NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 5th: Today AWOLNATION releases “The Best” – the heir apparent to their most enduring hit song ever, “Sail.” The track is the debut single from the band’s forthcoming album, their 4th overall and their first with BETTER NOISE Music. Due out in 2020, the album features guest appearances by Rivers Cuomo of Weezer and Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Better Noise Music is an artist development company that creates and markets entertainment content across various media platforms. Of the band’s recent signing to the label, managers Berko Pearce and Scott Sheldon of RM64 say “It’s exciting to partner with a label that’s at the forefront of marketing in the new streaming era, and that has a proven track record of helping their artists reach bigger audiences. We’ve been enjoying working with the BETTER NOISE team on an integrated strategy across streaming, touring and radio, and we’re eager to launch AWOLNATION’s next projects with them.” Aaron Bruno, the songwriter and architect behind AWOLNATION, says of the new single, which will also kick off the new album, “I’m always on the journey to improving myself, but all along, knowing it’s close to impossible   Read more…

Xprnc Media is excited to announce our ‘Rise Above – ON TOUR’ marketing program across our digital signage and mobile engagement network in 50 of the top independent media retailers across the U.S (http://bit.ly/XM-NetworkMap). The ‘Rise Above – ON TOUR’ marketing program (http://bit.ly/XM-OnTour) is an innovative and low cost opportunity to place your Local Performance in front of committed music fans and store staff across all your market stops. We have positioned 55-inch HDTV’s in the highest traffic locations in 50 of the top independent media retailers across the U.S. Fans visit these top indie stores to find what’s new in the bins, get turned onto new music by staff tastemakers and learn about upcoming performances. “We’re delighted to finally provide venues, managers, artists and labels with an inexpensive and impactful format to reach media consumers. Through our digital signage and mobile engagement across our network, we’re empowering direct connections with fans,” said Michael Fitts, President of Xprnc Media. While On Tour covers the entire U.S., you can also send us your performance dates and we’ll build you a custom campaign to support your specific tour markets. The program includes Your Performance Ad running hourly, Consumer Engagement thru a Mobile   Read more…

MarilynMusic has just released 18 new songs created in our NYC studio, The Vertical Room. Some titles of the new tunes are….”Ain’t Over Til It’s Over,” “People In Cars,” “Money” and “Red Light Green Light.” We appreciate working with such great singers as Colin Smith, Sera Burus, Autumn Rowe, Kieth Fluitt, Harper and many others. Our new track “Down In Miami” has been selected by the Florida Commission on Tourism for a new national ad campaign. We are also currently working on the theme/score for an upcoming HBO ten episode documentary on the relationship between fashion and music, produced by Gene Kirkwood…”The Defiant Ones,” “Get Rich or Die Trying,” “Rocky.” It will feature music and fashion icons such as Pharrell, Drake, Rihanna, Gwen Stefani, Dapper Dan… MarilynMusic continues to maintain the highest musical standards, so keep listening at http://www.MarilynMusic.net

Fresh off their GRAMMY nomination for their CD, Teach Me Thy Statutes, and their newly released CD, The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the PaTRAM Institute will record their next CD in Saratov, Russia, this summer. The new CD, entitled More Honorable Than the Cherubim, is a compendium of hymns to the Theotokos by various composers, which will be sung by a fifty-six-member male choir. The singers hail from Russia, Serbia, North America, and Australia. GRAMMY-nominated Maestro Vladimir Gorbik will conduct the choir, which will include an unprecedented ten octavists, with baritone Michail Davydov as the featured soloist. On August 22nd, 2019, the choir will perform their repertoire in concert at the Saratov Conservatory. The PaTRAM Institute Male Choir will be in Saratov for rehearsals and the recording of the new CD from August 20th-26th, 2019. The CD will be recorded at St. Nicholas Monastery by multi-GRAMMY Award-winning production company Sound Mirror. Sound Mirror has received more than one hundred GRAMMY Awards and nominations for their body of work. PaTRAM is thrilled to be working with them again to create a professional quality CD that brings the beauty of Russian choral music to a Western audience. Reference Recordings, a   Read more…

Emotional Debris is the brainchild of US writer and musician Philip Lamey who describes the project as “Music and Words In A Certain Order – the two constants in my life””” The constant to take away from the latest 2 single offering is Lamey’s musical knowledge and song-writing ability in order to create 2 gripping pieces of art loosely inspired by the gruesome and horrific Manson murders in California 1969. A theme that also inspired another hugely talented creative by the name of Quentin Tarantino who releases his forthcoming blockbuster epic ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ in cinemas globally on the 15th August. Recorded at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios in England, the latest singles ‘Hey Roman’ and ‘California Song’ are available on all major online retailers from 26th July.

VidaPrimo, the world’s premier Latin video network, is launching Latido Music, a 24/7 Latin Music Television network. The announcement was made by Executive Vice President and General Manager Stephen Brooks. The new network is available on Samsung TV Plus, LG TV Plus and Xumo On Now digital platforms. The Latido Music brand officially launched Thursday, June 13. The linear channel features hosted music video programs promoting current and classic releases from a library of thousands of official videos across the Latin Music spectrum. Latido Music will supplement video-centric shows with original music-oriented programming in the news, talk, reality and documentary formats. “Latido Music gives today’s Latin music a television-based platform in much the same way MTV did for new wave and heavy metal in the 1980s,” says Brooks. “Our goal is to not only give Latin music fans a unique living room experience, but to aid in the discovery and socialization of this incredible music.” According to Brooks, the back-to-basics “living room” strategy is intentional. Recent studies by PwC and Nielsen ratings show that key audience demographics are moving away from traditional pay cable and satellite over to “Free TV” options available through smart TVs, streaming devices and over-the-air broadcast.   Read more…

Amped Studio, the online DAW, has just added another great addition to its growing arsenal of devices with a totally unique approach to rhythm creation. XYbeatz is a midi generator/controller with a collection of drums beats from around the world that can be combined into multiple combinations by moving around the XY interface. With over 250 midi beats you can mix, match and blend beats or separate drum parts to create a cool set rhythm pattern or record live while moving around the Interface to get a changing groove over time. Okay but WTF is XYbeatZ? Let’s try this; take a killer midi drum pack with beats from every continent but Antarctica and an XY pad with 4 Zones and each corner holds a selected drum beat. Include 2 modes, one for complete beats and another for just the selected drum parts, a rhythmic complexity slider and you have it. If you move the indicator to the center it plays a combination of all 4 beats, if you move it to the far corner it plays just that beat. You can record and move around the XY pad and create new rhythms. With the Parts mode, you can make easily   Read more…

San Francisco Bay Area based electronic musician Rich Brodsky, aka Atomic Skunk, will release his first full length album in over eight years entitled Base Camp on June 21, 2019. The album will feature 9 all new original tracks of Atomic Skunk’s unique “Intuitive Ambient Space Music for the Heart, Mind and Soul.” Base Camp is Brodsky’s fourth full length album, following on the heels of his first three critically acclaimed releases, Binary Scenes, Portal and Alchemy. Atomic Skunk made a splash on the ambient electronic scene in 2009 with the release of Binary Scenes, garnering high praise from electronic music fans, bloggers and ambient music stalwarts such as Hearts of Space producer, Stephen Hill and Echoes Radio producer, John Dilberto, who described the music as “note perfect ambient, full of mood, unusual dreamstate shifts and psychedelic edges.” Echoes Radio listeners voted Binary Scenes one of the “Top 200 CDs of the last 20 Years.” Portal was a featured album on numerous, legendary ambient music radio programs such as Hearts of Space, Echoes Radio, SOMA FM, Musical Starstreams and Radioio Ambient. Echoes Radio listeners voted it into the Top 25 for the “2010 Best of Echoes Radio” listeners poll, while   Read more…

Ahead of her highly anticipated EP in April, singer-songwriter Ananya Birla, the first homegrown artist singing in English to ever gain Platinum status in India, has released a brand new single – ‘Unstoppable’. The conversation around female empowerment has never been louder or more widespread. To celebrate this, Ananya’s uplifting track is dedicated to fearless women who are breaking down barriers and defying stereotypes to achieve incredible things. ‘Unstoppable’, which has been released via Universal Music, follows on from five back-to-back platinum-selling singles ‘Meant To Be’, ‘Hold On’, ‘Circles’, ‘Livin The Life’ and ‘Better’ that have amassed over 125m streams globally. The January release of ‘Better’ was accompanied by India’s first vertical music video. Ananya, who was recently listed as one of GQ’s Most Influential Young Indians, said of the powerful electro-pop number: “Rules were made to be broken, especially if you’ve been told throughout history that you’re “less than.” I wanted released ‘Unstoppable’ on International Woman’s Day to celebrate women who know that gender is no barrier. With determination and strength, we can achieve anything.” Ananya has been working with award-winning artists and producers between Los Angeles, London and Mumbai on her upcoming international EP which will be released   Read more…