Pyxix(R) Launches PyxTunes(TM) and WorldSong nline Music Contest…
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- Pyxix(R) Launches PyxTunes(TM) and WorldSong nline Music Contest…
- With donkey in tow Denison graduate taking long walk to southernmost…
- MNET Africa Music auditions come to Kenya
- Supergroove tops V8s music lineup
- Concerts n Demand: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
- RIGINAL GUITARIST BRINGS SPARK T HARD-RCKING BAND
Pyxix(R) Launches PyxTunes(TM) and WorldSong nline Music Contest…
PR Web – PR Web (press release) – Mar 1, 2008
Several additional prizes including Apple® iPod® Touch mobile digital devices will be awarded in drawings in the coming months. Artists are urged to submit their entries to the WorldSong online music competition as soon as possible in order to qualify for more prizes and to get more promotion and feedback from worldwide fans and peers. Artists can enter the online music competition in eleven broad music genres popular around the world encompassing acoustic music bluegrass music classical music country music electronic music folk music funk music hip-hop music indie music latin music music videos new music pop music punk music R&B music reggae music soul music Indian Desi music and world music. About the 2008 WorldSong nline Music Competition The WorldSong music contest is open to anyone in any country amateur or professional. Entries can be submitted to the 2008 WorldSong online music contest at.
With donkey in tow Denison graduate taking long walk to southernmost…
Columbus Dispatch – Mar 1, 2008
Assisting him is his donkeyJudas. They have stopped to rest for a few days in Colinas de San Lorenzo a slum in a dusty town onthe cattle-raising plains of northwestern Venezuela. n a recent Sunday morning reggae music blared from a house near the abandoned shack whereDunham has been sleeping on the floor. Barefoot children wandered up to his hovel. They giggled and stared at the 33-year-old Dunham –whose disheveled look evokes that of a graduate student for whom surfing or maybe foosball ranksas high art. “Are you an athlete” a child asked him “or a missionary?”"No” Dunham replied “I’m just a guy. Just a guy searching for the meaning of life.
MNET Africa Music auditions come to Kenya
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation – Mar 1, 2008
If they impress the judges they go to the next round and may find themselves in the Top Ten stage. Would-be entrants with an existing recording contract of any kind will not qualify. During the audition phase entrants can sing from a wide spectrum of music including traditional western English African pop Reggae R'n'B and Rock. If an entrant is selected for the Theatre Group and Top Ten phases they must be able to sing pop African and western music including English language songsCeltel Marketing Manager Billy Ndeche says the company believes in nurturing young talents in music to assist in developing their careers. The event organized by MNET in conjunction with Celtel seeks to tap musical talent from young people and to propel them to stardom.
Supergroove tops V8s music lineup
Waikato Times – Mar 1, 2008
Warwick Rasmussen reports. Fans of New Zealand music should be pretty happy with the line-up of Kiwi bands planned for the post-race V8 concerts in Hamilton in April. rganisers of the April 18-20 event have confirmed that 1990s funk-pop group Supergroove will headline the Saturday night's entertainment at Seddon Park and will be accompanied by rock band Pluto who have had hits with songs such as Long White Cross and Dance Stamina. n the Sunday night again at Seddon Park the lineup will include popular Whakatane reggae group Kora followed by Christchurch rock outfit The Feelers. The Feelers' set would be followed by a "massive pyrotechnics display" said Hamilton 400 promoter Dean Calvert. He said overseas bands were not looked at because he wanted to keep a "real Kiwi" feel to the event… Fans of New Zealand music should be pretty happy with the line-up of Kiwi bands planned for the post-race V8 concerts in Hamilton in April. rganisers of the April 18-20 event have confirmed that 1990s funk-pop group Supergroove will headline the Saturday night's entertainment at Seddon Park and will be accompanied by rock band Pluto who have had hits with songs such as Long White Cross and Dance Stamina. n the Sunday night again at Seddon Park the lineup will include popular Whakatane reggae group Kora followed by Christchurch rock outfit The Feelers. The Feelers' set would be followed by a "massive pyrotechnics display" said Hamilton 400 promoter Dean Calvert. He said overseas bands were not looked at because he wanted to keep a "real Kiwi" feel to the event. "These are some really good quality New Zealand bands and I think the V8 fans will be excited to see them. " Any Hamilton 400 ticket-holder can attend the concerts as part of their ticket price.
Concerts n Demand: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
cbc.ca – Mar 1, 2008
The group combine elements of West African music reggae rhythmic traditional folk and hip-hop. The results are earthy emotionally charged and indomitable. Diverse in age and character from Reuben M. Koroma the sage 42-year old songwriter and guiding light of the group to Black Nature an orphaned teenage rapper Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have a common bond in the loss and displacement caused by their homeland’s civil war and a shared belief in the transformative power of music.
RIGINAL GUITARIST BRINGS SPARK T HARD-RCKING BAND
MIX – Mar 1, 2008
(which stands for Payable on Death; it has some Christian subtext) burst out of their native San Diego Calif. hometown onto the national scene when their combination of rap metal and reggae-dub hit a vein with the 1999 release of The Fundamental Elements of Southtown. Fueled by the singles “Southtown” and “Rock the Party (ff the Hook)” the band’s major-label debut went Platinum. Their second major-label offering which was released on September 11 2001 pushed the band over the top with songs like “Alive” “Youth of the Nation” and “Boom. ” ver the years the quartet has polished its sound and found a combination of rock ‘n’ roll energy and hook-laden choruses that serves as an immediate sonic identifier. For their latest album When Angels & Serpents Dance (in stores April 
Baumgardner and the band — singer Sonny Sandoval drummer Wuv Bernardo bassist Traa Daniels and Curiel — found common ground and mutual respect before deciding to head into NRG Studios in North Hollywood… It turns out that Curiel had more than an album’s worth of material but Sandoval hadn’t come up with any lyrics. That’s nothing new for the singer though. “We’re the kind of band that writes the music and then I let the music lead where the lyrics are going to go” Sandoval says. “Then I go into the studio and just kind of put it down. I think I frustrated Jay a little bit because he was the first producer who ever wanted all of it at once. ”When they were still working on the two-month timeframe and there were no lyrics in sight Baumgardner brought in vocal coach and singer Mark Renk to help Sandoval. “We had all this great music and that puts you in a weird very hard situation when you have to write great lyrics and great melodies for 15 songs in two months” the producer reports.
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