Videos

By admin • September 2nd, 2010

Michael Sterlington

Dame Dash talks about how different labels and groups were more separated back in the day than they are today and how artists are finding more success today because of their unity and willingness to work together. Damon Dash (born May 3, 1971) is an American label executive; the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records with [...]

Michal Shapiro

Last year I had the good fortune to work with Link TV on an original series called “Rappers, Divas and Virtuosos, New Music From the Muslim World.” (Yes, it’s a mouthful!) We deliberately chose artists whose work was cutting edge, and from diverse backgrounds: a brash folk rock singer from Bangladesh, a world renowned [...]

nydailynews

T.I.’s road to redemption just got longer. The rapper and his wife Tameka Cottle were arrested on Wednesday night in West Hollywood on drug charges after police said they smelled marijuana wafting from their car. The cops said they searched the Maybach, which resulted in the duo’s arrest around 10:30 p.m. Details on which specific [...]

press release

The Esongwriter.com Songwriting Contest is a new international songwriting Contest for 2010. Founded by a group of songwriters and entertainment legal professionals, this contest is unique in that we are not offering cash at this time, but prizes that will enhance the career of the independent songwriting professional or music artist. Each year [...]

press release

Digimusicbids.com is the 1st online marketplace dedicated to the music industry. We provide a platform where businesses and artists connect, to create cost-efficient solutions and business relationships. We also help musicians find needed gear and equipment from a marketplace created just for them. From the artist just starting out, selecting their business manager and [...]

news.cnet

Apple’s iTunes, the largest music retailer, will boost the amount of time users are allowed to sample a song, sources told CNET on Monday. On Wednesday, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the company’s annual September media event, he is expected to announce that iTunes users will be allowed at least twice [...]

himmasongs

Music has value. Songwriters and composers deserve to get paid for their work. As a longtime member of ASCAP, the organization on the front lines in protecting the rights of music creators, I made this video with the help of my good friend, Jim Hershleder to help get their message across.

sesac

SESAC hosted the third annual Songwriters Bootcamp on August 6, at LA’s Skirball Cultural Center. The event is a no-cost symposium devoted to offering information on all aspects of the music industry to artists, songwriters and publishers, offering panel lectures and discussions courtesy of an array of established writers, producers, lawyers and industry insiders. The [...]

news.yahoo

Pianist Liu Wei sits quietly to compose himself before plunging into the music. Then he takes off a sock. The 23-year-old, whose arms were amputated after a childhood accident, plays the piano with his toes.
Liu was thrust into the limelight earlier this month when he performed on “China’s Got Talent,” the Chinese version of the [...]

PropellerheadSW

The gargantuan beat maker is like a strange hybrid of a midi-controller and one of those dance mat games you find in arcades. Monstrous beat machine uses features from Reason 5. Reason 5 ships with a sound bank with a generous supply of kits for Kong across a wide variety of styles.

MTV

“Talk about the perfect marriage, we been fans of Cee-Lo for real. And we became labelmates and I was just feeding that to them, ‘We got to get in. I know he’s working on something, we got to do something.’ So he comes in the session, and it was one of the most organic sessions.We [...]

mashable

Always a proponent of new technology, Jac Holzman has been at the helm of a great label throughout turbulent times. Holzman told us the music businesses has undergone more fundamental change than any other facet of entertainment over the past hundred years or so. We talked about everything from player pianos to vinyl singles to [...]

Digipendent

Alex White CEO/Founder of Next Big Sound describes how his company translates the value of data to both indie & major record labels. NBS tracks the number of plays, views, fans, comments, and other key metrics for 727,758 artist profiles across major web properties like Facebook, MySpace, Last.fm, Twitter, and more.

TAXI_Music

Have you ever wondered how to find a manager? A good manager, or most importantly, the RIGHT manager for you and your career is often harder to find than a record deal!…..

visitphilly

Philly 360 Insider Tayyib Smith caught up with Music Executive Andre Harrell for his thoughts on hip-hop, breaking into the industry and Philly International Records.

rapfix.mtv

“I decided to take my talents to EMI,” Lloyd Banks told MTV News’ Sway,
putting his own twist on LeBron James’ controversial free agency signing announcement. Banks might not move as much ink (as in newspaper headlines) as the NBA superstar, but he was courted almost as heavily by various labels who were looking to scoop [...]

Thisis50

Lady GaGa is unstoppable. While many of her fellow musicians are suffering poor sale as the result of the dying music industry, this 24-year-old pop/dance singer is announced to have sold more than 13 million copies of her two albums; “The Fame” and its follow-up “The Fame Monster”.
GaGa is ecstatic and celebrated the accolade with [...]

djvlad

Move over, iPad and tonetable; there’s a new king of virtual DJing rigs coming. And it might just change everything (again). The Töken multitouch screen concept, powered by EMULATOR and Traktor Pro, looks like something that would appear straight out of a club scene in any sci-fi movie. But the best part is that it’s [...]

MTV

Wyclef Jean has now formally announced that he’ll run for the presidency of Haiti. But for all of the support coming his way, the musician didn’t manage to receive the endorsement of one of his former Fugees groupmembers.
Pras has endorsed rival candidate Michel Martelly, telling MTV News on Friday (August 6) that Martelly is better [...]

ustreamtv

Hakeem Seriki (born November 28, 1979), better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is an American rapper, singer & CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. Chamillionaire is also the founder and an original member of The Color Changin’ Click. He began his career independently with local releases in 2003, including collaboration album Get Ya Mind Correct with [...]

nodfactor

Hall Of Fame Producers Gamble & Huff talk about the importance of owning your masters and publishing. Gamble and Huff are an American songwriting and record production team that have written and produced over 170 gold and platinum records. They were pioneers of the Philadelphia soul genre, and were the in-house creative team for the [...]

Musformation

Bob Cramer and Phil Antoniades from Nimbit discuss site features and fan interaction strategies at New Music Seminar 2010. Coverage from Musformation.com

london.musichackday

Music Hack Day returns to London, where it all began, to explore and build the next generation of music applications. It’s a full weekend of hacking in which participants will conceptualize, create and present their projects. Music + software + mobile + hardware + art + the web. Anything goes as long as it’s music [...]

vladtv

Rodney Jerkins is a songwriter, record producer, and musician. Working largely with his brother Fred Jerkins III & writer LaShawn Daniels. He has been requested by such artists as Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Spice Girls, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Janet Jackson, Danity Kane, Beyoncé, Linda Király, Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, [...]

BrandyandBrenda

Very interesting video of Boy George speaking about the past music industry issues. Go-Go at the 1993 New Music Seminar for the New York public cable access program “On Patrol”. New Music Seminar was a music industry conference.

JD1472

JERMAINE DUPRI CEO OF SO SO DEF, GRAMMY AWARD WINNING SONG WRITER AND PRODUCER, AUTHOR, speaks on Bias music industry toward black artists.

MOG

Take 8 million songs and multi-dimensional discovery with you everywhere you go with MOG - the most comprehensive mobile music apps & streaming music service on the market, bar none. Try MOG out for free at mog.com, and search “MOG music” in iTunes or the Android Marketplace to download the app

press release

kNERD is a tool for musicians, engineers, producers, venues etc, to see how they are all connected. Our goal is to allow artists to promote their music, including side projects and legacy bands that fans may not be aware of, and see where their fans are, which songs they like best and other fan [...]

QueYorkCity

Legendary music producer DJ Premier talks about the advantages of being on independent labels versus major labels. He also talks about music before hip hop was created.
Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966 in Houston, Texas), better known by his stage name DJ Premier (also known as Preem, Premo, or Primo for short), is [...]

keepmakingmusic

Video showing , “Tik Tok” by Ke$ha, and “California Gurls” by Katy Perry.
Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987), better known by her first name Kesha ( /ˈkɛʃə/ KESH-ə, stylized Ke$ha), is an American pop singer, rapper and songwriter. Her debut single, “Tik Tok”, released in late 2009, reached number one in eleven countries [...]

RapUpTV

Producer Bangladesh calls out Birdman and Cash Money for not paying royalties for “A Milli,” describes his awkward encounter with Lil Wayne, and reveals a new collaboration with Gucci Mane and Ciara.

artistshousemusic

Eric Korte is an Advertising Agency Representative for Saatchi and Saatchi, one of the world’s foremost advertising and brand management firms. Korte deals with the placement of music in ad campaigns. Eric Corte, a representative from Saatchi and Saatchi, a prominent advertising agency, talks to Loyola University New Orleans students about music in advertising. In [...]

youtube

DJ Brandi Garcia was fired from the radio station after being there for five years because she violated their ban against playing any songs featuring Houston rapper Trae The Truth. Garcia was hired by a private promoter to dj the recent 50 Cent concert in Houston. According to Garcia the concert was not a 97.9 [...]

artishousemusic

Dina LaPolt, an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, CA, discusses various ways in which the law and industry custom conspire to stiff artists out of money that is, in theory, theirs. She discusses in specific how Sound Exchange diverts some royalties away from artists, and how hiring a producer (or producers) to work your [...]

artistshousemusic.org

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org , Ted Cohen is the Senior Vice President of Digital Distribution at EMI Music. He discusses the advent of subscription music services in the music industry.

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pplvideos

Fran Nevrkla, Chairman and CEO of Phonographic Performance Ltd, a UK music industry association, addressing the group’s AGM. Some choice morsels:
Thank you, David, and thank you for putting some of those pirates behind bars. I know that regrettably capital punishment was abolished in this country some 50 years ago, sad it is, but a [...]

bossip

Melanie Fiona Hallim (born July 4, 1983) is a Canadian recording artist from Toronto, Ontario. Fiona was featured on Reggae Gold 2008 with the Supa Dups-produced “Somebody Come Get Me”. Her debut album The Bridge was released in the summer of 2009. She worked on the album with Future Cut, Vada Nobles, Stereotypes, J. [...]

TheUrbanDaily

Songwriter Rico Love talks to TheUrbanDaily about working with Usher, Beyonce and on Diddy’s “Hello Good Morning” Love most recently wrote “Hello, Good Morning” which he performed alongside P. Diddy-Dirty Money on American Idol (March 31, 2010). It has debuted at #34 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Hello, Good Morning” was also featured during [...]

press release

Andre Harrell is the Black Man Genius with Style, the Originator of Ghetto Fabulous, and the Style Keeper of Uptown Swag. Mr. Harrell, the trailblazing Hip Hop Entrepreneur, has brought to you and discovered the infectious sounds of some of the biggest names in Music. From the ‘Big and Sexy’ persona of Heavy D. [...]

lisalavie

Singer Lisa Lavie share some stories with you about this crazy business. She describes running across different people the business who put themselves on such a high pedestal and feel that everyone should oblige to their every request.

ujam

Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams discuss the vision they had in launching UJAM. Also the next video, In this tutorial Peter shows you how you can quickly create a piece of music in UJAM, even from something as evil as a tune played on a recorder.

fmqb

Speaking at the D: All Things Digital conference in California, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller predicted that Internet radio could replace traditional, terrestrial radio as soon as five years from now. Schiller said that over the next 5-10 years, Internet radio will take terrestrial radio’s place, but for now, it is adding to their total audience. [...]

Gogoyokomusic

A new online music store and a social network for music fans, artists and record labels - bringing you Fair Play in Music. Artists and labels signing up directly to gogoyoko receive 100% of their music sales revenue and a 40% share of our advertising revenue, based on the streaming of their music. Artists [...]

ap

The President hails Paul McCartney’s contribution to popular music and song during a ceremony to present the singer with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize. “I love you, I love you, I love you,” he sang to Michelle Obama during the 90-minute White House concert. He later quipped that he might be the “first [...]

MagnetMediaFilms

In this episode of Rehearsal Space, Keith and Chris discuss the advantages of being signed to a major label, their unique method of achieving popularity in the UK, why it’s important to be hands-on when recording your music, and finally how one member’s hobby either created or nearly destroyed the band, depending upon whom [...]