Electronic Music NewsLive: Ultra Music Festival in Miami
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- Live: Ultra Music Festival in Miami
- Film composer Maurice Jarre dies
- Video Game Makers Challenged by the Next Wave of Media
- Madison Area Music Awards nominations announced
- Rock Band(R) Franchise fficially Surpasses $1 Billion in North …
- The Exodus From Hard Media to Electronic Files
Live: Ultra Music Festival in Miami
Los Angeles Times
am of the Black Eyed Peas said in Miami on Saturday as the throb of the Ultra Music Festival vibrated the press tent around him. “In Europe Australia Brazil Los Angeles and New York electronic dance music really has this new inspirational energy. It reminds me of what hip-hop was in the 1980s. “The Peas chose Ultra the massive two-day flagship finale of the annual Winter Music Conference to play “Boom Boom Pow” their new beat-driven single being released digitally today. In terms of A-list talent in Miami they weren’t alone: Although DJs and dance-music mavens have been flocking to the WMC for decades now this year hip-hop was in the house.
Film composer Maurice Jarre dies
BBC News
Jarre who moved to the US in the 1960s was married four times and is the father of Jean-Michel Jarre a pioneer of electronic music. His other son Kevin is a screenwriter based in the US. ne of his final public appearances was at the Berlin International Film Festival in February where he received a lifetime achievement award. At the time festival director Dieter Kosslick paid tribute to Jarre saying: "Film composers often are in the shadows of great directors and acting stars. "It’s different with Maurice Jarre – the music of Doctor Zhivago like much of his work is world-famous and remains unforgettable in cinema history.
Video Game Makers Challenged by the Next Wave of Media
New York Times
He said consumers were looking at games for consoles and saying “This is too expensive and there are too many choices. ” Industry sales grew 19 percent in 2008 compared with a year earlier the kind of sales growth that would thrill many industries during a deep recession. And yet the list of money-losing companies includes top names in gaming: Electronic Arts. Dozens of smaller game studios selling games for download and the mom-and-pop companies offering ad-supported “casual games” on the Web are still trying to figure out how to turn their millions of players into profitable customers.
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Madison Area Music Awards nominations announced
Decider Madison
Get creative with the categories too–they’re both too rigid and too complicated. There should always be a variety of wildly different voices on local music and local music accolades shouldn’t be limited to the tastes of a young snob like me. In fact I’m happy that the nominess include some of my recent favorites like rap duo Stink Tank and weird electronic project The Cemetery Improvement Society. That said I understand why Katjusa Cisar at 77 Square is. This baffles me still more because I know that MAMAs founder Rick Tvedt is a nice guy and that his publication.
Rock Band(R) Franchise fficially Surpasses $1 Billion in North …
FXBusiness
B) Harmonix the leading developer of music-based games and distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq: ERTS) today announced that the Rock Band(R) franchise has officially surpassed $1 billion dollars in North American retail sales in 15 months according to the NPD Group. In addition over 40 million paid individual songs have been sold via download through the Rock Band(R) platform furthering its position as the music video game leader in paid song sales and downloadable content with over 600 songs available to date in the Rock Band catalogue. riginally launched on November 20 2007 Rock Band is the multi-million unit selling genre-defining music game platform that allowed music fans and gamers to interact with and discover music like never before by choosing guitar drums vocals or bass to start a band and rock the world. Developed by Harmonix the world’s premier music video game development company and published by MTV Games the Rock Band platform has had a positive impact on the overall promotion and sales of music benefiting artists included in the game both directly through royalties associated with game sales and indirectly by causing the sale of more songs and albums.
The Exodus From Hard Media to Electronic Files
Cybergrass
Then shortly after that they ceased to exist. Now another couple of music related print magazines are attempting to go electronic only. countrystandardtime.