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A new report published this week claims that Apple’s iTunes has grown even more to take a nice 28% of total music sales in the United States, with Amazon and Walmart tying for second place; digital sales now make up 40% of the market. Record labels are pissed, as their empire of over-priced CD product continues to dwindle.
Gritty Hard-Hitting Rock N’ Roll is what Diablo Royale is all about. With their sophomore release, GREEDY DOGS, the New York City based five-piece band further hones their sound into something original and “in-your-face”.
When guitarist Eric Choy and drummer Mike Sankari met guitarist Gerard (G-Man) Steixner, the seeds of what would become DR were planted. The three hunkered down in their basement rehearsal studio appropriately named “The Sweatshop” to write songs and find other musicians. As Choy recalls, “We wrote and auditioned twice a week every week for two hours every rehearsal…we must have seen over 100 people.” So after countless auditions over the course of nine months, the trio finally met vocalist Adrian Barrios and Diablo Royale was formed.
Smash City Gauntlet’s new EP, There Goes The Neighborhood, keeps the carbon footprint off the globe with environmentally friendly hip-hop. This Earth Day, Smash City Gauntlet wants you to think about hip-hop and the environment.
There Goes The Neighborhood, features 5 pollution free hip-hop cuts produced by Optiks (Blitz the Ambassador), Abbott and Sneaka Freak.
“With so much noise pollution in hip-hop we wanted to put something out that gave back to the environment and made people excited to listen to hip-hop as loud as they can in their headphones,”
Here’s a wake up call to musicians – you’re not going to make a lot off selling just your music online – you gotta have a real business model. Thanks to Information is Beautiful for putting together the research.
Cherry Suede operates differently than most bands. They distribute their music for free. They play shows at fans’ houses. They mentor other artists. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when they entered a contest that could get them an opening slot at a Bon Jovi show, they would find an innovative method to help them win.
Bon Jovi’s SuperBAND Tonight contest gives local bands a chance to open a Bon Jovi show for their hometown crowd. The contest is set up as a series of battles pitting four songs at a time against each other. Fans rank the four songs from best to worst, and then move on to another battle. The band with the most popular song wins the opening slot for the show in their city.
Multi-faceted hip-hop artist, rapper, at times a singer depending on the hook, all-around descriptive, well-spoken, and delivers the heat in unique style with vocal clarity. Having overcome many obstacles and striving for self-betterment each year, Koom the Ripper brings substance and style to hip hop.
He is concerned with doing justice to the song; not concerned with feeding a starving ego. Diverse subject matter is the foundation for each focused song, featuring head-nodding instrumentals, and fresh delivery on the “American Muscle” record.
Quiet Entertainer is a one-man project from Greg Freeman. He's an producer & DJ who creates ambient electronica music while blending it with hip-hop. His music has been explained by his fans as a combination of DJ Shadow, Boards of Canada, & Blue Man Group. Q.E.'s signature release is his Machismo EP, featuring both his sonic, ethereal production and Nashville area rappers to complement the tracks.
Quiet Entertainer has steadily been doing shows and building a reputation for giving an amazing live performance every time. For booking, you can email greg@quietentertainer.com
We totally forgot to mention that STP will be releasing their much anticipated self-titled sixth studio album on May 25.
Since, the band will be putting it out on their own, I’ve been curious about how they’ll be going about to promote it.
The first thing that they’re doing is giving away a pair of concert tickets for their upcoming spring tour (which will hopefully be used to pre-promote the album).
It may not seem like much, but it’s something free for the fans. I think they’re on the right track, let’s hope that they can keep it up.
Alice in Chains, who are in the middle of a massive North American tour, will be taking the time to interact with fans on their Livestream profile on Wednesday March 10th at 7 PM EST.
With Livestream as the exclusive streaming provider for the chat, the player widget for the webcast can be embedded anywhere. Integration with Facebook and Twitter allows viewers to engage in an online conversation with other fans and the band. For more information on the chat visit www.livestream.com/aliceinchains or the Alice in Chains Facebook page.
Just wanted to give all my readers and visitors a heads up that Me and Al are heading to the Millenium Music Conference in Harrisburg this Friday, February 19th. I will be speaking on a panel with friends David Sherbow and Lou Plaia about the “new media game” and am very excited to be a part of it!
Just note that I have hair now.
If you are planning on attending, feel free to say hi and chat about the biz. Al will be with me so if you want to talk about Pearl Jam for hours on end that should not be a problem. I’m going to be doing some special stuff for Label 2.0 members that I’ll share when i get back!
Philadelphia-area blues rockers 61 North are proud to present the second annual 61 North Benefit Concert for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). The event will be held at Salem Community College’s 400-seat Davidow Theatre in Carneys Point NJ.
Special musical guests Mad-Sweet Pangs will provide a full set followed by headliner 61 North. Guest speakers will include President Peter B. Contini of SCC and Adam Taliaferro of the Adam Taliaferro Foundation. Brian Kanady of Rowan Radio will be hosting the event.
I am publishing this story for two reasons; one, if you wanna know how to make big time $$$ in merch, look into HIM and their heart-a-gram logo. These guys must be zillionares, and that’s just from all the stuff my brother has bought off of them over the past 10 years.
Second, is the use of the phrase “mental boner” in an interview. What a way to describe the creative process guys.
What a hell of a happy new year -after whiping my champagne-hangover tears from my eyes this morning, one lone message standed out from my BlackBerry – Soundgarden is back!
Head over to their new website, Soundgardenworld.com to sign up for new updates. After you do, you’ll get to watch the video for the classic “Get on the Snake”.
The news was officially confirmed by a one Chris Cornell via Twitter just before the New Year:
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