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The UK based
singer's on screen command may remind one of Madonna at first. But,
at closer look, Allison
Goldfrapp is different. Other sessions at Avatar included: John Mayer and Goo Goo Dolls. Danielle Evin recorded in Studio A with producer / engineer Niko Bolas, Allen Toussaint mixed in Studio B with producer Joe Henry, engineer Kevin Killen assisted by Rick Kwan. Nikky Yanofsky recorded in Studio A with producer Phil Ramone, engineer Elliot Scheiner assisted by Brian Montgomery.
When it comes
to world-class facilities in San Francisco, Fantasy
studios
is where the 11-time Grammy winner Rafa
Sardina and
producer/artist Raquel Bitton rendez vous! "It rivals any of
the full-service studios with a superb staff with Jeffrey Wood commanding
the operation," says Sardina who converted the hall into an
Iso booth to record the “requinto” guitar. "It's
an instrument that requires a little equalization at top and low
ends and usually I don’t like applying it going to tape since
it can get a little harsh," adds Sardina. The tracks were mixed
at After
Hours by Rafa Sardina in LA. "I loved my sessions, it was
extraordinary, thanks to the genious of Rafa," says Bitton.
Moving Media
principle Simon Factor and Cups'N
Strings founder Bruce Maddocks have formed a joint venture to
deal with content
McLeod Ganj McLeod
Ganj or Mcleodganj, also known as Upper Dharamsala is a suburb
of Dharamsala in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It
is known as "Little Lhasa" due to its large population
of Tibetan refugees. C-Doobie
is an independent record label, publishing and production company
based in Williamsburg The Mcleod
Ganj EP is available via download from the C-Doobie Records
website and various e-tailers including the iTunes. “When we
moved into this room, it was incredibly reverberant,” says
Walsh “There was a long shelf in the back and a concrete floor.
So the first thing we did was put down carpeting.” Mr Walsh
who is also a fine writer and contributor to trades (Billboard,
Pro Sound News) records into Digidesign Pro Tools Version 7.4.
Adam Levy Rurik Over the past
few years the group has slipped into a style that seems to suit
Rurik
distancing themselves from common genres carelessly mixing rock,
electronic, progressive, foot-stomping pogo punk. This sophomore
release has been mixed by Jay
Baumgardner at NRG
Recording Studios and engineered by Dan “MFDC” Certa.
Chief Mastering Engineer Ted Jensen has finalized the project at
Sterling Sound. Additional tracks by Rudy
Haeusermann, Tim Harkins, Dave Dominguez, JohnO. The
official add-date for Planetary Group radio campaign is Aug 4th,
2008. RURIK has been packing fans in at larger nightclubs in Hollywood.
This summer, opening July 20, audiences will see Latifah in the most highly anticipated film of the summer Hairspray as Motormouth Maybelle with John Travolta and Michelle Pfeifer. In Living Out Loud, she sang the Billy Strayhorn classic "Lush Life" (produced by Mervyn Warren of Take 6). That was the inspiration for a fan, Janet Ladd Ryan who wrote to studioexpresso suggesting that Queen do an album of classics much like she sang in the film. We put it in a letter to Shakim Compere, her management who liked the idea so much, they ran with it. Thank you Janet! Also available on Amazon
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Valley, California. Fourteen-year-old Tim Callobre has played in Carnegie Hall, studied with Pepe Romero, and won first place in the US ASTA Awards. In February 2008 his original composition was performed at Disney Hall by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Tim is one of four young people participating in the LA Phil's new Composer Fellowship Program. Limited to 30
guests. RSVP today! 100% of the proceeds benefit the New West Symphony and its Education Programs This event is underwritten by Dana Moldovan, Claris & Nelson Dodge, Alda & Richard Donohue and Kathy & Erwin Gilbert
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3 thoughts for your penny! Synchronization licensing involves the licensing of songs for use with visual images (i.e. films,commercials, etc.). Mechanical licensing involves the licensing of songs for audiotape or compact disc. Publishing involves the licensing of a song copyright. Licensing a master involves a particular sound recording by an artist. You normally need both licences for synchronization. In an administration deal, the major publisher doesn't own any equity in the copyrights. They just collect a percentage of the money that comes in and pay the rest out to the writer and the writer's publishing company. In a co-publishing deal, the major publisher and the writer's publishing company each own 50% of the copyright.
Band/location:
Composer,
clarinetist, and conductor, Derek
Bermel is described as "an eclectic with wide open ears."
Bermel has been widely hailed by colleagues, critics, and audiences
across the globe for his creativity and theatricality as a composer
of chamber, symphonic, dance, theater, and pop works, and his virtuosity
and charisma as a clarinetist, conductor, and jazz and rock musician.
His band, PEACE BY PIECE is based in Brooklyn, NY and has released
two albums on Miscellaneous Records, their first, self-titled album
'Peace
by Piece', and most recently, 'The Elements' in May 2004. Thrilled!
A burst of noise
and energy attracted eveyone to the lobby during my last visit to
the local hair salon... you could hear shouts coming from that direction
now transformed into a saturday-night-live like dance floor. More
than 2 dozen stylists (ages 20 to 40 something) were drawn from
their hair stations as if they were sleep walking, eager to show
their strut all to music by Michael Jackson! That's right the not
so forgotten pop star of the '80s was back at this Sherman Oaks
salon strong as ever.
Farewell
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton. Diddley appreciated the honors he received, "but it didn't put no figures in my checkbook." About his stage name he said: "I don't know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name." Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits." Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself. "He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic," E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006. Many other artists, including the Who, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello copied aspects of Diddley's style. In the early 1950s, Diddley said, disc jockeys called his type of music, "Jungle Music." It was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who is credited with inventing the term "rock 'n' roll." Diddley said Freed was talking about him, when he introduced him, saying, "Here is a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat." Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.
Earle Hagen The
Composer-Nobody Ever Heard Of Earl Hagen played trombone in
big bands during the 30s, wrote arrangements for Frank Sinatra,
worked at 20th Century Fox during the reign of Alfred Newman, created
TV themes and scores for Sheldon Leonard shows for Emmy Award-winning
whistleable musical themes in the history of television, including
themes for "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Dick Van
Dyke Show," "The Danny Thomas Show," "I Spy,"
"That Girl," "The Mod Squad," "Mickey Spillane's
Mike Hammer," and so many more. In fact he composed original
music for more than 3,000 individual episodes of television during
his career, which spanned more than three decades. Hagen's marriage to Sidwell, who died in 2002, lasted 59 years. In addition to his second wife, who is also a singer and whom he married in 2005, he is survived by two sons, Deane and James, both of Palm Desert, Calif.; two stepdaughters, Rebecca and Rachael Roberts of Irvine, Calif.; a stepson, Richard Roberts of Los Angeles; and four grandchildren.
"What a
shame to not understand that a great melody connects on an emotional
level, which is valuable, not just hummable.”
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Billy
Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters continue to break new ground. Only
this time, its coffee grounds! The specialeclectic Kona blend is
as distinctive as The Boxmasters brand of rock. The new album on
Vanugard was released June 10. This brewreeks diner waffle batter
with smokey undertones.The kind you fire upwhen recovery comes calling
the next morning or an idea lbrew to slip slide your day away. We've
got the double cd in the player...it's surprisingly good, despite
all the hype! Just listen to Mr Thornton and learn why he's tinkering
with the 24-track, 24/7 
Learning On The Job -- Google VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill
(left) is leaving Mountain View for...somewhere in California, where
he'll be EMI Music's new president of digital. Cory Ondrejka (right)
may be replacing Lauren Berkowitzas EMI's SVP of digital, who will
report to Douglas. No worries, EMI still owns the iconic Capitol
building! Cory's blog where he announces his move (made two weeks
ago, actually) -- along with the news that since 2000, he's purchased
5 albums from Amazon. Ah, but surely he's a music hound who spends
tons of time cruising iTunes, or some of the other legal music source,
right? Nope. "I neither buy nor hear much new music,"
he continues: "I had never setup the iTMS on that computer
and you would be amazed at how hard Apple has made that process.
It’s like they don’t want to sell me music. Then, once
I did remember all the passwords I needed, I couldn’t figure
out whether the iTunes download was DRM free. So I went to Amazon,
which was slightly easier and made it clear the download wasn’t
broken via DRM." Then Cory humbly submits while it doesn't
seem hard to fix this mess, he's got no idea what he's doing, so
he'll be learning on the job. Fair enough. We look forward to getting
a progress report.
Radiohead's decision
to offer their latest album on a pay-what-you-like basis online
"to some extent backfired", U2's manager has said. The
majority of fans who downloaded In Rainbows ignored the band's website
and acquired it illegally by other means, Paul McGuinness told BBC
6 Music. "Sixty to 70% of the people who downloaded the record
stole it anyway, even though it was available for free." U2's
next album - due this year - would not follow the same approach,
he added. The exact release date was "not clear yet but I would
think towards the end of October", Mr McGuinness said. "We
will obviously work with whatever technology is available to make
the release of the new record as interesting as possible,"
he added. "[But] for U2, physical sales are still an enormous
part of our business and we still sell a lot of actual CDs."
Jail
Time 4 
MTV
Awards Paramount In LA The
high-wattage event, now in its 25th year, will take place on the
A
painting of a water lily by Claude Monet sold for more than $80
million US at auction Tuesday in London, kicking off a week of modern
art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic
downturn. The painting sold to an anonymous collector," says
Olivier Camu, head of impressionist and modern art at Christie's.
The signed and dated 1919 painting has only been seen in public
once in the last 80 years. 
Wanted: A Sound Logo The world-leading manufacturer of microphones,
headphones and wireless transmission systems is enlisting its wide
creative customer base to come up with a unique Sound logo...equivalent
of a visual symbol. So what does an 'audio specialist' sound like?
Here's your chance to tell them! Through July 17, 2008, Sennheiser
is hosting a sound logo competition in which fans all over the globe
can submit audio clips that encapsulate their idea of the "Sennheiser
sound," one of which will be chosen as Sennheiser's official
acoustic trademark. The chosen finalist will take home 5,000 euros.
An entry is allowed to be up to eight seconds long. To make it as
technologically simple as possible for those taking part, contributions
should be uploaded onto the 
Allaire
studios closed its doors March 2008, according to studio manager
Mark McKenna who is now with Bandshell Artists Mgmt and can be reached
at Shokan, NY 845-332-3257 
Last
month, the US Library of Congress officially added Michael Jackson's
Thriller to its National Recording Registry. In an effort to preserve
records deemed "culturally and aesthetically significant",
the Library has archived the album's "best existing version"
its existence in perpetuity. Aside from being the biggest selling
album of all time, Thriller also contained seven #1 hit singles,
remained on Billboard's Top 10 for one year, won the Grammy award
for Best Album and was recently inducted into the Grammy Hall of
Fame. Named
the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time" by the Guinness
World Records, Michael Jackson is among the most highly acclaimed
and influential artists in pop culture. He was named the World Music
Award's Best-Selling Pop Male Artist of the Millennium and received
the American Music Award's Artist of the Century Award. He has been
inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice: in 1997 as
a member of the Jackson 5 and as a solo artist in 2001. The
newly expanded version of 
