MIDTOWN, MANHATTAN: It’s not just artists that need a niche. Publishing and licensing companies have to have a strong idea of who they are, as well – a fact that NYC’s Sunflower Entertainment has a firm hold on.
Co-founded in 2002 by Jamar Chess, Juan Carlos Barguil and Marshall Chess, Read more...
Artist: Lord Huron/Bad Decision
Song: “Into The Sun” (Bad Decision Mix) – Lord Huron (free, legal download available HERE)
Why I Luv It: Ben Schneider absorbed more than the sunlight once he touched down in Los Angeles. The Michigan transplant’s beautiful Caribbean-inflected songwriting is sunshine incarnate as Lord Huron and Read more...
NYC-based publisher/original music house Elie Maman Productions has had a busy December, securing several synch licensing placements for tracks in its catalog. They include:
E! Entertainment: “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” Episode — “Kris ‘The Cougar’ Jenner”
E! Entertainment: “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami,” Episode — “Scotts-O-Phrenia”
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Artist: This or the Apocalypse
Song: “Charmer”
Why I Luv It: Metal-core band This or The Apocalypse from Lancaster, PA landed on my radar earlier this year. That’s when my MTV video editor/friend Andre Sosnowski gave me the heads-up that the band was getting in the studio with Josh Wilbur Read more...
Artist: Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP
Song: “We No Speak Americano”
Why I Luv It: I luv “We No Speak Americano”!!!! Why? It’s an obvious multi-cultural/international hit song in the making. (Important note, I must credit my good friends Jonathan Rodriguez and Anthony Fernandez of Union City, NJ for introducing Read more...
