MUSIC NEEDED FOR HIGH END AD CAMPAIGN: GERMAN LUXURY CAR COMPANY

Description: Get your music featured in a TV and internet ad campaign for one of the world's most sustainable and prestigious automobile manufacturers in history. The campaign is scheduled to run throughout the summer of 2010. License fee will be as stated below and performance royalties will be paid through your affiliated Performing Rights Organization. We are looking for background music and are open to all genres. Details of the brand are kept confidential but will be revealed when your music has been selected and will be used for the ad. Our search for music will be primarily on YouLicense for YouLicense Artists.

LICENSE FEE: $25,000
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Music For Feature Film Needed! (URGENT)

Artists that are in the same style/vein as those listed below.

LILY ALLEN, DUFFY, GOLDFRAPP, ROGUE WAVES, THE SHINS, CSS, SPOON, ARCADE FIRE, THE STROKES, WEEZER, STARS, CASEARS, EDWARD SHARP & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, PARC AVENUE, FEIST, AMY KUNEY, THE VERONICAS, THE KILLERS.

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MUSIC NEEDED: JAB Records: Crisp Country

We are running this opportunity to find new and fresh sounds in country and give those artists the opportunity to be heard worldwide. Tracks selected by us will receive a $10 license fee, and the single will be released digitally worldwide on sites such as i-tunes, Amazon etc. Then, at the end of 2010, it will appear on our compilation "Fresh Country Sounds 2010". All the proceeds from these efforts will be donated to the Tap Project. A charitable organization that gets clean drinking water to third world countries.

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MUSIC NEEDED: YOUR MUSIC PLAYED IN STORES ACROSS EUROPE

The music submitted should be positive and uplifting with an upbeat pace. WE CANNOT ACCEPT MUSIC ALREADY REGISTERED TO ANY COLLECTION AGENCIES. Genres should be based around Hip Hop, R ‘n’ B, and commercial dance & pop. Some guitar / indie tracks can be used but they must be vibrant and have an uplifting feel as opposed to earnest & dreary ‘shoegazing’ style of indie. The genre’s must retain a level of commercialism and shouldn’t contain anything that is too niche such as trance, gangster rap, dubstep etc. To give general reference points I would suggest acts such as Kanye West, Calvin Harris, JLS, Bloc Party, La Roux, Black Eyed Peas, David Guetta etc. The tracks mustn’t contain any explicit or suggestive lyrics or have any strong religious reference. The tracks mustn’t contain any samples or extracts from other published work, unless the work is in the public domain.

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Music Licensing Online: YouLicense

YouLicense aims to gain traction in the growing market for direct music licensing deals.

From Techcrunch:
An online music licensing marketplace, YouLicense enables artists and those seeking musical content to conduct business directly without the need to deal with music companies.

Content is indexed and easily searchable. YouLicense provides standardized contracts so that both buyer and seller immediately know the legalities of a deal, allowing for a quick and easy transaction.

The obvious competitors to this site are the variety of Podcast focused free and paid music marketplaces. Whilst music licensed by YouLicense can be used for podcasts and other forms of web created content, the site aims at the full spectrum of music uses: Film & Television, Advertising Campaigns, Music on Hold, Mobile Phone Content and Audio Projects. Items offered are also not limited by format. Ringtones, sheet music and beats can be listed along with the traditional pre-recorded music.

The goal of YouLicense is to make music licensing and copyright trade a simpler and more direct process. Whilst the service is still in private beta testing, I gained access to the marketplace and it certainly looks like it’s going to deliver on its goals.

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Welcome Back to the 80s

Well, this is how trends travel in time, a couple of years ago we all went 70’s and retro in music, fashion and entertainment and now it’s time we celebrate the 80’s all over again.My brother has a theory about the 80’s: god punished humanity and the 80’s were the aftermath. Take the previous decades where people were doing experimental music, shitloads of drugs, free sex and everyone was anti government. Then fast forward to the 1980’s where god introduced all the hippies to Heroin, Crack and overdosing, put rubber masks on all the guys and gave them HIV, showed us exactly where big brother America was heading and…oh…introduced synthesizers to punk rock, psycho killer, quest’ que ce.
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How to be a Music God on Second Life

There are countless ways for music lovers to discover new artists these days, you can easily sign up to Last.fm, Myspace or even the talked about ILike service, but this one tops them all.
Whether you’re an artist looking to expose your music to new fans and get recognized, or just an average Joe looking to discover new bands and some cool tunes, the internet is the place. For years now MySpace and other music communities have been exposing up and coming music acts in the traditional or web 2.0 styles, but only recently have I discovered my Second Life.
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Will Ring Tones Save the Ailing Music Industry?

It was not long ago the Recording Industry Association of America fired its first shots aimed specifically at music downloading services and its users . Even though the legal status of such services had not yet been decided, the court cases began and downloader’s were prosecuted and fined tens of thousands of dollars. Sites that supported this “illegal” downloading were scared straight and quickly made deals with record companies to sell music “legally”. Quickly new peer to peer networks gained popularity with more downloads to boast than its predecessors. Even under the penalty of law, users continue to download music “illegally” on these networks by the millions.
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Solar Powered People: The Shoegazers Are Coming!

I was going over my “to listen” pile when I came across the self titled album by “Solar Powered People”. After a really impressive opener I was ready to turn on the computer and start writing. As the songs progressed, I found myself drowning in a wave of delays fuzz boxes and floating vocals….And then I remembered: The shoegazers are coming back!
Which begs a little history lesson…
With the success of bands like ‘Jesus and Mary Chain’, a new genre was born in the mid 80’s. The term was coined after the band’s odd style of performance, which consisted mainly of staring at the floor while playing. Sound-wise it incorporated walls of guitar, endless riffs and bucket loads of feedback.Read more on The Plugg Music Blog

Website Review: Fab Channel the Real YouTube Killer

For a music fan, sifting through the overwhelming abundance of YouTube videos may prove to be somewhat overwhelming. Among the babbling teenagers, America’s Funniest Home videos and the insanity, it’s very hard to find a good music video, let alone whole live gig.
If only there was a place where I could watch live concerts, get a chance to see Damien Rice, Bright Eyes, Stereophonics or The Magic Numbers taking to the stage in the comfort of my own home…Enter FabChannel - my new love affair.
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Flashlight, the Tip Sheet to Look For

The Orchard, probably the worlds largest digital distributor of music, releases once a week a special Tip Sheet of all the best of the best.
Have a look at this week's post.
In thier words:
"We create and distribute The Flashlight, a weekly tipsheet sent to the 100 most influential people in digital music retail. Decision-makers, from editors and programmers to CEOs, read our tipsheet, which contains digestible selling points for select albums, artists, genres, labels and tracks in our catalogue. The result is preferred placements. This week’s tipsheet >> "

“PLUG Independent Music Awards”

“The Plug Indie Music Awards” are a different breed of music awards. They pride themselves in being there for all those indie artists that the mainstream music industry has neglected through the years. So all year round, the team of Writers, Dj’s, Webmasters, Artists, Filmmakers, Managers, indie Retailers and such, join hands to make and trade mixtapes, surf and post blogs, swap MP3s and squeeze into cramped venues for the search of the hottest and most deserving indie bands out there.
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An Interesting Business Model

Recently I learned about an interesting digital music business model. The model is being introduced by a company based in a foreign country with a strong inbred rock movement. But this country is not sophisticated yet about digital distribution. Most records are only distributed by CDs domestically and in a few neighboring countries. The population of this nation, though, are very dispersed with hundreds of thousands now living throughout the world. These fans cannot buy the CDs because they are not offered outside their former home nation.The company is entering into agreements with local bands that will grant them the right to distribute their music via on-line stores.
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Amazon to offer DRM-free downloads?

Bring on the downloaders! Amazon may offer DRM-free music downloads sometime in the first quarter of 2007. Oh, if the tides would break and bring sweet water to the masses. How many times do us insignificant bloggers needs to spell it out for the record companies in big, bold, block letters? How many times does the RIAA need to lose legal cases miserably and be raked over the coals for their transgressions for the execs to stnad up and take notice that the CD business is going away and that America the world isn't happy with the way music is sold and distributed?
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Record labels sue the bejeezus out of AllofMP3.com

Arista, Warner, Capitol, UMG, and other record labels are taking legal action against the long-troubled Russian digital music site AllofMp3.com. Earlier this year, a statement from a US government trade representative pegged the site as being an even higher-volume digital music distributor than iTunes. Tom Zeller at the NYT's "The Lede" blog reports, Started in 2000, the Web service, which charged just pennies per song and roughly $1 for an album, established its legality by claiming that it complies with Russian copyright laws, and that it distributes royalties through, and is licensed to sell its music by something called the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society.

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