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Recent Headlines - Music Genre: Rock, Pop, & Alternative

1 Attachment Indie Label Takes the Biscuit, Inc. Artists' Jody Raffoul, Jeff Austin Black and Jessica Andrews Set to Headline the Shift_2 Nissan Tour Starting Feb 10th Indie label Takes the Biscuit, Inc., is pleased to announce that three of its artists, Jody Raffoul, Jeff Austin Black and Jessica Andrews will be resuming the 2007 leg of the Shift_2 Nissan Cool Cars, Cool Music Tour. A Battle of the Bands contest has been started for each date and sign ups are available at the Shift_2 Nissan official website www.shift2nissan.com. Winners of the Battle of the Bands will have the chance to win a spot on XM, a prize package of $10,000 including a Mac with Pro Tools software. All winners will also be featured on a special Shift_2 Nissan Compilation album to be released this Spring. - 2007-01-25

iTunes Helps Independent Music Community Find Next Big Hit In an American Idol-like contest featuring original songs, music fans will have a chance to pick an artist who will receive extensive promotional prizes, including their winning song being featured on the front page of the iTunes Music Store. - 2007-01-25

4 Attachment iNDiGO TV Cell Phone-centric, Interactive and User Generated Television Celebrates 1st Anniversary iNDiGO TV celebrates 1st year anniversary by adding RCN Cable to its distribution in New York City. - 2007-01-17

3 Attachment Sincere Artists Billy Bragg and Fionn O Lochlainn Take Issue with Myspace From Both Sides Of the Atlantic Solo artist Fionn O Lochlainn boasts a love-hate relationship with the world's fastest growing online community, Myspace.com. Recent complaints by his management team, Sincere USA to the company further compound recent sentiments made over artists proprietary rights. - 2007-01-17

Music Choice Rings in the New Year with over 600 Million Orders...and Counting Music Choice On Demand, The No. 1 Free Video-On-Demand Service in the Country, Hits All the Right Notes with Burgeoning Customer Base - 2007-01-17

1 Attachment Susan E. Wheeler Launches Creative Perspective Solutions CPS Creative Perspective Solutions enhances sales and marketing synergy with emphasis on individual strategy for Composers, Producers, Engineers and Songwriters. Imagination hooks up with logic in advancing effectiveness for overall presentation and results. CPS works with Business Managers and Attorneys maximizing their client's competitiveness and productivity. "Advantage is more than talent remixed with original content, it's coordinating and facilitating with comprehensive precision." replies Susan Wheeler. - 2007-01-11

DJ Duo, Ror-Shak, To Release New Album, 'Deep', Exclusively Online January 9th On 1/9 the debut album by Ror-Shak, Deep, will be released via digital outlets only. Major music download portals featuring the release and exclusive bonus tracks include iTunes, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Napster, and AOL Music Now. Ror-Shak is a duo fronted by DJ DB and Stakka who have created a down-tempo, drum & bass, soulful chill, electronic mix -- a style not easily comparable with anything else. The album features vocalists Julee Cruise, Lisa Shaw, Wendy Starland, Mark Holmes and Morningwood's Chantal Claret. - 2007-01-09

FameCast and Charles Attal Presents to Host Open Casting Call at Stubbs January 20-21, 2007 FameCast, the first online talent contest designed to find America's best new artists, today announced that with the help of Charles Attal Presents & Stubbs BBQ, will be hosting an open casting call to find Austin's best new bands and artists. The open casting call will take place at Stubbs BBQ on Saturday and Sunday, January 20-21, 2007. - 2007-01-06

1 Attachment Berkleemusic Becomes the World's Largest Online Music College With over 11,000 students online, a diverse worldwide student body and record enrollment, all indications are that musicians are gravitating towards online study with Berklee. - 2007-01-05

3 Attachment Music and Sports Continue to Merge With another NBA Hip Hop Collaboration Following in the footsteps of Black Eyed Peas and Fort Minor, live hip hop group Wylde Bunch will be featured on ESPN's NBA pre-game show telecasts with their new anthem "On Top". - 2007-01-03

2 Attachment Bob Baker Launches New Indie Music Marketing Insiders Club The author of "Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook" offers independent artists, managers, promoters, record label owners, and music service providers a Quick Access Guest Pass to his new indie music promotion resources web site, www.MusicMarketingInsiders.com - 2007-01-02

4 Attachment Walrus' Classic Rock Album, "Uncovered," Now Available on iTunes The debut CD by The Walrus, one of the Pacific Northwest's favorite classic rock bands, is now available at iTunes where Baby Boomers and other rock 'n' roll lovers can buy a song or the whole album with their iTunes gift certificates. "Uncovered," a CD of 11 original songs in the classic rock style, is available for 99 cents a song or $9.99 for the whole album at http://www.apple.com/itunes/. - 2006-12-26

2 Attachment CbuJ Entertainment Rises from Ashes of Bayside Distribution and Tower Records Inferno Indie label reports a near 500% increase in acquired catalog since the highly publicized liquidation of Bayside Distribution and Tower Records in October of this year. - 2006-12-20

1 Attachment New Folk-Rock Artist Jeff Epstein Releases First CD Jeff Epstein, an acoustic folk-rock musician based in the Baltimore/Washington area, has released his first CD, "It's Not A Fantasy." - 2006-12-19

Public Enemy’s Professor Griff and Independent Artist SoulPhood Collaborate on New Track Exclusively Available on BurnLounge BurnLounge, the world's first fan-driven digital music service, announced today that Professor Griff of Public Enemy has teamed with independent artist SoulPhood and released a new single entitled, “Do Your Thing,” exclusively available through BurnLounge. - 2006-12-18

3 Attachment Make Your Music Website a Selling Machine - Free Conference Call with Julie Blake and Bob Baker Make Your Music Website a Selling Machine - Free Conference Call with Julie Blake and Bob Baker. Packed with creative Indie music promotion strategies. Click here to register. You'll learn easy-to-apply, proven strategies on how to attract more fans, powerful selling techniques to increase your sales and discover incredibly effective low-cost/no-cost marketing strategies. - 2006-12-15

3 Attachment Walker Caine Returns to the Studio for Another Round Capt. Walker's disappearance after an accident-proned 2006 solo tour has left many fans and industry insiders guessing as to whether or not he would be returning to studio or stage. But Walker Caine has officially returned to the studio at MLA Records to begin serious work on an early 2007 release. - 2006-12-14

The Pigs Release Peace Music Video: 'I've Got Santa Claus' on YouTube The Pigs Promote peace With "I've Got Santa Claus" Video at YouTube and MySpace, Free MP3 download and iPod Drawing and Radio delivery via AirPlay Direct - 2006-12-13

1 Attachment Sheldon Tarsha Breaks Guns N' Roses Connection With Ambitious Effort Acclaimed Rock Vocalist Releases His Solo Debut. - 2006-12-08

2 Attachment "Buy Me a Drink and We'll Both Make Some Money;" Woodstock Taylor Introduces Innovative Fan, Songwriter Arrangement British songwriter Woodstock Taylor is inviting fans to spend the price of a couple of glasses of wine on shares in her music as part of an innovative no-risk scheme by new music website Sellaband.com, where "believers" share in artists' profits once a target figure is raised. - 2006-12-07

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