writing sessions. Facing this dilemma, some artists have looked for other ways to create songs together.
A few years ago, the indie-electro duo The Postal Service "wrote and recorded the better part of their debut album, Give Up (Sub Pop), with no budget and while living 1,000 miles apart," according to MTV.com. Band members Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel) overcame the distance between them by sending music back and forth through the mail, with Jimmy handling most of the music and Ben responding with lyrics and melody. The Gold-certified success of their album means the pair will repeat the songwriting formula for a follow-up release, this time exchanging song ideas over the Internet.
No surprise, the Internet has become a good source for finding people interested in sharing lyrics and music. In 1998, NME reported how legendary artist David Bowie recorded a song using lyrics "written by US fan Alex Grant, who entered a songwriting competition held by Bowie on his website."
A Google search reveals a number of sites dedicated to encouraging and connecting songwriters, such as MusesMuse, Songwriters101 and SongWriterForums. Going one step further, musicians have taken to YouTube to share ideas and invite collaborations. Once such posting by "chuckadile" includes a full backing track--complete with lead and rhythm guitars, drums and bass--with an invitation for viewers to come up with the lyrics and melody.
With thousands of people turning to sites like Echoboost.com to share their music, you might just find somebody online right now with the same taste in music who's looking to collaborate with someone you.
Zonana Strikes Out on His Own
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
"I don't think I ever got into playing music," says Saul Zonana (www.saulzonana.com) of his musical background. "I think it was just something that was there when I was born. I'm not sure I had much of a choice." He adds, laughing, "When I was in my early teens, maybe thirteen or fourteen years old, I was playing with guys that were older than me, painting moustaches on my face to get into the clubs so they wouldn't kick me off the stage, stuff like that. So I can't really say I got into playing music, you know what I mean? It was just something that was always there, and it just took over. It's been with me all through every age, every type of schooling I was in, I was always just consumed with music."
Zonana, who has been writing and performing music for 33-1/2 of his 34 years, has worked just about every angle of the music business there is, most notably as a producer and studio musician. His songwriting credits appear on numerous bands' albums, including Luv Junkies' album 'Smudge'. "I've always had some sort of musical situation around me, whether it was just me, or me in a band, there was always something going on," says Zonana of his studio work.
"With that, I got very interested in the recording process, as I started growing and writing my own material, and had more and more experience in the field, it sort of made me realize that sort of what drives me to focus is to make records. And so as I got older, I started gathering more and more equipment, and just getting more into the recording process, I realized that I could do that for others as well. And then when an artist would come across my path that I would be inspired by, someone I'd like to write with or something like, my studio became sort of a tool for people bound to work on music. And then that grew to people calling me and wanting me to be involved in their projects.
"But really, I'm an artist first, I'm a writer first, but the producer thing, I got just through working with the various people through word of mouth. I've got my own recording studio at this point, and a lot of different artists come through here, and fortunately for me, I get to choose who I want to work with." Over the years, those artists have included Blue Oyster Cult, Paula Cole, Ace Freley, and Taylor Dayne, as well as dozens of unknowns.
This year has seen Zonana finally sit down and put together material for his own album, Guinea Pigs, released on his own label, 20/20 Music, and recorded in his own studio. A previous album also appeared on TVT Records in 1999, an experience Zonana wasn't particularly fond of. "I just don't work as well with other producers as I do with myself," he explains, simply and to the point. "My official, solo debut album just wasn't the album I wanted to have out there. So I thought, after I was finally released from my contract with TVT, that I'd try to put something together myself, something more along the lines of what I'd wanted my debut to actually be."
That album turned out to be Guinea Pigs, an outstanding collection of pop music that run the gambit of moods and subject matter, including a song about a man in love with a blow-up doll and a boy bicycling to the moon. The music is pure, catchy pop with the hints of jazzy funk bass that has earmarked Zonana's work on other band's recordings.
With the help of supporting musicians Jack Petruzzelli, Andrew Carillo, Tom Hammer, Kevin Jenkins, Dave Johnson, and Kevin Hupp, Guinea Pigs is an incredibly strong, self-assured album that ranks high above the majority of self-released (and even commercially-released) recordings of the year. Zonana's expertise in the studio makes the recording quality of this album an additional, high-tech sort of treat - there's no mistaking this production for something slapped together in someone's living room. The studio quality here is as clean and professional as it gets.
"I kept calling the batch of songs that eventually made it to the record the Guinea Pigs, just because in my mind I was thinking that these were the ones that I'm going to sort of get all the bugs out, figure out how to produce my own CD of all my own music," says Zonana of the album, modest but obviously proud of his "baby."
"And when it was all said and done, I was happy with it, and I wanted to release it, but since I had been calling that batch of songs the Guinea Pigs the whole time, it seemed fitting to call the record Guinea Pigs. But Guinea Pigs really meant the first songs I was putting together in my new home studio that I wanted to release myself."
http://www.saulzonana.com
To join Saul's mailing list, send him an email. Be sure to add your zip code for regional mailings. Saul will also tour the northeast extensively in the fall. Check his website for dates.
SAUL ZONANA NOTABLES
* Opening act for 2003 Joan Osborne tour
* 2002 John Lennon Songwriting Contest Honorable Mention - "Fool on a Bicycle"
* 3rd Place on 2002 Billboard's World Song Contest - "Fool on a Bicycle"
* "Afraid of Dying" to be featured in indie film 'Will Unplugged'
* Performed at 2003 International Pop Overthrow in NYC & LA
MORE ON SAUL ZONANA
Genre: Rock
Hometown: New York City
Buy "Guinea Pigs" CD
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/zonana1/from/musicdish
Website: www.saulzonana.com
Label: 20/20 Music
Contact: Evolution Promotion
info@evolutionpromotion.com
781.662.5278
UPCOMING SHOWS
* Thursday, August 7th @9 pm
THE HAUNT
702 Willow Avenue
Ithaca, NY 607-275-3447
* Friday, August 8th @9 pm
JIMMYS SEASIDE
891 Cove Road
Stamford, CT 203-964-9225
Source: free-articles
"I don't think I ever got into playing music," says Saul Zonana (www.saulzonana.com) of his musical background. "I think it was just something that was there when I was born. I'm not sure I had much of a choice." He adds, laughing, "When I was in my early teens, maybe thirteen or fourteen years old, I was playing with guys that were older than me, painting moustaches on my face to get into the clubs so they wouldn't kick me off the stage, stuff like that. So I can't really say I got into playing music, you know what I mean? It was just something that was always there, and it just took over. It's been with me all through every age, every type of schooling I was in, I was always just consumed with music."
Zonana, who has been writing and performing music for 33-1/2 of his 34 years, has worked just about every angle of the music business there is, most notably as a producer and studio musician. His songwriting credits appear on numerous bands' albums, including Luv Junkies' album 'Smudge'. "I've always had some sort of musical situation around me, whether it was just me, or me in a band, there was always something going on," says Zonana of his studio work.
"With that, I got very interested in the recording process, as I started growing and writing my own material, and had more and more experience in the field, it sort of made me realize that sort of what drives me to focus is to make records. And so as I got older, I started gathering more and more equipment, and just getting more into the recording process, I realized that I could do that for others as well. And then when an artist would come across my path that I would be inspired by, someone I'd like to write with or something like, my studio became sort of a tool for people bound to work on music. And then that grew to people calling me and wanting me to be involved in their projects.
"But really, I'm an artist first, I'm a writer first, but the producer thing, I got just through working with the various people through word of mouth. I've got my own recording studio at this point, and a lot of different artists come through here, and fortunately for me, I get to choose who I want to work with." Over the years, those artists have included Blue Oyster Cult, Paula Cole, Ace Freley, and Taylor Dayne, as well as dozens of unknowns.
This year has seen Zonana finally sit down and put together material for his own album, Guinea Pigs, released on his own label, 20/20 Music, and recorded in his own studio. A previous album also appeared on TVT Records in 1999, an experience Zonana wasn't particularly fond of. "I just don't work as well with other producers as I do with myself," he explains, simply and to the point. "My official, solo debut album just wasn't the album I wanted to have out there. So I thought, after I was finally released from my contract with TVT, that I'd try to put something together myself, something more along the lines of what I'd wanted my debut to actually be."
That album turned out to be Guinea Pigs, an outstanding collection of pop music that run the gambit of moods and subject matter, including a song about a man in love with a blow-up doll and a boy bicycling to the moon. The music is pure, catchy pop with the hints of jazzy funk bass that has earmarked Zonana's work on other band's recordings.
With the help of supporting musicians Jack Petruzzelli, Andrew Carillo, Tom Hammer, Kevin Jenkins, Dave Johnson, and Kevin Hupp, Guinea Pigs is an incredibly strong, self-assured album that ranks high above the majority of self-released (and even commercially-released) recordings of the year. Zonana's expertise in the studio makes the recording quality of this album an additional, high-tech sort of treat - there's no mistaking this production for something slapped together in someone's living room. The studio quality here is as clean and professional as it gets.
"I kept calling the batch of songs that eventually made it to the record the Guinea Pigs, just because in my mind I was thinking that these were the ones that I'm going to sort of get all the bugs out, figure out how to produce my own CD of all my own music," says Zonana of the album, modest but obviously proud of his "baby."
"And when it was all said and done, I was happy with it, and I wanted to release it, but since I had been calling that batch of songs the Guinea Pigs the whole time, it seemed fitting to call the record Guinea Pigs. But Guinea Pigs really meant the first songs I was putting together in my new home studio that I wanted to release myself."
http://www.saulzonana.com
To join Saul's mailing list, send him an email. Be sure to add your zip code for regional mailings. Saul will also tour the northeast extensively in the fall. Check his website for dates.
SAUL ZONANA NOTABLES
* Opening act for 2003 Joan Osborne tour
* 2002 John Lennon Songwriting Contest Honorable Mention - "Fool on a Bicycle"
* 3rd Place on 2002 Billboard's World Song Contest - "Fool on a Bicycle"
* "Afraid of Dying" to be featured in indie film 'Will Unplugged'
* Performed at 2003 International Pop Overthrow in NYC & LA
MORE ON SAUL ZONANA
Genre: Rock
Hometown: New York City
Buy "Guinea Pigs" CD
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/zonana1/from/musicdish
Website: www.saulzonana.com
Label: 20/20 Music
Contact: Evolution Promotion
info@evolutionpromotion.com
781.662.5278
UPCOMING SHOWS
* Thursday, August 7th @9 pm
THE HAUNT
702 Willow Avenue
Ithaca, NY 607-275-3447
* Friday, August 8th @9 pm
JIMMYS SEASIDE
891 Cove Road
Stamford, CT 203-964-9225
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Indie Artists Meet Clear Channel Execs
Author: Scott G
Source: articleage.com
"What does it cost to get a record on the charts?" The question was directed to Mike McVay, programming consultant to about 400 radio stations owned by media giant Clear Channel.
A hush fell over the audience, as this was a piece of information that could determine the fate of independent artists everywhere.
McVay pulled no punches. Depending on your genre, the amount is "a hundred thousand dollars up to a quarter of a million."
And suddenly, the economic reality of the airplay portion of the record business was in full view.
In a different part of the day's event, someone asked another of those all-important, career-shaping questions: "How many slots are typically available to independent artists?"
This time, the question was directed to Shane Bourbonnais of Clear Channel Entertainment. "Not many" was his reply, albeit in the nicest tone imaginable.
Did these terrifying facts of life appear to dampen the enthusiasm of most of the artists? Nope. After all, hope springs eternal.
Judging from the questions to other panel members during the day, it was clear that many artists in attendance thought that somehow they would be the one who got past the gatekeepers, the one whose awesome talent would cause cold-eyed business people to waive the entry fees, the one whose marketability would get them the major label contract and backing to enter the game with a large checkbook behind them.
And why not? Why shouldn't they be hopeful? Are they not talented? Judging from the CDs handed to me, there were some amazingly gifted artists at the conference known as the Boot Camp workshop, which was organized by Blak Dog Promotions in association with The Beat 94.5 FM and the Western Canadian Music Awards.
Consider some of the artists: Smokekiller makes music that vibrates with consistent excitement. Ultimate Power Duo blends equal parts modern punk and retro Liverpool sounds for an album that is fun from beginning to end. Lyricist Jacqui Leddy has written lines that make you feel the inside of the human soul.
There also was silky, subtle and seductive jazz from Sandy Foster; strong rock from Scott Douglas; evocative country from John Wort Hannam; excellent rap from Don Castro; and power plus glory in the heavy grooves of Aly Young. Not to be outdone, event organizers Shawn Smith and Chin Injeti are themselves supremely electrifying recording artists.
The quality of the acts was of the highest level of any event at which I've been a panelist. Group after group, artist after artist were very impressive. Karen Howlin' Fowlie seems to put megawatts of electric power into even her softest vocal passages. Sonicjoy delights in fusing electronics with rock 'n' roll. This is not to overlook Rallycar, Green Door Club, Chesterfield Rock, Morgan Mayer, Maurice, and James Pender, all of whom are excellent.
Here's hoping this music gets to your ears. And if would be terrific if someone was recording the panels, because a lot of valuable information was presented by a lot of very smart people, including:
Chris Myers, Program Director, The Beat
Michael McCarty, President of EMI Music Publishing
Michael Persh, Music Manager, E! Networks
Jonathon Simkin, Co-owner, 604 Records
Christopher Ward, Songwriter (Alannah Myles, Ming Tea)
Bob Power, Producer (MeShell N'degeocello, The Roots, David Byrne)
Jim Vallance, Songwriter (Bryan Adams, Steven Tyler, Gene Simmons)
Terry O'Brien, SOCAN
Tom Wilson, Songwriter (Billy Rae Cyrus, Jimmy Rankin)
The event was well-run by Smith, Injeti, Natalie Rhodes, and a large contingent of volunteers. Attendees seemed uniformly pleased: "Extremely informative," said singer and voiceover artist Marina Seretis. "The whole day was very encouraging," stated Mitch Helten of SPI International. "It was enlightening," said singer Jafelin. "This was great," said Jacqui Leddy. You can't stop people with this kind of enthusiasm.
Scott G, a member of NARIP and NARAS, records as The G-Man. He is voice artist and producer of radio commercials for Verizon Wireless, DIRECTV, Goodrich, Micron, NASSCO, and the Auto Club. Songs from his 4 albums may be found on iTunes and Real Rhapsody, at http://www.delvianrecords.com, http://www.myspace.com/thegman, and http://www.gmanmusic.com.
Source: articleage.com
"What does it cost to get a record on the charts?" The question was directed to Mike McVay, programming consultant to about 400 radio stations owned by media giant Clear Channel.
A hush fell over the audience, as this was a piece of information that could determine the fate of independent artists everywhere.
McVay pulled no punches. Depending on your genre, the amount is "a hundred thousand dollars up to a quarter of a million."
And suddenly, the economic reality of the airplay portion of the record business was in full view.
In a different part of the day's event, someone asked another of those all-important, career-shaping questions: "How many slots are typically available to independent artists?"
This time, the question was directed to Shane Bourbonnais of Clear Channel Entertainment. "Not many" was his reply, albeit in the nicest tone imaginable.
Did these terrifying facts of life appear to dampen the enthusiasm of most of the artists? Nope. After all, hope springs eternal.
Judging from the questions to other panel members during the day, it was clear that many artists in attendance thought that somehow they would be the one who got past the gatekeepers, the one whose awesome talent would cause cold-eyed business people to waive the entry fees, the one whose marketability would get them the major label contract and backing to enter the game with a large checkbook behind them.
And why not? Why shouldn't they be hopeful? Are they not talented? Judging from the CDs handed to me, there were some amazingly gifted artists at the conference known as the Boot Camp workshop, which was organized by Blak Dog Promotions in association with The Beat 94.5 FM and the Western Canadian Music Awards.
Consider some of the artists: Smokekiller makes music that vibrates with consistent excitement. Ultimate Power Duo blends equal parts modern punk and retro Liverpool sounds for an album that is fun from beginning to end. Lyricist Jacqui Leddy has written lines that make you feel the inside of the human soul.
There also was silky, subtle and seductive jazz from Sandy Foster; strong rock from Scott Douglas; evocative country from John Wort Hannam; excellent rap from Don Castro; and power plus glory in the heavy grooves of Aly Young. Not to be outdone, event organizers Shawn Smith and Chin Injeti are themselves supremely electrifying recording artists.
The quality of the acts was of the highest level of any event at which I've been a panelist. Group after group, artist after artist were very impressive. Karen Howlin' Fowlie seems to put megawatts of electric power into even her softest vocal passages. Sonicjoy delights in fusing electronics with rock 'n' roll. This is not to overlook Rallycar, Green Door Club, Chesterfield Rock, Morgan Mayer, Maurice, and James Pender, all of whom are excellent.
Here's hoping this music gets to your ears. And if would be terrific if someone was recording the panels, because a lot of valuable information was presented by a lot of very smart people, including:
Chris Myers, Program Director, The Beat
Michael McCarty, President of EMI Music Publishing
Michael Persh, Music Manager, E! Networks
Jonathon Simkin, Co-owner, 604 Records
Christopher Ward, Songwriter (Alannah Myles, Ming Tea)
Bob Power, Producer (MeShell N'degeocello, The Roots, David Byrne)
Jim Vallance, Songwriter (Bryan Adams, Steven Tyler, Gene Simmons)
Terry O'Brien, SOCAN
Tom Wilson, Songwriter (Billy Rae Cyrus, Jimmy Rankin)
The event was well-run by Smith, Injeti, Natalie Rhodes, and a large contingent of volunteers. Attendees seemed uniformly pleased: "Extremely informative," said singer and voiceover artist Marina Seretis. "The whole day was very encouraging," stated Mitch Helten of SPI International. "It was enlightening," said singer Jafelin. "This was great," said Jacqui Leddy. You can't stop people with this kind of enthusiasm.
Scott G, a member of NARIP and NARAS, records as The G-Man. He is voice artist and producer of radio commercials for Verizon Wireless, DIRECTV, Goodrich, Micron, NASSCO, and the Auto Club. Songs from his 4 albums may be found on iTunes and Real Rhapsody, at http://www.delvianrecords.com, http://www.myspace.com/thegman, and http://www.gmanmusic.com.
Friday, December 18, 2009
SHREDMISTRESS RYNATA, PREMIERE FEMALE GUITARIST MOVES FEMMUSE.COM ALONG - A FEMALE MUSICIANS NETWORK IN LOS ANGELES
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
July 23, 2004 -- FemMuse (http://www.femmuse.com) is a Los Angeles-based female musicians network, dedicated to the advancement of all independent artists.
Founded by Shredmistress Rynata, award winning lead guitarist (http://www.shredmistress.com) it has become the Number 1 musicians network in Los Angeles, with members from all over the United States and abroad.
Together they have build up an impressive network of dozens of female musicians and female fronted bands who work together to create a career oriented and supportive environment.
Our mission for FemMuse is to provide a place for female musicians to showcase, network, share ideas, support each other, offer services and advice, job opportunities, and gig/band/musicians referrals.
The latest addition is the elaborate "Resources" section of the website, listing anything from venus/CD Dup houses, Promotion / Production / Recording / Rehearsal companies, and many music business links. "The Number ONE Stop for the Indie Musician".
FemMuse also holds showcases in various venues around Los Angeles, California. Past Venues were the Hard Rock Cafe, The Derby, The Cat Club, and Lush Clubs.
While FemMuse has a mission to provide a place for female musicians to showcase, network, share ideas and support each other they are by no means exclusive. The events are open to any musician who wants to trade licks and compare chops with the finest female musicians in LA. But beware: The Shredmistress has modeled her playing after such greats as Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. So you better come prepared with some serious chops no matter what gender you may be.
If you want to be on the FemMuse mailing list, or you are a musician who wants to join, please e-mail: rynata@femmuse.com or go to the website http://www.femmuse.com
Thank you for supporting independent artists!
The Team of FemMuse
Source: free-articles
July 23, 2004 -- FemMuse (http://www.femmuse.com) is a Los Angeles-based female musicians network, dedicated to the advancement of all independent artists.
Founded by Shredmistress Rynata, award winning lead guitarist (http://www.shredmistress.com) it has become the Number 1 musicians network in Los Angeles, with members from all over the United States and abroad.
Together they have build up an impressive network of dozens of female musicians and female fronted bands who work together to create a career oriented and supportive environment.
Our mission for FemMuse is to provide a place for female musicians to showcase, network, share ideas, support each other, offer services and advice, job opportunities, and gig/band/musicians referrals.
The latest addition is the elaborate "Resources" section of the website, listing anything from venus/CD Dup houses, Promotion / Production / Recording / Rehearsal companies, and many music business links. "The Number ONE Stop for the Indie Musician".
FemMuse also holds showcases in various venues around Los Angeles, California. Past Venues were the Hard Rock Cafe, The Derby, The Cat Club, and Lush Clubs.
While FemMuse has a mission to provide a place for female musicians to showcase, network, share ideas and support each other they are by no means exclusive. The events are open to any musician who wants to trade licks and compare chops with the finest female musicians in LA. But beware: The Shredmistress has modeled her playing after such greats as Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. So you better come prepared with some serious chops no matter what gender you may be.
If you want to be on the FemMuse mailing list, or you are a musician who wants to join, please e-mail: rynata@femmuse.com or go to the website http://www.femmuse.com
Thank you for supporting independent artists!
The Team of FemMuse
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Music Review of the Stand Ins by Okkervil River
Author: Darren Tan
Source: ezinearticles.com
The Stand Ins is such a matured album that even Adult and Elderly People will fall in love with it. It's definitely a perfect album for my parents' wedding anniversary. It has 3 tracks which are pure instrumentals.
"Stand Ins, One" is just 48 seconds long and is the intro to The Stand Ins. It started off slowly and gradually picked up and got louder. Accordian can be heard throughout this song and at times, it sounded creepy to me. Nonetheless, this track will get you ready and build up the tempo and excitement in you for the next track. :-)
What I love about "Lost Coastlines" apart from the awesome lyrics is its music. ;-) Patrick Pestorius' playing of bass gets my head nodding each time I listen to this track. Not only that, the mandolin and trumpet also created an atmosphere as if i'm watching a big group of orchestra performance. As Will sings, "But we find the maps he sent to us don't mention lost coastlines...". He knows that they are lost on the shoreline.. And when it comes to the end, it will not be long when you finally find yourself singing along with Okkervil River.. "La, la, la..."
The beginning of "Singer Songwriter" resembles "Ain't No Easy Way" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club", and it tells the story about a girl who has everything that she could ever ask for.. But due to this very same fact, she failed in everything she chose to do.. And nothing's gonna change her world.. It's also one of the loudest track on The Stand Ins where various guitar playings can be heard throughout this track. Beautiful country rock song where you can imagine a group of elderly people enjoying and dancing to this power-pop country rock track. Love it!
"Starry Stairs" should have been the last track on this album. It just has the quality to end an album. :-) Will sings as if he is sad.. "If you don't love me, i'm sorry". It's the most memorable moment on this track. As he goes on, he sings about how a girl that he loves, lied to him. He has no choice but to say goodbye.. All the Starry Stairs seem to be falling apart as he climbs.. Definitely a track to look out for on The Stand-Ins! Play this song if you found out that your girlfriend is lying to you or hiding something from you! :-) Make her know that you're saying goodbye..
Clocking in at over 6 minutes long is "Blue Tulip". The longest song on this album. Blue Tulip, again sings about a girl who lies.. "Hats off to my distant hope, a little lie, a puff of smoke...", sings Will, and as he sings, I feel the pain he's in. I feel sorry for him. Such a sad song that it's impossible to ignore this powerful ballad which sings the way to your heart. And it's one of the reasons Okkervil River is famous for!
"Stand Ins, Two" is another instrumental. A slow guitar plucking and piano playing. As if Okkervil River is taking a brief break from this album. :-)
As its title suggests, "Pop Lie" is about lies. A story about a man who lies in his pop songs. Thus, Pop Lie. :-) Damn, Okkervil River is good at it! They write songs that's so complicated until I have to listen countlessly to Pop Lie before I could figure out the real meaning behind this song. A man who has so many fans, from kids to adults, lies whenever he sings. Is this the real world out there? You be the judge. Anyway, it's a guitar-power-packed song that is so radio friendly! Cheers to Okkervil River!
"On Tour with Zykos" is specially written for Okkervil River's past member, Jonathan Meiburg. Will wishes him all the best on his future undertaking... "Roll your crew on down the road, to the next sold out show... " I really love the piano playing of this song. I can feel the friendship shared between Okkervil River and Jonathan. And it reminds me of the friendship shared between Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon. Incredible farewell song to Jonathan!
"Calling and Not Calling My Ex" is a very radio-friendly track. At first listen, I already knew I would like this song. The beat and tempo of this song is just perfect that it'll make you go on remembering this song, especially the beginning of this song. "God knows i'm feeling really stupid now, forever having said goodbye..." is the phrase that I always recall whenever I listen to this song. And another praise for the piano of this song. I just find it very appealing and infectious.. ;-)
"Stand Ins, Three", another instrumental. Violin can be heard throughout this track until it subsides where it jump to another track... More or less, it's the prelude to the next song...
"Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 19793 is the track that closes The Stand Ins. Before ending The Stand Ins, Okkervil River managed to close this album on thematic and anthemic note. This song is a slow ballad that Will sings, "Pull down the shades, let's kill the morning...", as if he's disappointed and despair in love. But like most closing song, it ended on a high note, high spirit, trumpet, guitar and drums all came in together to make this a memorable one. Okkervil River have done it again! :-)
Rating: I'm speechless... I'm totally impressed with the lyrics written by Okkervil River. The have this ability to write songs with lyrics that are so cryptic that we have to think through the words in order to understand the real meaning behind those lyrics. Not only that, their music landscape and genre is so focused that they are becoming the pioneer in what they are doing. Beautiful and heart-felt songs all in The Stand Ins, I honestly give it 7.5 out of 10. Cheers!
Stand-Out Tracks (My Picks): Lost Coastlines, Singer Songwriter, Starry Stairs, Calling and Not Calling My Ex, On Tour with Zykos.
Source: ezinearticles.com
The Stand Ins is such a matured album that even Adult and Elderly People will fall in love with it. It's definitely a perfect album for my parents' wedding anniversary. It has 3 tracks which are pure instrumentals.
"Stand Ins, One" is just 48 seconds long and is the intro to The Stand Ins. It started off slowly and gradually picked up and got louder. Accordian can be heard throughout this song and at times, it sounded creepy to me. Nonetheless, this track will get you ready and build up the tempo and excitement in you for the next track. :-)
What I love about "Lost Coastlines" apart from the awesome lyrics is its music. ;-) Patrick Pestorius' playing of bass gets my head nodding each time I listen to this track. Not only that, the mandolin and trumpet also created an atmosphere as if i'm watching a big group of orchestra performance. As Will sings, "But we find the maps he sent to us don't mention lost coastlines...". He knows that they are lost on the shoreline.. And when it comes to the end, it will not be long when you finally find yourself singing along with Okkervil River.. "La, la, la..."
The beginning of "Singer Songwriter" resembles "Ain't No Easy Way" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club", and it tells the story about a girl who has everything that she could ever ask for.. But due to this very same fact, she failed in everything she chose to do.. And nothing's gonna change her world.. It's also one of the loudest track on The Stand Ins where various guitar playings can be heard throughout this track. Beautiful country rock song where you can imagine a group of elderly people enjoying and dancing to this power-pop country rock track. Love it!
"Starry Stairs" should have been the last track on this album. It just has the quality to end an album. :-) Will sings as if he is sad.. "If you don't love me, i'm sorry". It's the most memorable moment on this track. As he goes on, he sings about how a girl that he loves, lied to him. He has no choice but to say goodbye.. All the Starry Stairs seem to be falling apart as he climbs.. Definitely a track to look out for on The Stand-Ins! Play this song if you found out that your girlfriend is lying to you or hiding something from you! :-) Make her know that you're saying goodbye..
Clocking in at over 6 minutes long is "Blue Tulip". The longest song on this album. Blue Tulip, again sings about a girl who lies.. "Hats off to my distant hope, a little lie, a puff of smoke...", sings Will, and as he sings, I feel the pain he's in. I feel sorry for him. Such a sad song that it's impossible to ignore this powerful ballad which sings the way to your heart. And it's one of the reasons Okkervil River is famous for!
"Stand Ins, Two" is another instrumental. A slow guitar plucking and piano playing. As if Okkervil River is taking a brief break from this album. :-)
As its title suggests, "Pop Lie" is about lies. A story about a man who lies in his pop songs. Thus, Pop Lie. :-) Damn, Okkervil River is good at it! They write songs that's so complicated until I have to listen countlessly to Pop Lie before I could figure out the real meaning behind this song. A man who has so many fans, from kids to adults, lies whenever he sings. Is this the real world out there? You be the judge. Anyway, it's a guitar-power-packed song that is so radio friendly! Cheers to Okkervil River!
"On Tour with Zykos" is specially written for Okkervil River's past member, Jonathan Meiburg. Will wishes him all the best on his future undertaking... "Roll your crew on down the road, to the next sold out show... " I really love the piano playing of this song. I can feel the friendship shared between Okkervil River and Jonathan. And it reminds me of the friendship shared between Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon. Incredible farewell song to Jonathan!
"Calling and Not Calling My Ex" is a very radio-friendly track. At first listen, I already knew I would like this song. The beat and tempo of this song is just perfect that it'll make you go on remembering this song, especially the beginning of this song. "God knows i'm feeling really stupid now, forever having said goodbye..." is the phrase that I always recall whenever I listen to this song. And another praise for the piano of this song. I just find it very appealing and infectious.. ;-)
"Stand Ins, Three", another instrumental. Violin can be heard throughout this track until it subsides where it jump to another track... More or less, it's the prelude to the next song...
"Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 19793 is the track that closes The Stand Ins. Before ending The Stand Ins, Okkervil River managed to close this album on thematic and anthemic note. This song is a slow ballad that Will sings, "Pull down the shades, let's kill the morning...", as if he's disappointed and despair in love. But like most closing song, it ended on a high note, high spirit, trumpet, guitar and drums all came in together to make this a memorable one. Okkervil River have done it again! :-)
Rating: I'm speechless... I'm totally impressed with the lyrics written by Okkervil River. The have this ability to write songs with lyrics that are so cryptic that we have to think through the words in order to understand the real meaning behind those lyrics. Not only that, their music landscape and genre is so focused that they are becoming the pioneer in what they are doing. Beautiful and heart-felt songs all in The Stand Ins, I honestly give it 7.5 out of 10. Cheers!
Stand-Out Tracks (My Picks): Lost Coastlines, Singer Songwriter, Starry Stairs, Calling and Not Calling My Ex, On Tour with Zykos.
Darren Tan is a huge avid fan of indie music, indie bands and indie artists. Since he was 17 years old, he started to fall in love with the indie music scene. It was a total turning point in his life for him as he no longer look at the indie music industry the same since.
With http://www.indiesurf.com, he wants to share his thoughts, comments, reviews and opinions on the latest (and past/old) indie music, indie bands and indie artists with the world and you.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Electric Violinist Emilie Autumn to Perform with Courtney Love on Leno
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
CHICAGO, IL April 10, 2004--Indie recording artist Emilie Autumn is set to perform on prime time television, appearing with Courtney Love and her band, The Chelsea, on April 15th on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This is her second appearance on prime time late night, first appearing on the David Letterman show with Love in March 2004. "The Chelsea is made up of a group of incredible female musicians that I'm lucky to be a part of. Courtney has embraced us all and we're ready to rock the world with our upcoming tour to support her," says Emilie in her home recording studio in Chicago.
Emilie has previously earned numerous classical accolades from her youth as a concert violinist, even releasing an album of Baroque violin masterpieces, and is eager to show her rock vocal and electric violin talents to a larger audience. Her most recent album, "Enchant", was released in early 2003 to rave reviews and an already devoted fanbase. "I think "Enchant" really shows how many musical sides I have, and how very different my work is from the current mainstream. I have such an eclectic background, I wanted this album to leave no questions as to what I was able to accomplish musically," noting that she played nearly every instrument on the recording.
Emilie Autumn will appear with Courtney Love in The Chelsea on April 15th, 2004 at 11:35 pm ET on NBC. They are scheduled to play the song, "Hold on to Me," the second single from Courtney's recent Virgin Records release, "America's Sweetheart."
About Emilie Autumn:
The 24 year old classical violinist-turned-rock singer made her prime time debut in March 2004 with Courtney Love's band, The Chelsea, on David Letterman's Late Show. Too free-spirited for the formal strictures of school, self-educated Emilie Autumn started playing the violin at age four, and began performing professionally at age 12, touring the U.S. and Europe. Although she attracted critical and popular raves for her mastery of the classical violin, Emilie was already moving into new musical realms, polishing her vocal skills and penning songs in the style she now calls "fantasy rock." Emilie is also the founder and owner of the Chicago-based indie label, Traitor Records. She supports internet radio and has had hundreds of thousands of downloads of her songs after releasing her entire recorded catalog for free on her web site. Emilie has strong online sales and continues to draw a growing fanbase. She accompanied Courtney Love in 2003 to record electric violin and backing vocals for Love's most recent album, "America's Sweetheart," and became a part of The Chelsea shortly after. Along with the upcoming tour with Love and The Chelsea, she is preparing for her fifth release on Traitor Records. Her official web site is www.emilieautumn.com.
About The Chelsea:
An all female band, The Chelsea includes Emilie Autumn on violin and vocals, former Hole/Motley Crue member Samantha Maloney on drums, Lisa Leveridge and Radio Sloan on guitar, and Dvin Kirakosian on bass guitar and vocals. They are accompanying Courtney in her upcoming tour to support her recently released album, "America's Sweetheart," available on Virgin Records. More information on The Chelsea will be available when their official web site, www.thechelseamusic.com, launches in mid April 2004.
Source: free-articles
CHICAGO, IL April 10, 2004--Indie recording artist Emilie Autumn is set to perform on prime time television, appearing with Courtney Love and her band, The Chelsea, on April 15th on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This is her second appearance on prime time late night, first appearing on the David Letterman show with Love in March 2004. "The Chelsea is made up of a group of incredible female musicians that I'm lucky to be a part of. Courtney has embraced us all and we're ready to rock the world with our upcoming tour to support her," says Emilie in her home recording studio in Chicago.
Emilie has previously earned numerous classical accolades from her youth as a concert violinist, even releasing an album of Baroque violin masterpieces, and is eager to show her rock vocal and electric violin talents to a larger audience. Her most recent album, "Enchant", was released in early 2003 to rave reviews and an already devoted fanbase. "I think "Enchant" really shows how many musical sides I have, and how very different my work is from the current mainstream. I have such an eclectic background, I wanted this album to leave no questions as to what I was able to accomplish musically," noting that she played nearly every instrument on the recording.
Emilie Autumn will appear with Courtney Love in The Chelsea on April 15th, 2004 at 11:35 pm ET on NBC. They are scheduled to play the song, "Hold on to Me," the second single from Courtney's recent Virgin Records release, "America's Sweetheart."
About Emilie Autumn:
The 24 year old classical violinist-turned-rock singer made her prime time debut in March 2004 with Courtney Love's band, The Chelsea, on David Letterman's Late Show. Too free-spirited for the formal strictures of school, self-educated Emilie Autumn started playing the violin at age four, and began performing professionally at age 12, touring the U.S. and Europe. Although she attracted critical and popular raves for her mastery of the classical violin, Emilie was already moving into new musical realms, polishing her vocal skills and penning songs in the style she now calls "fantasy rock." Emilie is also the founder and owner of the Chicago-based indie label, Traitor Records. She supports internet radio and has had hundreds of thousands of downloads of her songs after releasing her entire recorded catalog for free on her web site. Emilie has strong online sales and continues to draw a growing fanbase. She accompanied Courtney Love in 2003 to record electric violin and backing vocals for Love's most recent album, "America's Sweetheart," and became a part of The Chelsea shortly after. Along with the upcoming tour with Love and The Chelsea, she is preparing for her fifth release on Traitor Records. Her official web site is www.emilieautumn.com.
About The Chelsea:
An all female band, The Chelsea includes Emilie Autumn on violin and vocals, former Hole/Motley Crue member Samantha Maloney on drums, Lisa Leveridge and Radio Sloan on guitar, and Dvin Kirakosian on bass guitar and vocals. They are accompanying Courtney in her upcoming tour to support her recently released album, "America's Sweetheart," available on Virgin Records. More information on The Chelsea will be available when their official web site, www.thechelseamusic.com, launches in mid April 2004.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
URNetwork Alliance Meeting, Alameda Writer's Group Meeting, MIFED, BET Hip-Hop Awards, Global Gaming Expo, World Music Awards, 14th Annual Diversity Awards Highlight November Media & Showbiz Industry Career Networking Events
Author: actorschecklist.com
Source: articlecity.com
American Film Institute extravaganza going on now through November 12 in Hollywood has nightly red carpet gala premieres and showcases from the film masters. The Seventh Annual Latin Grammy Awards goes live November 2 in New York, and preceding the Awards show telecast, Univision will present exclusive "Noche de Estrellas" (Night of the Stars) coverage of the celebrity arrivals. Hollywood based URNetwork Alliance at http://www.urnetworkalliance.com/3.html continues its weekly networking and support group meetings featuring November 2: Hal Landon, actor and coach at South Coast Rep Theater; November 6: Jody Hart Casting Director; agent tba from ID Talent in Brentwood; November 13: Casting Director tba. They discuss new projects, share leads and motivate serious actors, writers, and filmmakers. Meetings happen in various locations are situated in and around Brentwood in West Los Angeles Contact: urnetworkalliance@urnetworkalliance.com for more info. Former actress and theater director Christina Hamlett is a writer and script consultant. Author Kerry Madden has written for children and adults, including her award winning children’s book "Gentle's Holler." Together they speak at November 4 program of the Alameda Writer's Group Meeting in Glendale.
Legendary BMI Songwriters Boudleaux and Felice Bryant ("Wake Up, Little Susie") are among inaugural inductees into the Music City Walk of Fame, happening in a November 5 ceremony in Nashville. The Santa Monica College Academy of Entertainment & Technology presents guest speaker Joel Stein, commentator, TV writer and LA Times columnist on November 6. The Asia Pacific Entertainment and Media Summit will be an outlet for entertainment news from Asia, bringing together worldwide production and distribution decision makers for two days, November 6 & 7, meeting in Los Angeles. The 73rd Annual MIFED, focused on the international multimedia market, overlaps this year with IBTS - Crossmedia Marketplace when it runs from November 7-11 in Piazzale Giulio Cesare in Milan. The Third Annual New York Comedy Festival features performers Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and Howie Mandel, and sports a new format, "Hot Seat Live," a Q&A session based on the widely read column in Time Out New York, when it runs November 7-12 in New York City. Rock musician and actress Courtney Love appears at a signing for her new book "Dirty Blonde" baring intimate details of her life, in Pasadena on November 8. An 80th birthday celebration and tribute to crooner Tony Bennett, hosted in part by George Clooney, Billy Crystal, Quincy Jones and others, is on November 9 in Hollywood. ASCAP's Rhythm and Soul Team presents a panel, free to the public, on creating hit songs November 9 in Hollywood. BET presents its Hip-Hop Awards November 12, hosted by comedian Katt Williams with Snoop Dog, Ludacris, Young Jeezy and more, and taped at Atlanta's Fox Theatre to air on BET November 15.
Strategies for engaging audiences across multiple screens - traditional tv, cable, computers and laptops, mobile phones, video iPod - are addressed at the 18th Annual EPM Marketing Conference, opening November 13 & 14 in Universal City. The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard put together the fifth annual conference addressing the role of music in film and television, November 14 & 15, in Beverly Hills. G2E: The Global Gaming Expo is set for November 14-16 in Las Vegas and will feature a Diversity Exhibitor Program which promotes diversity across all aspects of the gaming industry. The World Music Awards, the annual show business awards - this year held in London November 15 - that selects winners based on the strength of their worldwide record sales, will be hosted by Lindsay Lohan and an appearance by Michael Jackson. Black tie festivities at the Multicultural Motion Picture Association 14th Annual Diversity Awards, in Los Angeles, November 19, honor the creative accomplishments and contributions to diversity in film and television. The two day Film Finance and Distribution Summit: Where Wall Street Meets Tinseltown, opening November 27 in Los Angeles, is being produced and hosted by the Strategic Research Institute. The Sixth Annual Whistler Film Festival, in Whistler, BC, features over 80 films besides offering "cool parties" and networking both on and off the ski slopes, taking place November 30 through December 3.
The above events are only a sampling of what is listed. Many of the events above have a submission process for indie and/or performing artists to take part in. Complete details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page at http://www.actorschecklist.com/news.html. Experience the newly relaunched message board on The Actor's Checklist which now permits user profiles and private messaging which you can find at http://actorschecklist.com/phpBB2/.
Source: articlecity.com
American Film Institute extravaganza going on now through November 12 in Hollywood has nightly red carpet gala premieres and showcases from the film masters. The Seventh Annual Latin Grammy Awards goes live November 2 in New York, and preceding the Awards show telecast, Univision will present exclusive "Noche de Estrellas" (Night of the Stars) coverage of the celebrity arrivals. Hollywood based URNetwork Alliance at http://www.urnetworkalliance.com/3.html continues its weekly networking and support group meetings featuring November 2: Hal Landon, actor and coach at South Coast Rep Theater; November 6: Jody Hart Casting Director; agent tba from ID Talent in Brentwood; November 13: Casting Director tba. They discuss new projects, share leads and motivate serious actors, writers, and filmmakers. Meetings happen in various locations are situated in and around Brentwood in West Los Angeles Contact: urnetworkalliance@urnetworkalliance.com for more info. Former actress and theater director Christina Hamlett is a writer and script consultant. Author Kerry Madden has written for children and adults, including her award winning children’s book "Gentle's Holler." Together they speak at November 4 program of the Alameda Writer's Group Meeting in Glendale.
Legendary BMI Songwriters Boudleaux and Felice Bryant ("Wake Up, Little Susie") are among inaugural inductees into the Music City Walk of Fame, happening in a November 5 ceremony in Nashville. The Santa Monica College Academy of Entertainment & Technology presents guest speaker Joel Stein, commentator, TV writer and LA Times columnist on November 6. The Asia Pacific Entertainment and Media Summit will be an outlet for entertainment news from Asia, bringing together worldwide production and distribution decision makers for two days, November 6 & 7, meeting in Los Angeles. The 73rd Annual MIFED, focused on the international multimedia market, overlaps this year with IBTS - Crossmedia Marketplace when it runs from November 7-11 in Piazzale Giulio Cesare in Milan. The Third Annual New York Comedy Festival features performers Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and Howie Mandel, and sports a new format, "Hot Seat Live," a Q&A session based on the widely read column in Time Out New York, when it runs November 7-12 in New York City. Rock musician and actress Courtney Love appears at a signing for her new book "Dirty Blonde" baring intimate details of her life, in Pasadena on November 8. An 80th birthday celebration and tribute to crooner Tony Bennett, hosted in part by George Clooney, Billy Crystal, Quincy Jones and others, is on November 9 in Hollywood. ASCAP's Rhythm and Soul Team presents a panel, free to the public, on creating hit songs November 9 in Hollywood. BET presents its Hip-Hop Awards November 12, hosted by comedian Katt Williams with Snoop Dog, Ludacris, Young Jeezy and more, and taped at Atlanta's Fox Theatre to air on BET November 15.
Strategies for engaging audiences across multiple screens - traditional tv, cable, computers and laptops, mobile phones, video iPod - are addressed at the 18th Annual EPM Marketing Conference, opening November 13 & 14 in Universal City. The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard put together the fifth annual conference addressing the role of music in film and television, November 14 & 15, in Beverly Hills. G2E: The Global Gaming Expo is set for November 14-16 in Las Vegas and will feature a Diversity Exhibitor Program which promotes diversity across all aspects of the gaming industry. The World Music Awards, the annual show business awards - this year held in London November 15 - that selects winners based on the strength of their worldwide record sales, will be hosted by Lindsay Lohan and an appearance by Michael Jackson. Black tie festivities at the Multicultural Motion Picture Association 14th Annual Diversity Awards, in Los Angeles, November 19, honor the creative accomplishments and contributions to diversity in film and television. The two day Film Finance and Distribution Summit: Where Wall Street Meets Tinseltown, opening November 27 in Los Angeles, is being produced and hosted by the Strategic Research Institute. The Sixth Annual Whistler Film Festival, in Whistler, BC, features over 80 films besides offering "cool parties" and networking both on and off the ski slopes, taking place November 30 through December 3.
The above events are only a sampling of what is listed. Many of the events above have a submission process for indie and/or performing artists to take part in. Complete details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page at http://www.actorschecklist.com/news.html. Experience the newly relaunched message board on The Actor's Checklist which now permits user profiles and private messaging which you can find at http://actorschecklist.com/phpBB2/.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Savvy music entrepreneur insists on diversifying his portfolio.
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
Montgomery, Alabama is usually not the first place that comes to mind when you think of entertainment but lately Montgomery has supplied its share of talented musicians like platinum producer and songwriter Rick Rock (E-40, Busta Rhymes, Fabolous), Nfinity/Rap A Lot recording artists DIRTY and now artist/producer and entrepreneur Kawaski "KCentric" Nelson.
He began his music career as the hip-hop recording artist DEB DOC in 1992 enjoying regional success and releasing 3 independent EP's with RichThom Management. He opened for artists like MYSTIKAL and has spent time with the likes of music moguls P.Diddy and Russell Simmons. He gained some buzz from major and indie labels around the country but grew discontent with the politics of the entertainment industry and left the one thing he that he loved and that was his music. He took a few years off to focus on family, create a business, and to discover his own purpose in life. In 2001, he developed an urban christian clothing line called iPRAY Apparel, and now has plans to launch a cyber marketing and promotions company that will help independent musicians to sell their music and merchandise effectively on the internet. Kawaski is now ready to make a positive impact on the entertainment industry and join the elite list of music moguls in the new millenium.
Source: free-articles
Montgomery, Alabama is usually not the first place that comes to mind when you think of entertainment but lately Montgomery has supplied its share of talented musicians like platinum producer and songwriter Rick Rock (E-40, Busta Rhymes, Fabolous), Nfinity/Rap A Lot recording artists DIRTY and now artist/producer and entrepreneur Kawaski "KCentric" Nelson.
He began his music career as the hip-hop recording artist DEB DOC in 1992 enjoying regional success and releasing 3 independent EP's with RichThom Management. He opened for artists like MYSTIKAL and has spent time with the likes of music moguls P.Diddy and Russell Simmons. He gained some buzz from major and indie labels around the country but grew discontent with the politics of the entertainment industry and left the one thing he that he loved and that was his music. He took a few years off to focus on family, create a business, and to discover his own purpose in life. In 2001, he developed an urban christian clothing line called iPRAY Apparel, and now has plans to launch a cyber marketing and promotions company that will help independent musicians to sell their music and merchandise effectively on the internet. Kawaski is now ready to make a positive impact on the entertainment industry and join the elite list of music moguls in the new millenium.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The Gig Is Up - Getting Those Gigs
Author: Donna Liguria
Source: download
Time for your music dreams to come true - playing live onstage to masses of screaming fans…or at least a room full of people listening in to your creations. Though the ultimate goal is a good-paying gig, an artist or band just starting out may have to take on some freebies. Consider them as experience. Use this list as a start on how to get gigs, a checklist of the basics, and an idea starter.
The Prep: Talent - know your style, be solid in your performance abilities before you take on too big a gig All band mates know their responsibilities Calendar - create your timeline Internet - online presence, class ads, forums, press, make friends with other bands Networking - go to shows of other bands and meet them, create critical allies, rub elbows Press kit - with contact info, web address Demo tape/CD with your 3 best songs Rehearsed extensively Decent equipment - with backups and spares Reliable transportation for band and ALL equipment Funds - who handles your band finances, food, gas, places to stay Booking agency or manager to get bookings - when affordable and research thoroughly Sound Technician Playlist - well shaped, great flow, more than enough for the time allowed, minimal pause between songs
The Places: Fundraisers, charities, benefits Festivals, fairs, city free concert venues, trade shows Music competitions, songwriting contests Battle of the bands Clubs, bars, pubs - karaoke, open mic night Weddings, special occasions, private functions, parties Country clubs, cruise ships Restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, bookstores Schools, churches, colleges House concert Jam sessions Online video Gig trading with other bands of similar style - one band opens the show, the other closes
Getting the Gig: Attitude should be "how we can help each other" Understand what is expected of you - don't assume anything, including food and drinks Make sure the venue has a good rep for being fair Be ready if you need to do a live audition during a club's less busy hours. Venue specifications, space, sound Keep your word, build respect, do what you say you will do Get it in writing, contract You know it's up to you to promote your gig, right?
The Promotion: Word of mouth with enthusiasm! Flyers, posters - get permission as needed (e.g. parking lots) Street teams, fan clubs Internet marketing - Artistopia events, email, ezines, newsletters, class ads, Blogs, concert calendars, mailing list (online/offline) Call ALL your friends, family, co-workers, school mates Press releases to any media available Newspaper, radio, local gig guides Bulletin boards, music stores, record shops Go where your particular style of fan would hang out or work - do your market research Swap promo with local stores, restaurants, come up with some cool idea The number of heads through the door is the most important factor for a re-booking
At Work: A gig is a job - so the same rules apply: be on time, don't take too many set breaks, be prepared to do your best and be professional at all times. The reputation you create will proceed you. Sound check, balance, volume levels Make sure the audience knows the name of your band A good catchy opening line Be adaptive to your environment - have a sense of humor A musician under the influence of drugs or alcohol is a recipe for disaster Merchandise for sale - CDs, t-shirts, stickers…door prizes Have someone take good photos (video) for adding to your photo albums later - and schmooze with your fans! Get fan names to add to the photo narrative online. Collect emails, hand out biz cards, promote the next upcoming gig, get references Something will probably go wrong, think through typical disasters and try to be prepared Have a great time because you are doing what you love to do!
The Follow-up: Let everyone know you had a great time and appreciate that they came to see you and thank the venue operators and staff If you have a band following you, be polite and move your equipment as quickly as possible Have your pre-appointed money collector do their job Drop the rock star attitude - don't get a big head Respect the people around you and don' burn any bridges Learn from every experience Add any upcoming gig or follow-up press release to your Artistopia profile. Show the world what you are about!
Artistopia - The Ultimate Artist Development Resource www.artistopia.com is an artist development and community on the web providing indie and unsigned music artists, songwriters and bands all the tools needed for music business collaboration and networking.
Source: download
Time for your music dreams to come true - playing live onstage to masses of screaming fans…or at least a room full of people listening in to your creations. Though the ultimate goal is a good-paying gig, an artist or band just starting out may have to take on some freebies. Consider them as experience. Use this list as a start on how to get gigs, a checklist of the basics, and an idea starter.
The Prep: Talent - know your style, be solid in your performance abilities before you take on too big a gig All band mates know their responsibilities Calendar - create your timeline Internet - online presence, class ads, forums, press, make friends with other bands Networking - go to shows of other bands and meet them, create critical allies, rub elbows Press kit - with contact info, web address Demo tape/CD with your 3 best songs Rehearsed extensively Decent equipment - with backups and spares Reliable transportation for band and ALL equipment Funds - who handles your band finances, food, gas, places to stay Booking agency or manager to get bookings - when affordable and research thoroughly Sound Technician Playlist - well shaped, great flow, more than enough for the time allowed, minimal pause between songs
The Places: Fundraisers, charities, benefits Festivals, fairs, city free concert venues, trade shows Music competitions, songwriting contests Battle of the bands Clubs, bars, pubs - karaoke, open mic night Weddings, special occasions, private functions, parties Country clubs, cruise ships Restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, bookstores Schools, churches, colleges House concert Jam sessions Online video Gig trading with other bands of similar style - one band opens the show, the other closes
Getting the Gig: Attitude should be "how we can help each other" Understand what is expected of you - don't assume anything, including food and drinks Make sure the venue has a good rep for being fair Be ready if you need to do a live audition during a club's less busy hours. Venue specifications, space, sound Keep your word, build respect, do what you say you will do Get it in writing, contract You know it's up to you to promote your gig, right?
The Promotion: Word of mouth with enthusiasm! Flyers, posters - get permission as needed (e.g. parking lots) Street teams, fan clubs Internet marketing - Artistopia events, email, ezines, newsletters, class ads, Blogs, concert calendars, mailing list (online/offline) Call ALL your friends, family, co-workers, school mates Press releases to any media available Newspaper, radio, local gig guides Bulletin boards, music stores, record shops Go where your particular style of fan would hang out or work - do your market research Swap promo with local stores, restaurants, come up with some cool idea The number of heads through the door is the most important factor for a re-booking
At Work: A gig is a job - so the same rules apply: be on time, don't take too many set breaks, be prepared to do your best and be professional at all times. The reputation you create will proceed you. Sound check, balance, volume levels Make sure the audience knows the name of your band A good catchy opening line Be adaptive to your environment - have a sense of humor A musician under the influence of drugs or alcohol is a recipe for disaster Merchandise for sale - CDs, t-shirts, stickers…door prizes Have someone take good photos (video) for adding to your photo albums later - and schmooze with your fans! Get fan names to add to the photo narrative online. Collect emails, hand out biz cards, promote the next upcoming gig, get references Something will probably go wrong, think through typical disasters and try to be prepared Have a great time because you are doing what you love to do!
The Follow-up: Let everyone know you had a great time and appreciate that they came to see you and thank the venue operators and staff If you have a band following you, be polite and move your equipment as quickly as possible Have your pre-appointed money collector do their job Drop the rock star attitude - don't get a big head Respect the people around you and don' burn any bridges Learn from every experience Add any upcoming gig or follow-up press release to your Artistopia profile. Show the world what you are about!
Artistopia - The Ultimate Artist Development Resource www.artistopia.com is an artist development and community on the web providing indie and unsigned music artists, songwriters and bands all the tools needed for music business collaboration and networking.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Young Guns Band Review
Author: James L Hay
Source: ezinearticles.com
Sometimes when you first hear a band you just know they are destined for big things. Young Guns are an upcoming UK rock band that have all the ingredients for a successful rock band.
They are certainly getting their musical careers off to a flying start by employing the talents of Wellerhill Productions (produced the likes of Haunts and Malefice). Paul Jackson will provide the artwork (Cancer Bats, Alexisonfire) for what is undoubtedly going to be a kick-ass debut. But why, you ask, are this little known band so exciting?
Well, taking one of their strongest songs into account, "In The Night" has just about everything you need for a respectable modern rock anthem. Not only does it cater for a more mainstream side of the rock market that the likes of Madina Lake and Paramore work within, but parts of their songs appear more gritty and raw with a more alternative vibe.
The track begins with a trademark drum fill which throws us into the solid riffs of the verse, accompanied by a crisp vocal harmony. The guitars have a distinctly safe sound to begin with, they are simple and fairly run of the mill.
Vocally the band are pretty tight, Gustav Wood has a great vocal range and uses it very much in the style of such bands as Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins. The chorus then seems to step up a gear and become much more compelling as opposed to the verse, which although worthy of a rock song, could appear a little conventional.
And, yes, we have a guitar solo. Nothing too ambitious mind, some tremolo picking and over bending does the trick to mix up the structure of the song. This then forms a rotation riff which continues to the end of the track, which does give it a more classic sound, and is ultimately, pretty impressive.
In a more shallow observation, you could just say there are a million and one bands like Young Guns out there at the moment, granted. But the thing that's different about Young Guns is that there is a certain perfection about the execution of their music, they seem to gel together and form a tight composition of convincingly home-grown rock melodies. Perhaps they are jumping on the alternative/rock bandwagon, but to be frank, this band write great catchy songs, they are touring all over the country in reputable venues, and I, for one, believe that they can go all the way. You can check out Young Guns at their headlining tour all over the UK starting 18th July.
Source: ezinearticles.com
Sometimes when you first hear a band you just know they are destined for big things. Young Guns are an upcoming UK rock band that have all the ingredients for a successful rock band.
They are certainly getting their musical careers off to a flying start by employing the talents of Wellerhill Productions (produced the likes of Haunts and Malefice). Paul Jackson will provide the artwork (Cancer Bats, Alexisonfire) for what is undoubtedly going to be a kick-ass debut. But why, you ask, are this little known band so exciting?
Well, taking one of their strongest songs into account, "In The Night" has just about everything you need for a respectable modern rock anthem. Not only does it cater for a more mainstream side of the rock market that the likes of Madina Lake and Paramore work within, but parts of their songs appear more gritty and raw with a more alternative vibe.
The track begins with a trademark drum fill which throws us into the solid riffs of the verse, accompanied by a crisp vocal harmony. The guitars have a distinctly safe sound to begin with, they are simple and fairly run of the mill.
Vocally the band are pretty tight, Gustav Wood has a great vocal range and uses it very much in the style of such bands as Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins. The chorus then seems to step up a gear and become much more compelling as opposed to the verse, which although worthy of a rock song, could appear a little conventional.
And, yes, we have a guitar solo. Nothing too ambitious mind, some tremolo picking and over bending does the trick to mix up the structure of the song. This then forms a rotation riff which continues to the end of the track, which does give it a more classic sound, and is ultimately, pretty impressive.
In a more shallow observation, you could just say there are a million and one bands like Young Guns out there at the moment, granted. But the thing that's different about Young Guns is that there is a certain perfection about the execution of their music, they seem to gel together and form a tight composition of convincingly home-grown rock melodies. Perhaps they are jumping on the alternative/rock bandwagon, but to be frank, this band write great catchy songs, they are touring all over the country in reputable venues, and I, for one, believe that they can go all the way. You can check out Young Guns at their headlining tour all over the UK starting 18th July.
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
Borders Stonecrest Presents Songwriters with an Edge in the May Charlotte Songwriter Showcase
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
May 14, 2004 -- On Saturday, May 22nd at 3 p.m., Borders Books and Music at Stonecrest will host its eighth monthly songwriter showcase. This month's theme is โ€œSongwriters with an Edgeโ€; all of the performers choose unusual subject matter and inject loads of attitude into their songs. The event will feature live performances by Brian Hartzog, Seth Boulton, and Allan Kaplan. The event highlights Border's commitment to supporting NSAI and local music.
Brian Hartzog (http://www.brianhartzog.com)
Brian Hartzog recently completed his second CD, One-Way Ticket, on which he not only wrote and produced all the songs, but also played most of the instruments himself. Hartzog's music is a unique blend of classic rock, funk, and punk. Although it's decidedly "alternative", Hartzog calls his style "funk and roll". You'll hear a range of musical influences--from the Beatles, to Prince, to David Bowie, to P-funk, and the Sex Pistols. As a songwriter, a musician, an engineer, and a producer, Hartzog is working hard to establish himself as a true proponent of indie music. Brian's new CD is being featured this month on cltRock.com (http://cltRock.com), and he is currently scoring several independent films. You can hear clips from of Brian's music on his website: http://www.brianhartzog.com.
Seth Boulton
Although Charlotte singer/songwriter Seth Boulton is only 25, he's been writing and performing his songs for ten years. Seth's songs are quirky, introspective, and sometimes theatrical. (For example, he has a wry song called โ€œBoogiemanโ€ that is written from the legendary demon's point of viewโ€ฆ) Seth has played solo and with bands at coffee shops, bars, and churches all over the southeast, from North Carolina down to Florida. He plays regularly in Charlotte at S K Net Cafe with cello player Nicolette. Seth is a proud member of NSAI and will be performing at the world-famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville this coming September.
Allan Kaplan
Alan Kaplan is one of Charlotte's most talented songwriters, with songs that combine edginess with depth and style. A long-time Charlotte resident, he has played in a number of local bands, as well as performing solo around the area. Allan's style combines elements of folk, rock and jazz in a unique blend that complements the polish and complexity of his lyrics. Allan is active in the Charlotte NSAI chapter and, along with Brian Hartzog and JC Honeycutt, is part of the group that developed and organizes the monthly Borders showcases. He has significant recording experience and has served as the "sound man" par excellence for these showcases since their inception.
Contact:
Brian Hartzog
Indie Boy Music
704 953-7358
brian@brian.hartzog.com
http://www.brianhartzog.com
URL for this press release: http://www.brianhartzog.com/press-release/nsai-showcase-may2004.htm
Source: free-articles
May 14, 2004 -- On Saturday, May 22nd at 3 p.m., Borders Books and Music at Stonecrest will host its eighth monthly songwriter showcase. This month's theme is โ€œSongwriters with an Edgeโ€; all of the performers choose unusual subject matter and inject loads of attitude into their songs. The event will feature live performances by Brian Hartzog, Seth Boulton, and Allan Kaplan. The event highlights Border's commitment to supporting NSAI and local music.
Brian Hartzog (http://www.brianhartzog.com)
Brian Hartzog recently completed his second CD, One-Way Ticket, on which he not only wrote and produced all the songs, but also played most of the instruments himself. Hartzog's music is a unique blend of classic rock, funk, and punk. Although it's decidedly "alternative", Hartzog calls his style "funk and roll". You'll hear a range of musical influences--from the Beatles, to Prince, to David Bowie, to P-funk, and the Sex Pistols. As a songwriter, a musician, an engineer, and a producer, Hartzog is working hard to establish himself as a true proponent of indie music. Brian's new CD is being featured this month on cltRock.com (http://cltRock.com), and he is currently scoring several independent films. You can hear clips from of Brian's music on his website: http://www.brianhartzog.com.
Seth Boulton
Although Charlotte singer/songwriter Seth Boulton is only 25, he's been writing and performing his songs for ten years. Seth's songs are quirky, introspective, and sometimes theatrical. (For example, he has a wry song called โ€œBoogiemanโ€ that is written from the legendary demon's point of viewโ€ฆ) Seth has played solo and with bands at coffee shops, bars, and churches all over the southeast, from North Carolina down to Florida. He plays regularly in Charlotte at S K Net Cafe with cello player Nicolette. Seth is a proud member of NSAI and will be performing at the world-famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville this coming September.
Allan Kaplan
Alan Kaplan is one of Charlotte's most talented songwriters, with songs that combine edginess with depth and style. A long-time Charlotte resident, he has played in a number of local bands, as well as performing solo around the area. Allan's style combines elements of folk, rock and jazz in a unique blend that complements the polish and complexity of his lyrics. Allan is active in the Charlotte NSAI chapter and, along with Brian Hartzog and JC Honeycutt, is part of the group that developed and organizes the monthly Borders showcases. He has significant recording experience and has served as the "sound man" par excellence for these showcases since their inception.
Contact:
Brian Hartzog
Indie Boy Music
704 953-7358
brian@brian.hartzog.com
http://www.brianhartzog.com
URL for this press release: http://www.brianhartzog.com/press-release/nsai-showcase-may2004.htm
Friday, December 4, 2009
ROCKRGRL Magazine Chooses Jana Peri's Dating Sucks For Discoveries 2004 CD
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
January 26 2004--NYC indie power pop/rocker JANA PERI (www.janaperi.com) is starting off 2004 with a bang. Cited by All Music Guide as โ€œsomeone to keep an eye on,โ€ the singer/songwriter/guitarist is one of 16 winners of the first annual ROCKRGRL Discoveries CD contest. The best undiscovered female artists were sought in all musical styles to prove that gender is not a genre. Heart songwriter Sue Ennis, rock's first "bad girl" Ronnie Spector, Filthy Mouth Music President Cheryl Pawelski and Play Network's Senior Vice President of Label Relations Jeff Heiman were the esteemed music industry judges who selected PERI's โ€œDating Sucksโ€ from among 200 entries. The compilation CD is slated for release in Spring 2004, at which time PERI will also be profiled in the magazine.
JANA PERI, a NY native, graduated from New York University with a degree in Drama. She later shifted her attention from acting to music, performing in NYC clubs for several years before releasing a debut, self-titled, self-produced CD on her own Hot Jupiter label in 1999. The same year, PERI launched THE JANA PERI BAND. The group, known for its hook-laden songs and vocal harmonies, has gone on to become a popular fixture on the downtown NYC rock scene. PERI, along with bandmates JIM STELLATO (bass guitar/vocals) and ROB HOLM (drums/vocals), was featured in a segment of ABC-TV's Good Morning America that aired in June 2002. The as-yet-unsigned band will be back in the recording studio in early 2004 to begin work on a new CD along with producer Daniel Rey (The Ramones, The Misfits, Ronnie Spector).
PERI is hoping that the exposure she gains through her involvement with ROCKRGRL will help give her music career the critical boost it needs. She finds it encouraging that a song she wrote several years ago is now finally getting recognition. โ€œLest anybody get the wrong idea, โ€˜Dating Sucks' is not an anti-relationship song,โ€ PERI explains. โ€œI decided to cast myself in the role of a woman who sees herself as the innocent victim of all her relationships and write a comical song about it. There are elements of truth from my personal experience in the lyrics, but it is primarily a work of fiction. I think women in particular really relate to the song because it allows them to laugh at themselves.โ€ Men also find the song amusing. John Holmstrom, Editor of Punk Magazine, wrote, โ€œI have to admit her lyrics to โ€˜Dating Sucks' are very, very funny.โ€
ROCKRGRL was founded by former musician Carla A. DeSantis. After a long career as a bass player, she was frustrated and disillusioned by magazine articles about women musicians that seemed to mention everything about the person except how they create their art. In order to level the playing field, DeSantis created a positive alternative where music was the main issue. Women playing music is neither a "trend" nor "genre" and ROCKRGRL intends to proves this in every issue. For nearly a decade, readers have gotten the inside track of success secrets from the most inspirational women in music. ROCKRGRL is also a resource for musicians, providing useful information including industry news, starting your own label, juggling music and motherhood, booking your own tour, publicity, getting on the radio, legal issues, gear, studio tips and more.
For more about JANA PERI, and to hear the song โ€œDating Sucks,โ€ please visit www.janaperi.com. For more information about ROCKRGRL and the Discoveries 2004 CD, please visit www.rockrgrl.com.
Source: free-articles
January 26 2004--NYC indie power pop/rocker JANA PERI (www.janaperi.com) is starting off 2004 with a bang. Cited by All Music Guide as โ€œsomeone to keep an eye on,โ€ the singer/songwriter/guitarist is one of 16 winners of the first annual ROCKRGRL Discoveries CD contest. The best undiscovered female artists were sought in all musical styles to prove that gender is not a genre. Heart songwriter Sue Ennis, rock's first "bad girl" Ronnie Spector, Filthy Mouth Music President Cheryl Pawelski and Play Network's Senior Vice President of Label Relations Jeff Heiman were the esteemed music industry judges who selected PERI's โ€œDating Sucksโ€ from among 200 entries. The compilation CD is slated for release in Spring 2004, at which time PERI will also be profiled in the magazine.
JANA PERI, a NY native, graduated from New York University with a degree in Drama. She later shifted her attention from acting to music, performing in NYC clubs for several years before releasing a debut, self-titled, self-produced CD on her own Hot Jupiter label in 1999. The same year, PERI launched THE JANA PERI BAND. The group, known for its hook-laden songs and vocal harmonies, has gone on to become a popular fixture on the downtown NYC rock scene. PERI, along with bandmates JIM STELLATO (bass guitar/vocals) and ROB HOLM (drums/vocals), was featured in a segment of ABC-TV's Good Morning America that aired in June 2002. The as-yet-unsigned band will be back in the recording studio in early 2004 to begin work on a new CD along with producer Daniel Rey (The Ramones, The Misfits, Ronnie Spector).
PERI is hoping that the exposure she gains through her involvement with ROCKRGRL will help give her music career the critical boost it needs. She finds it encouraging that a song she wrote several years ago is now finally getting recognition. โ€œLest anybody get the wrong idea, โ€˜Dating Sucks' is not an anti-relationship song,โ€ PERI explains. โ€œI decided to cast myself in the role of a woman who sees herself as the innocent victim of all her relationships and write a comical song about it. There are elements of truth from my personal experience in the lyrics, but it is primarily a work of fiction. I think women in particular really relate to the song because it allows them to laugh at themselves.โ€ Men also find the song amusing. John Holmstrom, Editor of Punk Magazine, wrote, โ€œI have to admit her lyrics to โ€˜Dating Sucks' are very, very funny.โ€
ROCKRGRL was founded by former musician Carla A. DeSantis. After a long career as a bass player, she was frustrated and disillusioned by magazine articles about women musicians that seemed to mention everything about the person except how they create their art. In order to level the playing field, DeSantis created a positive alternative where music was the main issue. Women playing music is neither a "trend" nor "genre" and ROCKRGRL intends to proves this in every issue. For nearly a decade, readers have gotten the inside track of success secrets from the most inspirational women in music. ROCKRGRL is also a resource for musicians, providing useful information including industry news, starting your own label, juggling music and motherhood, booking your own tour, publicity, getting on the radio, legal issues, gear, studio tips and more.
For more about JANA PERI, and to hear the song โ€œDating Sucks,โ€ please visit www.janaperi.com. For more information about ROCKRGRL and the Discoveries 2004 CD, please visit www.rockrgrl.com.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Rock Pop Music
Author: Mary Rose
Source: articlecity.com
Rock pop music is a appearance of accepted music with an outstanding articulate melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many forms of bedrock music aswell use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers. Added instruments sometimes active in bedrock cover harmonica, violin, flute, banjo, melodica, and timpani. Besides, attenuate stringed instruments such as mandolin and sitar are used. Bedrock pop music commonly has a able aback beat, and generally revolves about the guitar, either solid electric, alveolate electric, or acoustic.
Rock pop music has its agent in 1940s and 1950s bedrock and cycle and rockabilly, which developed from blues, country music and added influences. The All Music Guide opines that bedrock and cycle in its purest anatomy has three chords, a strong, assertive aback beat, and a addictive melody. Initially,rock & cycle took from a array of sources, mainly blues, R&B, and country, but aswell gospel, acceptable pop, jazz, and folk. All of these appulse accumulated in a simple, blues-based song anatomy that was not alone fast and addictive but aswell bottom tapping.
In the backward 1960s, bedrock pop music was accumulated with folk music ,blues and applesauce to actualize folk rock, blues-rock and jazz-rock admixture respectively.It created consciousness-expanding bedrock music irrespective of the time. In the 1970s, bedrock congenital influences from soul, funk, and latin music. During the 1970s, a amount of subgenres of rock, such as bendable rock, abundant metal, harder rock, accelerating rock, and jailbait bedrock was created. Synth-rock, hardcore jailbait and another bedrock were the sub genres of bedrock pop music that was developed in the 1980s whereas, bedrock subgenres in the 1990s included grunge, Britpop, indie rock, and nu metal.
A bedrock bandage or bedrock accumulation is a accumulation of musicians specializing in bedrock pop music . Most of the bedrock groups abide of a guitarist, advance singer, bass guitarist, and drummer, basic a quartet. Few groups may skip one or added of these roles and accomplish use of a advance accompanist who can play an apparatus while singing, basic a leash or duo; others cover added musicians such as one or two accent guitarists and/or a keyboardist. Seldom, groups aswell apply stringed instruments such as violins or cellos, or horns like trumpets or trombones.
Source: articlecity.com
Rock pop music is a appearance of accepted music with an outstanding articulate melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Many forms of bedrock music aswell use keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers. Added instruments sometimes active in bedrock cover harmonica, violin, flute, banjo, melodica, and timpani. Besides, attenuate stringed instruments such as mandolin and sitar are used. Bedrock pop music commonly has a able aback beat, and generally revolves about the guitar, either solid electric, alveolate electric, or acoustic.
Rock pop music has its agent in 1940s and 1950s bedrock and cycle and rockabilly, which developed from blues, country music and added influences. The All Music Guide opines that bedrock and cycle in its purest anatomy has three chords, a strong, assertive aback beat, and a addictive melody. Initially,rock & cycle took from a array of sources, mainly blues, R&B, and country, but aswell gospel, acceptable pop, jazz, and folk. All of these appulse accumulated in a simple, blues-based song anatomy that was not alone fast and addictive but aswell bottom tapping.
In the backward 1960s, bedrock pop music was accumulated with folk music ,blues and applesauce to actualize folk rock, blues-rock and jazz-rock admixture respectively.It created consciousness-expanding bedrock music irrespective of the time. In the 1970s, bedrock congenital influences from soul, funk, and latin music. During the 1970s, a amount of subgenres of rock, such as bendable rock, abundant metal, harder rock, accelerating rock, and jailbait bedrock was created. Synth-rock, hardcore jailbait and another bedrock were the sub genres of bedrock pop music that was developed in the 1980s whereas, bedrock subgenres in the 1990s included grunge, Britpop, indie rock, and nu metal.
A bedrock bandage or bedrock accumulation is a accumulation of musicians specializing in bedrock pop music . Most of the bedrock groups abide of a guitarist, advance singer, bass guitarist, and drummer, basic a quartet. Few groups may skip one or added of these roles and accomplish use of a advance accompanist who can play an apparatus while singing, basic a leash or duo; others cover added musicians such as one or two accent guitarists and/or a keyboardist. Seldom, groups aswell apply stringed instruments such as violins or cellos, or horns like trumpets or trombones.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Where To Go To Download That Free MP3 Song
Author: David Gridley
Source: articleage.com
Music lovers! MP3 song collectors! Wondering where to find a free copy of that favorite song? If you're reading this, chances are good you're already online.. why not check the Internet for some free MP3 songs?
Below are a few websites where you can download free MP3 songs and albums.
www.Free-Albums.net - Free MP3 Song
At Free-Albums, it's not only free MP3 songs that you'll find but MP3 albums, reviews, videos, and more as well At Free-Albums.net, get the most accurate lyrics and feel free to start singing along to your favorite free MP3 song. Download a copy of the hot new free MP3 song and hit or read up on your favorite artist or band with tons of pages dedicated to artists' bios and news. You can search for and find complete discographies and download artists/bands pictures and use them as wallpaper for your PC desktop. Free-Albums.net… log on and find out what this free MP3 song and album site has to offer.
www.MP3sHits.com - Free MP3 Song
At MP3sHits, finding free MP3 songs is as simple as typing the artist's name, song title, or the album name and hitting the search button. At MP3sHits, you can get free MP3 songs by bands such as Destiny's Child, Blue, U2, Simple Plan, and more. What's more, the website also features full albums in their special section with daily updates. Listen up to DJ Whoo Kid and Young Buck's album recorded at G Unit Radio 9 or VA's Suntribe Vol 9. Such free MP3 song samples are pure heaven to the indie music fan.
www.SongCrawler.com - Free MP3 Song
Whatever tune you crave, Song Crawler provides you with one-click results to all the free MP3 song downloads you can handle in a variety of music genres.
www.Music.Download.com - Free MP3 Song
CNet's Download.com is yet another simply enormous download site that offers free MP3 songs. With genres ranging from rock, pop, alternative, punk, electronica, hip-hop, country, folk,and blues, you can start looking for your favorite free MP3 song by typing in the name of the artist or band, song title, or the name of the album. You should also be sure to check out Download.com's Editor's Picks which feature the latest albums to hit the music market.
www.FindAnyMusic.com - Free MP3 Song
In our opinion, FindAnyMusic deserves their claim as the #1 replacement for Napster's software. To start downloading your favorite free MP3 songs, all you need to do is sign up with the site and install their special music software. Once you've installed the software, you'll have full and immediate access to over a billion free MP3 songs and music files online. Best of all, FindAnyMusic's software allows you to burn your downloaded free MP3 songs and create your own CDs. All you need are some blank CDs and a CD burner.
Unfortunately, we've only space enough to suggest a few of the top free MP3 song websites and there are certainly many more sites out there that also offer free MP3 songs for download, streaming, or sampling. A search of Google, Yahoo, or the MSN search engines for "free MP3 song" should provide you with just what you're looking for!
Author David Gridley is webmaster of http://www.legalmp3downloads.info and http://www.portablemp3players.info.
Source: articleage.com
Music lovers! MP3 song collectors! Wondering where to find a free copy of that favorite song? If you're reading this, chances are good you're already online.. why not check the Internet for some free MP3 songs?
Below are a few websites where you can download free MP3 songs and albums.
www.Free-Albums.net - Free MP3 Song
At Free-Albums, it's not only free MP3 songs that you'll find but MP3 albums, reviews, videos, and more as well At Free-Albums.net, get the most accurate lyrics and feel free to start singing along to your favorite free MP3 song. Download a copy of the hot new free MP3 song and hit or read up on your favorite artist or band with tons of pages dedicated to artists' bios and news. You can search for and find complete discographies and download artists/bands pictures and use them as wallpaper for your PC desktop. Free-Albums.net… log on and find out what this free MP3 song and album site has to offer.
www.MP3sHits.com - Free MP3 Song
At MP3sHits, finding free MP3 songs is as simple as typing the artist's name, song title, or the album name and hitting the search button. At MP3sHits, you can get free MP3 songs by bands such as Destiny's Child, Blue, U2, Simple Plan, and more. What's more, the website also features full albums in their special section with daily updates. Listen up to DJ Whoo Kid and Young Buck's album recorded at G Unit Radio 9 or VA's Suntribe Vol 9. Such free MP3 song samples are pure heaven to the indie music fan.
www.SongCrawler.com - Free MP3 Song
Whatever tune you crave, Song Crawler provides you with one-click results to all the free MP3 song downloads you can handle in a variety of music genres.
www.Music.Download.com - Free MP3 Song
CNet's Download.com is yet another simply enormous download site that offers free MP3 songs. With genres ranging from rock, pop, alternative, punk, electronica, hip-hop, country, folk,and blues, you can start looking for your favorite free MP3 song by typing in the name of the artist or band, song title, or the name of the album. You should also be sure to check out Download.com's Editor's Picks which feature the latest albums to hit the music market.
www.FindAnyMusic.com - Free MP3 Song
In our opinion, FindAnyMusic deserves their claim as the #1 replacement for Napster's software. To start downloading your favorite free MP3 songs, all you need to do is sign up with the site and install their special music software. Once you've installed the software, you'll have full and immediate access to over a billion free MP3 songs and music files online. Best of all, FindAnyMusic's software allows you to burn your downloaded free MP3 songs and create your own CDs. All you need are some blank CDs and a CD burner.
Unfortunately, we've only space enough to suggest a few of the top free MP3 song websites and there are certainly many more sites out there that also offer free MP3 songs for download, streaming, or sampling. A search of Google, Yahoo, or the MSN search engines for "free MP3 song" should provide you with just what you're looking for!
Author David Gridley is webmaster of http://www.legalmp3downloads.info and http://www.portablemp3players.info.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Why Musicians Today Need the Hustler Mentality
Author: Mika Libambu Schiller
Source: ezinearticles.com
I recently read an article on billboard.com that said Kanye West is launching an energy drink and a cologne. Hmmm...I wonder if he's just following in the footsteps of 50 Cent and P Diddy?
If he is, more power to him. Even if these ventures aren't successful for Kanye, at least he's smart enough to read the writing on the wall. It says, "Get out of the CD game and get into the personal branding game."
I guess Kanye saw the latest album sale numbers for the week of April 5, 2009. It was the debut week for Prince's "Lotus Flower" album and it sold only 168,000 units. Horrendous. I don't think Prince really cares all that much though. He makes a ton through touring. Besides, he saw this whole Internet thing coming before anyone else and actually adapted to it.
U2's album "A Line On The Horizon" is in its 5th week and has only sold 780,478 total. That kinda sucks for U2 I guess, but they're also going to make a bucketload on the road.
And of course, how can I forget Bruce Springsteen. Ten week out and "Working On A Dream" finally went gold; 501,110 units. But he's going to make a bucket load of money on the road too.
The bottom line is, these numbers don't really mean much anymore. Nobody goes platinum anymore. And Sound Scan is basically irrelevant to the digital age. Kanye definitely sees that.
I think that the fact that Kanye's in hip hop has something to do with his desire to get into other entrepreneurial ventures. I don't think his energy drink idea is going to work because I don't think Kanye is a true entrepreneur at heart. He's more of an entertainer. P Diddy on the other hand is a natural born entrepreneur. He can launch a cologne line and turn it into one of the best selling fragrances in no time. Jay Z is like that too. Their minds are wired to seek opportunity.
One thing I like a lot about hip hop is that the people in it are the most entrepreneurial of all the musical genres. I think part of it has to do with the fact that hip hop has a lower barrier of entry than other musical genres, so you get a lot more people with the hustler mentality. They're usually the types of people who start things. Based on what I've observed, usually the more years someone has spent applying themselves to learning something(especially in school), the less likely they are to take entrepreneurial risks. Most non-hip hop genres require more creative application and more study to master. The only person in Rock who really has the extreme hustler mentality is Gene Simmons. More power to them all.
I think there's something all indie music artists today can learn from the hustler mentality. It's this: always keep your eyes, ears and mind open. Always be on the lookout for opportunities. I believe that a lot of indie music artists are in such an ultra-creative one track mode that they miss so many opportunities to make money out there.
Just because you're a musician doesn't mean that you absolutely have to make money from just your music. Just because you're a musician doesn't mean you can't start some other kind of venture related to music. Look at Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby. He was a musician for years.
He's talked about the years he spent refining his music making before he toured. He was on the indie scene for years. And then he founded CD Baby and made it very successful. Then he got tired of it, sold it off and is now contemplating launching another music related venture. He says on his website, "I like to challenge myself to stay immersed in the unknown."
Just because you're in music doesn't mean that all you have to do is music. There's so many music related opportunities out there right now. You just need to keep your eyes, ears and mind open. Be willing to learn new skills. The sky's the limit.
Source: ezinearticles.com
I recently read an article on billboard.com that said Kanye West is launching an energy drink and a cologne. Hmmm...I wonder if he's just following in the footsteps of 50 Cent and P Diddy?
If he is, more power to him. Even if these ventures aren't successful for Kanye, at least he's smart enough to read the writing on the wall. It says, "Get out of the CD game and get into the personal branding game."
I guess Kanye saw the latest album sale numbers for the week of April 5, 2009. It was the debut week for Prince's "Lotus Flower" album and it sold only 168,000 units. Horrendous. I don't think Prince really cares all that much though. He makes a ton through touring. Besides, he saw this whole Internet thing coming before anyone else and actually adapted to it.
U2's album "A Line On The Horizon" is in its 5th week and has only sold 780,478 total. That kinda sucks for U2 I guess, but they're also going to make a bucketload on the road.
And of course, how can I forget Bruce Springsteen. Ten week out and "Working On A Dream" finally went gold; 501,110 units. But he's going to make a bucket load of money on the road too.
The bottom line is, these numbers don't really mean much anymore. Nobody goes platinum anymore. And Sound Scan is basically irrelevant to the digital age. Kanye definitely sees that.
I think that the fact that Kanye's in hip hop has something to do with his desire to get into other entrepreneurial ventures. I don't think his energy drink idea is going to work because I don't think Kanye is a true entrepreneur at heart. He's more of an entertainer. P Diddy on the other hand is a natural born entrepreneur. He can launch a cologne line and turn it into one of the best selling fragrances in no time. Jay Z is like that too. Their minds are wired to seek opportunity.
One thing I like a lot about hip hop is that the people in it are the most entrepreneurial of all the musical genres. I think part of it has to do with the fact that hip hop has a lower barrier of entry than other musical genres, so you get a lot more people with the hustler mentality. They're usually the types of people who start things. Based on what I've observed, usually the more years someone has spent applying themselves to learning something(especially in school), the less likely they are to take entrepreneurial risks. Most non-hip hop genres require more creative application and more study to master. The only person in Rock who really has the extreme hustler mentality is Gene Simmons. More power to them all.
I think there's something all indie music artists today can learn from the hustler mentality. It's this: always keep your eyes, ears and mind open. Always be on the lookout for opportunities. I believe that a lot of indie music artists are in such an ultra-creative one track mode that they miss so many opportunities to make money out there.
Just because you're a musician doesn't mean that you absolutely have to make money from just your music. Just because you're a musician doesn't mean you can't start some other kind of venture related to music. Look at Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby. He was a musician for years.
He's talked about the years he spent refining his music making before he toured. He was on the indie scene for years. And then he founded CD Baby and made it very successful. Then he got tired of it, sold it off and is now contemplating launching another music related venture. He says on his website, "I like to challenge myself to stay immersed in the unknown."
Just because you're in music doesn't mean that all you have to do is music. There's so many music related opportunities out there right now. You just need to keep your eyes, ears and mind open. Be willing to learn new skills. The sky's the limit.
Mika Schiller is a writer for the Indie music website MADE and he writes about where the music industry's headed and how it relates to the Independent Music artist. He gives irreverent career and personal development advice to the Indie music artist. For more great writing and irresistible advice, along with a free report on effective MySpace music marketing, please visit http://www.letsgetmade.com
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Brooklyn's Caf 111 Presents a Punk-Rap-Rock Evening
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
New York, NY January 27 2004--Cafรฉ 111, located in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn, presents a night of music featuring a line-up of punk, rap and rock bands. Red Jacket, one of the featured bands, will be performing at Cafรฉ 111 on Saturday, February 7th at 11 PM. Red Jacket delivers a rock n' roll montage of clever time changes, minor chord arrangements and dissonant notes over pop melodies. โ€œ[This trio's real talent is pulling off Rush time change-ups under galvanizing Rust Never Sleeps wah-wah.โ€ (The Village Voice).
Co-billing with Red Jacket on February 7th is the Indie-punk songwriter Dylan Nirvana with his band at 9 PM and Hip Hop artist Timothy Dark at 10 PM.
The name Red Jacket is adopted from the Native American Chief of the same name who lived in the Buffalo, NY area. Chief Red Jacket believed in preserving his culture and staying true to his own beliefs. This is also the philosophy of Red Jacket's music.
Members of the media can find more information on Red Jacket at the website www.redjacketmusic.com for upcoming shows, biography, band photos, and music. Their EP titled โ€œMetaphorsโ€ can be purchased at www.cdbaby.com/cd/redjacket. โ€œRed Jacket is composing, structuring, coloring, and arranging music, putting something supernatural together.โ€ (Indie-Music.com).
Show information: Cafรฉ 111 is located on 111 Court Street in Brooklyn, NY between State Street and Schemerhorn Street. It is one block north of Atlantic Avenue. Take the F or A train to the Jay Street stop, the 2,3,4,5 trains to the Borough Hall stop or the N,R,M trains to the Court Street stop. The venue telephone number is (718) 858-2806. There is no cover charge. Two drink minimum.
Source: free-articles
New York, NY January 27 2004--Cafรฉ 111, located in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn, presents a night of music featuring a line-up of punk, rap and rock bands. Red Jacket, one of the featured bands, will be performing at Cafรฉ 111 on Saturday, February 7th at 11 PM. Red Jacket delivers a rock n' roll montage of clever time changes, minor chord arrangements and dissonant notes over pop melodies. โ€œ[This trio's real talent is pulling off Rush time change-ups under galvanizing Rust Never Sleeps wah-wah.โ€ (The Village Voice).
Co-billing with Red Jacket on February 7th is the Indie-punk songwriter Dylan Nirvana with his band at 9 PM and Hip Hop artist Timothy Dark at 10 PM.
The name Red Jacket is adopted from the Native American Chief of the same name who lived in the Buffalo, NY area. Chief Red Jacket believed in preserving his culture and staying true to his own beliefs. This is also the philosophy of Red Jacket's music.
Members of the media can find more information on Red Jacket at the website www.redjacketmusic.com for upcoming shows, biography, band photos, and music. Their EP titled โ€œMetaphorsโ€ can be purchased at www.cdbaby.com/cd/redjacket. โ€œRed Jacket is composing, structuring, coloring, and arranging music, putting something supernatural together.โ€ (Indie-Music.com).
Show information: Cafรฉ 111 is located on 111 Court Street in Brooklyn, NY between State Street and Schemerhorn Street. It is one block north of Atlantic Avenue. Take the F or A train to the Jay Street stop, the 2,3,4,5 trains to the Borough Hall stop or the N,R,M trains to the Court Street stop. The venue telephone number is (718) 858-2806. There is no cover charge. Two drink minimum.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Phoenix GoGirlsMusicFest Benefiting MusiCares - October 8 - Minder Binders
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
September 21, 2004 -- The Phoenix date for GoGirlsMusicFest 2004 is scheduled for Friday, October 8th at Minder Binders (upstairs) in Tempe. The concert starts at 7pm and will feature Devils Foot Road, Storm Within, Mary Lemanski, Eugenia, Downward Dog, Carey Slade and Laura Sawosko. Admission is $5.00 for those 21 and up. The first 75 people through the door will receive a free GoGirlsMusic compilation CD with music by independent female musicians. At the Phoenix show, there will also be a bake sale to benefit MusiCares. Chasers is located at 715 S. McClintock (University & McClintock).
The 5th Annual GoGirlsMusicFest showcases the best local and regional indie women in music in 15 cities around the country October and November 2004. Proceeds will benefit MusiCares, which provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. The showcases are volunteer run and coordinated to spotlight and promote local female talent.
National event sponsors include Discmakers, Orbit Web Design, Musician's Atlas, Indie Bible, BandPasses.com, GIGPAGE.com, Indie-Music.com, IndieMusicCoach.com, and Rainmaker Music Publicity. Local sponsors for the Phoenix show include Guitar Center, Changing Hands Bookstore, and True Gurl Clothing.
Established in 1989 by the Recording Academy, MusiCares (http://www.musicares.com) provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community.
Madalyn Sklar, founder of GoGirlsMusic.com, created GoGirlsMusicFest (http://www.gogirlsmusicfest.com), a series of annual showcase events across the United States. The festival promotes independent women in music while supporting various charities which have included the Rock โ€˜n' Roll Camp for Girls, American Liver Foundation, Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation and more. Since 2000, over 70 all volunteer run shows have taken place throughout the U.S.
For more information on the Phoenix event, contact the Phoenix coordinators Mary Lemanski at mary@gogirlsmusic.com or 480-496-8885 or Kat Martin at kat@devilsfootroad.com or 480-232-3956.
Press passes available upon request.
Contact:
Mary Lemanski - Phoenix coordinator, GoGirlsMusicFest
P.O. Box 13383
Tempe, AZ 85284
480-496-8885
602-369-8678 C.
Source: free-articles
September 21, 2004 -- The Phoenix date for GoGirlsMusicFest 2004 is scheduled for Friday, October 8th at Minder Binders (upstairs) in Tempe. The concert starts at 7pm and will feature Devils Foot Road, Storm Within, Mary Lemanski, Eugenia, Downward Dog, Carey Slade and Laura Sawosko. Admission is $5.00 for those 21 and up. The first 75 people through the door will receive a free GoGirlsMusic compilation CD with music by independent female musicians. At the Phoenix show, there will also be a bake sale to benefit MusiCares. Chasers is located at 715 S. McClintock (University & McClintock).
The 5th Annual GoGirlsMusicFest showcases the best local and regional indie women in music in 15 cities around the country October and November 2004. Proceeds will benefit MusiCares, which provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. The showcases are volunteer run and coordinated to spotlight and promote local female talent.
National event sponsors include Discmakers, Orbit Web Design, Musician's Atlas, Indie Bible, BandPasses.com, GIGPAGE.com, Indie-Music.com, IndieMusicCoach.com, and Rainmaker Music Publicity. Local sponsors for the Phoenix show include Guitar Center, Changing Hands Bookstore, and True Gurl Clothing.
Established in 1989 by the Recording Academy, MusiCares (http://www.musicares.com) provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community.
Madalyn Sklar, founder of GoGirlsMusic.com, created GoGirlsMusicFest (http://www.gogirlsmusicfest.com), a series of annual showcase events across the United States. The festival promotes independent women in music while supporting various charities which have included the Rock โ€˜n' Roll Camp for Girls, American Liver Foundation, Nicole Brown Charitable Foundation and more. Since 2000, over 70 all volunteer run shows have taken place throughout the U.S.
For more information on the Phoenix event, contact the Phoenix coordinators Mary Lemanski at mary@gogirlsmusic.com or 480-496-8885 or Kat Martin at kat@devilsfootroad.com or 480-232-3956.
Press passes available upon request.
Contact:
Mary Lemanski - Phoenix coordinator, GoGirlsMusicFest
P.O. Box 13383
Tempe, AZ 85284
480-496-8885
602-369-8678 C.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Music Review of Math and Physics Club's Self-Titled Album
Author: Darren Tan
Source: ezinearticles.com
Math and Physics Club are an indie pop (Or Indie Rock) band based in Seattle, Washington. They are Charles Bert (Vocals/Rhythm Guitar), Kevin Emerson (Drums), Ethan Jones (Bass/Keyboards), James Werle (Lead Guitar), and Saundrah Humphrey (Violin). They were formed in 2004, and have released three EPs and one full length album through Santa Barbara-based Matinee Recordings. Their genre also includes twee, and according to PitchforkMedia, their music were described as "music to hold hands to." Suitable for most lovey dovey couple!
Math and Physics Club is so fun to listen to. You could listen to the voice of Charles all day and enjoy the music at the same time. No complaints about his voice (and the rest of Math and Physics Club) and the simplicity of their music, and yet impressive songs and lyrics has left a vivid mark on my mind.
The album opens with "Darling, Please Come Home" which is such an infectious track that I think it's one of the best tracks on the album. The guitar of this track keeps repeating in a tempo and pace that is so friendly to our ears and I can't help it but mocking to play a guitar whenever I listen to this song. When Charles sings, "Darling won't you please come home..." I knew they had me, they had me thinking about this song all the time. Amazing and lovely opener! I keep imagining myself saying, "Darling, won't you please come home..."
"I Know What I Want" is perfect when you are proposing! The music playing of this song is just so soothing and take note of the lyrics of this song, "How did you know me so well? You smile but you won't ever tell... It's you... I know what I want.." You can hear Charles' lovely voice which is a bonus to this song! He sings so effortlessly while the rest of Math and Physics Club join in with their guitar, bass, drums and even violin. It's a short song but it definitely worth your time for listening to it.
Stop complaining about the dates that end up in rain and check out "April Showers". Somehow, I can feel that Charles is singing about a date of his. Singing about how wonderful rain can be (you can replace "Rain" with "Shower" ) if you were with someone that you love. Charles goes, "There's no place I'd rather be, than with you right next to me, huddled up under my umbrella, though the rain keeps falling down..." You can hear lots of guitar plucking in "April Showers" and it's like Math and Physics Club are playing in a cave whenever I heard the guitar plucking sound/part. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba... April Showers... Though I prefer October Showers, my birth month!
"Holidays and Saturdays" is a slow-paced song and it shows Math and Physic Club's versatility. They're already very good with mid and fast-tempo songs,"Holidays and Saturdays" is just another song to show that they can even perform slow-tempo song. Picnic in the park, croquet on the lawn, staying up and talking until dawn... These are the things that we do on weekends, aren't we? A nice way to slow down the tempo of the album.
"La La La Lisa" brings the tempo back! It has a few starts and stops in between but nevertheless, it still makes a good song. I wonder who is Lisa (a girl he met/saw in a club?), Charles sings about her as if he's so much in love with her, dying to hold her hands, dying to kiss her, dying to be with her. It goes, "I would have died for just one kiss, I had the chance just to hold hands..." It's just so smart of Math and Physics Club to write such witty lyrics. When Charles sings, "La La La La La La..." There must have been many things going on between Lisa and him.
"Look At Us Now" starts off with acoustic guitar and violin. Lovely! Nice opening to get me wondering for more. "We were in love, but look at us now, ba ba ba ba ba..." It is as if they were so much in love, until now. "Look at us now...," Charles added. Then there are guitar solo followed by violin solo, what a play in such a short song!
"You'll Miss Me" is another slow tempo song on the album. It's one of my favourite songs on the album. I just love the guitar, bass, piano, violin and even the vocals on this song. It found its way to my heart even at the first listen. Charles goes, "Never should have left this carry on for so long, but I dare say that you'll miss me..." and then he goes again with, "La da da da da la da da...." I gotta say, it's just so good! :-D Each time after the chorus, the piano comes in exactly at the right time. Really impressive!
"Cold as Minnesota" has a very tasty and groovy bassline to it. The bassline itself is the best asset of this song. Accompanied by handclaps after the break, it's one of the most dance-able songs on the album. This song is as if Charles were getting mad at someone, "Step outside in the cold, I don't want you here tomorrow when I wake up", but Math and Physics Club made it a groovy track that is so delicious to our ears. I can't say no!
From the lyrics of "Such a Simple Plan", it seems to be a sad song. But again, Math and Physics Club made it an enjoyable and dance-able track. Charles sings about a girl who's having a failed relationship, "Summer turned into June, she spent morning night and noon in a tiny room, typing away to another sad romantic..." It ends with, "She cries and reads herself to sleep instead". Such a simple plan but with a deep meaning!
Math and Physics Club ends with "Last Dance", a poppy and cheerful song that you want to tap your feet and dance to. The two guitar-playing were well arranged and timed. One is the lead guitar, the other a rhythm guitar. "Why does it have to be sad? Now darling don't be mad, let's put the past behind, and hit the floor before the last dance... To make you fall for me" Next time when you're having a party, please dance with your partnet and remember the lyrics from "Last Dance". You'll have the best last dance ever!
Rating: I can imagine myself singing a couple of songs take from the album. "Math and Physics Club" is really created for a couple. All their songs and lyrics are meant to be listened and enjoyed by couples and lovers! If you ever have a chance to sing to your loved ones in front of a big crowd, you'll know which album to look for! Simple but heart-melting, I can't help it but give it 7.8 out of 10.
Stand-Out Tracks (My Picks): Darling, Please Come Home, I Know What I Want, You'll Miss Me, Last Dance and Cold as Minnesota.
Source: ezinearticles.com
Math and Physics Club are an indie pop (Or Indie Rock) band based in Seattle, Washington. They are Charles Bert (Vocals/Rhythm Guitar), Kevin Emerson (Drums), Ethan Jones (Bass/Keyboards), James Werle (Lead Guitar), and Saundrah Humphrey (Violin). They were formed in 2004, and have released three EPs and one full length album through Santa Barbara-based Matinee Recordings. Their genre also includes twee, and according to PitchforkMedia, their music were described as "music to hold hands to." Suitable for most lovey dovey couple!
Math and Physics Club is so fun to listen to. You could listen to the voice of Charles all day and enjoy the music at the same time. No complaints about his voice (and the rest of Math and Physics Club) and the simplicity of their music, and yet impressive songs and lyrics has left a vivid mark on my mind.
The album opens with "Darling, Please Come Home" which is such an infectious track that I think it's one of the best tracks on the album. The guitar of this track keeps repeating in a tempo and pace that is so friendly to our ears and I can't help it but mocking to play a guitar whenever I listen to this song. When Charles sings, "Darling won't you please come home..." I knew they had me, they had me thinking about this song all the time. Amazing and lovely opener! I keep imagining myself saying, "Darling, won't you please come home..."
"I Know What I Want" is perfect when you are proposing! The music playing of this song is just so soothing and take note of the lyrics of this song, "How did you know me so well? You smile but you won't ever tell... It's you... I know what I want.." You can hear Charles' lovely voice which is a bonus to this song! He sings so effortlessly while the rest of Math and Physics Club join in with their guitar, bass, drums and even violin. It's a short song but it definitely worth your time for listening to it.
Stop complaining about the dates that end up in rain and check out "April Showers". Somehow, I can feel that Charles is singing about a date of his. Singing about how wonderful rain can be (you can replace "Rain" with "Shower" ) if you were with someone that you love. Charles goes, "There's no place I'd rather be, than with you right next to me, huddled up under my umbrella, though the rain keeps falling down..." You can hear lots of guitar plucking in "April Showers" and it's like Math and Physics Club are playing in a cave whenever I heard the guitar plucking sound/part. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba... April Showers... Though I prefer October Showers, my birth month!
"Holidays and Saturdays" is a slow-paced song and it shows Math and Physic Club's versatility. They're already very good with mid and fast-tempo songs,"Holidays and Saturdays" is just another song to show that they can even perform slow-tempo song. Picnic in the park, croquet on the lawn, staying up and talking until dawn... These are the things that we do on weekends, aren't we? A nice way to slow down the tempo of the album.
"La La La Lisa" brings the tempo back! It has a few starts and stops in between but nevertheless, it still makes a good song. I wonder who is Lisa (a girl he met/saw in a club?), Charles sings about her as if he's so much in love with her, dying to hold her hands, dying to kiss her, dying to be with her. It goes, "I would have died for just one kiss, I had the chance just to hold hands..." It's just so smart of Math and Physics Club to write such witty lyrics. When Charles sings, "La La La La La La..." There must have been many things going on between Lisa and him.
"Look At Us Now" starts off with acoustic guitar and violin. Lovely! Nice opening to get me wondering for more. "We were in love, but look at us now, ba ba ba ba ba..." It is as if they were so much in love, until now. "Look at us now...," Charles added. Then there are guitar solo followed by violin solo, what a play in such a short song!
"You'll Miss Me" is another slow tempo song on the album. It's one of my favourite songs on the album. I just love the guitar, bass, piano, violin and even the vocals on this song. It found its way to my heart even at the first listen. Charles goes, "Never should have left this carry on for so long, but I dare say that you'll miss me..." and then he goes again with, "La da da da da la da da...." I gotta say, it's just so good! :-D Each time after the chorus, the piano comes in exactly at the right time. Really impressive!
"Cold as Minnesota" has a very tasty and groovy bassline to it. The bassline itself is the best asset of this song. Accompanied by handclaps after the break, it's one of the most dance-able songs on the album. This song is as if Charles were getting mad at someone, "Step outside in the cold, I don't want you here tomorrow when I wake up", but Math and Physics Club made it a groovy track that is so delicious to our ears. I can't say no!
From the lyrics of "Such a Simple Plan", it seems to be a sad song. But again, Math and Physics Club made it an enjoyable and dance-able track. Charles sings about a girl who's having a failed relationship, "Summer turned into June, she spent morning night and noon in a tiny room, typing away to another sad romantic..." It ends with, "She cries and reads herself to sleep instead". Such a simple plan but with a deep meaning!
Math and Physics Club ends with "Last Dance", a poppy and cheerful song that you want to tap your feet and dance to. The two guitar-playing were well arranged and timed. One is the lead guitar, the other a rhythm guitar. "Why does it have to be sad? Now darling don't be mad, let's put the past behind, and hit the floor before the last dance... To make you fall for me" Next time when you're having a party, please dance with your partnet and remember the lyrics from "Last Dance". You'll have the best last dance ever!
Rating: I can imagine myself singing a couple of songs take from the album. "Math and Physics Club" is really created for a couple. All their songs and lyrics are meant to be listened and enjoyed by couples and lovers! If you ever have a chance to sing to your loved ones in front of a big crowd, you'll know which album to look for! Simple but heart-melting, I can't help it but give it 7.8 out of 10.
Stand-Out Tracks (My Picks): Darling, Please Come Home, I Know What I Want, You'll Miss Me, Last Dance and Cold as Minnesota.
Darren Tan is a huge avid fan of indie music, indie bands and indie artists. Since he was 17 years old, he started to fall in love with the indie music scene. It was a total turning point in his life for him as he no longer look at the indie music industry the same since.
With http://www.indiesurf.com , he wants to share his thoughts, comments, reviews and opinions on the latest (and past/old) indie music, indie bands and indie artists with the world and you. You are also invited to share your views as well.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Superthrive Enters The Studio To Begin Recording Their Anticipated New Release
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
January 22nd, 2003- Jersey City, NJ.- The band Superthrive has been busy at work in Threshold Studios (NYC), completing tracks for their upcoming release. Due to the attention they received from their last CD, โ€œLive At CBGB'sโ€, writer Lewis R. Skillman of The Patriot Press was allowed a sneak preview of the material while the band cut tracks. Mr. Skillman published his review in the January 20th issue of the Queens based paper and spoke highly of the projected material. โ€œThe song STITCHES is going to be a breakthrough for this four piece bandโ€ฆa tight powerful almost โ€œpopโ€ song in the vein of Foo Fighters and The Hivesโ€โ€ฆ Mr. Skillman also noted โ€œanother gem is the song STRATOFORTRESS. A grooving catchy riff with lyrics conveying a sense of political and social consciousness laced with satireโ€โ€ฆ โ€œSuperthrive's new material shows a diverse, intense and refreshingly real style, this is the band to watch for in 2003.โ€
It's been less then a year since Superthrive's last release. โ€œLive at CBGB'sโ€ has become a piece of underground anthology that has received numerous rave reviews. The band released the live recording to show what writer Constantino Andruzzi of Vincebus Eruptium said is one of their โ€œstrongest featuresโ€. Their live sound. Very few indie bands have tried this approach. However the idea proved to be innovative and rewarding. The live recording brought even more attention to their first studio release โ€œSeven Songs For Sinnersโ€ (Beard Of Stars Records). Stonedgods.com reviewer El Nino, gave the album 4 out of 5 stars saying โ€œThe band plays very inspired heavy rock reminiscent of some of the Seattle heroesโ€โ€ฆ โ€œCool ideas, a very original approachโ€ฆand some of the best chorus's I have heard in a long timeโ€.
The band has drawn attention from indie labels and producers. The organization Women In Rock reviewed the live material and called the band immediately. In cyber space the attention is equal. The band's website received over 1,000 hits since November 1st and the Superthrive website is rated as the number 1 site for searches on Google.com. Underground Music Television posted Superthrive's live video on their website (www.umtv.info ) and began playing it in rotation on the show. Quickly Superthrive's video for the song โ€œWatch Us Burnโ€ was voted into the top five videos for UMTV.
While Superthrive finishes up their recording they are also working on numerous shows in and around their home turf NYC. They have submitted material to be considered to play in the Rhode Island Block Music Festival, the Warped tour and this year's Ozzfest when it hits the East Coast.
End.
Contact:
Sue Karlik
42 Graham Street
Jersey City, NJ. 07307
201.963.0364
sueasinsue@hotmail.com
Source: free-articles
January 22nd, 2003- Jersey City, NJ.- The band Superthrive has been busy at work in Threshold Studios (NYC), completing tracks for their upcoming release. Due to the attention they received from their last CD, โ€œLive At CBGB'sโ€, writer Lewis R. Skillman of The Patriot Press was allowed a sneak preview of the material while the band cut tracks. Mr. Skillman published his review in the January 20th issue of the Queens based paper and spoke highly of the projected material. โ€œThe song STITCHES is going to be a breakthrough for this four piece bandโ€ฆa tight powerful almost โ€œpopโ€ song in the vein of Foo Fighters and The Hivesโ€โ€ฆ Mr. Skillman also noted โ€œanother gem is the song STRATOFORTRESS. A grooving catchy riff with lyrics conveying a sense of political and social consciousness laced with satireโ€โ€ฆ โ€œSuperthrive's new material shows a diverse, intense and refreshingly real style, this is the band to watch for in 2003.โ€
It's been less then a year since Superthrive's last release. โ€œLive at CBGB'sโ€ has become a piece of underground anthology that has received numerous rave reviews. The band released the live recording to show what writer Constantino Andruzzi of Vincebus Eruptium said is one of their โ€œstrongest featuresโ€. Their live sound. Very few indie bands have tried this approach. However the idea proved to be innovative and rewarding. The live recording brought even more attention to their first studio release โ€œSeven Songs For Sinnersโ€ (Beard Of Stars Records). Stonedgods.com reviewer El Nino, gave the album 4 out of 5 stars saying โ€œThe band plays very inspired heavy rock reminiscent of some of the Seattle heroesโ€โ€ฆ โ€œCool ideas, a very original approachโ€ฆand some of the best chorus's I have heard in a long timeโ€.
The band has drawn attention from indie labels and producers. The organization Women In Rock reviewed the live material and called the band immediately. In cyber space the attention is equal. The band's website received over 1,000 hits since November 1st and the Superthrive website is rated as the number 1 site for searches on Google.com. Underground Music Television posted Superthrive's live video on their website (www.umtv.info ) and began playing it in rotation on the show. Quickly Superthrive's video for the song โ€œWatch Us Burnโ€ was voted into the top five videos for UMTV.
While Superthrive finishes up their recording they are also working on numerous shows in and around their home turf NYC. They have submitted material to be considered to play in the Rhode Island Block Music Festival, the Warped tour and this year's Ozzfest when it hits the East Coast.
End.
Contact:
Sue Karlik
42 Graham Street
Jersey City, NJ. 07307
201.963.0364
sueasinsue@hotmail.com
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Have you heard Carnie Digital's indie Funk and Roll featured artist?
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
July, 2003 -- As part of this week's artist series, Carnie Digital.com (http://www.carniedigital.com) is featuring Brian Hartzog, a Charlotte, NC funk and roll artist/songwriter. Brian Hartzog's debut CD, The Smashing of Pictures, is accessible from the site's home page and is for sale in their online store.
"It's great that Carnie Digital is supporting independent music", says Hartzog. "I'm very thankful that, in this time of great industry change, Carnie Digital is standing by independent artists like me." While Hartzog's blend of classic rock and funk is intriguing, it's his sense of today's independent artist that is most striking.
"Today's independent artist must create his or her own record industry. You can't wait for your audience to find you. If you want people to hear your music, you have to find them...which means creating your own web site, your own promotion style, and even your own brand. The web is a great place that you can reach people...for a very little amount of cash...It's mind-blowing that sites like Carnie Digital are there to help you."
Hartzog's debut release The Smashing of Pictures is really an outgrowth of his independent spirit. In addition to writing all the songs, he performed all the instruments AND produced the disc himself. He even released it on his own record label and used the money he made to help improve his home studio.
The Smashing of Pictures contains 12 "funk and roll" songs, which Hartzog describes as a mixture of the classic rock of Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan with the funk of Prince, Parliament, and James Brown. For good measure, Hartzog mixes in a little angst and even some spoken word.
Brian Hartzog's mix of funk and rock has a certain quality to it that is distinctively independent from the sounds of his influences, which is probably why he coined the category "funk and roll".
Carnie Digital's feature of Brian Hartzog begins Monday, July 14th and extends through Sunday July20th.
To learn more about Brian Hartzog, or to hear clips of his music, log onto http://www.carniedigital.com or http://www.brianhartzog.com.
Source: free-articles
July, 2003 -- As part of this week's artist series, Carnie Digital.com (http://www.carniedigital.com) is featuring Brian Hartzog, a Charlotte, NC funk and roll artist/songwriter. Brian Hartzog's debut CD, The Smashing of Pictures, is accessible from the site's home page and is for sale in their online store.
"It's great that Carnie Digital is supporting independent music", says Hartzog. "I'm very thankful that, in this time of great industry change, Carnie Digital is standing by independent artists like me." While Hartzog's blend of classic rock and funk is intriguing, it's his sense of today's independent artist that is most striking.
"Today's independent artist must create his or her own record industry. You can't wait for your audience to find you. If you want people to hear your music, you have to find them...which means creating your own web site, your own promotion style, and even your own brand. The web is a great place that you can reach people...for a very little amount of cash...It's mind-blowing that sites like Carnie Digital are there to help you."
Hartzog's debut release The Smashing of Pictures is really an outgrowth of his independent spirit. In addition to writing all the songs, he performed all the instruments AND produced the disc himself. He even released it on his own record label and used the money he made to help improve his home studio.
The Smashing of Pictures contains 12 "funk and roll" songs, which Hartzog describes as a mixture of the classic rock of Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan with the funk of Prince, Parliament, and James Brown. For good measure, Hartzog mixes in a little angst and even some spoken word.
Brian Hartzog's mix of funk and rock has a certain quality to it that is distinctively independent from the sounds of his influences, which is probably why he coined the category "funk and roll".
Carnie Digital's feature of Brian Hartzog begins Monday, July 14th and extends through Sunday July20th.
To learn more about Brian Hartzog, or to hear clips of his music, log onto http://www.carniedigital.com or http://www.brianhartzog.com.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Music for Peace and Charity: Not just Bono Anymore
Author: Anonymous
Source: free-articles
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
One World Beat Launches Global Music Festival for Peace and Charity
Musicians of all styles and levels unite to make a difference through their music.
Lausanne, Switzerland (February 18, 2003) -- One World Beat today announces the launch of a grassroots global music festival for charity and peace to take place on the first weekend of spring, March 21-23, 2003. Musicians and bands of all kinds, as well as music venues, promoters and non-profit groups will unite for performances around the world to communicate one message:
Music Making a Difference.
Proceeds of each benefit will be donated to a local or international aid organization of the participants' choice.
Events around the world
As word has circulated about this very special project, a steady stream of enthusiastic musicians and organizations from around the globe have added their names to the rapidly expanding network of concerts planned for the festival weekend. There are already over 30 confirmed events -- in Canada, United States, Australia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Germany, Brazil, Bolivia, Romania, England, Tunisia, Gibraltar, Japan and Switzerland -- and new participants are signing up every day. Legendary recording artist Phil Collins has also expressed his support for this innovative festival.
The basic philosophy of the One World Beat festival is simple: to give musicians and bands from all walks of life the opportunity to take part in a global event for a good cause. There are no restrictions as far as the size of a festival concert. They will range from several high-profile shows at the Hard Rock Cafes in San Francisco, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Philadelphia, PA; and B.B. King's Blues Club in Los Angeles, CA; to three-day marathons of local artists at Zaphod Beeblebrox in Ottawa (Canada), Toronto (Canada) and Duisburg (Germany), to one day events in La Paz (Bolivia), Norwich (England), Bishop's Stortford (England), Ingle Farm (Australia), just to name a few. Browse all events at the official festival website: www.OneWorldBeat.org.
One World Beat Partners
The success of the festival is due in part to the strong support One World Beat is getting from over 70 music web sites and webmasters who have been putting up banners and informing their communities. One World Beat's partners include:
BlackDogPromotions.com, Hamptons Entertainment Group, Tokyo-Blues.com, GlobalArtistVillage.org, ModernRock.com, ReggaeTrain.com, GlobalTrance.co.uk, SeattleMusic.com, Indie-Music.com, LongIslandMusicScene.com, Guitar Players Association America, SAMusic.com and many more local music sites.
Join the One World Beat Music Festival 2003
To make the first edition of the One World Beat music festival a big success we are inviting musicians, bands, music venues, promoters and non-profit organizations to join the global music festival. They can do so either by organizing a local event or joining one already planned in their area. More information about what it takes to get involved is available at www.OneWorldBeat.org.
One World Beat was founded by Swiss songwriter and musician Andy Treichler in March 2002 to raise awareness and funds for global and local charitable projects. The organization's headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland. Over the past 10 months he has developed a network of volunteers, musicians and promoters who have combined their efforts to make the first One World Beat Music Festival a reality.
"The idea of giving musicians the possibility to be part of a humanitarian project in a direct way was a natural one to me," says Treichler. "After all, so much music is about changing the world, about making it better. I see One World Beat as a way to allow musicians like myself to do something more than just sing about making a difference. Now, we have an opportunity to actually do it."
Other participants share his enthusiasm:
"My company and its recording artists are very proud to be a part of the One World Beat festival," says Ray Los, founder of the Hamptons Entertainment Group in Long Island, NY.
โ€œThe One World Beat music festival is a chance for our organization to put itself on the map and to showcase Zimbabwe's local music talents,โ€ says Novell Zwangendaba, president of Music for Peace in Zimbabwe.
โ€œWe have watched Bono and U2 playing for international aid organizations and have waited for an opportunity like this to participate in a global charity project and help people through our music,โ€ says Kelly Pink of the Toronto-based Metal band Tripchord.
CONTACT:
One World Beat
Andy Treichler, Director
P.O Box 41
1073 Savigny
Switzerland
Phone: ++ 41 78 829 0106
festival@oneworldbeat.org
www.OneWorldBeat.org
One World Beatยฎ is a registered trademark
.
Source: free-articles
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
One World Beat Launches Global Music Festival for Peace and Charity
Musicians of all styles and levels unite to make a difference through their music.
Lausanne, Switzerland (February 18, 2003) -- One World Beat today announces the launch of a grassroots global music festival for charity and peace to take place on the first weekend of spring, March 21-23, 2003. Musicians and bands of all kinds, as well as music venues, promoters and non-profit groups will unite for performances around the world to communicate one message:
Music Making a Difference.
Proceeds of each benefit will be donated to a local or international aid organization of the participants' choice.
Events around the world
As word has circulated about this very special project, a steady stream of enthusiastic musicians and organizations from around the globe have added their names to the rapidly expanding network of concerts planned for the festival weekend. There are already over 30 confirmed events -- in Canada, United States, Australia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Germany, Brazil, Bolivia, Romania, England, Tunisia, Gibraltar, Japan and Switzerland -- and new participants are signing up every day. Legendary recording artist Phil Collins has also expressed his support for this innovative festival.
The basic philosophy of the One World Beat festival is simple: to give musicians and bands from all walks of life the opportunity to take part in a global event for a good cause. There are no restrictions as far as the size of a festival concert. They will range from several high-profile shows at the Hard Rock Cafes in San Francisco, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Philadelphia, PA; and B.B. King's Blues Club in Los Angeles, CA; to three-day marathons of local artists at Zaphod Beeblebrox in Ottawa (Canada), Toronto (Canada) and Duisburg (Germany), to one day events in La Paz (Bolivia), Norwich (England), Bishop's Stortford (England), Ingle Farm (Australia), just to name a few. Browse all events at the official festival website: www.OneWorldBeat.org.
One World Beat Partners
The success of the festival is due in part to the strong support One World Beat is getting from over 70 music web sites and webmasters who have been putting up banners and informing their communities. One World Beat's partners include:
BlackDogPromotions.com, Hamptons Entertainment Group, Tokyo-Blues.com, GlobalArtistVillage.org, ModernRock.com, ReggaeTrain.com, GlobalTrance.co.uk, SeattleMusic.com, Indie-Music.com, LongIslandMusicScene.com, Guitar Players Association America, SAMusic.com and many more local music sites.
Join the One World Beat Music Festival 2003
To make the first edition of the One World Beat music festival a big success we are inviting musicians, bands, music venues, promoters and non-profit organizations to join the global music festival. They can do so either by organizing a local event or joining one already planned in their area. More information about what it takes to get involved is available at www.OneWorldBeat.org.
One World Beat was founded by Swiss songwriter and musician Andy Treichler in March 2002 to raise awareness and funds for global and local charitable projects. The organization's headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland. Over the past 10 months he has developed a network of volunteers, musicians and promoters who have combined their efforts to make the first One World Beat Music Festival a reality.
"The idea of giving musicians the possibility to be part of a humanitarian project in a direct way was a natural one to me," says Treichler. "After all, so much music is about changing the world, about making it better. I see One World Beat as a way to allow musicians like myself to do something more than just sing about making a difference. Now, we have an opportunity to actually do it."
Other participants share his enthusiasm:
"My company and its recording artists are very proud to be a part of the One World Beat festival," says Ray Los, founder of the Hamptons Entertainment Group in Long Island, NY.
โ€œThe One World Beat music festival is a chance for our organization to put itself on the map and to showcase Zimbabwe's local music talents,โ€ says Novell Zwangendaba, president of Music for Peace in Zimbabwe.
โ€œWe have watched Bono and U2 playing for international aid organizations and have waited for an opportunity like this to participate in a global charity project and help people through our music,โ€ says Kelly Pink of the Toronto-based Metal band Tripchord.
CONTACT:
One World Beat
Andy Treichler, Director
P.O Box 41
1073 Savigny
Switzerland
Phone: ++ 41 78 829 0106
festival@oneworldbeat.org
www.OneWorldBeat.org
One World Beatยฎ is a registered trademark
.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Lawrence, Kansas Band Releases New Album
Author: TastingSpace.com
Source: articledashboard.com
On June 5, Brendan Hangauer's indie rock band, Fourth of July, will release "Fourth of July on the Plains," their long-awaited national debut album after playing music around the Kansas City and Lawrence area for the past five or so years.
"Fourth of July on the Plains" was recorded over a period of five days from noon until midnight at Mixtape Soundlab in Lawrence, and it will be released on Range Life Records, an independent label which was started last year by Brendan's older brother, Zachary.
Over the years, Fourth of July has grown to become a sextet of talented musicians which includes Brendan's brothers, Patrick and Kelly, Steve Swyers, Adrianne Verhoeven, and Brian Costello.
It was during the past year, however, when things really started to come together within the band when Swyers and Costello were added to the lineup.
"The best thing about the Fourth of July is the chemistry among the members. We are all great friends, as well as professional musicians," Costello said.
Originally mainly a folk band, it has evolved over the years and "Fourth of July on the Plains" became much more of a rock album. However, the folk influences of Townes Van Zandt and Bob Dylan can still be clearly heard.
Of the twelve songs on the album, each one is a hit within itself. With every song creating as many hooks and choruses as the one before, there is not much down time on the record. Thus, the album leaves the listener ready to start it over as the final track ends.
"I am absolutely happy with the turnout of the album. The guys at Mixtape did a great job. Jim Vollentine, at Jack Rock Studios in Austin, did a phenomenal job with the mixing and mastering as well, especially with the vocals. The sound and energy is perfect," Costello said.
After the record is released, Fourth of July plans to be keeping it on the "plains" for the summer by doing a small Midwestern tour to promote it and jumpstart themselves as a band outside of Lawrence and Kansas City.
"The idea is to do a 10-14 day tour in late June where we are going to go through the Midwest and parts of the South, you know some real sweaty southern rock shows," Costello said. "After we get a small tour under our belt, hopefully we can grab a booking agent which would allow us to have a big tour sometime in the fall."
But before they hit the road this summer, Fourth of July will be having their CD release party on Saturday, June 2, at the Bottleneck in Lawrence with fellow locals the Roseline opening.
Source: articledashboard.com
On June 5, Brendan Hangauer's indie rock band, Fourth of July, will release "Fourth of July on the Plains," their long-awaited national debut album after playing music around the Kansas City and Lawrence area for the past five or so years.
"Fourth of July on the Plains" was recorded over a period of five days from noon until midnight at Mixtape Soundlab in Lawrence, and it will be released on Range Life Records, an independent label which was started last year by Brendan's older brother, Zachary.
Over the years, Fourth of July has grown to become a sextet of talented musicians which includes Brendan's brothers, Patrick and Kelly, Steve Swyers, Adrianne Verhoeven, and Brian Costello.
It was during the past year, however, when things really started to come together within the band when Swyers and Costello were added to the lineup.
"The best thing about the Fourth of July is the chemistry among the members. We are all great friends, as well as professional musicians," Costello said.
Originally mainly a folk band, it has evolved over the years and "Fourth of July on the Plains" became much more of a rock album. However, the folk influences of Townes Van Zandt and Bob Dylan can still be clearly heard.
Of the twelve songs on the album, each one is a hit within itself. With every song creating as many hooks and choruses as the one before, there is not much down time on the record. Thus, the album leaves the listener ready to start it over as the final track ends.
"I am absolutely happy with the turnout of the album. The guys at Mixtape did a great job. Jim Vollentine, at Jack Rock Studios in Austin, did a phenomenal job with the mixing and mastering as well, especially with the vocals. The sound and energy is perfect," Costello said.
After the record is released, Fourth of July plans to be keeping it on the "plains" for the summer by doing a small Midwestern tour to promote it and jumpstart themselves as a band outside of Lawrence and Kansas City.
"The idea is to do a 10-14 day tour in late June where we are going to go through the Midwest and parts of the South, you know some real sweaty southern rock shows," Costello said. "After we get a small tour under our belt, hopefully we can grab a booking agent which would allow us to have a big tour sometime in the fall."
But before they hit the road this summer, Fourth of July will be having their CD release party on Saturday, June 2, at the Bottleneck in Lawrence with fellow locals the Roseline opening.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Why You Should Set Up Your Own Record Label, and How To Do It
Author: Nathan Hallford
Source: articleage.com
Music is changing. In fact, the music industry is changing; it is changing even faster than it realises. Major record labels are often up to speed on latest developments, but it is indie music that leads the way in the music world - and everyone else seems to follow. Indeed, with the online music revolution taking place right now, being signed to a major record label is less and less important. However, having your own record label can be more and more beneficial.
Starting out
First of all, you really have to think about the image you want to convey. Every record label has an image, mostly created by the selection of bands on the label. So start off by grouping together with some bands you know that are similar to yours. Make sure that these bands are serious, and that they believe in the record label. You will be doing a lot of band promotion together, and sharing a lot of resources, so you need to trust these musicians, and you need to maintain your brand identity. Because yes; a record label is a 'brand'. Think of certain record labels you know, and you immediately associate them with a certain ethos - a certain type of music. For example, 4AD built its reputation by signing bands like The Throwing Muses, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, The Cocteau Twins, and of course, The Pixies. It has always been known as an off-the-wall combination of ethereal and edgy rock bands.
First steps - sharing resources
Sharing your resources as a young record label is very important. It is essential that every band on the label helps in the creation by joining in fully. Finding a rehearsal studio is a good first step - find a location that you can all share, and use your own equipment. You will cut down on costs, and you will find that you have more time available for rehearsing. Secondly, if you have some money behind you, try to assemble your own studio. You can maybe contact other studios to see if they have old equipment that they want to sell second-hand, or you can scour the internet for offers. If you have the equipment to record, then you won't have to pay for studio time, and you can take as long as you want to record your music.
This initial investment may hurt you, but a record label is a long-term investment, and if you are serious about producing good quality music, you are taking the right steps.
First steps - Responsibilities
Everyone involved in the record label should know their responsibilities. First of all, you should be looking at getting a distribution deal. This means that someone has to contact the distributors and cut a deal with them, and maintain friendly relations. Distributors will often ask record labels for approximately 40% of the cover price of a CD, which may seem like a lot, but it will get your CDs into the record shops.
Naturally, not everyone buys CDs nowadays. Music is changing, don't forget, and the online revolution means that people are downloading music online more and more. Inclusion on i-Tunes, therefore, is absolutely essential, as is your own page on myspace.com. You should have your own page for the record label, as well as pages for each band - make sure that as many people as possible can hear your music and can see that your label exists.
Someone should be regularly contacting radio stations, both internet radio stations and traditional radio stations. Once you have targeted the radio stations you want to work with, you can cut a deal with them, maintain good relations with them, and carry out your band promotion.
Next steps - Creating The Product
So, once you have set up your organisation, you have to create a product to promote. Make sure that you only release one CD at a time, so that you can focus your promotion - try to have all the groups working to a schedule that is set well in advance. That way, you can organise the band promotion so that everyone benefits from it.
You need to consider copyright as well. Each band has to copyright its own music before putting it out on the net, or distributing it in record shops, and you have to copyright your own brand as well. This is part of the regular paperwork involved in running your own record label, so make sure that you know your country's administration backwards!
When promoting gigs, make sure that your flyers all carry the same identity, i.e. your record label logo, and the same layout. This gives people the idea that something important is happening, and creating a buzz around your groups is very important. When people see a record label at the bottom of a flyer, they are immediately impressed, so in effect, you are creating your own buzz!
Keeping it going
So you have your rehearsal studio, you are producing your own music yourself, and your bands are playing concerts, and doing well. So keep it up - keep coming up with new promotional ideas, and keep the buzz alive. Create a small festival, make sure that your label is recognised by the owners of the local venues and make sure that you have a good reputation. You have a lot of organising to do if you are going to run your own record label, but it's worth the time and the effort.
It is also important that you look for independent musicians who might want to join your record label. You will probably receive a lot of demos from various bands, but the best way to add indie bands to your label is to go out and find them yourself. Don't forget, a record label is really just a name - but it is the driving force behind your band, and if you want to make it work, people have to know you, so that means going to music events, festivals, concerts, etc., and making band promotion your mantra.
Having your own record label, then, means that you improve your own band's reputation by association. It also means that you create your own local music community with other independent musicians, and that you benefit from each other's knowledge, know-how, and resources. Indie music has always been at the forefront of musical change - with bands often one step ahead of the crowd. Owning your own record label puts you two steps ahead of the crowd.
Source: articleage.com
Music is changing. In fact, the music industry is changing; it is changing even faster than it realises. Major record labels are often up to speed on latest developments, but it is indie music that leads the way in the music world - and everyone else seems to follow. Indeed, with the online music revolution taking place right now, being signed to a major record label is less and less important. However, having your own record label can be more and more beneficial.
Starting out
First of all, you really have to think about the image you want to convey. Every record label has an image, mostly created by the selection of bands on the label. So start off by grouping together with some bands you know that are similar to yours. Make sure that these bands are serious, and that they believe in the record label. You will be doing a lot of band promotion together, and sharing a lot of resources, so you need to trust these musicians, and you need to maintain your brand identity. Because yes; a record label is a 'brand'. Think of certain record labels you know, and you immediately associate them with a certain ethos - a certain type of music. For example, 4AD built its reputation by signing bands like The Throwing Muses, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, The Cocteau Twins, and of course, The Pixies. It has always been known as an off-the-wall combination of ethereal and edgy rock bands.
First steps - sharing resources
Sharing your resources as a young record label is very important. It is essential that every band on the label helps in the creation by joining in fully. Finding a rehearsal studio is a good first step - find a location that you can all share, and use your own equipment. You will cut down on costs, and you will find that you have more time available for rehearsing. Secondly, if you have some money behind you, try to assemble your own studio. You can maybe contact other studios to see if they have old equipment that they want to sell second-hand, or you can scour the internet for offers. If you have the equipment to record, then you won't have to pay for studio time, and you can take as long as you want to record your music.
This initial investment may hurt you, but a record label is a long-term investment, and if you are serious about producing good quality music, you are taking the right steps.
First steps - Responsibilities
Everyone involved in the record label should know their responsibilities. First of all, you should be looking at getting a distribution deal. This means that someone has to contact the distributors and cut a deal with them, and maintain friendly relations. Distributors will often ask record labels for approximately 40% of the cover price of a CD, which may seem like a lot, but it will get your CDs into the record shops.
Naturally, not everyone buys CDs nowadays. Music is changing, don't forget, and the online revolution means that people are downloading music online more and more. Inclusion on i-Tunes, therefore, is absolutely essential, as is your own page on myspace.com. You should have your own page for the record label, as well as pages for each band - make sure that as many people as possible can hear your music and can see that your label exists.
Someone should be regularly contacting radio stations, both internet radio stations and traditional radio stations. Once you have targeted the radio stations you want to work with, you can cut a deal with them, maintain good relations with them, and carry out your band promotion.
Next steps - Creating The Product
So, once you have set up your organisation, you have to create a product to promote. Make sure that you only release one CD at a time, so that you can focus your promotion - try to have all the groups working to a schedule that is set well in advance. That way, you can organise the band promotion so that everyone benefits from it.
You need to consider copyright as well. Each band has to copyright its own music before putting it out on the net, or distributing it in record shops, and you have to copyright your own brand as well. This is part of the regular paperwork involved in running your own record label, so make sure that you know your country's administration backwards!
When promoting gigs, make sure that your flyers all carry the same identity, i.e. your record label logo, and the same layout. This gives people the idea that something important is happening, and creating a buzz around your groups is very important. When people see a record label at the bottom of a flyer, they are immediately impressed, so in effect, you are creating your own buzz!
Keeping it going
So you have your rehearsal studio, you are producing your own music yourself, and your bands are playing concerts, and doing well. So keep it up - keep coming up with new promotional ideas, and keep the buzz alive. Create a small festival, make sure that your label is recognised by the owners of the local venues and make sure that you have a good reputation. You have a lot of organising to do if you are going to run your own record label, but it's worth the time and the effort.
It is also important that you look for independent musicians who might want to join your record label. You will probably receive a lot of demos from various bands, but the best way to add indie bands to your label is to go out and find them yourself. Don't forget, a record label is really just a name - but it is the driving force behind your band, and if you want to make it work, people have to know you, so that means going to music events, festivals, concerts, etc., and making band promotion your mantra.
Having your own record label, then, means that you improve your own band's reputation by association. It also means that you create your own local music community with other independent musicians, and that you benefit from each other's knowledge, know-how, and resources. Indie music has always been at the forefront of musical change - with bands often one step ahead of the crowd. Owning your own record label puts you two steps ahead of the crowd.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Music Review of Modern Guilt by Beck
Author: Darren Tan
Source: ezinearticles.com
"Beck" is an American indie/alternative artist from Los Angeles, California. Although born as Bek David Campbell, he is known as Beck or Beck Hansen on stage. Beck is mainly into making indie and alternative music which covers folk rock, hip-hop, electronic, rock and even blues. Beck is also known for being a multi-instrumentalist where he plays guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, harmonica, percussion, banjo, synthesizers and other instruments.
Modern Guilt dives in with folky opener "Orphans". It has a distant bass sound in the beginning. Once the guitar enters and Beck voices out, the track just hits the jackpot like that. It produces a country-like atmosphere to it, folk and country rock altogether. Indie artist Cat Power also known as Chan Marshall is also featured here to lend her vocals to Beck. In the bridge, the additional flute is a thing to watch out for. Very well-harmonized vocals on Orphans towards the end. Very tempting opener that will haunt especially the adults.
"Gamma Ray" is a faster tempo track and i wouldn't mind if I've been hit by Gamma Ray. The music itself speaks for itself. The vocals of Beck just add extra pump and weight to the whole song. The bass and drums keep re-looping themselves until they hit a climax further down into the track. In the verse, the music seems to be taking a break and slowly build itself for a breakthrough in the coming chorus. Every phrase that Beck sings is followed by gospel-like backing vocals. I just love the music on Gamma Ray, infectiously groovy!
"Chemtrails" is a track that suddenly slows down Modern Guilt's momentum. Listening to Chemtrails revokes your imagination, you would like you're dreaming. The piano and the synthesizers just create a soundscape that is so unreal, you be dreaming away listening to Chemtrails. Even Beck's vocals on Chemtrails blends in very well with the music. Full of howls and moans to greatly enhance the atmosphere of Chemtrails. The remaining one minute instrumental, you would enjoy the beautiful violin that plays on just before the track ends and fades into silence. What an experience!
"Modern Guilt" has a steady drum beats once it enters. Beck moans through each phrase with his vocals. Combined with the music, Beck is twisting his vocals here and there to accustom himself to Modern Guilt. Entering the chorus, the guitar just comes plucking itself in and it's really good, Beck just goes on with, "Modern guilt, I'm stranded with nothing... Modern guilt, I'm under lock and key..." In the bridge, the piano and violin speak for themselves. Beck just adds in some vocal effects to complement the music. Until the end, the whole track seems to be saving the best for last. It's very beautiful and i find myself swaying away listening to it.
The bass in the beginning of "Youthless" really revs me up. It's very tight and fast the way the bass is being played on Youthless. Even Beck sings as if he's rapping softly at between intervals. When it comes to the chorus, Beck just sings at a slightly higher pitch that seems to be echoing itself through the chorus, "And they're helpless and forgetting in the background holding nothing, and they're youthless and pretending with their bare hands holding nothing..." The synthesizers also seems to be having fun from here onwards, coming in and out, creating some cute sounds at intervals that delight us. Towards the end, cello enters and give some extra support to the bass. Very smartly composed music, very tight!
"Walls" already surprises me in the beginning. The violin-like sound created by synthesizers is really the core music on Walls. Beck just sings on as the music goes on like that. Approaching the chorus, there's a lady-like sound in the background, sometime i would think that it's Alvin from The Chipmunks which is making those funny sounds. Cat Power is again featured on this track in the chorus, where she would join Beck, "Hey what are you gonna do, when those walls are falling down, falling down on you..." The music on Walls just ends almost the way it started. Weirdly good!
"Replica" is fast and delicate simultaneously. The beats on Replica are tight and light. Due to a distant sound in the music, it makes the whole track sort of delicate. Delicate enough you would also hear Beck singing in a distant voice. Piano can also be heard in this track as Beck sings. Nearing the end, the violin only comes in and the whole track turns into an instrumental adventure before fading itself to night.
"Soul Of A Man" sounds like a rock track for the army. The bass line just follow every lyrics that Beck sings, like a chick following its mother. Handclaps and guitar riffing can also be heard as Beck sings through the track. When the chorus comes, the whole track seems to be floating in mid-air and Beck goes, "Cold was the storm, that covered the night..." Soul Of A Man is at times like a folk rock track that would definitely be appeal to the old ages. It's not loud, but its groovy beat will get onto you quietly.
"Profanity Prayers" is an upbeat track with infectious drum beats and smart vocals that just know how to enter and exit. Beck can be heard singing in a speedy voice in the verse. In the chorus, he just raises his pitch and let go of his vocals that echo back to him, "Who's gonna answer, profanity prayers, who's gonna answer, these profanity prayers..." I also like the guitar that enters in the chorus, it has this special rhythm with it. When Beck is not singing, the music just plays itself out. And i have to say, it's really good!
Beck ends Modern Guilt with slow-driving "Volcano". Beck's voice on this track gives a hint that he might be tired from all the singing that he has done on Modern Guilt. Therefore he's taking it slow with Volcano. When it comes to the first chorus, you would hear some backing vocals helping Beck out when he goes, "I don't know what I've seen, was it all an illusion? Or a mirage gone bad? I'm tired of evil, and all that it feeds, but I don't know..." With the backing vocals, it sounds really great as it adds the definitive weight to Volcano and Beck's voice. Volcano is slow but it's able to gulp you down slowly after listening to it a few times. Once you get the hook of it, you would find it hard to drop it. Sometimes it's just beautiful!
Source: ezinearticles.com
"Beck" is an American indie/alternative artist from Los Angeles, California. Although born as Bek David Campbell, he is known as Beck or Beck Hansen on stage. Beck is mainly into making indie and alternative music which covers folk rock, hip-hop, electronic, rock and even blues. Beck is also known for being a multi-instrumentalist where he plays guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, harmonica, percussion, banjo, synthesizers and other instruments.
Modern Guilt dives in with folky opener "Orphans". It has a distant bass sound in the beginning. Once the guitar enters and Beck voices out, the track just hits the jackpot like that. It produces a country-like atmosphere to it, folk and country rock altogether. Indie artist Cat Power also known as Chan Marshall is also featured here to lend her vocals to Beck. In the bridge, the additional flute is a thing to watch out for. Very well-harmonized vocals on Orphans towards the end. Very tempting opener that will haunt especially the adults.
"Gamma Ray" is a faster tempo track and i wouldn't mind if I've been hit by Gamma Ray. The music itself speaks for itself. The vocals of Beck just add extra pump and weight to the whole song. The bass and drums keep re-looping themselves until they hit a climax further down into the track. In the verse, the music seems to be taking a break and slowly build itself for a breakthrough in the coming chorus. Every phrase that Beck sings is followed by gospel-like backing vocals. I just love the music on Gamma Ray, infectiously groovy!
"Chemtrails" is a track that suddenly slows down Modern Guilt's momentum. Listening to Chemtrails revokes your imagination, you would like you're dreaming. The piano and the synthesizers just create a soundscape that is so unreal, you be dreaming away listening to Chemtrails. Even Beck's vocals on Chemtrails blends in very well with the music. Full of howls and moans to greatly enhance the atmosphere of Chemtrails. The remaining one minute instrumental, you would enjoy the beautiful violin that plays on just before the track ends and fades into silence. What an experience!
"Modern Guilt" has a steady drum beats once it enters. Beck moans through each phrase with his vocals. Combined with the music, Beck is twisting his vocals here and there to accustom himself to Modern Guilt. Entering the chorus, the guitar just comes plucking itself in and it's really good, Beck just goes on with, "Modern guilt, I'm stranded with nothing... Modern guilt, I'm under lock and key..." In the bridge, the piano and violin speak for themselves. Beck just adds in some vocal effects to complement the music. Until the end, the whole track seems to be saving the best for last. It's very beautiful and i find myself swaying away listening to it.
The bass in the beginning of "Youthless" really revs me up. It's very tight and fast the way the bass is being played on Youthless. Even Beck sings as if he's rapping softly at between intervals. When it comes to the chorus, Beck just sings at a slightly higher pitch that seems to be echoing itself through the chorus, "And they're helpless and forgetting in the background holding nothing, and they're youthless and pretending with their bare hands holding nothing..." The synthesizers also seems to be having fun from here onwards, coming in and out, creating some cute sounds at intervals that delight us. Towards the end, cello enters and give some extra support to the bass. Very smartly composed music, very tight!
"Walls" already surprises me in the beginning. The violin-like sound created by synthesizers is really the core music on Walls. Beck just sings on as the music goes on like that. Approaching the chorus, there's a lady-like sound in the background, sometime i would think that it's Alvin from The Chipmunks which is making those funny sounds. Cat Power is again featured on this track in the chorus, where she would join Beck, "Hey what are you gonna do, when those walls are falling down, falling down on you..." The music on Walls just ends almost the way it started. Weirdly good!
"Replica" is fast and delicate simultaneously. The beats on Replica are tight and light. Due to a distant sound in the music, it makes the whole track sort of delicate. Delicate enough you would also hear Beck singing in a distant voice. Piano can also be heard in this track as Beck sings. Nearing the end, the violin only comes in and the whole track turns into an instrumental adventure before fading itself to night.
"Soul Of A Man" sounds like a rock track for the army. The bass line just follow every lyrics that Beck sings, like a chick following its mother. Handclaps and guitar riffing can also be heard as Beck sings through the track. When the chorus comes, the whole track seems to be floating in mid-air and Beck goes, "Cold was the storm, that covered the night..." Soul Of A Man is at times like a folk rock track that would definitely be appeal to the old ages. It's not loud, but its groovy beat will get onto you quietly.
"Profanity Prayers" is an upbeat track with infectious drum beats and smart vocals that just know how to enter and exit. Beck can be heard singing in a speedy voice in the verse. In the chorus, he just raises his pitch and let go of his vocals that echo back to him, "Who's gonna answer, profanity prayers, who's gonna answer, these profanity prayers..." I also like the guitar that enters in the chorus, it has this special rhythm with it. When Beck is not singing, the music just plays itself out. And i have to say, it's really good!
Beck ends Modern Guilt with slow-driving "Volcano". Beck's voice on this track gives a hint that he might be tired from all the singing that he has done on Modern Guilt. Therefore he's taking it slow with Volcano. When it comes to the first chorus, you would hear some backing vocals helping Beck out when he goes, "I don't know what I've seen, was it all an illusion? Or a mirage gone bad? I'm tired of evil, and all that it feeds, but I don't know..." With the backing vocals, it sounds really great as it adds the definitive weight to Volcano and Beck's voice. Volcano is slow but it's able to gulp you down slowly after listening to it a few times. Once you get the hook of it, you would find it hard to drop it. Sometimes it's just beautiful!
Darren Tan is a huge avid fan of indie music, indie bands and indie artists. Since he was 17 years old, he started to fall in love with the indie music scene. It was a total turning point in his life for him as he no longer look at the indie music industry the same since.
With Indiesurf.com he wants to share his thoughts, comments, reviews and opinions on the latest (and past/old) indie music, indie bands and indie artists with the world and you. You are also invited to share your views as well, so he'll see you at Indiesurf.com.
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