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- Rock Band(R) Franchise fficially Surpasses $1 Billion in North …
- White Noise and Memory of Rave Days ; Music
- Despite recession Winter Music Conference a hit
- Movement: Detroit’s electronic music festival announces more …
- IDA Announces Broad Electronic Music Initiative
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.
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White Noise and Memory of Rave Days ; Music
California Chronicle
Among the guest acts are Dave Ball of 1980s electro-popsters Soft Cell and The Grid Barry 7 and Ann Shenton from Add N (To X) and The Asbo Kid – a partnership between James Atkin formerly of EMF and Justin Welch from Elastica. “I first met Justin in Camden and we ended up having studios next to each other in London” recalls James. “We share the love of electronic music and we started making a few tunes anonymously under the name ‘Asbo Kid’ and the tracks got picked up by White Label Music who didn’t really know about our past. We put a record out and people seemed to like it.
Despite recession Winter Music Conference a hit
MiamiHerald.com
comp –> MIAMI BEACH — Music it seems is recession-proof. At least that’s what hotels restaurants and clubs in Miami Beach and the city of Miami are finding this weekend. It’s the 24th annual Winter Music Conference which showcases electronic and dance music and draws some 60000-plus people to area clubs hotels and bars. Hotel owners say they have been sold out since midweek – the Gansevoort South was filled despite room rates of $895 and up – and conference organizers report packed venues. Winter Music Conference runs through Sunday.
Movement: Detroit’s electronic music festival announces more …
The Detroit News
Among the acts are Los Angeles-based producers The Glitch Mob German electro artist Anthony Rother and Detroit house DJ Delano Smith. “We spend a lot of time selecting artists and DJs that will appeal to electronic music enthusiasts” Jason Huvaere president of Movement organizers Paxahau Promotions Group said in a statement. “And I think with the addition of these 25 artists we have done a good job of putting together a solid mix of local and international performers to take the stages at Movement this year. ” Today’s lineup additions join a list of 35 acts including hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa and popular mashup artist Z-Trip that was announced last week. Carl Cox Loco Dice vs. Luciano and Derrick May will close the festival’s three nights.
IDA Announces Broad Electronic Music Initiative
Market Wire (press release)
These newpartnerships add to IDA’s existing client base which includes GhostlyInternational King Street and Jellybean as well as longstandingdistribution agreements with shops like Beatport Juno and DJ Download. The announcement was made today at the. wintermusicconference. IDA’s presence at WMC has expanded this year to thesponsorship of three stellar events:– bliqSound’s “Music Without Borders” event at the Indra Lounge in South Beach– The Global Media Summit at the South Seas Hotel– Dirtybird’s Showcase event at the Doublegrand Waterclub “As a niche-oriented independent record shop trying to claw our way intothe digital arena we’ve been dismissed by many aggregators who viewsmaller operations like ours with skepticism” said Sean Schwartz owner ofHalcyon. “IDA stands apart from the pack in this regard.