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The Black Man Clay Show Wins ACM Music Video Award The Alliance for Community Media presented their Hometown Video Awards (the Emmy of public access channels) for 2008 July 9th in Washington, DC at the ACM annual conference. Advocates for grassroots media for over thirty years, the ACM promotes excellence in local broadcasting and maximum public access to the airwaves. Winning an award in the music video category was the 30-minute The Black Man Clay Show, produced in Tucson, Arizona by Eric Heithaus. "The Black Man Clay Show" is currently being broadcast in the Metropolitan New York and other areas around the country. - 2008-07-17

Gamecues Deployed As A New Distribution Model For Video Game Music Licensing Resnick Interactive aims to implement new standard in video game music licensing. Gamecues.com provides numerous tools for game makers to acquire original scoring, music and high-definition sound effects for use in commercially sold game titles. Many well known music publishers and copyright holders are in talks to participate and take advantage of special feature sets tailored specifically to their administrative needs. - 2008-07-15

42 Entertainment to be Featured Speakers at Bandwidth Music | Technology Conference The Bandwidth Conference gathers professionals in the music, technology and media worlds and explores the evolving musical experience. Bandwidth 2008 takes place August 14 and 15 in San Francisco. - 2008-06-13

ArtistData Adds AmieStreet, Buzznet, Last.fm and Six More to Its Expanding Network ArtistData is a free service that allows artists and managers the ability to post information only once and have it updated across many online destinations simultaneously, including Eventful, Jambase, MySpace, Pollstar, PureVolume, ShowClix, VIRB and recently added Last.fm, Mojam and Musi-cal. ArtistData's synchronization network continues to expand and will soon include AmieStreet, Buzznet, Beta Records, Famecast, indie911 and Hoooka. - 2008-06-05

SpiralFrog Launches North American Marketing Campaign : - SpiralFrogClub.com Targets Music Fans - SpiralFrog™ (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal ad-supported music experience, today announced the launch of SpiralFrogClub.com and its first North American marketing campaign. The campaign was created and produced by Night Agency, New York. - 2008-05-20

LA Games Conference Brings Together 300+ Top Media, Entertainment & Games Executives in Hollywood, May 21-22 Top Executives from EA, Disney, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony, G4, Spike TV, MTV, Nokia, Endemol, Qualcomm, Paramount, Vivendi Games, NBC Universal, I-play, DirecTV, Turbine, Playboy, RealNetworks, GSN, Playfirst and Glu Mobile to Converge for Annual "Insiders" Event - 2008-05-13

Digital Media Wire Announces Speakers and Agenda for LA Games Conference in Los Angeles, May 21-22 Top Executives from EA, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony, Nokia, Disney, Qualcomm, Paramount Pictures, Vivendi Games, and Glu Mobile to Converge for Annual "Insiders" Event - 2008-04-25

SpiralFrog Appoints Music Industry Veteran Russ Rieger to Executive Team: Former Record Company Executive Expands Management Team to Support Rapid Growth SpiralFrog, Inc. (www.spiralfrog.com), the free ad-supported Web-based music experience, today announced the appointment of Russ Rieger to the newly created position of vice president of strategic initiatives. In this role, Rieger will be responsible for securing and maintaining strategic partnerships within the music, media and advertising industries. Rieger brings 25 years of expertise in entertainment marketing and artist management. His deep knowledge of all aspects of the music business will further SpiralFrog's ability to create a community for brand marketers to connect with music enthusiasts in a meaningful way. - 2008-04-21

SpiralFrog(TM) Now Third Largest Legal Music Download Site: SpiralFrog Continues Growth with 850,000 Registered Users and More Than Two Million Uniques in North America SpiralFrog, Inc., (www.spiralfrog.com) the free, ad-supported Web-based music experience, today announced it crossed a major threshold with almost 850,000 registered users. Based on reported user numbers, SpiralFrog is now positioned as the third largest legal music download site in U.S. and Canada behind only iTunes and Rhapsody. The company also demonstrated further growth with traffic already surpassing two million unique monthly visitors for March. - 2008-03-27

Composer Torben Thoger Of Denmark Teams with Only New Age Music, Inc. for his Music Catalog's U.S. Release Danish composer Torben Thoger has commissioned U.S.-based new age music expert Suzanne Doucet of Only New Age Music to oversee the first-time release of his catalog to the U.S. market. - 2008-03-12

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

Jett Williams' Macon County Disaster Relief Benefit Saturday, MAY 10TH, 2008 Jett Williams helping tornado victims through music with friends. - 2008-02-21

Valencia Vas Gives Listening Advice and Wine Menus to her Music Fans Providence Records releases 'Valencia Vas Vitamins,' interactive music supplements to accompany the soprano's debut album. The first two features are 'The Beginner's Listening Guide' and 'The Wine Song Pairing.' - 2008-02-18

It All Started With American Idol in Miami Singer/songwriter Charity Daw will debut on American Idol-Miami on wednseday, January 30th, 2008. This indy recording artist is truly talented and her vocal cords are force to be reconned with. Ms. Daw, a Cuban-American, will display her skills on Idol. Will Charity make it to Hollywood? - 2008-01-31

Naxos of America to Begin Distribution of the Chandos Catalog in April Award-Winning UK-Based label joins the Naxos Family of Distributed Labels. - 2008-01-30

Dirtbag Music Launches New Social Music Network with Major Artist and Industry Support The current industry wide stalemate between music content providers who continue to control Digital Rights Management (DRM), on the one hand, and those who are calling for an all out open file sharing universe on the other, has done little in terms of moving the industry forward for the artists and fans caught in the middle. Music used to be about the interaction and connection between artists and fans, however, for nearly a decade both have been forced to buy tickets to an indefinitely postponed concert due to copyright issues. - 2008-01-15

Long Live Crime Records Signs The Bangkok Five The Bangkok Five set to release new album "We Love What Kills Us" Spring '08 - 2007-12-10

Long Live Crime Records Welcomes Management Reorganization and Signs Hot New Group the Bangkok Five Susan Ferris and Long Live Crime Records look towards an exciting New Year. - 2007-12-07

Pyxix Corporation Challenges Documentary Channel's Nuisance Trademark Suit Pyxix says "Documentary Channel" is too generic to be trademarked by DCI; asks court to dismiss DCI's trademark lawsuit against Pyxix; asks for DCI to reimburse Pyxix defense legal fees. - 2007-11-08

Tampa Bay, FL Indie Pop/Rockers Radio Reset Enter Production Agreement with Winky Wright's, Pound 4 Pound Records Radio Reset, perhaps the best kept Indie pop/rock secret in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area have entered into a production agreement with Winky Wright's Pound 4 Pound Records that will be finalized this Saturday October 20th, 2007. - 2007-10-19

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