Thursday, September 13, 2012

iTunes Introduces Artist Images for Artists and their Music



iTunes has just announced that photos for artists and their music can now be added to the iTunes Store for customers to enjoy. To enhance the browsing and shopping experience, these photos will appear throughout the iTunes Store wherever artists and their music are shown, as well as in customers’ iTunes library for the artists music that they own.

You'll be able to have one photo to represent your artist, and an unlimited number of gallery photos. Gallery photos can be grouped by time period, theme, photo shoot, awards shows, or any other criteria. You can also provide headers for your galleries—which can be localized—to show where the gallery photos were taken, the copyright information, and more. 

Artists names will need to be claimed via your iTunes Delivery Person and/or through your own iTunes Connect account where users can be assigned to manage and upload your artist photos.

For more information on how Digital Music Marketing can help you with Artist Images on iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Google Play and more, please email info@digitalmusicmarketing.com.




Friday, August 24, 2012

Pato Banton has a Big Week, Joe Rathbone and The Mercy Alliance release 5th album and Scrapomatic burns up the Blues charts with "I'm A Stranger (And I Love The Night)

 Pato Banton

August 21st is a big week for Pato Banton who releases "New Day Dawning"”, the last in a series of compilation albums.  "New Day Dawning" features new and previously unreleased recordings during the Reggae Revolution Era, as well as some earlier releases from Pato's favorite catalog of songs that are relevant to today's times.  Guest artists featured on this album are: STING, Fuzzy Logic, Amlak Tafari, Martin Phillips, Yaz Alexander, Big Every Time, Ray Beshara (RIP), The Reggae Revolution and Selwyn Brown of Steel Pulse. 



 
In addition to all of this, Pato releases  "The Words Of Christ" (7 Disc Box Set), a specially priced iTunes exclusive $24.99 (including a digital only bonus track).   The box set is the culmination of a 7 year, 4 disc project,  whose lyrics are the words of Jesus as they appear in the Urantia Book, set over newly created musical compositions from Pato.

ITunes "Words Of Christ" 7cd Box Set $24.99 
Joe Rathbone & The Mercy Alliance
Joe Rathbone is proud to announce the release of his fifth record entitled "Waking Up the Sun", featuring his new group The Mercy Alliance.  Waking Up the Sun includes inspired guitar work by the late Steve Bishop, who worked with the legendary Ronnie Montrose, drumming by ex Counting Crow Steve Bowman , lyrical bass from John Kessler who started his career as a member of the original Mountain Stage band and some elegant string work from producer David Henry ( David Mead Guster, Josh Rouse, Kelly Joe Phelps, Jars of Clay.
The 8 tracks range from broad open rockers like the title track : Waking Up the Sun to brooding ballads, introspective jaunts and a poignant farewell to guitarist Bishop entitled Wave. Rathbone provides raw vocals and gritty guitar playing and some colorful keyboard on all the tracks while Deanna Murray delivers some thrilling harmony singing often weaving in and out of the lead vocal. Waking Up the Sun deals with the concept of how we face loss and alienation while recognizing and accepting the incredible good fortune the world can bring.  There are gorgeous string flourishes, ecstatic feedback, watery volume swells, delirious drum loops and ethereal harmonies that resonate throughout this record and let the listener in on the heart of the matter 

ITunes Joe Rathbone & The Mercy Alliance , Waking Up The Sun$7.92 

Scrapomatic

I'm A Stranger (And I Love The Night) 

Critically acclaimed eclectic/roots music outfit Scrapomatic release I’M A STRANGER (AND I LOVE THE NIGHT) you can STREAM THE ALBUM IN FULL over at AOL MUSIC.  Last week, RELIX premiered a FREE DOWNLOAD of "Night Trains, Distant Whistles."  Grab the track here.


I'm A Stranger (And I Love The Night) continues the band’s distinctive forays through an intoxicating variety of American musical styles.  The album is a Featured New Release over at Amazon and you can pick up a copy on sale pricing in both physical and digital formats.



Led by Mike Mattison, who also sings and writes songs for the Grammy Award winning Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Paul Olsen, an in-demand New York musical director credited with two ASCAP songwriting awards, Scrapomatic meshes distinctly different approaches into a compelling amalgam of roots, & and homegrown soul-folk.



Mattison will pull double duty in September as Scrapomatic has added a few shows opening for TTB.  A full list of tour dates can be found below


Mike Mattison won a Grammy as lead singer with The Derek Trucks Band for 2009's Best Blues Album, Already Free.  In 2010, The Derek Trucks Band announced a hiatus, and Mattison joined the new group, Tedeschi Trucks Band, as a backing vocalist and songwriter.  He won another Grammy with TTB for 2011's Best Blues Album, Revelator. His compositions, “Bound for Glory” and "Midnight in Harlem," received significant airplay and the latter was featured in the band’s performance for the DVD of Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010.


With ‘ STRANGER,’ Scrapomatic added a new permanent band member, Alabama-bred, multi faceted guitarist, Dave Yoke, while again featuring the crack Atlanta rhythm unit of Ted Pecchio (bass) and Tyler Greenwell (drums).   Marked by a wide range of forceful original material laced with poignancy, irony, and dark humor, the new album showcases each man’s ample singing and songwriting talents most sublimely.  Mattison (vocals) and Olsen (guitar, vocals) penned all 12 tracks, which were recorded in January 2012 at Swamp Raga Studios, Jacksonville, FL.


Produced by Mattison, with mixing and mastering from veteran Atlanta engineer Rodney Mills, I’M A STRANGER (AND I LOVE THE NIGHT) is solid evidence that this close knit, ongoing partnership continues to bring forth an impressive outlay of great music.


Scrapomatic Tour Dates
Tues, Sept 25 – Roanoke, VA – Shaftman Performance Hall at Jefferson Center w/ TTB
Thurs, Sept 27 – Portland, ME – State Theatre w/ TTB

Fri, Sept 28 – Waterbury, CT – The Palace Theater  w/ TTB

Scrapomatic is #2 right now on Amazon.com Hot New Releases - Blues, and a New and Notable Blues pick for the month of August.

 iTunes - New & Noteworthy,  #4 iTunes Blues Chart.  
Puretracks (Canada) is Featuring “Night Trains, Distant Whistles” as a Free Download this week.

AOL MUSIC LISTENING PARTY 
FREE DOWNLOAD AT RELIX 


Saturday, June 23, 2012

Ian McGlynn's "Gold Morning Mend" - eMusic Daily Download

McGlynn ratchets up the heartfelt keyboard pop and balladry of his earlier albums for a dense jolt of art-pop grandeur on his new album Now We're Golden.  Co-written with creative partner Chris Newkirk and produced by Ken Stringfellow (R.E.M., Posies), McGlynn heads straight for soaring choruses and punchy, theatrical tunecraft on songs like wall-of-sound single, "Gold Morning Mend". Download the track today at eMusic and watch the Rumpelstiltskin-inspired video for "Gold Morning Mend" below...


Tuesday, March 13, 2012

VEVO Expands Territories


VEVO has announced they will be launching service in the following new territories 

AU
AUSTRALIA
AU
AU
CHRISTMAS ISLAND
CX
AU
INDONESIA
ID
AU
NEW CALEDONIA
NC
AU
NEW ZEALAND
NZ
AU
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
PG
AU
SOLOMON ISLANDS
SB
AU
VANUATU
VU



BR
BRAZIL
BR



FR
FRANCE
FR
FR
FRENCH GUIANA
GF
FR
FRENCH POLYNESIA
PF
FR
GUADELOUPE
GP
FR
MARTINIQUE
MQ
FR
MAYOTTE
YT
FR
REUNION
RE
FR
SAINT BARTHELEMY
BL
FR
SAINT MARTIN (FRENCH PART)
MF
FR
SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON
PM
FR
WALLIS AND FUTUNA
WF