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The guys of Deaf Rhino rolled out a performance of their new album at Shady Katie’s. On a mini tour of sorts, thee bill for the night included Michael Madar, Call Me Felix (at the time just Jake Falana of Kid Felix), Terrible Friends and Heroes in Error. Madar, as always, has such a charming and entertaining stage personality. He keeps the crowd amused with jokey commentary and hilarious song selections. A cover of Rodney Carrington’s “In Her Day” and his take on Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “ I Like Big…

Interaction In 1995, Triple J created a youth radio station dedicated to helping up and coming Australian artists have a launchpad into the music industry. I have been listening to Triple J Unearthed since 2013, discovering new upcoming Australian artists and bands. The interaction will discuss how Triple J Unearthed has exposed me to unestablished Australian artists. I have looked at what bands I have found out about through the listening service. I also looked into how the website is set up,…

James Partrick is a DJ, curator, author, and educator. He curates and develops electronic music and art festivals and events. He has also won many awards including the American Composer Forum- MECA award. He also develops music production, composition, and sound design curricula for Dubspot in New York City and the Institute of Production and Recording in Minneapolis. He is also the owner of the Slam Academy that students take the electronic music training. James Patrick started the article…

paid to artists are given to the label. Jared Leto, lead singer of the band Thirty Seconds to Mars, told the Rolling Stone that "if you think the fact that we have sold in excess of 2 million records and have never been paid a penny is pretty unbelievable, well, so do we” (Kreps 2). Of the millions of records that the band sold, zero profit has been made. It’s easy to think that artists should read their contracts before they sign them so that they know what they’re getting themselves into. If…

to be. Not the song originally, but the artist and how they got their music out to the public. Some people may know that when getting a song out you may have to go to a record company and see if you are star worthy. One of the most famous record companies out there that helped hundreds of artist today is know as Atlantic Records which was founded by the great Ahmet Eretgun. Ahmet Eretgun was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1923. His father was the ambassador of Turkey and so Eretgun traveled much…

“One of the most extraordinary, timeless bodies of work in music history.” This is one way Rhino Records has been described in the music industry. It has been spanning decades of cultural history and worked with virtually every genre. It is incredible at developing and promoting different collections across multiple media platforms. Rhino has evolved into the world’s premier reissue label, setting standards for excellence in both the physical and digital worlds. Thanks to this label, our…

U Street Music Hall, a DJ-owned concert venue in Washington D.C., recently celebrated their six year anniversary on March 11, 2016. The venue had DJ Jim E-Stack as the opening act, and featured XXYYXX as the main attraction. XXYYXX is a twenty-year old black electronic dance music artist who challenges stereotypes and uses his racial, age, and gender identity to creatively produce music without the boundaries of modern convention. XXYYXX, otherwise known as Marcel Everett, considers his genre…

Did you hear about the old abandoned house in Berwick Pennsylvania? Well I have, I heard it from my best friend's, friend's dead uncle, John. He said it started a long time ago in a library. The library was brand new, just built. John was 16 years old and was heading towards the library to find a nonfiction book about Pennsylvania's history for a research project. When he entered the library he felt something strange, but he didn't know what was making him feel this way. He went to the…

In this tutorial, Scott Wiggins explains how to record songs like a Professional from your home studio. He discusses the different items that are important to have when setting up a home studio. His six things he talks in detail about are Computer, DAW, Audio Interface, Mic stand and Mic, Pop filter, and Headphones. For the computer, he says as long as you are not trying to do an “eight-piece band with a live accompanying orchestra” a normal Mac or PC with the highest RAM possible should be fine…

Over the year, the continuing decline of CD sales along with the rapid growth of music downloads signals a new era in music. In the same way they started selling CDs in 1982 to replace vinyl records because they were too big, and CDs were more portable. Now people start to download music online, and they stop buying and using CDs. Although, some people think that buy CDs help to artist or the music listening experience is more enjoyable, but equally they buy music for internet and do use CDs for…