Current TV Brings Daily Music News Back to TV With the Launch of 'The Daily Fix' on August 15
San Francisco (August 13, 2007) – Current TV, the world’s peer-to-peer news and information network, today announced the launch of “The Daily Fix,” – the first music blog for television, premiering Wednesday, August 15 on Current TV. “The Daily Fix” will bring daily, dedicated music news back to television six times a day with timely coverage on artists and the music industry from around the world. “The Daily Fix” will help to break emerging artists from a slew of genres by shining a spotlight on formerly underground and unreachable artists worldwide – before they hit the mainstream. Dan Deacon, Dizzee Rascal, Josh Ritter, Saigon and St. Vincent are among the TV music blog’s first picks for feature coverage ... [ read more ] »
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Microsoft Launches Ignition Program to Help Recording Artists Reach an Audience of Millions of Zune, MSN and Xbox Fans
New promotional program presents artists to a combined audience of more than 30 million consumers, who will benefit from discovering new music.
REDMOND, Wash. -- June 4, 2007 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Ignition, a new program that gives recording artists with new releases a unique channel to reach tens of millions of consumers, whether they are browsing music online, playing games or catching up on the latest news. For the first time, Microsoft has packaged promotional opportunities across Zune(TM), Xbox® and MSN® to help artists more efficiently reach consumers in all three audiences.
In a world where high-impact promotional opportunities for new music can be limited, artists look for ways to make direct connections with their audience and leave a lasting impression. Ignition maximizes exposure for artists by engaging consumers with interesting content and reaching them frequently over a monthlong period through prominent placement on Zune Marketplace, Zune.net, MSN entertainment properties and the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace. For consumers, Ignition provides a steady stream of new music through online access to exclusive content, free song and video downloads, streaming video, editorial features, and artist playlists.
"The Ignition program is designed to help artists connect with a substantial consumer audience," said Christina Calio, director of Music Marketing for Zune. "Consumers are looking for ways to find new music, and Ignition helps connect artists with potential new fans by giving them multiple opportunities to listen to, watch or read about the artist across Microsoft's online platforms."
The Ignition program launches with the U.K. band Maxïmo Park (Warp Records/Caroline Distribution), whose current album, "Our Earthly Pleasures," debuted at No. 2 on the U.K. charts in April and is receiving significant radio airplay for its single "Girls Who Play Guitars." Throughout the month of June, Ignition will introduce new U.S. fans to this popular U.K. band through free and exclusive music downloads and features on Zune Marketplace and Zune.net, video downloads on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and promotional video and music streams on MSN Video and MSN Music. Specific Maxïmo Park promotions include the following:
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Live Earth Germany revealed
Live Earth Announces Official Partnership with smart
Tickets for the Hamburg leg of the 7/7/07 Concert to Combat Global Warming On Sale Thursday, May 24, 2007
STUTTGART (May 23, 2007) – Live Earth Founder Kevin Wall, DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche, and singer Katie Melua joined with smart’s Global Marketing and Sales Head Anders Jensen at a press conference in Stuttgart today to announce details of Live Earth’s partnership with smart, the world’s only automaker serving as an Official Partner of Live Earth. The announcement also included the artist line-up and ticketing information for Live Earth Hamburg, which will be staged at the HSH Nordbank Arena ... [ read more ] »
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New Spinal Tap film from Rob Reiner at LiveEarth.msn.com
New York – The new Spinal Tap film directed by Rob Reiner that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival is available at LiveEarth.MSN.com. Reiner also announced at the festival that Spinal Tap has reunited and will play Live Earth's London Show on 7/7/07. The 15-minute film chronicles Marty DeBergi's (Rob Reiner) efforts to reunite Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) to play Live Earth. The film also reveals what the band members have been up to since they were last together. Ferrets, tiny horses, rehab and hip hop play prominent roles.
Please see the clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxSvF8iNEPg and the entire film at LiveEarth.MSN.com.
Live Earth is designed to trigger a mass movement to combat our climate crisis.
On 7/7/07, Live Earth will be a defining musical event with more than 100 headliners performing live on all 7 continents and being broadcast globally through television, radio, web, wireless and other media platforms. These music artists will inspire an audience of more than 2 billion people worldwide to make meaningful and lasting changes in their lives to turn the tide on global warming.
Live Earth's proceeds and the audience it engages will be the launch for an ongoing campaign to combat the climate crisis that will be led by The Alliance for Climate Protection, which is chaired by Al Gore, and international environmental NGOs.
Live Earth will provide simple actions and tools that, if applied on a mass scale, will have a massive impact on combating the climate crisis. A global movement of people making meaningful changes in their lives will give the companies they do business with, and the governments who represent them, no choice but to enact positive long-term themselves.
Live Earth was founded by Kevin Wall – the Worldwide Executive Producer of Live 8, which brought together one of the largest audiences in history to combat poverty. Wall formed a partnership with Al Gore and the Alliance to ensure that Live Earth inspires behavioral changes long after 7/7/07.
Live Earth will stage concerts at Giants Stadium in New Jersey; Wembley Stadium in London; Aussie Stadium in Sydney; Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro; The Cradle of Human Kind in Johannesburg; Tokyo Dome in Tokyo; and a to be determined venue in Shanghai.
Live Earth will be broadcast to a live worldwide audience by MSN at www.LiveEarth.MSN.com and in the U.S. on NBC, Premiere Radio networks, XM and Sirius. Live Earth is a project of the SOS campaign, which is a variety of media platforms – films, television, radio, Internet, books, wireless and others – to move people to combat the climate crisis. [ read more ] »
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Seventh Art Productions Release Gilbert and George DVD
Internationally renowned film company, Seventh Art Productions, are set to release the latest film in the Tim Marlow arts series on DVD on the 9th April. Tim Marlow with... Gilbert and George sees art expert Tim joined by the world's most eccentric artistic double act - the self-proclaimed 'living sculptures' Gilbert & George. This fascinating documentary presents an exclusive walk around their new exhibition at Tate Modern and also offers an intriguing insight into the characters of this famously elusive pair. For true Gilbert & George enthusiasts, there will be a limited number of rare signed copies available to buy on seventh-art.com and at White Cube art galleries ... [ read more ] »
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Architectural video by Wika for Knoll International
Paris, April 2, 2007 - This April, we are transforming St. Germain. WA is a site-specific video installation created for Knoll International by Gabriel Winer and Dana Karwas. Large-scale architectural projections turn the existing seventeenth century facade into a drive-by cinema and pedestrian spectacle. Playing with a unique two-screen format, the movie re-imagines the story of the company’s founders, how they discovered a minimalist approach to design, and came together to create the modernist symbol that Knoll is today. The two videos are synchronized to play with, and against, each other, or as a single vertical image, creating a captivating dialogue between the characters on screen, the architecture of the building, the street, and the viewers. State-of-the-art projection material is used to implant the images onto the skin of the building and live editing software (developed by WIKA) remixes certain scenes, creating a fresh version of the movie each time it plays. These various elements come together to tell the story of Knoll the way it should be told, through time and urban scale.
The movie was shot on-location by WIKA in New York City. The installation is part of an event at Knoll International France designed and overseen by Stéfan Golinski to promote a new line of Knoll furniture designed by Piero Lissoni and Mark Krusin.
CREDITS :: Installation Design: WIKA, Director: Gabriel Winer, Producer: Dana Karwas, Design Manager: Stéfan Golinski, Screenplay: Gabriel Winer and Stefan Golinski, Director or Photography: Michelle McCabe, Photography: Michael Lanzano, Florence Knoll: Marianna Rothen @ Fusion, Hans Knoll: Jason Smith @ VNY, Projection system: TAV, Projection material: Twinscreen, (Visit Knoll International online for more information on the WA furniture line) [ read more ] »
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