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- First DJ Hero Details
- Fast Company: Paxahau’s Jason Huvaere Dishes as Movement Gets …
- Tower music ring tribute to UW-Green Bay’s first chancellor
- Portland’s Rose Festival among events scraping for sponsors
- Andersen Racing news 2009-05-18
- Jupiter Rising continues its starry ascent
- See Pretty Lights Across America
First DJ Hero Details
IGN
Multiplayer is available for every song off and online in cooperative and competitive modes. “With any music game our goal is to make sure that everybody has something in there that they want” says Townsend. “We went for a lot of variety of the music styles with hip-hop and electronic rap and pop. But we’re also not painting ourselves into a corner by focusing on only one of those. DJ Hero will let you plug in a USB microphone in case you know an emcee who wants to add a little vocal flavor to your performance. Ten songs will also allow a second player to connect a guitar peripheral and perform these DJ mixes with a more familiar accessory. We’ll have lots more on DJ Hero at E3.
Fast Company: Paxahau’s Jason Huvaere Dishes as Movement Gets …
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He formed Paxahau as apassion project in the late 90s. The side project turned into full-time gig and eventually afull-time start-up. Today Paxahau employs 10 people 20 interns and since 2006 has run Detroit’s electronic music festival.
Tower music ring tribute to UW-Green Bay’s first chancellor
UWGB
The three-sided bronze-coated tower at UW-Green Bay will be topped by a 36-inch single bell shell (for aesthetics only). More than two hundred Flemish bell harmonies and eight bell chimes will be programmable to operate daily or be set for special ceremonies. The electronic carillon also comes with a 61-note keyboard for recording an eight-bell package of liturgical bells and a microphone input. The carillon will be installed with 420 pre-recorded melodies with room for additional selections. At least some of the music will be Weidner favorites including his University?s alma mater and fight song. Cheryl Grosso composed a chime melody that will be played on the hour every hour.
Portland’s Rose Festival among events scraping for sponsors
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With this year’s tight budget any gap is worrisome. When it comes to local music and lifestyle events Karen DaVanzo at Beyond Marketing Group has seen her sponsorship budget from Scion cut by about 25 percent. The car company sponsors a number of events usually tied to the electronic music scene. “Everyone’s getting hit hard by the economy” DaVanzo says adding that she tells people upfront about the cuts. “I feel really fortunate that our clients still have the budget” to support events. Before the downturn some event organizers would turn down Scion sponsorships if DaVanzo couldn’t offer them the dollars they wanted. “Right now no one’s really walking away.
Andersen Racing news 2009-05-18
Motorsport.com
“Usher is probably one of my favorites” added Summerton who drives a caradvertising team sponsors Allied Interior Products and Lafarge North America. “In my iPod I have everything from country and lounge to pop and rockbecause I think every moment needs a different type of music” said Romancini21. “Usually I listen to R&B hip hop and electronic but I can’t choose afavorite group because there are quite a few that I like very much. When pressed he said he listens a lot to John Mayer The Killers and JackJohnson. “Before qualifying or a race I like to listen to Era” he added. “It’smore instrumental but it really helps me to concentrate.
Jupiter Rising continues its starry ascent
Sacramento Bee
is a very movers-and-shakers kind of city; people who live there are always hustling. “Billboard associate editor Monica Herrera praises Jupiter Rising’s diverse sound. “It’s all this and yet it’s still cohesive enough for the band to have its own identity. “Jupiter Rising’s licensing strategy she adds is also smart in today’s ever- splintered music market. “They’ve figured out a niche for themselves … (and) that puts them at an advantage” Herrera says. “Licensing is proving to be a very successful way (to market) for a younger audience that’s tuning into shows like ‘The Hills.
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See Pretty Lights Across America
antiMUSIC.com
With dates spanning New York City San Francisco and Norfolk VA — Pretty Lights will be pumping out of speakers from coast to coast re-shaping the standard of electronic music. Pretty Lights is the musical vision of the ultra-versatile Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith accompanied in the live setting by drummer Cory Eberhard. Together these two achieve a raw energy rarely reached in the realm of electronic music. At a time when music lovers from almost all subcultures and genres are finding common ground in the basic form of bangin’ beats Pretty Lights is giving the people what they want; electro organic cutting-edge party rocking beats that fill venues with energy and emotion and send dance floors into frenzies. What makes Pretty Lights truly different though is that the beats carry serious soul. Fans across all genres are coming together to fuel the Pretty Lights movement. ne only need to download Filling up the City Skies the free double disc that was released for download only a few short months ago at www.