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Fresh from the recording studio, San Francisco, CA, indie/alt-rock group Ash Thursday has released their second EP, Bravery on 11/24/13. Bravery follows up the band’s debut EP, The Strength to Come Apart (2013), which has already earned fans and established their presence in the San Francisco indie scene. Their track, “I'm Not Running,” is also being featured on WiFi PR Group's Indie Anthems Vol. 4.

Purchasing a concert ticket is occasionally a difficult job, but today buying online concert tickets is getting worldwide popularity and is quite trendy. Online tickets undoubtedly help entrepreneur to show up large audience. Several event handling companies are utilizing internet ticket booking strategy so that one can save their valuable time. Business clients can take the advantage of it by marketing their tickets on the internet to produce tickets for company’s upcoming events.

When Chicago’s prized south Loop music venue Reggie's Rock Club wants to host an epic rock ‘n’ roll battle of the bands show, they know exactly who to turn to: the city’s own hard/blues rockers, Zoo. Zoo joins other Chicagoland bands in bringing Reggie's crowd an energetic, fun-loving show they won’t soon forget on January, 12, 2014.

California Hip-hop artist/producer by the name of Unified Giants now presents another facet of his vast musical palette on his new E.P release titled GRIME. With a new single titled 'Cash Money' produced by the Long beach CA native KEI-SHON-SON.

Healing Sounds for Meditation and Relaxing Ambient Music composed by artist Sandeep Khurana are available online

Artists, musicians and producers are living in a time that is exciting and full of opportunities to create, network and get the music out there. On the other hand our day and age is also extraordinarily full of contradictions and weirdness, starting from the pure and simple truth that anyone could simply get any music production software and start creating masterpieces immediately, from the comfort of a living room, a garage or a bedroom.

The USA has long been established as the place for the best in Hip Hop, providing a fantastic musical talent in the form of upcoming, emerging hip hop artists, breaking new ground through their music, other countries have tried but sadly failed. Unsigned Hip Hop bands and artists have found it difficult to get their music out there, to get people to hear what they have to say and to hear their talent but thanks to CANTSTOPHIPHOPWORLDWIDE.COM which was launched this month, Hip Hop artists around the world can now showcase their music for free.

Trend Sound Promoter, an online advertising platform, has announced their TS Music Catalog service for indie music artists. TS Music Catalog is free to sign up for artists and provides a global music promotion and sales platform that pays more to artists than apple iTunes or other popular music platforms. TS Music Catalog utilizes a global network of thousands of promoters that actively market the music and help support sales. “With so much music available online these days, getting heard can be a challenge,” says TSP's founder Volodimyr Pigida, “With Trend Sound Promoter, artists on the TS Music Catalog Platform will have a virtual army of agents promoting their works, building fans globally and increasing sales.”

Megan Barker country singer and songwriter is proud to announce the launch of her Kickstarter campaign to raise 4,000 dollars to fund her five song Megan Barker debut EP/album. With recording set for February 2014 in Nashville, TN, the EP will feature Megan's original songs engineered by some of the biggest names in the industry. Funds raised will support the creation of the CD including paying the musicians, mastering and mixing, engineering, photography shoot for the CD artwork, and studio fees. Any additional funds will help with distribution and marketing costs, including the production of a music video featuring one of the songs from the new EP.

New York rapper Cocky da Homo MC has garnered a great deal of attention this past year, what with 2013's controversial mixtape "Gay Rap Beef" making massive waves in the underground LGBT rap scene. The self-proclaimed "Straight Man's Gay Rapper" is well known for his edgy, over the top, and often times offensive lyrics incorporating NSFW gay themes and adult content.

Eraserheads, the most popular and influential rock band ever to come out of the Philippines, will be appearing in the English capital this April.

Despite his young age, 16-year-old Manitoban, Brian Meads, has some pretty lofty ambitions. He wants to get his songs heard and he’s approaching his goals the right way. For the past two years, Brian has been hard at work crafting the songs that will be recorded for his upcoming release. He has been practicing his own guitar work but he is also not afraid to meet fellow musicians and get their advice so he can learn from them. He has befriended the folk group, Scarlett Jane, and has performed with them as well as fellow Canadian acts, David Celia, Andrea Ramolo and Cindy Doire. Brian has been sending off copies of his music to producers throughout Canada and soliciting their feedback, including John Paul Peters who has worked with Death Cab for Cutie and Comeback Kid.

Inner-City hip hop crowns new street legends this holiday season. The sweet sounds of rappers long gone JoJo from Chicago, IL and DemiDii from Augusta, GA resonate with listeners as if they came from Tupac Shakur. MTMS Promotions & Legend Mixtapes captures those sounds echoing the struggles Tupac spoke about decades ago in Street Legends Vol 1. Obama’s presidency brought a new day for Hip Hop but many still struggle with incarceration and death due to gang violence. MTMS & Legend Mixtapes embrace this new day while sending a message to never forget why HipHop became so popular in the first place. The message is the same whether rappers A. Jones, 50Tyson or Swagg Dinero say it in Chicago or Teddy Sm!th says it in DC; “just funk the police and make money”. Just as Tupac rose from the concrete with his lyrics, the new Street Legends can and will as well. Last year, hip hop lost JoJo a true soldier but gained his brother Swagg Dinero this year. With his hit song, “Word on The Street” Swagg is thrusting the JoJo World movement forward. Hip Hop lost one but gained 100 more soldiers ready to pick up where JoJo left off.

In 1989, two college bands from the Philippines got together to form a new band they called Eraserheads. The band played mostly cover tunes at first, but soon realised they were a lot better at crafting and playing original material. From those humble beginnings Eraserheads went on to be one of the most influential and successful bands in Filipino history.

Justinas Stanislovaitis, the leader of Alive Way rock band group is a musician, song composer and a lyricist aims at helping music fans find comfort in music and peace in their hearts through his albums. The band achieved national notability because of its highly appreciable music which is combination of classic music with modern attitude and inspiration from great artists such as Peter Gabriel, Bryan Adams, Aerosmith and so on. Alive Way is a part of World Vision, a charity organization. Half of the sale proceeds from their albums will go to the organization.

Fusion artist Twylight Seven is about to enjoy the spotlight he has been working toward with the November 20 release of new album Manila Sunrise.

The truly inspiring story of rock artist Sean Reyes must be told. After surviving a traumatic brain injury, Reyes endured several surgeries and years of recovery to regain his health. During this time, he wrote the songs that would earn “Best of” awards and comprise his critically acclaimed debut album, Know Thyself (2013), including his single “Wasted Breath,” set to appear on WiFi PR Group’s Indie Anthems Vol. 4, which will be released at SXSW 2014.

Seattle may not be readily known for its reggae bands, but The Highlife Band are a homegrown collective of talented musicians with worldly visions of music. Bound only by their imaginations, this group has enjoyed local and national success through tours and album sales and promotion, and they plan to plant one foot still more firmly in the reggae world with their sophomore album, What’s To Come (2013).

The Institute for Policy Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary by highlighting bold, progressive social movements over the last five decades. The event was an open dialogue for activists to envision "The Next 50 Years" of movements.

STREAMZ™, a Mozaex® spin-off company, announced today it has released the world’s first smart streaming headphones called STREAMZ™. STREAMZ are breakthrough headphones that allow you to play music and audio from multiple sources, including onboard stored music, streaming online radio, streamed phone music, plus audio from your TV, movie, and game player.

The Last Five Years, a musical written by Jason Robert Brown, is coming to HollywoodAt the Cupcake Theater, 6520 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles CA (323) 391-3416 www.cupcaketheater.com

There is a food fight being planned for the stage by touring youth theatre company Little World Theatre as they look for investors and help getting their culinary theatre adventure Masterchef onto the stage.

Roxanne Bruscha, the lead vocalist, dancer, and lyricist of world music group Wine & Alchemy, recently announced the band’s decision to plan and book its winter tour. The Wine and Alchemy – World Music and Fusion Belly Dance tour is expected to travel across 10 states from February to April.

Wide Angle Software have announced a festive sale of their top automatic music tagging software “Music Tag” for just $1, with every purchase of TouchCopy or Tune Sweeper software. The festive sale will last for entire holiday season until January 6th, giving music lovers a chance to grab a music management software bargain.

One of the main contenders for victory in the national selection for Eurovision 2014 Eduard Romanyuta, who has three times been a finalist for the national selection, refused to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. Note that his songs are recognized as the best ones of national selection by main managers of Eurovision radio.