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Mumford & Sons @ Troubadour Tuesday Night
Mon. Feb 8th – Imagine Dragons @ The Roxy (view)
Tues. Feb 9th – Mumford & Sons @ The Troubadour (view)
Wed. Feb 10th – Joe Sib’s California Calling (ft. Audra Mae) @ Largo (view)
Thurs. Feb 11th – Joe Pug @ The Echo (view)
Fri. Feb 12th – Fitz & the Tantrums @ The Echo (view)
02.5.10In Case You Missed It: Reading Recap
Interactive Grammy Show Sees Big Ratings
The 52nd annual Grammy Awards show on Sunday night reached its highest ratings since 2004, surely do in part to the show being more interactive than ever before thanks to staff and attendees use of Twitter, Facebook and other crowdsourcing features setup for fans… Terra Firma is back in the news and reportedly looking for its investors to pump additional millions into troubled EMI… In a recent LA Times Q&A with Tim Leiweke, the AEG chief executive discusses how he sees a place for AEG to compete in the concert business even with the newly approved Ticketmaster – Live Nation merger… And a new Billboard analysis looks at the potential benefits for ISP companies if they were to offer a music service to customers.
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Rumble Party L.A. Tonight in Hollywood
Rumble L.A. featuring Jaguar Love tonight @ 3 Clubs
Looking for love? Then The Rumble L.A. is where you’ll want to be tonight… This month’s show features Jaguar Love, the new project from former members of The Blood Brothers, who have been busy playing Rumble parties up and down the coast in advance of the March release of their new album Hologram Jams (Fat Possum). Tonight brings the chaotic duo to Hollywood’s 3 Clubs, along with locals The Rhone Occupation and Brooklyn trio Ultra Violent Lights. As always Rumble L.A. is FREE and presented by the fine folks at Future Sounds, RM64, Buzzbands, BMI, WOXY, Stranded In Stereo and Spin Earth. We’ll see you there…
Rumble L.A. - 9:00PM
3 Clubs
1123 Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA 90038
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Hot Dawg of the Week: Blue Hamilton
Hot Dawg of the Week: Blue Hamilton
Warner Chappell Publishing’s A&R up-and-comer Blue Hamilton is feeling anything but blue lately. With a building track record and the ink still wet from his newest signing, we thought it was a good time to catch up with the pubcos’ young earner for a spotlight in the first edition of our new feature Hot Dawg of the Week… Blue’s roster includes singer/songwriter Audra Mae whose cut “Who I Was Born To Be” is the only original song on Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream, which has sold to date over 7-million units worldwide. He signed the Oklahoma native back in ’06 when she was only a twinkle in SuBo’s eye. Audra Mae’s debut album comes out this spring on SideOneDummy Records… Hamilton also inked famed girl-kisser Katy Perry for publishing back in ’07, prior to her multi-platinum debut album One Of The Boys. She also had cuts on last year’s All I Ever Wanted from Kelly Clarkson as well as the self-titled debut from Jessie James. Perry is currently in the studio working on her follow-up album with collaborators including Tricky, The Dream and Dr. Luke among others… Blue’s newest act is Brooklyn’s Semi Precious Weapons who recently signed to HouseofGaga/Interscope Records. The band is currently in Europe finishing a run supporting Lady GaGa on The Monster Ball tour and their debut album is slated for a spring release.
Stay tuned for our next Hot Dawg of the Week…
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Rumble L.A. Thursday Night @ 3 Clubs
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In Case You Missed It: Reading Recap
Apple's New Game-Changer?
No question about it, this week saw two stories dominate the headlines and bloglines and pretty much anywhere that covers music and media, and it wasn’t the Grammy’s… First was the announcement that the DOJ had approved the Ticketmaster – Live Nation merger, much quicker than most anticipated, with the result being the formation of Live Nation Entertainment. As to be expected the reactions were plentiful and varied, including a thumbs up from influential artist manager Jim Guerinot, while Spaceland Productions founder Mitchell Frank and other indie promoters see reason for concern – both stories appearing this week in the L.A. Times music blog Pop & Hiss… The other widely reported and debated news this week was the unveiling of Apple’s new iPad. The announcement of the one-of-a-kind device was greeted with praise and skepticism, as most new Apple products do, including estimations as to what the iPad will mean for the music industry, how it will take down the Kindle, why a rebuilt iTunes is more important and Bob Lefsetz explains why he won’t be buying one.
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Fresh Ink: Notable Music signs Sam Phillips and Adrian Younge
Adrian Younge Signs to Notable Music
Los Angeles-based independent music publisher Notable Music Company has signed singer-songwriter Sam Phillips and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge.
Sam Phillips joins Notable on the heels of launching Long Play, her unique web-based subscription installation that features new music, short films, original essays, candid footage of her at work in the studio, photographs by and of her and other exclusive material. Phillips’ track “Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us” appeared on the Robert Plant and Allison Krauss Grammy-winning album Raising Sand, while her new song ”Reflecting Light” is featured in the film Crazy Heart. Find out more about Phillips and Long Play at www.samphillips.com.
The signing of composer and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge is the first in a new joint-venture between Notable and Wax Poetics, a Brooklyn-based media group that focuses on joining classic and contemporary artists via print, recordings, radio and film. Younge, a self-taught musician and film editor, composed the original score to the 2009 comedy Black Dynamite. The movie, inspired by classic blaxploitation films of the 1970’s, was a sensation at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, with the score receiving critical acclaim for capturing the true cinematic soul of the period. The album is currently available from Wax Poetics Records.
Find out more about Notable Music Company at www.notablemusic.net and read our Q&A with the pubco HERE.
**UPDATE: Amazon is giving away a FREE download of Sam Phillip’s new song “Don’t Do Anything” until Feb. 15th. Get it HERE
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Around Town: One Haven Music Pub, Apple Talk, Lucy Schwartz & more…
Lucy Schwartz EP Release Show @ Hotel Cafe - Wed, 1/27
One Haven Music Publishing led by Steve Backer and Michael Caplan is partnering up with the new BMG Rights Management publishing company via an exclusive, worldwide joint venture. BMG Rights Management is the entity formed by the financial firm KKR and Bertelsmann. Both industry veterans, Backer has had success in the label and publishing arenas (EMI Pub, V2 Records and Epic) while Caplan’s impressive A&R resume includes signing Los Lonely Boys and Matisyahu. Caplan is also the President and Co-Founder of the Or Music independent record label…
The Apple rumor-mill has been churning on high leading up to tomorrow’s “special event” in San Francisco, where many believe Steve Jobs won’t see his shadow and will unveil the highly anticipated, and up until now mythical, Apple Tablet - less likely but still in the running is the formal announcement of an iTunes music-streaming service and an answer to the Favre retirement debate…
Lucy Schwartz celebrates the release of her new EP Help Me! Help Me! (out today) tomorrow night in Los Angeles at Hotel Cafe. Schwartz first made waves in 2008 while still in high school, with her songs getting airplay on KCRW and placements in the film The Women – www.myspace.com/lucysong…
Friend of the show and Authentik Artists CEO Scott Austin has penned an open letter to Franz Ferdinand, taking the Glasgow group to task for their recent complaints via Twitter about their label and its licensing of one of the band’s songs for a new McDonald’s campaign…
**Update: Read Alex from FF’s response HERE
And mark your calendars for this Saturday at Spaceland where Future Sounds presents Nico Stai, Chief, Fences and Yikes! A Lion!…
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HoneyHoney @ Viper Room Thurs, 01/28
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In Case You Missed It: Reading Recap – Extended Remix Edition
Linkin Park charity releases digital compilation to benefit Haiti
A lot to stay on top of over this short week, so enjoy this special extended edition of our weekly recap…
More chatter about a possible new iTunes streaming service from Apple continued, fueled by Michael Robertson’s prediction that the service will come in the form of a version update allowing users to access their iTunes media library from anywhere via the proverbial “cloud”… The lineup for Coachella 2010 was announced, and headliners include Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz and Thom Yorke… Ad-supported download service Free All Music announced a deal with EMI, who joins Universal Music as the first major music companies to strike agreements with the start-up… Elsewhere, Sony and Warner Music appear to be engaged in an eMusic pricing battle… YouTube launched a new music discovery and playlist experiment… Comcast appears to be taking steps toward an a la carte music streaming service for internet and cable customers… Other ISP news includes a report that Virgin Media’s long delayed “unlimited” subscription service might be called MusicFish, it might not be unlimited and could be arriving this summer… It looks like Live Nation is putting its venues on the block in an effort to ease regulatory concerns over the Ticketmaster merger… And Prince revealed a new song “Purple and Gold” that he penned for his beloved Vikings - sorry Purple One, we’ll be rooting for the Saints…
** If you haven’t yet, make sure to visit www.musicforrelief.org, where Linkin Park took the “pay what you want” model to their charity’s digital album that benefits the crisis in Haiti. The band quickly assembled a compilation of unreleased songs from Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morissette, All-American Rejects and many others. The effort saw a quick and impressive collaboration of artists, labels and publishers who all granted full gratis rights for the compilation, and over a holiday weekend no less.
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