Oct 11
Miami Music Festival Launches Nov 11-14
| 2010 MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL LAUNCHES! November 11-14: List of venues and performance schedule now live on miamimusicfestival.org Thank you for partnering with us for the second annual Miami Music Festival. We have just announced our schedule of 400+ performances (see press announcement below) - please help us spread the word! The Miami Music Festival and Conference (MMF), Miami’s second annual emerging musical artist showcase, and the centerpiece event of this November’s new “Live Music Month in Miami,” has now released details on www.miamimusicfestival.org about its 400+ Latin, Hip-Hop, R&B, Rock, Jazz, Caribbean, and Inspirational musical performances to take place on 45 stages throughout the city. This marks a dramatic expansion of the event, which debuted in 2009. Venues include multiple stages in Bayfront Park and nightclubs and restaurants in Downtown Miami, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Miami Beach, Wynwood, The Design District and Little Haiti. An array of showcases will be presented by ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, Gibson, D’Addario and ReverbNation, the Delanuca Music Group, Soul of Miami.com, Atlantic Records, Warner Bros. Records, Forward Records, Magic Leap Records, Poe Boy Records, Mizay Entertainment, Myxer.com, Sideshow Entertainment, OpenMicDirect.com, WhatMiami.com, Best Buy and "A Night At The Flick" presented by The Bruce Hornsby Creative American Music program at The Frost School of Music-University of Miami. A half dozen other sponsored showcases and special “events within the event” will be announced shortly. Conference keynoters and festival headliners will be announced in the coming days and weeks. In addition to The Miami New Times and Urban Network, newly announced sponsors include Pollo Tropical, OnStar, American Spirit, PopChips and Vitamin Water. M.A.E was also announced as the MMF’s official gear provider. “Local music fans, visitors, members of the press or music executives who go to miamimusicfestival.org to see and hear the artists coming from South Florida, around the state, country and world, and plan their MMF weekend accordingly, will be greatly rewarded,” said Kevin Thornburg, publisher of The Miami New Times. Urban Network Vice President Arthur Mitchell said, “We’re bringing everyone to Miami! From our writers and editors to industry leaders to the hottest talent in the business today including comedian MC’s Joe Torry and Sinbad, we’ll all be at The Miami Music Festival this November.” In addition to the Miami-Dade County Office of Cultural Affairs, The City of Miami Office of Cultural Affairs, The Miami-Dade Office of Film and Entertainment, The Miami Downtown Development Authority, The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, and FilMiami, the MMF announced new partnerships with The Kiwanis of Little Havana Arts & Music Foundation, Amigos for Kids, NBC Miami and WPBT. MMF’s music industry conference at The Hyatt Regency Miami on Friday, November 12th and Saturday, November 13th has also recently added sessions and speakers rounding out an already robust schedule of panels, master classes, demonstrations and live interviews, which also can be found on the MMF website. Three-day festival wristbands are now available for advance purchase on miamimusicfestival.org for only $25, a 50% savings. Single day tickets will also be available at each event with ticket pricing as follows: • Multi-venue evening wristband (21+) is $15, and single venue entry is $10. The Music Specialist P.O.Box 310540 Atlanta, Georgia 31131 305 829 9010 - office 404 939 4180 - cell/voicemail music.specialists@yahoo.com www.asha.com |
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Aug 10
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Pimpin 2010 - Definition Of The Game
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Aug 9
PIMPIN 2010 - DEFINITION OF THE GAME
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The new breed PIMP has arrived and its new WHORES are musical artists, label owners, producers and want to be entertainment moguls.
pimped, pimp·ing, pimps
To serve as a procurer of prostitutes. - The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Pimping.] To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander. - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
pimp·ing
petty; insignificant; trivial.
British Dialect. puny; weak; sickly. - Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006
Consider the new definition of PIMP, being at the top of your game, making money while not working hard or at all. With this definition an entire new industry of corrupt businesses has come into existence.
1. BLOG PIMP – Here is a person that could never obtain certifiable credentials to become a bona fide writer. This person lives to tell stories that are mainly innuendo and conjecture but ultimately hurt the entertainment industry people they blog about. They never look for the truth only for things that can embarrass or humiliate. If you are an artist and you want some favorable online print you definitely must pay this person in advance.
2. PUBLICISTS PIMP - Here are people that have a vocation to increase awareness about an artist, act, product or service. They are the first line of promotion that should access new fans, clients and users of the people they publicize. Today’s new era publicist talks a good game but can not produce results for their clients after they have demanded money for their services. What I am finding is a long list of publicists that have massive email lists, but absolutely no knowledge of local & regional newspapers, local & regional television shows or connections at radio. What they tell you they have is direct email to thousands of individuals, what they don’t tell you is that their email opening is at times less than 2% and never over 10%. Recently I have heard of a publicist that took a substantial down payment against hourly work than sent the company they took money from a bill for research on local news outlets. The publicist has yet to write a press release, send an email or make a phone call to assist the company that hired them. Finally when is the last time you have seen a publicist that honestly wrote a press release that was legible and error free?
3. ONLINE MARKETING PIMP – Everyone understands that you need an online marketing plan to make your product or service work. What NO ONE truly understands is how to create a plan that works for more than one company at a time. The idea of one size fits all in marketing plans is entirely untrue and unhealthy for your pocket. With the advent of iPhone applications, widgets, email blasts, Ezines and more, marketing plans have to be customized to fit the client, product or service. The company selling a ready made plan that will work for you is NOT the company you want to do business with.
4. CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PIMPS - This is probably the largest pimp game available in the entertainment industry today. The music conference has become an art form in taking people’s money and not giving them any professional return on their dollars. This year alone in the South and Mid West there will be over 50 music conferences representing all types of music. Out of this 50 possibly 6 will be of significant value to an aspiring or professional artist; however the rest will be calculated to separate the artist, act or company from their cash. Several different methods are being used and they all have a ring of authenticity to them. Conference admission fees are typical, plus exhibitors or booth fees and the always present performance or showcase fee tops the list. Other fees are charged for advertising both online and in a conference book or handout and post conference shows at an outside venue. What is interesting to me is that every year there is a certain element of individual that will continuously fall for this type of scam.
5. OPEN MIC NIGHT PIMP – a concept where an artist or act can perform with the express goal of having themselves “discovered” by a major Entertainment Company. Great theory but hardly a reality. Open Mic night now consists of greedy promoters using FREE talent to build weekly audiences. In some cases the talent must pay an additional fee to perform after having paid to get into the venue. I have been looking for the act that gets signed at one of these events for the past 10 years and have not found any yet.
6. DJ POOL, RECORD POOL PIMP – If you are reading this you probably don’t have a clue on what a DJ POOL or RECORD POOL even accomplishes. Don’t feel bad for other than the pimps running these outlets no one else has a clue either. Originally created to assist labels in reaching the multitude of club DJ’s around the country, these pools have become a wasteland of fraud, intimidation and one of the easiest ways to separate a person from their money.
7. CONSULTANT PIMP – You never really know what this person honestly does, but they have written a book or article about it. Most consultants have never operated a real entertainment industry business but they want you to pay them for telling YOU how to spend your money. The interesting thing about consultants is that they have an automatic attitude complied with an increasing sense of self worth. In other words they are too good to be true.
8. RADIO PROMOTER PIMP – The most recent wave of pimpin involves hiring a radio promotion person because they ran a major label division is now one of the easiest ways to throw your money away. You can NO LONGER depend on a promotion person to get your music heard by radio programmers; in fact radio programmers NO LONGER listen to music but rely on research and consultants to choose the music heard on their respective stations. Executives that ran major label divisions had backup systems, regional and local employees that interacted daily with radio personnel. These people ate lunch, dinner, went to the mall, appeared at the remotes and became intimate friends with the radio DJ’s, programmers, sales and promotional people. The divisional head never had the accessibility or the personal knowledge of the regional or local people. When the National or Division head called into the market it was normally to fix a particular problem that had occurred. Now the wide spread belief that the Division head can deliver radio just because he or she was so well known is pure BUNK. The average amount of money I have seen sent to these executive level pimps is $60,000. Of course this amount can easily translate into over $100,000 especially if the client believes the “hype” generated by the pimp.
Please understand that these type PIMPIN games are being played around the world with numerous different styles of music and entertainment. Jazz, Blues, Reggae, Hip Hop, Soul R&B, Lounge, Dance, Rock, and religious music have all fallen under these forms on Pimpin.
Aug 3
GANGSTER RAPPERS REVOLT TODAY
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Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city youths.
We have ALL become attuned to the idea that Gangster Rap and its sub genres are partially responsible for the attitudes, lifestyle changes and destruction of the Black & Urban communities via our youth. But I believe that Gangster Rap can be of significant assistance to our neighborhoods if used affectively.
Racism in today’s world has a new face; within the United States it is now occasionally called the Tea Party Movement. Not all Tea party Movement members are racists, but a significant amount of them now follow the Patriot Movement theories. Patriot Movement groups define themselves as opposed to the "New World Order," engage in groundless conspiracy theorizing, or advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines. The biggest and best financially equipped of these is the John Birch Society founded in 1958 with chapters in ALL 50 states.
John Birch Society - The society says it is anti-totalitarian, particularly anti-socialist and anti-communist. It seeks to limit the powers of government and defends the original intention of the U.S. Constitution, which it sees as based on Christian principles. It opposes collectivism, including wealth redistribution, economic interventionism, socialism, communism, and fascism
Other names for groups that follow the Patriot Movement principles include:
Constitution Party
We the People
American Patriot Friends Network
Freedom Force International
Second Amendment Committee
Concerned Citizens Party
Florida Free Alliance
Society for American Sovereignty
America First Party
Restore the Republic
PatriotResistance.com
Church of God Evangelistic Association
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American legal advocacy organization, internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and it’s tracking of hate groups, militias, and extremist organizations.
The Southern Poverty Law Center documented a 244 percent increase in the number of active Patriot groups in 2009. Their numbers grew from 149 groups in 2008 to 512 groups in 2009, an astonishing addition of 363 new groups in a single year. Militias - the paramilitary arm of the Patriot movement - were a major part of the increase, growing from 42 militias in 2008 to 127 in 2009. This can be directly connected to the election of Barack Obama and the immediate racial outcry detected in America.
And this is the main reason I see where Gangster Rap can be of immediate assistance to the Black & Urban communities. These paramilitary militias need an alternative to help balance the scales of power within this country. Now is the time for America’s greatest gangster rappers to start rapping about inner city realities and against the ever growing racist condition being created by the Tea Party Movement members. Just think how the Black & Urban communities would change if the youth starting thinking about banding together to rid their cities of these Patriot Movement groups. Think what would happen if one of the following rappers would make a “HIT” song that opened the youth’s eyes just to the racist problem that has increased over the past few years.
50 Cent
Lil Wayne
Eminem
The Game
Cassidy
Fabolous
Brand Nubians
Snoop
Nate Dogg
Rick Ross
Plies
Young Jeezy
I believe there is a reason that American commercial radio is playing contemporary music that only condones gratuitous sex, drugs, money, material gain, party and revenge against your own kind. I’m not asking for a love song, in fact I think we need a FIGHT song really soon.
Gangsters you’re always talking about keeping it REAL, well we need you now to Revolt.
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