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Trackbacks Available Delirium Blues Project, Co-Led by Kenny Werner and Roseanna Vitro, Debuts on CD March 25
Pianist Kenny Werner and vocalist Roseanna Vitro, longtime friends and musical colleagues, have collaborated on a new band (Delirium Blues Project) and a new CD (Serve or Suffer). Werner's arrangements for the nine-piece ensemble give the funk, blues, and roots repertoire a progressive spin.** 2008-03-11

Unicorn Media Invites Artists to Join Digital Entertainment Revolution: Entertainment Distribution Service of the Future Issues Call for Content to Music and Film Artists from South by Southwest (SXSW) 2008 Music and Media Conference  
Unicorn Media (www.UnicornMedia.com) announced today an open call for professional-quality film and music content for its highly anticipated new free entertainment service. Unicorn Media emerged from its stealth mode this week, revealing a pre-launch version of its groundbreaking entertainment site, where it is accepting professionally produced, high-quality music, movies and episodic video programming. 2008-03-10

HP Targets Multi-billion Dollar Graphic Arts Market with New Digital Printing Technologies: Preview event for drupa trade show highlights a new, environmentally responsible large-format alternative, a new HP Inkjet Web Press and three new HP Indigo presses
HP today announced a landmark release of graphic arts technologies and products that improve the speed and reduce the cost of digital printing. 2008-03-10

Saints Of The Underground To Release Debut Album On Warrior Records/Universal Music Group Distribution
Saints Of The Underground, created by members of mega-groups Ratt, Warrant, and Alice Cooper, are launching their debut CD on April 22nd entitled, "Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner," mixed by legendary Producer Andy Johns of The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin fame -- UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION 2008-03-10

Rott Brings Bite with International Recording Contract
Female fronted Idaho Gothic Rock band Rott has landed an International recording and distribution contract with USA label Renaissance Records. Their album Out of Time will be released in May in the United States and Canada with international release by one of the largest independents, Koch Distribution. 2008-03-09

Tampa Bay Gets Its Own Biggest Music Business Conference and Award Show
The Biggest Music Biz Conference and Music Award Show hits the Tampa Bay Area in November. Top Industry Professionals will teach at the conference and celebrity's will walk the red carpet at the televised awards. Tampa Bay, FL is Arbitron ranked market number 19 and has a thriving independent music scene. 2008-03-09

Trackbacks Available The Paley Center for Media Presents a Forthieth Annivesary Salute to Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Wiliam S. Paley Television Festival with Special Guest Priscilla Presley
The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) will present a fortieth anniversary salute to Elvis Presley's'68 Comeback Special, kicking off the twenty-fifth annual William S. Paley Television Festival (PaleyFest08) on March 14, 2008. Priscilla Presley will join in the celebration which will include a screening of the special followed by a discussion with Presley, Steve Binder (Producer/Director), and Bones Howe (Producer). Tickets are available at www.ticketweb.com or 866.468.3399. For discount, please use access code: paleyfestfan1. 2008-03-08

Digital Media Wire Announces Agenda & Speakers for Future of Television in Los Angeles, March 24-25
The two-day event is the industry's only comprehensive television conference focused on the evolution and future of the space. 2008-03-07

Digital Media Wire and PassAlong Networks Publish Second Edition of "Project Millennials" Sourcebook
Book Distributed at Canadian Music Week Millennials Event and Available Online at www.dmwmedia.com 2008-03-07

Unicorn Media Says: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised -- New Digital Entertainment Company Provides Filmmakers and Videographers the Easiest Way to Distribute and Profit from Their Digital Content  
Taking center stage in the digital entertainment revolution, Unicorn Media (www.UnicornMedia.com) today announced an open call for video content for its highly anticipated new free entertainment service. Unicorn Media is emerging from stealth mode this week, revealing a pre-launch version of its ground-breaking entertainment site and accepting professionally produced, high quality digital video content from filmmakers, videographers and production companies all over the world. 2008-03-07

Music Awards Show Begins Accepting Nominations and Votes for Indie Artists
Nominations for the 2008 Tampa Music Awards officially begins today. Fans will vote by sending an SMS text message through their wireless phone. The Awards will be held in November and are accompanied by Tampa's biggest music business conference. 2008-03-07

New Ray Brown Jr. CD: All-Star Duets Plus One With Mom & Dad  
Ray Brown Jr., the son of legendary jazz performers Ray Brown and Ella Fitzgerald, is being joined by some of his friends and other artists he has admired to create a truly unique album put out by SRI Jazz with veteran producer Shelly Liebowitz at the helm. All-star guests from the CD have also signed the "Green Piano" used in making the CD, which will then be sold at auction, the proceeds of which will help rebuild eco-friendly homes to musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina. 2008-03-06

Adult Swim's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Hits the Road: Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Tour 2008 Kicks Off in Boston on April 21  
From the absurdist comedy of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators and stars of the hit Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, comes a 13-stop nationwide tour kicking off in Boston on April 21, 2008 and wrapping up in Los Angeles on May 5. 2008-03-06

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

Writers Guild of America Strike Is Over And New Records Have Been Set
MAYO's clients earned a record number of media impressions, and it is not business as usual in Hollywood according to one of the entertainment PR agency clients, which earned a record 85 million media impressions during the WGA Strike. 2008-03-04

M. Loring Communications and MLC PR Synthesize Forming Innovative Music Promotion Firm
M. Loring Communications and MLC PR reach new heights in music promotion by offering both music publicity and radio promotion services within the same corporation. 2008-03-02

Exclusive Video Double Header at SingingFool.com: Presidents of the United States and Angie Stone  
Double-platinum selling band Presidents of the United States and Grammy-nominted artist Angie Stone premiere their new music videos exclusively on SingingFool.com today. 2008-02-29

gb Leighton Announces National Tour with BoDeans Slated to Kick-Off March 21st in Dallas, TX
Minnesota's "Best Kept Secret" will tour nationally with legendary BoDeans beginning March 21st. Tour is scheduled to kick-off in Dallas, Texas and hit markets such as New York, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, and more. Visit www.gbleighton.com for full tour information. 2008-02-29

Syleena Johnson Earns Own Imprint Under Universal Music Group Subsidiary
Syleena Johnson will reintroduce herself to the world of R&B with the launch of her own label, Aneelys Records (Syleena spelled backwards), through Federal/Universal Music Group. Federal, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, signed Aneelys Records to an exclusive world-wide distribution agreement and Johnson's fourth studio album, "Labor Pains," will be the label's first release. 2008-02-29

Nerf Herder Set To Return With New CD "IV" On Oglio Records. A New Hope For Punk Pop Nerd Rock Fun Begins  
Nerd Rock favorites Nerf Herder will be releasing their fourth album entitled "IV" via their new deal with Oglio Records, a Fontana/Universal distributed label. "IV" includes odes to cassettes, orange backpacks, golf shirts, manatees, the awesomeness of Led Zeppelin, Santa Barbara, and high school all mixed with perhaps the album's greatest secret ingredient, unrequited love. 2008-02-28

The Best Bars in DC  
DC City Blog Provides a list of the top 10 Washington, DC Bars to visit in 2008 2008-02-28

Vakero Partners With Sunflower Entertainment
Sunflower Entertainment signed an exclusive worldwide agreement with New York and Dominican Republic based record label Jeremy Records' recording artist, Vakero, the #1 Dominican Hip Hop artist and leader of the Rap Dominicano movement. 2008-02-28

BoDeans Announce Spring Tour, New Album Out March 4th
Roots-rock group the BoDeans are touring this spring in support of their new album "Still," which will be out March 4th. The disc was produced by T-Bone Burnett and the first single, "Everyday," is currently impacting Triple A radio. 2008-02-27

Gay Grandson of 'Scarface' Al Capone Tells His Story
Al Capone's Grandson Tells His Story of Personal Struggle to Confirm and Deal with Family Stigma and Childhood Trauma in book, Son of Scarface: A Memoir by the Grandson of Al Capone. 2008-02-26

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