Electronic Music NewsBoom in music video games helps original artists
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- Boom in music video games helps original artists
- Warner Music Group
- Celebrating the ld New Rather Than the New New
- The outlaws of Valley electronica
- MG Music Network Pushes Back Affiliate Payments Are They In Trouble?
- Thievery Corporation ups the activism
- Elvis lovers sing Christmas duets with ‘The King’
Boom in music video games helps original artists
The Associated Press
“”The kind of exposure that artists can get through the Guitar Hero platform is huge” said Huang who remains Redctane’s president after it and the “Guitar Hero” franchise were taken over by Activision Blizzard Inc. “Rock Band” meanwhile is made by Viacom Inc. ‘s MTV Games and distributed by Electronic Arts Inc. Though Warner Music Group Corp. Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. bemoaned the “very paltry” licensing fees record labels get from game makers in August the labels haven’t stopped sending their music to game makers.
Warner Music Group
CNET News CA
PST To include quotes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation about questions of whether ISPs could blacklist and to clarify that no ISP has agreed to throttle service. Also see a copy of the RIAA’s new enforcement notice to ISPs. The music industry’s highly controversial strategy of suing customers for file sharing has mostly ended. The Recording Industry Association of America said Friday that it no longer plans to wage a legal assault against people who it suspects of pirating digital music files.
Celebrating the ld New Rather Than the New New
New York Times United States
The ensemble and the four speakers for “Fontana Mix” surrounded the audience and all six pieces were played simultaneously to fantastic effect: electronic and acoustic sounds seemed to merge and diverge and the quintet appeared to share an energizing interaction. But that interaction was illusory a function of the chance juxtaposition of six independent works. This was a performance more about sound for its own sake than about meaning. Most of all it was about the point where the composer’s and performer’s choices intersect. The second half of the program began with a deft rendering of Christian Wolff’s concise pointillistic “For 5 People” (1962).
The outlaws of Valley electronica
Monitor TX
All of this because of a Game Boy. Acevado joins a burgeoning group of avant-garde musicians in the Valley. Armed with computer programs keyboards and turn tables these composers make electronic music. The genre has existed for years thriving in Europe large cities and nightclubs. It’s gaining traction in the Valley powered largely by the Internet and McAllen’s infant arts district. MEET THE VALLEY’S ELECTRNICA ARTISTS:>>.
MG Music Network Pushes Back Affiliate Payments Are They In Trouble?
TechCrunch CA
We’re really thrilled with the fantastic response we’re receiving from advertisers. Examples of advertisers MMN has featured in the last 60 days include SanDisk Electronic Arts and Sony Pictures. ur sales pipeline for 2009 is massive as a result of the enthusiastic reception to MMN among the biggest brand marketers in the world. They recognize MMN as more valuable and with a cooler audience than MySpace Facebook Imeem and others. These marketers get that the tastemakers and influencers live on your sites. Some of the proof is already in the pudding.
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Thievery Corporation ups the activism
San Francisco Chronicle USA
production duo of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton is one of the few electronic music acts that have actually gained credibility as its audience has expanded past the duo’s underground core following. tmpl –> Images.
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Elvis lovers sing Christmas duets with ‘The King’
AFP
The website plays visitors a recording of Elvis singing the song with country music star Martina McBride and then provides visitors with a telephone number to call and take their shot at McBride’s part. The finished piece can then be sent by email as digital holiday cards. Those who think their vocal performances are assured to give listeners a blue Christmas can opt to send the original Presley-McBride version instead. Recording duets is free of charge but the website entices visitors to buy compact discs of Presley Christmas song duets.