Out of the depths of the over-saturated indie rock scene comes a refreshing addition with just enough spunk to stand out. After a year of searching for the perfect blend of band mates, DanseWolf is ready for action. They’ve already wrote and recorded a few songs which are on their self-titled promo CD and are in the process of  writing songs for their debut album coming later this year. Lucky for you we have a sneak peak of their newest song from their practice.

We’ve got lead singer Julz D, Erin Domina on bass, guitarist Andy Lagomarsino and Melissa Moskow on the drums. A definite indie style- lyrics sang with purpose, catchy tempo changes with a ‘driving rock edge’ as Julz put it. “Stray beats and hummed concepts at inception have matured into a true fusion of indie rock, blues and electronic with a backbone of soul” (Read the rest of their bio HERE). Everyone has a hand in writing and their songs range from shady INsignificant others, addiction (thought not what you may think) and even a romantic ballad. We can’t wait for the new album with a pumped up version of the Dansewolf you hear on their promo CD!

Hopefully you are keen on recognizing their jena se qua’ charisma and catch them at all their upcoming shows, starting June 23 at Dragonfly in Los Angeles. Stay connected with the DanseWolf on Myspace, Facebook & Twitter.

We caught up with the wolf pack in their studio for a video interview!

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Also check out a sneak peak of their new song “Smoke & Mirrors” from the studio:

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www.dansewolfmusic.com

-by Michelle Powell

Symphonic Distribution is a digital content distributor and services provider aimed at providing the best in content delivery, customer service, marketing, education, distribution, licensing and more for music industry artists, managers, and record labels across the globe. Symphonic Distribution is ran by experienced music producers, label owners, and artists thriving in providing the highest level of service. Their mission is to provide you with the best services to improve brand performance. In addition to their comprehensive service list, they provide individual brands to better help a record label or artist grow. Symphonic is also accredited by the Better Business Bureau to further satisfy their clients and partners.  Below are some new highlights Symphonic has introduced recently that show just how much they have to offer.

SymSTREAM is the brand new iPhone / iPod Touch application created by Symphonic Distribution.  Being one of the only distributors in the world to have an iPhone / iPod Touch application, Symphonic Distribution has further diversified itself with new and evolving technologies aimed.  The tool also will serve as a new marketing initiative for artists and record labels distributed by Symphonic Distribution.  SymSTREAM allows you to preview some of the great music we receive each and every week!  If you are at the gym or simply want to listen to new, creative, and innovative music, download SymSTREAM for FREE at the APP Store today. More details in their BLOG

Rolling out in the first part of 2010, Symphonic is updating their client area with a new royalties portal. A second phase of the portal is coming soon that will add detailed stats and sales figures. This will give you a lot of insight on what is selling and what you need to market more in that quarter. This new content portal will bring a new level of self service and convenience to getting your tracks out to digital stores. You will be able to deliver releases to them and have full control as if YOU are the distributor!  This will also allow you more control at any time of your releases, eliminate errors, expedite release delivery, and just simplify the process in general. These updates will really make Symphonic your go-to site for digital distribution.

Being all about customer service, it should be obvious that they care about their clients. They strive to make every step you need to take as simple as possible, include free marketing plans and education with many different resources to make you shine! For example, they can distribute releases to promo pools worldwide, have many internal labels available to release your unsigned material and even have an Artist Connect- where they send unaffiliated artist’s demos to 600+ labels across the globe for potential licensing.

It’s a worthwhile trip to their website, so don’t hesitate to see what you can get into. Sign up for their newsletter to be in the know of their success and see how you can connect with other artists, labels or engineers. Check out their blog to see the Release, Label and Artist of the week.

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Ryan Farish

Grammy nominated, 2008 GMA Dove Award Winning songwriter/producer/composer Ryan Farish, first launched his music career on the first generation mp3.com, where his music quickly took to the masses obtaining a whopping 1,800,000+ downloads of his trademark, electronic-jazz-world music.

Los Angeles music Industry magazine, “Music Connection” refers to Ryan Farish as a “Download King”.

Ryan’s national debut album, Beautiful (Dist by Capitol/EMI), quickly climbed to 10 on the Billboard Top New Age chart, and also ranked 1 on Music Choice’s Soundscapes Digital Music channel. Ryan’s sophomore record, From the Sky, smashed the New Age charts again, hitting 3 on the Billboard chart only five weeks after its release, and was the second most downloaded Jazz album on iTunes for two consecutive weeks! Ryan’s song from that album, “Living Water” was even featured by iTunes, as the “Discovery Download of the Week”.

Ryan’s music has been featured on The Weather Channel’s Local on the 8’s; he also composed the theme music for their prime time TV show, Storm Stories; and most recently was featured along with Jazz Superstars Chick Corea, Dav Koz, Najee, and Jeff Lorber, to name a few on the 1 Top Billboard Chartting Jazz compliation, “The Weather Channel Presents:Smooth Jazz” (Midas/EMI). Other honorable mentions to Ryan’s music credit, have been having his music used as part of the Freedom Towers documentary in NYC, Access Hollywood, Universal Music Publishing, Red Cross, Lifetime Network, Sony, Columbia Tri Star Pictures, just to name a few.

Ryan’s unique sound, and inherent ability to communicate through music, has touched thousands of lives, and entered the homes of millions across the world.

Christianity Today.com says: “Ryan Farish is something of an instrumental music superstar.”

Ryan’s latest release, “Spirit- A Ryan Farish Christmas” is available through iTunes and Amazon.com. It reached Amazon’s top 100 album list within the first week! Read the official Press Release.

For Immediate Release, Dec 9, 2009. Los Angeles, CA.

Ryan Farish, releases his first ever Holiday/Christmas album, “Spirit – A Ryan Farish Christmas”.

Farish, who is both recognized around the world for his signature voice on the piano as a recording artist, and for his unique touch to music production, has finally reached out with his first Christmas offering, “Spirit – A Ryan Farish Christmas”.

Ryan’s music has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands, and entered the homes of millions via his extensive work as a composer. Many learned of Ryan Farish’s music via the Youtube video “Remember Me”, which ranks as one of the most viewed videos of all time, at 28,000,000 plus. Additionally, Farish’s music is heard daily on hit shows like 20/20, “What Not to Wear”, the Sopranos, The Weather Channel, Speed Channel, Discovery Channel, MTV and VH1, just to name a few.

The Weather Channel recently credited Ryan Farish on their new music website, saying “Ryan Farish has been a Weather Channel music staple for over a decade. His music has been an integral part in giving The Weather Channel a musical identity. This artist can’t be roped into any one genre unless you just create a genre called “Great Music” and in that genre he is one of the best.”

Ryan’s music has been selected as “Discovery Download” of the week by Apple’s iTunes, and has been downloaded millions of times via multiple sites like mp3.com, iTunes, Amazon.com, Rhapsody, and ryanfarish.com. With all of Ryan Farish’s music reaching the masses, Farish just signed a deal to have his signature sound piped into the air, literally… putting his music into the on air flight entertainment systems to all the worlds major airlines, like Delta, Virgin, American, etc. 30 in total.

“Spirit – A Ryan Farish Christmas” now enters Farish’s discography, and Farish along with his label RYTONE Entertainment invite you to enjoy the sounds of the season, in a new and refreshing way, with “Spirit – A Ryan Farish Christmas”.

We caught up with Ryan for a quick interview

What avenues of the music industry are you involved in, besides your mainstream albums?
I am also involved as a composer, producer, and publisher.

How did you get involved in composing work? Did companies find you or did you reach out to them? And how does your composing differ from the music you make personally?
My composing originally was just my Artist Albums, the exposure I recieved on the first gen mp3.com led to companies all around the world contacting us to license my songs. This then, eventually led to me getting contracts to compose custom music, in various genres from Theme songs to hit TV shows like “Storm Stories”, to Major motion Pictures for Companies like SONY, Columbia Tri Star, Universal, Capitol/EMI. etc.

What’s your favorite part of producing music? What gets you into the new piece of work as you make it?
My favorite part, is when I start to feel that the idea is developing into something that in a way is its own thing… its all about communication to me, and serving the listener… anything that I create that has those qualities, becomes a song, and once I feel a song is coming through, I can hardly keep up with recording the notes, as they come.

What is your favorite digital download store to sell your music on and why?
iTunes. They have a very simple, clean interface which is great for suggesting new music (Genius). They are the largest music retailer now, and so exposure on iTunes today, is like being on a wall display in Best Buy from years past. Truly, we are living in exciting times to be artists.

What are your career or music goals for 2010?
Tour, tour, tour!

Do you have a favorite piece of equipment that you use to make your music, such as a keyboard, program or outboard gear?
Yes. My Mac. After that, I love working with Apple Logic 9. Its an incredible program, that inspires songs and creativity.

Are you actively marketing yourself to increase your fan base? If so, what are the tools you use to do so? (social networking, advertising, website)
No, actually, and we probably should look into that .We are not involved in any marketing campaings, never have actually, although I do take time to maintain myspace and facebook pages, a little tweet here and there too.

What does your album Spirit mean to you?
Its very special to me, I had wanted to do a Christmas album, for many years, but I didn’t want to do it until I knew that I had something to bring, to these timeless classic songs, which mean so much to many of us. I wanted to wait until I completely had defined the “RF” sound, and could then offer that, to these classic songs which mean so much to many of us.

Stay connected with Ryan on Twitter, Facebook and Myspace
www.ryanfarish.com
Ryan Farish on iTunes

Fawn is an award winning ASCAP singer/songwriter, whose song “Wish U Love” is currently climbing the Billboard Charts. A month ago she entered the Billboard Hot dance Break-out Charts at #5.  In her first week she entered the Billboard dance charts as the 2^nd highest add of the week, 2^nd only to Depeche Mode.  Another song released around the same time, “Come Back Particles Mix” is a popular favorite on Beatport with producer Jake Benson. Her voice and songs have been heard on numerous TV shows, CD Compilations, commercials and films such as The Natalee Holloway Story, Ugly Betty, Nip/Tuck, Dead End Falls, Ford, Mazda, Pontiac, Barbie, Ponds, Target, Guiding Light, Lavazza Coffee, The Young and The Restless, 1-800-Missing with Vivica A. Fox and Witchblade, among others.

Out of 560,000 songs and 41,000 albums, with 10,000 judges on board, Fawn won the JPF Music Award for “Best Dance Song 2009″ with her song “Wish U Love” which was #2 only to Madonna, on the dance/house Masterbeat charts with Producers Chad Jack and Tim Letteer. She also won for “Best Dance Album 2009″ – “Body, Soul and Mind.” Her song ‘Oneday,’ produced by BT, Brian Transeau (Film Composer for Monster), has raised over 5 million for people with HIV/AIDS. She was recently seen on the TV/Film Panel for the 2009 Winter Music Conference in Miami and the Lifetime TV Series “How to Look Good Naked” with Carson Kressley with her sister Grae. She has also appeared on a variety of TV shows, including Paula Abdul’s reality TV show “Hey Paula,” E.T. The Insider, TMZ, Good Morning America, American Idol, Regis and Kelly, KTLA, FOX 11 News, 944 and many others.

She has released 3 albums (2 with partner Vincent Covello, Body Soul and Mind) and 3 singles on Stonedef Records and has been on several compilation albums. She has worked with recording artists Meredith Brooks, Paula Cole, BT, QD3, Ed Townsend, Lalah Hathaway, Club Nuveau’s Val Watson, and has shared the stage with a variety of artists such as Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, Right Said Fred, Dionne Warwick, Carl Anderson, David Pomeranz, Thelma Houston, Chrisse Hynde, Pepper Mashay, James Torme’ and War’s Howard E. Scott. Fawn has also worked with an array of other celebrities, including Pamela Anderson, Jay Leno, Eva Longoria, Joan Rivers, Kevin Costner, Darryl Hannah, Tommy Lee, Martin Lawrence, Magic Johnson, Jermaine Dupri, Rae Dawn Chong, Hulk Hogan, Catherine Oxenberg, Florence Henderson, Jay Leno, James Callahan, Erik Estrada, John Amos, David Marshall Grant and Alexandra Paul and others appearing with them in film, TV and benefits for several worthy charities.

Fawn sings in almost every language and in a variety of styles. She has sung for a variety of world-renowned conductors, including Paul Salamunovich, Jean Berger and Duane Wolfe for various projects and is currently working on a new music project with Dresden and Johnston, Allister Whitehead, Chad Jack, Jake Benson and TRL.  Fawn is currently recording two albums in the style of Electro and Chill Out.

In her free time she enjoys mentoring children and adults alike, helping them become acquainted with and prolific in piano, voice and songwriting. She believes that a gift is as important as what you do with it, so she spends a few hours a month working with people of all ages, dealing with different issues. She has been known to incorporate her wolf hybrid, “Wolfadeaus” and other rescue animals to aid in the healing process of hurting people of all ages. Her belief is that there is “no such thing as a ‘problem’ person or child, only a problem in understanding”. Wolf dogs Wolfadeaus and Dakota can be seen in Fawn’s “Wish U Love” music video, airing on the LOGO channel and other outlets.

Fawn has a direct and honest approach in her music and her life. She continually lends her support, time and heart, performing for benefits involving AIDS, Cancer, Animal Rescue, Special Olympics, and many other important causes. She explains, “There is no distinction or difference in the heart of humanity…we are all equally significant. The more candles you light in the world, the brighter it becomes.” Multi-talented, and naturally charismatic, Fawn loves the adventure in taking risks and as a gifted and versatile singer/songwriter, she also composes music in all genres. She says, “Beethoven once wrote, ‘into the heart it has sprung, into the heart it shall penetrate’…I believe and strive in this endeavor.”

“Be who you’re born to be and be a light in the world”
-Fawn

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WAVE ARRAY is a San Francisco Bay Area born four-piece indie rock band who formed in 2006. Their sound resonates frequencies of human emotion and thought buried beneath the preoccupation of everyday life using vibrant guitar

and bass work, driving rhythms, and palpable melodies. Wave Array’s eclectic compositions of melodic vamps and hard hitting jams stretch the limits of rock into the psychedelic/experimental realm and have already sparked the interest along the West Coast, the online music community, and national radio.

Press

“There’s a deep fluidity in the songs of Wave Array

that makes the group not just another drop in the

ocean of psychedelic garage-rock bands.”

- Delfín Vigil of San Francisco Chronicle

“Dream Sequence” Track of the Day on Garageband.com

“Dayz” Top 100 song on Ourstage.com [Alternative Rock Channel]

“Dream Sequence” 13th out of 487 overall in Ourstage’s Noisepop Competition

“Dream Sequence” XMU’s Radar Report, XM Satellite Radio

Members:
Strom Lee | Guitar, Vocals
Nich Pak | Guitar
Johan Alfsen | Bass
Will Halsey | Drums, Vocals

Their new album “Cheapjack Moon” is out now as a Digipak and will soon be available on iTunes and other digital retailers.

For more information on WaveArray, visit them on the Web at: http://www.wavearraymusic.com/ or http://www.myspace.com/wavearray

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First, we would like to introduce you to our friends at Confined Media. Soon we will talk about some of their artists, but to start we felt it would be appropriate to expose you to the great label behind them.

Confined Media is a Seattle-based label, working to stretch the edges of the club music concept. With no genre boundaries, the people working to produce music under the label are looking to make tunes that are danceable, smart, accessible, or experimental; music that catches the ear. Releasing the first EP in 2007, productions have ranged from DJ-friendly, groovy tunes, to trials in sound that bend the possibilities of live performance. Trying to keep up with the latest technology, label members are trying to push forward into unexplored realms of music using the latest innovations in sound production. Overall, Confined Media, as a record label, is trying to take itself and its artists as seriously as possible without losing their initial intent – to entertain people and have fun doing it.

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Date of First Release: December 17 2007 (Overhead Lighting)
Total Releases to date: 24 (minus 3 several unfinished releases that were given numbers
Total Tracks released to date: 65
Members: Ryan Hicks, Courtney Rickett (co-owners), Caleb Cox, Josh Carpenter, Nicholas Potter, Jeff Ackley (Latenight Renegades PDX), Gabe Spiel, Jason LeMaitre, Kahyeed Murray
Artists: Andrew Cox, Ryan Xristopher, Hazel LaLanne, AKU, Dj Obey, Jason LeMaitre, Phluid, Oob, Cari Golden, Kavina Trujillo, Dj Confidence, Split Attention

For more information on Confined Media, visit them on the Web at: http://www.confinedmedia.com/