Congrats!

FOUR HOMEY AWARD NOMINATIONS!



Artist of the Year
Best EP
Best Alternative Song (And She Said it With a Straight Face)
Best Lead Singer

Revolution, I Love You landed FOUR Homey Award nominations last Sunday when Mr. Mark Rogers leaked some of the nominations out during his weekly Hometown Heroes radio show. Congratulations guys! What's interesting is that these boys are just getting started! They are currently recording their second EP entitled “We Choose to go to the Moon.” It's set to release sometime this Summer, 2010. I've heard it :P yep I'm special. I got a sneak peek a couple of weeks ago when I visited their studio. Pure Hottness! I can't wait for the release. Wanna hear for yourself... check out their spring show schedule HERE. They just may leak a bit of it during their performance. Speaking of their performance. Out and About Magazine (Wilmington, DE) named Revolution, I Love You’s
show at Kelly’s Logan House this past summer the Best Live Local Show of
2009 in their January 2010 issue. Go read it NOW.

Speaking of the Homey Awards! Yours Truly WILL be there, in the studio, reading off some winner's names. The show is this Sunday at 8pm ET on WSTW (www.WSTW.com). Tune in!

Hometown Heroes is a weekly program spotlighting the best music from the Delaware Valley aka Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Philadelphia. Hosted by Mark Rogers, Hometown Heroes is broadcast every Sunday, 8-10pm.

January 31, 2010 is the broadcast of the 52nd annual Grammy Awards. But it will also mark the broadcast of the 4th annual Hometown Heroes Homey Awards!

The Homeys are awarded to achievements in local music in 2009, including traditional Grammy-esque categories such as Album of the Year, Song of the Year, etc.

For a full list of 2009's nominations visit www.wstw.com/heroes/homeys.php.

P.S. The Harrisburg, PA edition of Fly Magazine will be re-running an article
about RILY in February, leading up to their performance at the Millenium Music Conference. Also, check back for my recap of the Spark 6 Birthday Party for Spark Magazine (Wilmington, DE) at Timothy’s on January 29. I'll be there VIP with RILY :P haha. I'm so immature. Doors open to the public at 10pm. See you there.

I-M

Piracy

Piracy Isn’t Killing Music’ Radiohead’s Guitarist Says
Written by Ernesto on January 24, 2010 TorrentFreak


Last year, Radiohead expressed their growing discomfort with record labels that abuse copyrights for their own benefit, while harassing their fans. In a recent interview, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien said that he doesn’t believe piracy is killing the music industry, but that the industry will kill itself if it doesn’t adapt to the digital age.

Ticket Nation

Analysis: The Potential In Live Nation Entertainment
January 27, 2010 - Touring By Glenn Peoples, L.A.


Check out this article taken from billboard.biz

Here's the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger in a nutshell: a company with nearly a 40% gross margin percentage and a slight but positive net profit (Ticketmaster) is going to build a live events powerhouse with a company with a 20% gross margin percentage and recurring annual losses (Live Nation).

The pair generated about $4.4 billion in revenues through the first three quarters of 2009 but their combined net loss was $33 million.

A merger makes sense if there are cost savings, or if the merged company can generate more revenue than the two companies could do on their own. These are called synergies, as in 2 + 2 = 5. Monday's news that the U.S. Department of Justice approved the companies' merger has the business world wondering what Live Nation plus Ticketmaster equals.

Check out the rest HERE.

Here's a much funnier version posted on Oregon Live. LINK

More HERE

Tommy Boy versus TuneCore

Tunecore's ticked off! I'm such an instigator... really this is a good article, very interesting read.
How people use Nielsen to hurt musicians (the below was posted by JeffCore at Tunecorner)



I read an article today at Digital Music News about comments by Tommy Silverman - founder of Tommy Boy and the New Music Seminar.

With all due respect, his information is wrong. But worse, the conclusions he reaches from this faulty information could be damaging to artists.

Some highlights include statements like:

Silverman counted 105,575 new album releases that year, and found that just 225 of those were new artists surpassing the 10,000 unit threshold for the first time. Of that, just 14 were do-it-yourself artists, unaffiliated with a major, indie, or other entity."

and

"What does this say about the Chris Anderson 'Long Tail' promise?" Silverman blogged in Musician Coaching. "Clearly the ease of making and distributing music does not benefit 'breaking' music. Breaking music requires mass exposure which requires luck or money or both. I can say with great authority that less new music is breaking now in America than any other time in history. Technology has not helped more great music rise to the top, it has inhibited it. I know this is a bold statement but it is true."

I wrote a response to the editor of the blog where the article appeared, I do not know if he will post it, but I feel so strongly about making certain word gets out, I am re-posting my response to Tommy's statements HERE.

Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)

Weekend Highlight...

I loved this performance. Deep, emotional lyrics... Jay killed it.

Tomorrow's Telethon

When George does something... he does it BIG!

I think this might be the largest telethon event I've ever heard of. Although the one for Katrina was pretty large. Anyway, MTV with the help of George Clooney or should I say George Clooney with the help of MTV has organized "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon, airing Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT. And, it is going to be HUGE.

Talk about star power... this is going to be a ridiculously star studded event.
ALREADY BOOKED; Bono, Wyclef, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Jay Z, Shakira, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Madonna, Bill Clinton, Rihanna, Haitian artist Emeline Michel, The Edge, Mary J. Blige, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow and Coldplay. That was the music... if you want to talk Hollywood then you would include; Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jon Stewart, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, and Samuel L. Jackson. Is that everyone? Of course not, my blog isn't big enough to name everyone unfortunately but I'm sure by now you get the picture. I am a little ticked off though cause I didn't see anyone from the "Jersey Shore" listed???? I mean come on? Seriously? No Snooki?

This will be a star-studded two-hour telethon airing Friday that will feature musical performances from Los Angeles, New York City and London, plus live reporting from CNN's Anderson Cooper in Haiti. Expected highlights from the telecast include U2's Bono and The Edge joining Jay-Z and Rihanna in London for a one-of-a-kind performance.

Music performances from "Hope for Haiti Now" will be available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store. Beginning on Friday, iTunes customers will be able to exclusively pre-order both the Hope for Haiti Now full performance album ($7.99) and the full two-hour video telecast ($1.99). Pre-orders will be delivered in the days following the telethon. Individual audio performances will also be available for purchase and download for 99 cents each in the days following the telethon. Apple, the record labels and the artists will donate their share of the proceeds to Haiti relief funds managed by "Hope for Haiti Now" charities.

Wanna know where to tune in? How about where not to tune in?

"Hope for Haiti Now" will air across ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health, Planet Green, CNN en Español, HBO Latino, and Canadian networks including CBC Television, CTV, Global Television, and MuchMusic. The event will be live streamed online globally across sites including YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN.com, Yahoo, Bing.com, BET.com, CNN.com, MTV.com, VH1.com, and Rhapsody and on mobile via Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and FloTV. "Hope for Haiti Now" will also air internationally on BET International, CNN International, National Geographic, and MTV Networks International, which is available in 640 million homes worldwide. "Hope for Haiti Now" will be available non-exclusively to all terrestrial radio stations around the globe and SIRIUS XM Radio as a one time only radio broadcast via the MTV Radio Network and Westwood One.

"Hope for Haiti Now" will begin accepting donations at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT on Friday via the following methods:

» Online: www.hopeforhaitinow.org
» Phone: 877-99-HAITI
» Text: Text "GIVE" to 50555
» Mail: Hope For Haiti Now Fund, Entertainment Industry Foundation, 1201 West 5th Street, Suite T-700, Los Angeles, CA 90017

"Hope for Haiti Now" is produced by Joel Gallen and Tenth Planet Productions, in collaboration with Viacom's MTV Networks and George Clooney.

Links from which I pulled all of this information are below.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20338134,00.html

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1630121/20100120/knowles_beyonce.jhtml

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1630161/20100121/madonna.jhtml

Mike McCarry Release Party

1-23-2010

Keep it going!

Haiti Update: $21 Million In Donations Pour In By Text Message

Donations by text message have now exceeded $16 million for the Haiti earthquake relief effort in what will likely become one of the largest mobile-giving campaigns ever.







The tally is being kept by the Mobile Giving Foundation, a non profit organization that helps others raise funds through mobile. It is helping more than a dozen organizations, including the Red Cross, The Salvation Army, UNICEF, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and World Vision, raise money to help out the impoverished nation. The organization said Sunday that donations jumped to $16 million, after reporting $10 million on Friday. Today, the number grew to $21 million.

To read the full article visit HERE.