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Tiffany Kuenzi Receives Notable Indie Music Award Nomination

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Although a new voice in country music, Tiffany Kuenzi is a stunning artist that is already establishing her place within the industry. After releasing her single, “Tonight,” Tiffany has received a continued wave of support and praise for the track, gaining recognition as she steps into the spotlight. With her continued successes, Tiffany’s acclaimed “Tonight” has now been nominated as “Best Country Song” for the Indie Music Awards in LA!

Turning heads of industry reps and radio DJs from all over, Tiffany’s breakout hit “Tonight” has received national airplay and given Tiffany numerous devoted fans. Now nominated for an Indie Music Award, “Tonight” is a heartfelt, moving tune with emotional depth and a beautiful melody, making it easy to play again and again. As a new artist, Tiffany success with “Tonight” is telling of her talent, dedication and potential to become a star.

On the brink of stardom as a country music artist, the charming Tiffany Kuenzi is one to look out for. Nominated as “Best Country Song” for the Los Angeles Indie Music Awards for her hit single, “Tonight,” Tiffany is quickly moving forward with her career, continuing to stay true to herself and she keeps up with her passion for making quality, affective music.

To find out what Tiffany is up to, check out the following sites:

www.TiffanyKuenzi.com

Facebook.com/TiffKuenz

Twitter.com/Tiffany_Kuenzi

YouTube.com/TiffanyKuenziMusic

Reverbnation.com/Tiff

Bridegroom & Bitney is a music and entertainment publicity and social media consulting firm based in Los Angeles, CA founded by Shane Bitney Crone and Thomas Lee Bridegroom. For more information, visit www.BridegroomAndBitney.com

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Adele’s “Someone Like You” Wins Tenth Annual Musicnotes.com “Song of the Year” Award

Sunday, February 12th, 2012

Musicnotes.com, the Madison, WI-based online sheet music retailer and publisher, announced today that Adele’s hit song “Someone Like You,” from her album, 21, has won the tenth annual Musicnotes.com Song of the Year Award.

“Someone Like You” surpassed all previous Song of the Year records - selling more than double the previous record-holder, Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

The song’s writers, Adele Adkins and Daniel Wilson are both recipients of the award, joining the ranks of previous winning songwriters including Leonard Cohen, Linda Perry and Vanessa Carlton. Universal Music Publishing Ltd. and Chrysalis Music Ltd., the song’s publishers, will likewise be receiving Musicnotes “Publisher of the Year” awards.

Paul Connolly, Universal Music Publishing Group’s President of Europe & UK said, “As Adele’s publisher, we’re delighted with this award. As well as deserved recognition of a stunning song, it’s also a great demonstration of a digital innovation that delivers commercial results for songwriters and their music publishers.”

Laurent Hubert, COO - North America at BMG Rights Management added, “BMG is proud to be a part of our writer Dan Wilson and Adele’s brilliant collaboration on “Someone Like You.” They’ve created a new, timeless classic that will be played for ages to come.”

Musicnotes has previously presented awards to Leonard Cohen (”Hallelujah”),Vanessa Carlton (”A Thousand Miles”), Linda Perry (Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful”), Evanescence (”My Immortal”), Tom Higgenson (”Hey There Delilah”), Marcus Hummon, Bobby Boyd and Jeff Hanna (”Bless the Broken Road”), Daniel Powter (”Bad Day”), Jon Mabe and Jessi Alexander (”The Climb”) and Steve Perry, Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon (”Don’t Stop Believin’). Adele’s “Someone Like You” joins them as the recipient of the 2011 Song of the Year Award as the best-selling sheet music piece at Musicnotes.com throughout 2011.

Adele will be performing live at the 54th Annual Grammy awards on February 12, 2012. It will be her first performance since undergoing vocal cord surgery last fall.

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About Musicnotes: Musicnotes, Inc. offers an online catalog of over 200,000 digital sheet music titles, built on the strength of content agreements with Alfred Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing, Faber Music Ltd, BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Publishing, Disney Music Publishing, Cherry Lane Music Company, Peermusic, Word Music, EMI Christian, Bug Music and many others. Musicnotes is featured in Internet Retailer Magazine’s list of the Top 500 Online Retailers and is one of the top 50 American Music Products Retailers according to Music Trades Magazine.

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Festival Awards Europe Announce Longlists And Public Voting Begins

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Voting in the Festival Awards Europe has opened, with the longlists unveiled and fans flocking to support their favourite events and artists.



The third edition of the awards looks set to be bigger and better with a 15% increase in the number of festivals taking part and entries from 32 different countries. This is further strong growth considering it is only Year 3 and reinforces the ever-growing strength and diversity of the pan-European music festival marketplace.



See Video Highlights from 2012 here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpzB-eFQa9Q



James Drury, MD of Festival Awards Ltd, which organises the Awards said: “The response from festivals has been phenomenal. The Awards are all about recognising the hard work which goes into producing Europe’s diverse and vibrant festival industry and having chance to celebrate the achievements of the past 12 months. Not only do they give the fans chance to tell festival organisers how much they enjoyed the events they went to, but we have a number of industry-focussed awards, decided by panels of experts who will highlight those crucial behind-the-scenes elements which the public doesn’t usually consider.”



Decided by a combination of public vote and industry juries, these Awards are the only pan-European body solely dedicated to recognising the contributions and achievements of the event organisers and performing artists that generate billions of Euros for local economies and brighten up the summer for tens of millions of festival-goers each year.



Public voting runs from 24th October - 6th December Vote online http://eu.festivalawards.com/



Presented as a partnership between Festival Awards Ltd, YOUROPE and Eurosonic Noorderslag, the Festival Awards Europe will take place on Wednesday, 11th January 2012 at Groningen’s De Oosterpoort in The Netherlands, on the opening night of Eurosonic Noorderslag. Winners will be announced on the night with live acts and aftershow party.



YOUROPE Chairman Christof Huber commented: “We have seen the Festival Awards Europe grow massively since the launch in 2009. More festivals are taking part in the awards, the number of votes has increased drastically and we feel much more support and interest from bands, sponsors and media in the awards. We are proud to be involved in it and we look forward to a next big step forward “



EuroSonic Noorderslag Creative Director Peter Smidt concluded: “Starting Eurosonic Noorderslag on Wednesday 12th January with the European festival Awards and under the same roof the European Border Breakers Awards feels like the ideal opening night were both the best European festivals and artists are awarded.”



This year’s Award Categories are as follows:



1. Best Major European Festival

2. Best Medium-Sized European Festival

3. Best Small European Festival

4. Best New European Festival

5. Best Indoor Festival

6. Best European Festival Line-Up

7. YOUROPE Green ‘N’ Clean Festival Of The Year

8. Artist’s Favourite European Festival

9. Best Newcomer

10. Best Headliner

11. Festival Anthem of the Year

12. Virtual Festivals Europe presents Promoter Of The Year

13. YOUROPE Lifetime Achievement Award



Last year, more than 350,000 public votes saw festivals as diverse as Poland’s Heineken Open’er, Ireland’s Electric Picnic and Germany’s Melt! pick up awards, while Roskilde legend Leif Skov was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Quotes from last years winners:



Stuart Gaibraith, Kilimanjaro and Sonisphere co-founder “It’s great to win an award and I think it’s brilliant for the European Festival awards to take place because it recognises all the effort that everyone in our industry puts in each year and to have fans vote for it. ”



Damien O’Donohoe, Oxegen Festival “We’ve just won the best line up which is probably the best honour any festival can get. It’s really important to have to have these awards and to recognise all the hard work that goes on behind the scenes and also the artists, the management the agents who are all responsible for making Oxygen so special. “



Mikolaj Ziolkowski, Heineken Open’er Festival “We just won the best major festival for a second time in a row. It’s really exciting and the most important because it’s a public vote, so maybe we are not the best festival, maybe we are not the most beautiful festival, but what is the most important is that we’ve got the most involved audience. When the people feel that this is their festival, they want to participate and be involved and they want to vote for us second time in a row.”



Stefan Lehmkuhl, Melt Festival “It was a really big pleasure and a honour for me to win the artist favourite festival as we didn’t expect it as the competition was against Roskilde and all the big major festivals so obviously we did something right and we appreciate the guys who come not only fore the money to our lovely festival but we have a really nice atmosphere and there is a special kind of melt! Vibe going on.”



Contact:

For more info on the awards, last years winners, photos and press accreditation’s contact nikki@globalpublicity.co.uk


http://eu.festivalawards.com/

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Male Vocalist Of The Year Nominee Tony Adamo/On SoulTracks

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

SoulTracks Readers’ Choice Awards. Male Vocalist of the Year Nominee Tony Adamo, Michael Franks, Freddie Jackson



Male Vocalist of the Year: Tony Adamo Aloe Blacc Anthony David Bilal Bootsy Collins Bslade Chaz Shepherd Darryl Grant Frank McComb Freddie Jackson Gordon Chambers Heston Jesse Boykins III John Stoddart Michael Franks Noel Gourdin Rahsaan Patterson Van Hunt Walter Christopher Winston Warrior



Read more: Nominees Named for 2011 SoulTracks Awards! | SoulTracks - Soul Music Biographies, News and Reviews


http://www.soultracks.com/2011-awards-nominees

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Emulator Wins Innovative DJ Product Award

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Every year, DJ’s from all across Europe flock to the small city of Birmingham smack dab in the middle of the United Kingdom for the BPM Show held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC). DJ legends, Grandmaster Flash and Pete Tong were on hand to impart their wisdom and skills upon the youth of the DJ world in the Gatecrasher Arena. One of the highlights of the show had to be the judging of the prestigious DJ Mag Tech Awards.



Companies competing for the highest tech honours included Numark, Pioneer, Serato, Stanton, Vestax and of course Toronto, Canada based, SmithsonMartin Inc. SmithsonMartin’s first product Emulator was up against some fierce competition with the Stanton SCS.4 and the Pioneer DJM-T1, but no one could deny that the most innovative product of the year was the first of a kind, “Star Trek Like” multi-touch DJ system, Emulator.



PHOTO TAG: Alan Smithson receiving the award from DJ Mag Tech Editor, Mick Wilson



“We are so proud to be recognized by our peers as the most innovative product of 2011. Companies that win Tech Awards typically go on to do great things and we are so excited about the future of touch screen DJ’ing.” said SmithsonMartin CEO, Alan Smithson “I am thrilled to announce that we will be releasing the Modular version of Emulator where users can fully customize their touch screen DJ experience for any midi software”.



Introduced to the public in March 2011, Emulator has made waves being seen on some of the largest music programs around the world including the German Chart Show, several music videos and the Romanian Music Awards. “I´m definitely overwhelmed by the EMULATOR! People now can see what I´m doing, and it´s incredibly fast, all the buttons I need for my set are on one screen straight under my hands - I am addicted.” said Jay Frog, producer formerly of Scooter



“Emulator is the only product in the history of DJ’ing that unites the DJ with the crowd visually. The union of music, visuals and the work of the DJ become one unlike anything else that has ever existed before.” Said Emulator creator, Pablo Martin “We have been working around the clock to deliver the most accurate, flexible midi controller ever made.”



Emulator Modular is scheduled for release as a beta in late October with release to the public mid-November. Modular is a 100% customizable multi-touch experience for any midi software titles.



About SmithsonMartin Inc.

Toronto, Canada based SmithsonMartin Inc. is a software developer focussed on making multi-touch applications for music production, DJ’ing and other industry applications. The flagship product, Emulator has been used by DJ’s such as two time Grammy nominee, Morgan Page, Marc Romboy, Jay Frog and more. Emulator was recently featured as the DJ setup at the Romanian Music Awards. SmithsonMartin CEO Alan Smithson and CTO Pablo Martin are the principals of the company.

http://www.smithsonmartin.com/



About DJ Mag Tech Awards

The annual DJ Mag Tech Awards allow DJ equipment manufacturers to enter new gear for different categories; Innovative New Product, Ultimate Media Player over $600, Single Multi media Player with CD, Ultimate Club DJ Mixer, DJ Software, DJ Controller over $600, DJ Controller under $600, Compact Computer DJ Interface, Audiovisual Product, Dual Multi-media player, Dedicated Itch Controller, Best Smartphone/Tablet Music App, DJ Mixer under $600, Digital Vinyl System (DVS), DJ Soundcard, Studio Sequencer Software, Best Production Equipment, Studio Monitors, Headphones. Judging will be based on Build, Sound Quality, Features, Ease of Use and Value for Money.

http://www.djmag.com/php/techawards/index.php?op=vote



http://www.SmithsonMartin.com

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2009 Music Video Awards Show Vitality Of Independent Music

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Website: http://www.americafree.tv

Washington, D.C. - Wednesday April 14, 2010 — AmericaFree.TV, LLC (www.americafree.tv), a leading Internet streaming television and movie broadcaster with 10 million global viewers, officially announces “Melancholyism” by Mostly Bears as the grand prize winner for the AmericaFree.TV 2009 Music Video Awards. First Prize winners are “The Youth are Disillusioned” by DDJ, for the Rock music category, “Love Is Gone,” by Slum Peasants, for the Hip-Hop music category, and “Blue Sky” by KaiserCartel, for the Contemporary music category. All winners were chosen through audience participation and will receive a check for $ 100 from AmericaFree.TV. The winning music videos can be seen on AmericaFree.TV, or in VOD at http://www.musicfree.tv/2009/

“I think that our awards show the incredible vitality of Independent Music. Music videos are not dead, they have just gone to the Internet, and we are glad to bring them to our viewing audience,” said AmericaFree.TV CEO Marshall Eubanks. “Many of these videos have production qualities just as good as anything you will see anywhere, and yet they don’t get much recognition,” said Eric Connor, head of Music Content Acquisition for AmericaFree.TV. “So we thought we had to do something to fix that, and that’s why we had the 2009 Music Video Awards,” Connor continued.

The grand prize winner, for “Melancholyism,” by Mostly Bears, was directed by Chelsea Coles. Mostly Bears are an indie-rock group from Tucson, Arizona, on Funzalo Records. One of Arizona’s most accomplished new bands, Mostly Bears features fireworks, pounding drums, unusual backing vocals and sounds, perfectly rumbling bass lines, chaotic and frenzied guitars. Brian Lopez (vocals and lead guitar) said “We appreciate AmericaFree.TV for airing ‘Melancholyism’ and our fans for supporting us. We are currently writing and recording our 2nd studio album, which will be released sometime in the Fall — keep checking our Myspace and Facebook pages for details. Thanks again!”

First prize in the Rock music video category goes to DDJ for “The Youth are Disillusioned,” filmed around the Great Salt Lake in Utah by Jordan Media Entertainment. DDJ. Hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah, DDJ has been a consistent musical presence since 2006, playing the 2009 Warped Tour on the Kevin Says Stage. DDJ is currently working on their 3rd album “The Battle for Hearts and Minds,” and their new single is called ‘Light it Up!’

Straight from the streets of Skid Row of Los Angeles are Slum Peasants — Mercy Diamonds, Barabas, and Detox — First Place winners in the Hip Hop Category for “Love is Gone.” The video was directed by Brian Smith and produced by Braddon Mendelson of Noisivision. The Peasants music is “straight from the soul,” according their website (www.slumpeasants.com), “music that uplifts and leads the soul into its intended destiny.”

KaiserCartel, Courtney Kaiser and Benjamin Cartel from Brooklyn, New York, won First Prize for Contemporary for “Blue Sky” KaiserCartel construct gorgeous songs about living and loving, something they know about, as their musical and romantic lives are so entangled, it’s difficult to say where one starts and the other begins. “We’re very excited and honored to have won Best Contemporary Music Video for ‘Blue Sky’. Thanks so much to AmericaFree.TV, to Kevin Schaefer, our DP, and to all of you who watched our video and voted for us!”

AmericaFree.TV (AFTV) broadcasts professionally produced content on multiple live channels on the Internet. To learn more about AFTV, visit the AmericaFree.tv site at www.AmericaFree.tv, or learn more about AFTV’s music video competition at http://www.MusicFree.TV/2009/

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