Ariel Publicity

WHO: Austin Music Foundation (AMF) is a nonprofit organization that provides educational programs and career development resources to musicians. The mission is to strengthen and connect the local music community through innovative programs that empower musicians and fuel Austin’s creative economy. Visit www.austinmusicfoundation.org for more info.

WHAT: Austin Music Foundation presents PARTY:SMART featuring Martin Atkins with special guests Ariel Hyatt of Ariel Publicity and Charlie Cheney of Indie Band Manager. These three indie music luminaries will share tips, secrets, and strategies to help bands more creatively and effectively promote themselves in today’s DIY music business climate.

Local musicians and industry pros as well as SXSW attendees from far and wide will meet for a pre-conference party and educational event with our special guests designed to facilitate relationships and “get the party started” on the eve of SXSW.

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We’ve got some great artists performing at SXSW. Stop by a show and have a drink with them!
All of the artists will be available for interviews as well while at SXSW please email Christina Duren [Christina@arielpublicity.com] to schedule an interview.

Strait Laces
Punk, Rock
http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2694

Tuesday, March 16 Bruised Fruit Party @ Bull McCabes (714 Red River) – TBA
Wednesday March 17 Belfast Rocks Showcase @ Latitude 30 (512 San Jacinto Boulevard) – 12.30pm
Wednesday, March 17 Music Tech Mashup @ Rusty Spurs Saloon (405 E 7th Street) – 4pm
Thursday, March 18 Music Gorilla Party @ Treasure Island (413 East 6th Street) – 3pm
Friday, March 19 Music From Ireland Breakfast Party @ BD Rileys (204 East 6th Street) – 2.30pm
Friday, March 19  Official SXSW Showcase @ Wave – 8pm
Saturday, March 20  Irish Party @ Fado (214 West 4th Street) -1pm
Saturday, March 20 Party @ Lovey’s Loot – 7pm
Saturday, March 20 Closing Party @ Blu Lounge (360 Nueces Street) – 12am

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I have a fun NEW contest to share with you (as you know I’m a wee bit contest crazy because they are both fun and helpful).

I am headed to my first ever Canadian Music Week in Toronto on March 10 – 13 where I will appear on two panels, do a book signing and soak up what I have heard is one of the best music conferences out there.  Here’s the fun contest part: My dear friend Jay Frank will also be speaking at CMW.

Who is Jay Frank you ask?

Jay Frank is currently the SVP of Music Strategy for CMT, a division of MTV Networks. At CMT, he oversees the implementation of music across all platforms, including TV, web, mobile and VOD. The new synergy he is developing is changing the face of country music as he identifies future country hits through active monitoring of all platforms. This has lead to increased TV ratings, online video views, and record setting metrics for the 2008 CMT Music Awards.

Jay Frank has also managed music programming, along with artist and label relations for Yahoo! Music, formerly known as LAUNCH. From 2001 until 2007, Frank grew the audience tenfold to approximately 25 million people.

We’ve been friends for the better part of the past decade. We’ve also enjoyed brainstorming with each other over the future of music, where it’s going, and how do we get there. The funny thing is that our conversations were never doom and gloom. They were always full of hope and possibilities. We’ve always seen the potential for where new artists can go if they only had the right tools. Now, both of us are asked to speak about this around the world (a far cry from just chatting about it in our living rooms 10 years ago).

But we also know how difficult it is to pin either of us into any meaningful conversation after a panel when you have 30 seconds to ask your question. And some of you are pretty damn smart and driven. So, the two of us have decided to team up for something pretty damn special…we’d like to take YOU to dinner!

That’s right…you heard us. Take YOU to dinner. Normally, we get requests to take us to lunch or dinner just to pick our brain. But this time, we’re flipping the equation. Why? Because we both thought it’d be fun. Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do in this music business?

So, here’s the deal. We’ll pick four fortunate folks based on a couple of things:
1) You sign up to both our twitter accounts at @cyberpr and @futurehitdna
2) You tweet either (or both) of us as to why you should go

That’s it! The dinner will be held on Thursday, March 11th at a TBD location in Toronto. Just in case that wasn’t enough, you’ll also get an autographed copy of my book Music Success In Nine Weeks AND Jay’s book Futurehit.DNA.

So come tweet now. We’ll be looking for potential entrants until March 8th. Then we gotta pick the 4 lucky winners and contact them.

Even if you don’t get to go to the dinner, please make sure to say hello to each of us at Canadian Music Week.

xx,
Ariel & Jay

Related show

• Artist: Ariel Hyatt
• Date: Thursday, March 11th 2010
• Time: 7:30pm
• City: Ariel Hyatt in Toronto, ON
• Venue: TBA – Toronto Restaurant
• Address: TBA
• Country: Canada
• Notes: Ariel Hyatt & Jay Frank will be taking 4 winners of our Twitter contest out to dinner – tell us why you want to dine with us in 140 characters or less @CyberPR & @futurehitdna
• Add to Google Calendar | Download iCal

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I just got back from the New Music Seminar in Chicago, where I participated as a player.

The New Music Seminar is an extraordinary and important event.

Why?

Because Tom Silverman gets it.

Tom gets that right now industry vets have gone from being effective experts who understood how to effectively produce hits and make money in the music business are now scratching their heads asking “what do we do now?”

in the worst case scenario, these vets are nothing more than dinosaurs.
In the best case scenario we are architects and builders of the “new” Music Business

We have just started building a huge cathedral with spires, flying buttress, archivolts, trefoils, gables, porches, transepts, cloisters and chapels… It’s a huge job and we are all approaching this together brick-by-brick.

As someone who has toiled for 16 years trying to make a difference for independent artists, it feels incredibly validating to be heard and understood by a legend in the music business.

What Tom is trying to do is crack the code.

His arsenal is all of us, his players, who work day in and day out with artists trying to move the needle, make an impact and create new blueprints that we will all follow for future cathedrals and skyscrapers and eventually powerful towering cities.

Tom, thanks for inviting me.  I’m delighted to be among your troublemakers, rabble rousers and upstarts, I’m in whole hog and I won’t stop until we all make a difference for artists that we serve.

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David Myles

My second journey to the East Coast Music Awards in Canada was fantastic. This year I was honored to again join the group of internationals that were invited by the East Coast Music Association to participate in their annual conference and attend the award show.

Hey! Rosetta

The East Coast Music Awards are sort of like the Grammy’s but for the East Coast of Canada and it takes place in a different city each time.  This year it was in Corner Brook Newfoundland.  And again, this year I was astounded by the immense amount of talent that comes from the East Coast of Canada.  There were many, many highlights –  I will let me photos do the rest of my talking.  Here is my link: http://www.flickr.com/arielpublicitypr

Cyber PR For Musicians

On Friday I gave a two-hour presentation on Cyber PR for musicians and taught or Canadian counterparts how social media will become a huge part of how they will be building tribes around themselves in 2009 and beyond.

Because Canadians still buy albums and Canadian radio actually supports up and coming talent they have not been as affected by what has happened in the United States to musicians. The most phenomenal thing of all from my perspective is their government and provinces actually support musicians by helping them with mentoring, advice and (gasp) grants. This is extremely unusual from an American perspective.

And it directly contributes to the fact that only 8 people who were at the ECMAs were on Twitter (before I arrived) I am proud to say I personally signed quite a few bands up to Twitter and I did some sleuth work for our Canadian friends who want to start to use this wonderful and powerful tool to connect on the East Coast of Canada

Twitter for ECMA’s Community
To follow this list of people who were at the ECMAs or talking about the ECMAs on Twitter do This:

Step 1: login to your twitter account (or create one) by going to: http://www.twitter.com/

Step 2: While you are logged in switch the usernames to land on each page
and add the username to get to their page for example my username is CyberPR and my Twitter page is http://www.twitter.com/cyberpr

Step 3: Click the grey box that says follow under each photo and username of each page you land on!

Step 4: Tweet Away!

People talking about ECMAs on Twitter / People who were there

http://twitter.com/CyberPR (that’s me!)
http://twitter.com/TerryMcbride
http://twitter.com/Jessiejessie
http://twitter.com/musicnovascotia
http://twitter.com/Aimeenl (volunteer, using the ECMA logo on her page)
http://twitter.com/GCSU
http://twitter.com/davidhueyhayman
http://twitter.com/SignalBlog
http://twitter.com/gautjac
http://twitter.com/Jeffpineau
http://twitter.com/Eirinnfraser
http://twitter.com/HiphossipCanada
http://twitter.com/orcaphyll
http://twitter.com/Mynameismoe
http://twitter.com/commieninja
http://twitter.com/noelmacdonald
http://twitter.com/Authenticcoast
http://twitter.com/Terryrandell
http://twitter.com/Jcohlmeyer
http://twitter.com/poirier
http://twitter.com/newfoundland
http://twitter.com/Leahtims
http://twitter.com/giggs_12
http://twitter.com/Poirier
http://twitter.com/SpinCount
http://twitter.com/JJScheffler
http://twitter.com/dmbnewfie
http://twitter.com/ShannonPratt
http://twitter.com/DannyMillions
http://twitter.com/NutkinNB
http://twitter.com/Jennamacneil
http://twitter.com/Paisleyjura
http://twitter.com/ngill
http://twitter.com/Tomcochrane
http://twitter.com/adamdiamond

Radio Peeps:

CBC:
http://twitter.com/CBCDeepRoots
http://twitter.com/CBCnl
http://twitter.com/OnTheGoCBC
http://twitter.com/CBCpei
http://twitter.com/CBCarts
http://twitter.com/CBCnews
http://twitter.com/CBCcanada
http://twitter.com/RC_Arts (Radio Canada)
http://twitter.com/JayBedford -Announcer & Music Director / 1035 The Eagle (CKCH FM Sydney)
http://twitter.com/Robertcarnell – Host of Salt Water Music and Tech. Producer with CFRC Radio
http://twitter.com/1035TheEagle

Artists:
http://twitter.com/Hotaction
http://twitter.com/SWThieves
http://twitter.com/ENNISmusic
http://twitter.com/Idlers
http://twitter.com/Thedingler
http://twitter.com/alertthemedic
http://twitter.com/Theheartbroken
http://twitter.com/leahtims
http://twitter.com/dean_stairs
http://twitter.com/jeffpineau
http://twitter.com/Rebekahhiggs
http://twitter.com/Catcherband
http://twitter.com/Thesubtitles
http://twitter.com/melaniesamson
http://twitter.com/tw34k (plays with Catcher)
http://twitter.com/kimwempemusic
http://twitter.com/christalk (Chris LeBlanc)
http://twitter.com/IamJoeBuck (Joe Buck)
http://twitter.com/artdamage00 (Matthew Claener)

Toronto
http://twitter.com/Melodyman (Don Quarles)
http://twitter.com/Rodney_Murphy (SOCAN)
http://twitter.com/Nxnefest
http://twitter.com/thirdestate
http://twitter.com/taraoram
http://twitter.com/Tiffanyford

Halifax
http://twitter.com/Jeffpineau
http://twitter.com/H00TIE1
http://twitter.com/Brightwhite
http://twitter.com/SpiderVideo
http://twitter.com/IWKFoundation
http://twitter.com/Thedingler
http://twitter.com/Myogis
http://twitter.com/Greghemmings
http://twitter.com/liam_mather

Corner Brook
http://twitter.com/Seanezekiel
http://twitter.com/hellothisisalex

Related show

• Artist: Ariel Hyatt
• Date: Thursday, March 4th 2010 - Sunday, March 7th 2010
• City: Ariel Hyatt in Sydney, NS
• Venue: ECMA
• Country: Canada
• Notes: Ariel will be presenting several times throughout the ECMA conference
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With Valentine’s Day right around the corner we know a lot of our new media makers may be scrambling for content to honor that day.

In this Valentines Day Special Edition of Pre-Cleared and Podsafe we have featured all of our top Podsafe Valentine’s Days songs for your review.

Please login and take a listen to each song, our system makes it easy for you to just stream and download the mp3’s to include directly into your site!

If you are not sure of your username and password to login to the system please email contact@arielpublicity.com and we can email you that information

Movin Melvin Brown
http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2528
Genre: Jazz, R&B, Adult Contemporary
Song: Love On My Mind
If you can think of the combined singing ability of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, and Otis Redding, and the dancing ability and entertainment quality of Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Jackson, and more, you get Movin’ Melivn Brown from Austin, Texas!

Astronauts of Antiquity

http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2507

Genre: Electronica, Lounge, Alternative, Pop
Song:In The Strangest Places We Look For Love
A pot of funky-luscious neo-soul, add a pinch of Indian/Brazilian spice, toss & serve over a warm bed of jazzy, eclectic pop…and the girl.

Colin O’Donohoe
http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2523
Genre: World, Christian, New Age, Ambient, Instrumental
Song:St. Valentine – Valentine’s Day Song
A blend of world and modern styles interwoven by spirituality.

Edgar Gabriel Stringfusion
http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2374
Genre: Jazz, Rock, Funk, World, Classical
Song:Would You Be My Valentine
Edgar Gabrielís StringFusion, an exciting new jazz ensemble from Chicago has many wonderful instrumentals on its latest CD “Not Radio Material”, however, there is a vocal gem, ìWould You Be My Valentineî sung by the sultry vocalist Maureeí. This groove tune written by Edgar to his wife Melissa for Valentineís Day is about two people taking a chance on love and asks the question: “Would You Be My Valentine, not just today but all the time”?

Omar Alexander & Soulare
http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2530
Genre: Rock, World, Latin
Song:Changes & Abandona El Amor
Omar Alexander is perfectly poised to serve up a tasty musical masala of next-generation Latin Soul (with a dash of jazz and a pinch of funk) that nourishes the body and soul. Some would say you have walked into an era where Latin Seal meets Gypsy Kings.

Phil Putnam
http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2529
Genre: SingerSongwriter, Pop, Rock
Song:A Goodnight Song & Paris
Grow. Thatís the goal. Thatís the momentum behind the life and music of Singer/Songwriter Phil Putnam. Grow. Learn. Listen more. Make more music, meet more people. Grow.

Miranda Vettrus
http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2515
Genre: Indie, Pop
Song:  I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Miranda Vettrus grew up in an amusement park, makes horror movies with her younger sister, Mariah and writes Go Go’s inspired songs at 3 in the morning. By the age of 5, Miranda had already jumped off a 100 foot crane thrill-ride dubbed the Sky-coaster dozens of times. She’s written dozens of songs and continues to grow her catalog by the day.

Planetary Nights
http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2534
Genre: Rock, Alternative, Blues
Song: Fly Away
The style is a combination of classic rock, from anthem rockers to acoustic ballads, and Delta blues delivered with a lyrical palate that captures a wide range of emotions.

“My Funny Valentine” by Sylvia Bennett
http://www.arielpublicity.net/clients/2495
Genre: Adult Contemporary, Big-band, Easy Listening, Jazz, Swing
Grammy nominated Sylvia Bennett, the timeless smooth jazz and pop vocalist sings of love with a warmth, clarity and spirit that is enveloping and tender, showcasing the depth of her skill, talent and experience. She’s sung with Lionel Hampton and she’s sung for presidents – all with a singular style and intimacy that is hers and hers alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KQgYHpnO30

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