There’s Big Money In Music Publishing, and SESAC Proves It…
A private equity firm just sold SESAC to another private equity firm. Guess that means there’s money in music publishing, after all. Once upon a time, everyone thought that music publishing was safe from the catastrophic record industry implosion. Recordings were CDs, publishing was an endless river of micro-pennies, safe from the storm. Or that […]
Humanitarian Action for Children 2017 – Eritrea
REPORT from UN Children’s Fund Total people in need: 2 million Total children (<18) in need: 1.2 million Total people to be reached in 2017: 505,0002 Total children to be reached in 2017: 450,000 Eritrea ,officially the State of Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa. With its capital at Asmara, it is bordered by […]
T.I. Us or Else: Letter to the System
T.I.’s political tenth studio album presents itself as a warning to black Americans who find themselves labeled social disruptors for simply trying to live their lives harmoniously. T.I.’s tenth studio album Us or Else: Letter to the System emerges from Us or Else, a six-track EP from September 2016 that found him in a revolutionary mood. The new LP, […]
Jamie Kent – All American Mutt
Jamie Kent – All American Mutt By Lance Wright Northampton, Massachusetts native Jamie Kent’s latest studio release, All American Mutt, deserves consideration as one of the most inspired releases of recent years. Kent has established quite a solid reputation since his 2009 debut with the full length album Neoteny and has logged hundreds of live […]
‘La La Land’ Breaks Golden Globes Record for Most Wins by a Film
Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend and producers Marc Platt, Jordan Horowitz and Fred Berger accept the award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for La La Land onstage during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, Calif. La […]
Kleenex / LiLiPUT | First Songs
First Songs collects Kleenex’s output from 1978 to 1982. Their gleefully anarchic music still feels like liberation, reveling in the limitless freedom that comes with tossing logic aside. Kleenex began with a crash. It transpired one night not long after they’d formed, in Zurich of 1978, while the germinal punk group was onstage. They had but four tunes then—“Beri-Beri,” “Ain’t You,” […]
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“With social media you can reach anybody out there. I always tell everybody – don’t sit around and wait. If you want to go and pursue something, just go for it.” – Steve Angello, Size Records In six short years, Web Summit has grown from 400 attendees to over 50,000 attendees from more than […]
Far From The Sun | The Eighfold Path (Music Video)
Far From Your Sun is an artistic project aiming to showcase current rock music compositions by bringing together the work of talented artists coming from various backgrounds such as photography, painting and writing. Borrowing from romanticism and poetry, which can be sometimes dark or troubling, each piece is the illustration of an experience, a moment […]