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The architect of Progressive Fusion hits the mark with the release of his latest track "Touchdown," one of five tracks available on his latest album 'Triple Ripple'. "Touchdown" can be purchased digitally through various online retailers such as iTunes, Napster and is available in CD format through Amazon.

Songwriting team MarilynMusic has released another new single from their expanding collection. "Carry Me Home" features singer/songwriter Luther Russell who has had several successful solo records, and also previously formed and headed the band The Freewheelers. The track is available now on iTunes and shortly on Napster, Amazon, eMusic and other major online retailers.

Take an accomplished singer, a talented pianist, and experienced arranger, combine them, and you get the dynamic and dazzling artist known as Diane Marino.

Northern-Spy Records, Brooklyn’s fastest growing indie, is proud to announce the signing of Bird Names to their diverse roster of artists. Stately yet shadowed in the pop music underground, Bird Names has been chopping at their tree since 2005. They have three previous well-acclaimed releases inspired by imagination, ambiguous intuition, a light-hearted spirit of play, and the certainty of death. After a long stint holding it down in the Chicago experimental scene, Bird Names recently relocated to the breezy living of Athens, GA.

"Turn My Swag On" by Alexa Goddard entered the UK Top 40 singles chart at number 26 , the third Ditto artist to have a Top 40 hit in just three weeks.

Without having played a single live gig, working from her tiny apartment in Copenhagen, Kat Boelskov has earned a big crowd of fans from all around the world, deeply dedicated to her music. In less than a year, she has reached no.1 on the Reverbnation Alternative chart for Denmark, and has 4000+ fans on her facebook page alone.

Bruno Mars' "Just the Way You Are" topped LyricFind's weekly chart of Top 25 Lyrics across the LyricFind ecosystem, which includes Microsoft's Bing, Rhapsody, Lyrics.com, Slacker, Shazam, Virgin Media UK, Cox Radio, mSpot, and more than 1,000 other web sites and mobile applications that use LyricFind to offer lyrics in their music services. The LyricFind Charts are available to all LyricFind clients through the new API released today, as well as on the company's mobile applications, LyricFind Lite and LyricFind Pro for the iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms.

Fans can now directly interact with their favorite music acts with free location-based mobile app, Flowd, which launched today across iPhone and Android smartphones.

Acts and artists looking for a deal to start the new year can be encouraged by the fact that there are always music companies out there that are actively seraching for a new project to get their teeth into.

On the surge of his successful summer single "Blue Collar Man," Johnny Jolin was approached about joining the Christian Country Music Association. Now as a member, Jolin adds to his exposure as well as reinforces the values that he shares with the organization.

It is time to embrace the unmet needs in our communities. Misinformation is the greatest obstacle to needs assessment analysis, strategic planning, development and implementation of relief and emergency assistance efforts. America's Action Plan for Community Service addresses these needs through optimization of communication networks that utilize internet, email, telephone and fax communications to reach every home through at least 5 different pathways.

December 6, 2010 ¡V King & Ballow attorneys Daniel B. Moskowitz and Patrick W. Ogilvy represented Washington, D.C.-based music production company Hard Hitterz Productions in an agreement with Funky Noble Productions, Inc., a company owned by internationally acclaimed and Grammy Award-nominated hip hop artist Redman. The agreement clears the way for "Lift It Up," a song co-written and produced by Jonathan Robinson p/k/a J-ROB, a producer signed to Hard Hitterz, to be featured on Redman's upcoming album, "Reggie" scheduled to be released by Def Jam Recordings on December 7, 2010.

The Sony/RED/MRI-distributed UrbanTone Records band is generating hits among a wide array of audiences, including among the Ganja generation. TBS have performed with acts like UB40, The Wailers and 311. There is buzz surrounding Tomorrows Bad Seeds as they shut down the 2010 Sunset Music Festival headlined by the Smashing Pumpkins.

The U.K.'s ska/punk/rock master Mister Jack must have been very, very good this year or very, very naughty depending on Santa's preferences. His Christmas video, "Santa Is Comin'" climbed the YouTube Charts of the Most Watched Video rapidly. On December 1st, the video held the number one spot, becoming the frontrunner to other celebrated artists such as Nicki Minaj with "Fly" featuring Rihanna holding the number two spot and Justin Bieber's "Latin Girl" at number five. In fact, Mister Jack even overtook fellow U.K. celeb Cher Lloyd of the X Factor, whose video had been number one on November 30th, knocking her to number four.

LyricFind, the world's leader in legal lyric solutions, announced today at SF Music Tech the launch of "Lyrics for Free," an ad-supported application that integrates millions of licensed lyrics from LyricFind's database to any website or mobile application for free. Using LyricFind's standard Web Service 2.0 APIs, there are no set-up fees, no monthly or CPM minimums, and once certain traffic levels are met, sites will be able to share in the ad revenue. LyricFind's ad network monetizes the lyrics traffic to compensate music publishers, and LyricFind ensures all tracks are properly licensed.

Michael Gaines, based in LA, and half of the songwriting team MarilynMusic, spent a couple of weeks in late November at MarilynMusic's Manhattan studio, 'The Vertical Room', writing new songs with partner Casey Conrad. They wrote and produced three new tracks: "Chinatown," "If You're Leaving," and "Don't Be Afraid," all to be released in 2011.

Internationally-renowned French artist, DJ and producer David Guetta will give a keynote address at the 12th edition of MidemNet, the high-level music industry forum on value creation and content monetisation in the digital era, which takes place on Saturday 22 January 2011, ahead of MIDEM in Cannes.

Sonicbids, the website that helps bands discover and book gigs, today announces a partnership with Eurosonic Noorderslag, Europe's main conference and showcase festival, to create a new program called EuroSonicbids. EuroSonicbids is a joint venture that financially rewards European festivals to book emerging European talent. This program will create as many as 800 slots across 400 festivals throughout Europe and will be dedicated to the bands playing at Eurosonic Noorderslag 2011, fostering the growth of independent artists in the European music industry.

Robert Weingartz, CEO and Founder of AirPlay Direct, is pleased to formally announce that AirPlay Direct and CD Baby have formed a strategic marketing partnership between the companies.

Music Reports, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Gracenote to administer the music publishing rights and royalty accounting for Gracenote's lyric service in North America. Pursuant to the agreement, Music Reports will provide Gracenote with an end-to-end suite of services, including copyright research, clearance administration, royalty accounting, usage reporting, and royalty payment services.

Trippin ‘N’ Rhythm has signed saxophonist Michael Lington. Currently on a world tour with Michael Bolton, Lington found a fresh new audience. Label owner says "Seeing Lington perform live at Royal Albert Hall confirmed to me how talented he is."

According to the New York Times, the holiday show Radio City Christmas Spectacular premiered earlier than usual this year and has started its nationwide journey in 25 cities. As per the show organizers, they decided to kick off the holiday season early so that more cities could be covered.

Sarah Mayal of Arival Records announced that the U.K.'s Master of Ska/Reggae/Punk, Mister Jack, has released the video to accompany his upcoming Christmas single, "Santa Is Comin'". The track should be well received if the video's numbers are any indicator, as is it currently at #81 most viewed on YouTube in the U.K. There's even more good news just in time for Christmas as Mister Jack's YouTube channel is currently at #4, and Mister Jack himself is sitting pretty at #35 for the most viewed musicians on YouTube.

Tony Carlucci, Founder and CEO of Dynamic Records, announced that the new CD Stars In Your Eyes by Electronic/Dance group DynamicDestony is being released today. The album is a follow up to the duo's debut album, Kisses In The Evening, which premiered in 2007.