One of NYC’s fastest-growing forces in music rights management, Primary Wave Music, has entered into a joint venture with BMG to the tune of $150 million. The deal will focus on new recordings by artists who have already established a successful track record.
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Dave Tozer has a lot to say about Love in the Future, the expansive new album that he Executive Produced with John Legend. But Tozer doesn’t actually have to breathe a word about Legend’s new 16 track collection – this spellbinding record speaks for itself.
Debuting this week, Love in Read more...
A lot of competent audio engineers working in the field today have some real misconceptions and gaps in their knowledge around digital audio.
Not a month goes by that I don’t encounter an otherwise capable music professional who makes simple errors about all sorts of basic digital audio principles – Read more...
A few years ago, after a long stretch of recording almost entirely acoustic projects, I had the opportunity to do some orchestral film scoring. I was excited to make some great music but the tight budget meant that I would need to invest in an orchestral sample library.
I went Read more...
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Hit the Wiki for Brooklyn’s genteel Kensington neighborhood, and you’ll see exactly two notable residents listed. They are:
Evelyn Kozak (August 14, 1899 – June 11, 2013), American supercentenarian who at the age of 113 years, 301 days was the world’s oldest living Jewish person.
Sufjan Stevens
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It’s been ten years since Lio and Kay Kanine put out their first release: a compilation of 20 undiscovered bands, most of them from Brooklyn, titled NY: The Next Wave.
Lio Kanine (then known by his real name, Lio Cerezo) had landed a job with the indie distributor Alternative Distribution Read more...
NYC-based music talent manager Ollie Hammett has launched a new venture, Spark MGMT, with an expanded roster of producers, songwriters and engineers.
Under Spark, Hammett continues to represent his (formerly Rocket Management) clients – songwriter/producer and film score composer Dan Romer (Ingrid Michaelson, Jukebox the Ghost), artist/songwriter Teddy Geiger, and Read more...
I’d like to start by thanking everyone who read my last article. I’m humbled by all the compliments, and feedback. I felt like a mountain climber ready to scale Everest, as friends and family cheered me along. People were calling me a pioneer! Never an early adopter, I asked myself Read more...
For a medium built from the ground up for collaboration, the Internet hasn’t always come through – especially for musicians and music producers.
Pretty much since computers started plugging into each other, creative Web developers have tried to crack the code that would make new musical creations flourish, and eliminate Read more...
