Month: March 2013

Lil Wayne Set for Top Debut Next Week on Billboard 200 Chart

Lil Wayne should earn the highest debut on next week’s Billboard 200 chart, as the rapper’s new album, “I Am Not a Human Being II,” is on course to arrive at No. 2. Industry sources suggest the set could sell between 190,000 and 210,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on March 31….


Eventbrite Moves 100 Millionth Ticket

Eventbrite processed its 100 millionth ticket Wednesday, just 13 months after reaching the 50 million mark. Over 35 million of the company’s tickets and registrations came in 2012 alone. The San Francisco-based company also announced Wednesday that it has amassed cumulative gross ticket sales of $1.5 billion since its launch in 2006. One-third of those…


Rock Producer Bob Ezrin Talks About the Importance of Canada’s Arts Scene During Canadian Music Week Keynote

Bob Ezrin’s keynote conversation with interviewer Ralph Simon of ASCAP was filled with interesting tidbits about the late Jack Richardson, like giving “the kid” the little-known band Alice Cooper to produce in 1970, to his current productions with everyone from Deep Purple to Johnny Reid and Lang Lang. He didn’t need any props to entertain…


Def Jam President, Joie Manda Resigns

Joie Manda, has literally been the man behind the music for Def Jam Records.  If you didn’t know, he’s the first Def Jam president since Jay-Z dating back to just over a year ago.  Manda will not be leaving the music industry, but due to personal reasons will be relocating to Los Angeles and will…


Mom+Pop Names Robbie Mackey New Head of Marketing, Announces Sub Service, New Imprint

Robbie Mackey, former head of The Orchard’s interactive marketing department and alum of Mom+Pop’s digital department, has been named as Mom+Pop’s new head of marketing, it was announced today. The Brooklyn-based label is home to artists like Sleigh Bells, Polica, Metric, Andrew Bird, and more. “Over the past few months we’ve been looking at the…


Michael Cohl, Former Live Nation Chairmain, on ‘Spider-Man’ in Vegas, ‘Ghostbusters’ and More

Michael Cohl, the former chairman of Live Nation and current founder of S2BN Entertainment, a diversified, international family show and event entertainment company, was a celebrity interview during Canadian Music Week, where in addition to looking at the past, he mentioned what his plans were for the future. (CMW) It’s all about family entertainment now…


Sonic TALK 306 – TV Mania

A prerecorded interview with Mark Tinley and Anthony J Resta – both of whom worked on the recently released TV Mania album Bored of Prozac and the Internet?  An album originally recorded by Nick Rhodes and Warren Cucarullo in 1995 then lost in storage until quite recently.


Bill Bain: Web Design and Development at Full Sail and Beyond

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org – Bill Bain, Program Director of Web Design and Development at Full Sail University, covers a broad range of topics related to web design and development, explaining how the internet has evolved over more than a decade, and how those changes have affected both the degree programs at Full Sail…


Mac Miller & The Most Dope Family Ep. 5


BBC Radio 1 Charts

Well, loves, it’s time for another jolly fascinating look at the BBC Radio 1 charts. You’ll recall we don’t say “added” or “upped” but rather “playlisted” and “rotation increase,” because that’s the way Her Majesty demands it. And now, without further ado: PLAYLISTED AlunaGeorge, “Attracting Flies” (Universal-Island) Don Broco, “Whole Truth” (Search and Destroy) Foals,…