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Tampa Bay Gets Its Own Biggest Music Business Conference and Award Show The Biggest Music Biz Conference and Music Award Show hits the Tampa Bay Area in November. Top Industry Professionals will teach at the conference and celebrity's will walk the red carpet at the televised awards. Tampa Bay, FL is Arbitron ranked market number 19 and has a thriving independent music scene. - 2008-03-09

Digital Media Wire Announces Agenda & Speakers for Future of Television in Los Angeles, March 24-25 The two-day event is the industry's only comprehensive television conference focused on the evolution and future of the space. - 2008-03-07

Unicorn Media Says: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised -- New Digital Entertainment Company Provides Filmmakers and Videographers the Easiest Way to Distribute and Profit from Their Digital Content Taking center stage in the digital entertainment revolution, Unicorn Media (www.UnicornMedia.com) today announced an open call for video content for its highly anticipated new free entertainment service. Unicorn Media is emerging from stealth mode this week, revealing a pre-launch version of its ground-breaking entertainment site and accepting professionally produced, high quality digital video content from filmmakers, videographers and production companies all over the world. - 2008-03-07

Music Awards Show Begins Accepting Nominations and Votes for Indie Artists Nominations for the 2008 Tampa Music Awards officially begins today. Fans will vote by sending an SMS text message through their wireless phone. The Awards will be held in November and are accompanied by Tampa's biggest music business conference. - 2008-03-07

Adult Swim's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Hits the Road: Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Tour 2008 Kicks Off in Boston on April 21 From the absurdist comedy of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators and stars of the hit Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, comes a 13-stop nationwide tour kicking off in Boston on April 21, 2008 and wrapping up in Los Angeles on May 5. - 2008-03-06

Armond Morales, Founding Member Of The Grammy & Dove Award Winning Group The Imperials, Issues Open Letter To His Son Armond Morales, founding member of the Grammy & Dove Award winning group The Imperials, issues public statement in response to the story that broke last week at ChristianityToday.com. - 2008-03-04

Writers Guild of America Strike Is Over And New Records Have Been Set MAYO's clients earned a record number of media impressions, and it is not business as usual in Hollywood according to one of the entertainment PR agency clients, which earned a record 85 million media impressions during the WGA Strike. - 2008-03-04

M. Loring Communications and MLC PR Synthesize Forming Innovative Music Promotion Firm M. Loring Communications and MLC PR reach new heights in music promotion by offering both music publicity and radio promotion services within the same corporation. - 2008-03-02

gb Leighton Announces National Tour with BoDeans Slated to Kick-Off March 21st in Dallas, TX Minnesota's "Best Kept Secret" will tour nationally with legendary BoDeans beginning March 21st. Tour is scheduled to kick-off in Dallas, Texas and hit markets such as New York, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, and more. Visit www.gbleighton.com for full tour information. - 2008-02-29

Syleena Johnson Earns Own Imprint Under Universal Music Group Subsidiary Syleena Johnson will reintroduce herself to the world of R&B with the launch of her own label, Aneelys Records (Syleena spelled backwards), through Federal/Universal Music Group. Federal, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, signed Aneelys Records to an exclusive world-wide distribution agreement and Johnson's fourth studio album, "Labor Pains," will be the label's first release. - 2008-02-29

Nerf Herder Set To Return With New CD "IV" On Oglio Records. A New Hope For Punk Pop Nerd Rock Fun Begins Nerd Rock favorites Nerf Herder will be releasing their fourth album entitled "IV" via their new deal with Oglio Records, a Fontana/Universal distributed label. "IV" includes odes to cassettes, orange backpacks, golf shirts, manatees, the awesomeness of Led Zeppelin, Santa Barbara, and high school all mixed with perhaps the album's greatest secret ingredient, unrequited love. - 2008-02-28

Gay Grandson of 'Scarface' Al Capone Tells His Story Al Capone's Grandson Tells His Story of Personal Struggle to Confirm and Deal with Family Stigma and Childhood Trauma in book, Son of Scarface: A Memoir by the Grandson of Al Capone. - 2008-02-26

WiFi Film Conference Announces The Official 2008 Line-Up We Have No Life Productions, presenters of the WiFi Film Conference, announces the official line-up of featured guest speakers from Los Angeles, New York, Tennessee and North Carolina. - 2008-02-26

Studio City, California Based Alan Ett Creative Group Pacts with 44 Blue Productions to Become Production Company's Virtual Music Department Studio City, California based Alan Ett Creative Group has announced a new pact with 44 Blue Productions To Become Production Company's Virtual Music Department. 44 Blue Productions is one of America's top suppliers of reality, documentary, lifestyle, and action-adventure programming. Under the terms of the new agreement, the AECG family of companies will become a Virtual Music Department for 44 Blue. - 2008-02-25

Sonic Bear Music, Va. Beach, VA, releases "Follow The Mist" by Stephen Peppos, a Virginia Artist/Composer, Release Date August 1, 2008 Composer Stephen Peppos' FOLLOW THE MIST debuts at # 3 on the New Age Reporter TOP 100 Charts. Receiving high accolades from industry reviewers. - 2008-02-23

Trackbacks Available Child Prodigies Create Music Mania on Gamer Blogs In less than a year since its release the Black Out Band's music video, "Video Games", has been viewed more than 250,000 times from the band's Web site at www.blackoutband.com , Gamer Blogs and video sharing sites. Its footage was shot inside a historic theatre with 75 screaming adolescent fans. - 2008-02-19

Fox Television Inks Deal with "Whittaker Bay" Moving To Prime Time TV drama begins airing this Saturday night (Feb. 16, 2008) and stars Actor Timothy Woodward Jr. and the Dazzling Duo - Sabrina and Kelly Aldridge from MTV'S "8th & Ocean" and Christmas comedy hit "Deck the Halls" Movie on DVD last year. - 2008-02-16

Bug/Windswept Congratulates Our Grammy Winners 2007 Bug/Windswept is very proud to congratulate our Grammy Winners from Sunday's presentation of the 50th Grammy Awards. - 2008-02-15

1 Attachment The CD is Dead - Flash Drive Direct Offers Strong Alternative Paradigm to Revive Limp Retail Music Sales. Bare Naked Ladies, White Stripes first to take the leap. The CD is dead and the industry is facing the prospect of a download only era. Music industry mavens know that this business strategy is not suited to the labels. The free file sharing Peer to Peer genie is out of the bottle and already in the hands of the public. The ability for the labels to stake their claim in the download arena and successfully compete with LimeWire, MySpace and other free services is doomed. Flash drive designer and manufacturer Flash Drive Direct has penned a treatise that describes a new and viable replacement for the CD that will appeal to the download demographic and offer a richer media intense delivery system. - 2008-02-14

AirSpun, Inc. Launches Social Music Discovery and Music Video Features to Help Fans Connect with Top Indie Bands Fan web-pages and widgets, "sounds like" search, social networking, and music video features complete new suite of music discovery tools at airspun.com. The latest developments connect serious music lovers directly with new bands that match their musical tastes. Fans in the AirSpun community can now influence which bands top the charts and receive free radio promotions. - 2008-02-14

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