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January 21st, 2010
WMC 2010 DJ Spin-Off
The WMC 2010 DJ Spin-Off will be held on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 (Beat Matching) and Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 (Scratching) at The Eden Roc Beach Resort & Spa Ocean Garden Poolside with celebrity hosts and judges and DJs from all over the world mixing and scratching their way to the top. Because of the exponential growth and success of the WMC DJ Spin-Off, we had to split the competition into two days!!! Celebrity judges will decide who has what it takes to own first place. If you are a DJ who thinks you can put up some weight, a label head scouting new talent, or a fan of DJ competitions, join us for the WMC DJ Spin-Off where you can truly witness the Art of the DJ.
Prizes to be provided by leading audio and apparel manufacturers.
ENTRY DEADLINE: Friday, February 26, 2010
DOWNLOAD THE WMC 2010 DJ SPIN-OFF APPLICATION FORM
Guidelines for entry:
• All entries must include a completed application, entry fee ($25.00),
bio, and demo (CD or Tape format).
• DJs may enter both Beat Mixing + Scratching competitions.
• Demo’s must be no longer than 5 minutes in length and must be
reflective of the DJs prospective performance.
• Submissions are subject to approval.
• Demo material submitted will become the property of WMC
and will not be returned.
• No submissions will be reviewed after the deadline.
No last minute entries or substitutes are allowed.
• All judges’ decisions are final.
• DJs must bring their own headphones to the competition.
Send to:
Winter Music Conference
3450 NE 12th Terrace,
Fort Lauderdale , FL 33334
ATTN: DJ Spin-Off
For any additional inquiries email: info@wintermusicconference.com
Tags: Artists, CDs, DJ, Music Marketing, music news, promoting yourself, street promotion, Winter Music Conference
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January 20th, 2010
Michael Robertson’s (former CEO of MP3.com) take on the Apple/Lala deal
Michael Robertson,
For years there’s been speculation that Apple would supplement their $1/song (now $1.29) iTunes business with a monthly subscription service, but their upcoming plans are quite different and once again are positioning them to lead the digital music industry into a new era. Leveraging their ubiquitous iTunes software Apple plans to upgrade their users almost over night to a cloud music service in an ambitious move to beat Amazon and others to a cloud music service. Record labels are wary to give Apple even greater dominance which is why Apple’s new strategy is designed to sidestep new licenses from the major labels.
Apple’s recent acquisition of digital music startup Lala rekindled speculation of an iTunes subscription service. There’s no shortage of subscription offerings (Napster, Rhapsody, Spotify, Pandora, etc), but none have attracted the millions of subscribers necessary to make the high royalty structures work. Experts have pondered that Apple’s design expertise and hardware integration could make subscription work. And leveraging Lala’s digital library, licenses from the major labels, and a management team who cycled through several business models including the ten cent web song rental could make it a reality. It’s a logical assumption, but after talking to a wide variety of insider sources it’s clear there is no upcoming Apple subscription service and Apple has far different plans.
Lala will play a critical role in Apple’s music future, but not for the reasons cited above. Lala’s licenses with major labels are non-transferable, so they’re not usable for any new iTunes service. The 10 cent song rental model never gained traction and does not cover mobile devices thus is of little value to Apple. What is of value is the personal music storage service which was an often overlooked component of Lala’s business. As Apple did with the original iPods, Lala realized that any music solution must include music already possessed by the user. The Lala setup process provides software to store a personal music library online and then play it from any web browser alongside web songs they vend. This technology plus the engineering and management team is the true value of Lala to Apple.
An upcoming major revision of iTunes will copy each user’s catalog to the net making it available from any browser or net connected ipod/touch/tablet. The Lala upload technology will be bundled into a future iTunes upgrade which will automatically be installed for the 100+ million itunes users with a simple ?An upgrade is available¿? notification dialog box. After installation iTunes will push in the background their entire media library to their personal mobile iTunes area. Once loaded, users will be able to navigate and play their music, videos and playlists from their personal URL using a browser based iTunes experience.
Apple will link the tens of millions of previously sold iPods, Touches, AppleTV and iTablets to mobile iTunes giving users seamless playback of their media from a wide range of Apple branded devices. Since media will be supplied from the user’s personal collection, Apple is freed from the hassles of device and region limitations. iTunes shoppers will be able to continue to buy music and movies as they can now with purchases still being downloaded, but once downloaded they will be automatically loaded to their mobile iTunes area for anywhere access. Again because users are in possession of the materials no new licenses are required from the record labels or publishers.
Some are curious why Apple with thousands of engineers would need Lala talent and technology. For sure Apple could copy Lala technology, but time is of the essence and Lala lets Apple move faster in transitioning from their PC software business to a cloud service. They get a knowledgeable digital music engineering team, plus a code base to build upon which already does uploading and web playback. There’s precedence for this strategy. The iTunes software did not originate within in Apple but came via an acquisition. Finally, Apple gets the quick witted, brilliant, but occasionally loony Lala CEO Bill Nguyen who will play a future role in Apple. (Although one wonders how Jobs and lime light relishing Nguyen can co-exist.)
It’s critically important that technology companies build and maintain a core strength. This cornerstone allows them to command a significant portion of the profit stream and is a beachhead to launch other initiatives. Think Amazon/e-commerce, Microsoft/OS, Google/search, Apple/media. Jobs is keenly aware of the digital transition from PC to cloud centric programs and services. It’s imperative Apple lead in this transition or risk ceding leadership in media to others such as Amazon, Real,Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. Lala will help Apple protect their media franchise from encroachment by accelerating their cloud efforts. iTunes users can expect mobile iTunes in 2010.
From: The Washington Post
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January 20th, 2010
MTV Games is hoping to goose sales of its flagging “Rock Band” series with a new service Tuesday that lets average users upload and sell videogame versions of their own music.
The service, known as the Rock Band Network Store, may offer a few minutes of fame to rudimentary garage bands by allowing millions of game players to access their music.
But given the technical know-how needed to format a song for the game—which may require users to hire a pricey third-party developer—the service could wind up serving mostly as a promotional platform for established acts with deeper pockets, rather than the typical shower singer.
“Rock Band” and its rival, “Guitar Hero,” are two of the most successful videogame franchises to debut in recent years. But sales of both titles have slowed significantly in the past year, with combined sales in 2009 of $224 million, according to an estimate from Wedbush Morgan Securities—less than 50% their level in 2008.
Until now, most of the music available for play on either game has consisted of a limited number of songs, mostly by major acts like Nirvana, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beatles.
With the new service, unknown bands are seeing their chance to get in on the act. But popular groups not quite big enough to make the “Rock Band” playlist are also preparing material for the do-it-yourself upload store, including Creed and Evanescence, each of which has sold tens of millions of albums in the past decade.
“We expected this to be an initiative that would appeal to unsigned artists,” says Paul DeGooyer, MTV’s senior vice president for electronic games and music. “What was surprising to us was how many artists with hit records have offered themselves up.”
The Rock Band network has been running in a private, invitation-only testing mode since September. For now, it is to be available only to users of the Xbox 360, made by MicrosoftCorp., which was also MTV Games’ partner in building the Rock Band Network. MTV is part ofViacom Inc. The network eventually is to be made accessible to users of other game systems, like Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3.
Preparing a song is complicated, and involves preparing an array of specialized digital sound files, lyrics, transcriptions and even instructions for virtual camera angles, lighting and choreography for the animated characters that perform the music within the game itself.
It has already spawned a cottage industry of companies offering to format recordings, for fees that can get steep. These contractors, with names like Rhythm Authors LLC and RockGamer Studios, typically charge $500 per minute of music.
Other costs involved in creating a song include the purchase of an Xbox 360 console, “Rock Band” game discs and instruments, as well as a subscription to an online Microsoft game-development “community” that costs about $99 a year.
Rock Band Network lets users set prices anywhere from 99 cents to $2.99 a song. The company retains 70% of the sale price, with the rest going to the user. Given the figures, musicians must be fairly confident they’ll sell real numbers of songs to justify their investment.
Sub Pop, a prominent independent record label, is paying various contractors to prepare 25 songs that it plans to upload to the store—all of them by acts among the label’s most commercially successful.
Those include the Shins, whose 2007 album “Wincing the Night Away” reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album-sales chart; comedy-music duo Flight of the Conchords; and indie-rock stalwarts like Mudhoney, Sleater-Kinney and the Postal Service.
Sub Pop was the original record label of Nirvana, but much of that band’s catalog is already available for “Rock Band.”
The label is treating the undertaking as a serious creative endeavor. It hired a prominent record producer, Phil Ek, to mix the music before delivering it to the contractors who format it for the game.
“At $3 apiece nobody’s looking to ‘Rock Band’ as a discovery tool,” predicts Tony Kiewel, head of artists-and-repertoire at Sub Pop. “That’s not going to happen,” he says.
From: WSJ.com
Tags: Artists, Bands, downloading, helpful tips, Labels, music, Music Marketing, music news, promoting yourself, rock band, video games, Wall Street Journal
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January 20th, 2010
- Publishing
- Mechanical royalties
- Performance Royalties from ASCAP and BMI
- Digital Performance Royalties from Sound Exchange
- Synch rights TV, Commercials, Movies, Video Games
- Digital sales – Individual or by combination
- Music (studio & live) Album – Physical & Digital, Single – Digital, Ringtone, Ringback, Podcasts
- Instant Post Gig Live Recording via download, mobile streaming or flash drives
- Video – Live, concept, personal, – Physical & Digital
- Video and Internet Games featuring or about the artist
- Photographs
- Graphics and art work, screen savers, wall paper
- Lyrics
- Sheet music
- Compilations
- Merchandise – Clothes, USB packs, Posters, other things
- Live Performances
- Live Show – Gig
- Live Show – After Party
- Meet and Greet
- Personal Appearance
- Studio Session Work
- Sponsorships, and endorsements
- Advertising
- Band newsletter emails
- Blog/Website
- Videos
- Music Player
- Fan Clubs
- Selling fan created products like videos and mashups
- YouTube Subscription channel for more popular artists
- Artist programmed internet radio station. A mid level or up artist with a base could program the music he is into including his own. Fans could pay for shout outs and sponsors could pay for blocks of time or ads to support it. It could also be a subscription podcast that people could pay a couple of bucks a month for.
- Financial Contributions of Support – Tip Jar or direct donations
- Patronage Model – Artist Fan Exclusives – e.g. paying to sing on a song in studio or have artist write one for you
- Mobile Apps
- Artist Specific Revenue Stream - unique streams customized to the specific artist, e.g Amanda Palmer
- Music Teaching – Lessons and Workshops
- Music Employment – orchestras, etc, choir directors, ministers of music, etc.
- Music Production – Studio and Live
- Any job available to survive and keep making music
- Getting Help From Other Artists and Helping Them- Whatever goes around come around.
Let me know if you think I have missed anything important. Put your suggestions in the comment section and anything relevant and sensible will be added. I’d like to compile as complete a list as possible with your help and approval. Artists need to get paid quickly and as much as possible. I thought a list like this was as good a place as any to start.
From: MusicBizGuy
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January 18th, 2010
It’s 2010 and time to start thinking about the annual festivals that will benefit YOU. All around us we hear that this is the year to make a big push and get heard- we want to help with that. As a Musician, Label or Entertainment/Media business, it’s pretty important to attend at least one music festival a year. SXSW and WMC are two of the big starters that are coming up fast. We’re hoping to enlighten you on how important it is to prepare, not just show up. There are so many ways to conquer a festival- high rollin’ networker, party animal, on the cheap or go with the flow. Whatever reason you’re going, there’s a way to be prepared and Eternite Media would like to be your go-to source for exploring your options and fulfilling the promotional decisions you make.
It is important to get your marketing and promotional plan started early. When you work with us, you will be covered in every area that you need, and even more than you thought. Eternite Media offers design and printing solutions for simple business cards, intricate flyers, logos or branding for your entire realm of products. We are able to replicate or duplicate your CD and DVD with basic black print or full color thermal. Paper printing options like digi-paks, one page inserts or full booklets can work in a package with a jewel case or even a clear poly sleeve. Merchandise is also a classic advertisement for your brand’s success, including T-shirts, buttons or stickers- all of which are a constant reminder of you to all your fans. We can put together whatever you need- any propaganda materials big or small and can even ship it directly to your accommodations.
CD Duplication Promo Packages
Opener (basic package)
- Silver Duplicated CDR
- Black Thermal Text Print On Disc
- White Paper Sleeve
100: $81.00 (Normally $108.00)
250: $202.50 (Normally $270.00)
500: $345.00 (Normally $460.00)
Resident (mid package)
- White Duplicated CDR
- Full Color Thermal Print On Disc
- 1 Panel 4/4 (Full Color) Paper Insert
- Clear Poly Sleeve
100: $156.60 (Normally $174.00)
250: $380.25 (Normally $422.50)
500: $621.00 (Normally $690.00)
Headliner (premium package)
- Replicated (manufactured) CD
- Full Color Offset Print On Disc
- Full Color 5″ Jacket
- Wafer Seal
500: $589.00 (Normally $660.00)
1000: $746.00 (Normally $840.00)
2500: $1617.50 (Normally $1825.00)
(DVD packages available upon request)
BONUS WMC/SXSW Specials:
25% off select Printing services
Promote your shows, get the word out about your new release, or just build your fan base! Take advantage of high quality printing services for business cards, flyers, stickers, 2″ buttons and banners.
40% off all Merchandise
Make a statement and toss out t-shirts during your shows or help pay for your trip by selling screen printed merch. Either way your fans will do the advertising for you to build your name recognition and it’s a great way to increase your profit margin. Screen printed shirts, hoodies, hats and more. We offer apparel from American Apparel, Hanes, Gildan, and other top brands.
((AA, hanes and Gildan logo))
We are super excited about all the cool stuff you will be ready to hit your fans with this year! Don’t waste any time and drop us a line at info@eternitemedia.com to order.
Stay connected on our Twitter, Facebook and MySpace for resources, blogs, and suggestions on making the most out of your festival experience at SXSW or WMC.
It’s 2010 and time to start thinking about the annual festivals that will benefit YOU. All around us we hear that this is the year to make a big push and get heard- we want to help with that. As a Musician, Label or Entertainment/Media business, it’s pretty important to attend at least one music festival a year. SXSW and WMC are two of the big starters that are coming up fast. We’re hoping to enlighten you on how important it is to prepare, not just show up. There are so many ways to conquer a festival- high rollin’ networker, party animal, on the cheap or go with the flow. Whatever reason you’re going, there’s a way to be prepared and Eternite Media would like to be your go-to source for exploring your options and fulfilling the promotional decisions you make.
It is important to get your marketing and promotional plan started early. When you work with us, you will be covered in every area that you need, and even more than you thought. Eternite Media offers design and printing solutions for simple business cards, intricate flyers, logos or branding for your entire realm of products. We are able to replicate or duplicate your CD and DVD with basic black print or full color thermal. Paper printing options like digi-paks, one page inserts or full booklets can work in a package with a jewel case or even a clear poly sleeve. Merchandise is also a classic advertisement for your brand’s success, including T-shirts, buttons or stickers- all of which are a constant reminder of you to all your fans. We can put together whatever you need- any propaganda materials big or small and can even ship it directly to your accommodations.
CD Duplication Promo Packages
Opener
(basic package)
- Silver Duplicated CDR
- Black Thermal Text Print On Disc
- White Paper Sleeve
100: $81.00 (Normally $108.00)
250: $202.50 (Normally $270.00)
500: $345.00 (Normally $460.00)
Resident
(mid package)
- White Duplicated CDR
- Full Color Thermal Print On Disc
- 1 Panel 4/4 (Full Color) Paper Insert
- Clear Poly Sleeve
100: $156.60 (Normally $174.00)
250: $380.25 (Normally $422.50)
500: $621.00 (Normally $690.00)
Headliner
(premium package)
- Replicated (manufactured) CD
- Full Color Offset Print On Disc
- Full Color 5″ Jacket
- Wafer Seal
500: $589.00 (Normally $660.00)
1000: $746.00 (Normally $840.00)
2500: $1617.50 (Normally $1825.00)
(DVD packages available upon request)
BONUS WMC/SXSW Specials:
25% off select Printing services
Promote your shows, get the word out about your new release, or just build your fan base! Take advantage of high quality printing services for business cards, flyers, stickers, 2″ buttons and banners.
40% off all Merchandise
Make a statement and toss out t-shirts during your shows or help pay for your trip by selling screen printed merch. Either way your fans will do the advertising for you to build your name recognition and it’s a great way to increase your profit margin. Screen printed shirts, hoodies, hats and more. We offer apparel from American Apparel, Hanes, Gildan, and other top brands.
  
We are super excited about all the cool stuff you will be ready to hit your fans with this year! Don’t waste any time and drop us a line at info@eternitemedia.com or 323-284-4733 to order.
Stay connected on our Twitter, Facebook and MySpace for resources, blogs, and suggestions on making the most out of your festival experience at SXSW or WMC.
Tags: American Apparel, Artists, banners, black thermal, booklet, buttons, CDs, clear poly sleeve, demo CD, Digipaks, Duplication, DVDs, entertainment business, flyers, full-color offset, full-color thermal, Gildan, Graphic Design, Hanes, hats, jacket, jewel case, Labels, Logo Design, merch, music, Music Marketing, musician, paper sleeve, printed insert, Printing, promo products, promoting yourself, Replication, screen-printing, single-color silkscreen, South By Southwest, stickers, street promotion, sweatshirts, T-shirts, wafer seal, Winter Music Conference
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