... and honour achievements of Canadian and international artists in the independent music sector. Submissions are being accepted through The Indie Awards ... .indies.ca. An initiative of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & the Arts (CAAMA), the awards are limited to ... Royal York Hotel in Toronto as part of Canadian Music Week. Tickets for The Indies may be purchased on the Indie ...

... events planned around the world. Mumbai will host the fifth Un-Convention music conference and the first of its kind in India, on November 21 and ... (NewMusic Strategies), Jez Collins (Birmingham Music Archive), John Sullivan (Source Productions), ... Records, Un-Convention and TourCore) will be coming together to look to the future of independent music, understand how it functions, discuss, debate; ...

Coco O’Connor, International recording artist and new age ambient vocalist acknowledged today her support of the evolution of Independent music in recent years, after her award nomination for “new age ambient” song at The Hollywood Music In Media Awards being held November 19, 2009 in Hollywood, California. (PRWeb Nov 13, 2009) Read the full story at

... meaning to post this email and photo I got a little while back. Brandon rocked one of our Independent Music/Craft Beer T-shirts at the Annual Chesapeake Real Ale Fest and got a lot of compliments. You can just tell from the ... too. I hope you get a lot of orders shipping east. Good Music and Good Beer, - Brandon One more thing Brandon, tell Clipper City to ...

... King, Jr. holiday weekend will be treated to the inaugural Orion Independent Music Festival, taking place the week leading up the famed Sundance Film Festival. The Festival will provide exposure to unsigned music acts in a similar way Sundance does for filmmakers. Artists will perform in ... venues throughout the town's historic Main Street. Music genres will include rock, pop, jazz, R&B, ...

The Curtis Brothers Quartet is purely independent and is creating an exciting buzz in the Latin Jazz world. The Curtis Brothers have also been nominated for the Best Latin Jazz Album in 2009 by Latin Jazz Corner! Please visit: Latin Jazz Corner Best of 2009 and cast your vote! We couldn’t do this without you and your

... Go On, I'll Go On due out November 17th! Eat the Weeds (Issue #4) - Indie /Acoustic / Pop - British Columbia, Canada Previously described as "modern acousti-pop with world music influences", Eat the Weeds has a new album out soon, Open Loop Design, from which you can hear two tracks: "Someone Else Made Your Parts" (dramatic and soundtrack-esque) and "Little Cloud" ...

... ;> Venues in bold indicate Inland Fun! <— —–Wed, Dec 02—– — Royal Crown Revue @ The Mint — J. Tillman (Fleet Foxes), Pearly Gates Music @ The Troubadour — The Chapin Sisters @ The Hotel Cafe, Hollywood??? —–Thu, Dec 03—– — Jim White @ Largo — Mt St Helen’s Vietnam Band, Dirt Dress, Spirit Vine, ...

... & nominees to new audiences and revenue opportunities. The Independent Music Awards Benefits Include: All winners & ... Post, Associated Press, etc.), Tommy Merrill (The Rockwood Music Hall), Celina Denkins (Whiskey a Go-Go), and many more influential artists ... Band Publicity Photography, Best Concert photography, and more. New music categories for this 9th annual program include: Love ...

Congrats too all the nominees for this years Independent Music Awards. Some shining stars: Emma Lee (Best Jazz Song; Best Love song) Hui ward (I am reviewing her now) for Best New Age Song Brooke Waggonner (Best Album Folk/Singer Songwriter) Vienna Teng (Best Album Folk/Singer Songwriter) There may be others, but their website is ...

... launched in the US last year, I blogged about the outrage felt by many independent labels. Charles Caldas, the head of Merlin, ... expressed dismay that a site which had built its reputation on independent music would launch without having indie labels on board ... bought by News Corps the site has lost its former independent status. From what I can tell, there is now a concerted effort to regain its image ...

... a big fan of awareness campaigns to kick off any marketing or promotions for independent music. Why? Because they are pretty cheap, they create a lot of good buzz, and ... your EPK (Electronic Press Kit) to all the contacts they have in their database for your given genre of music. That is all they do. They are not publicists, they do not actively work your project to their contacts, and they follow ...

... , creating one of the largest independent music offerings on the web. The two sides said in a joint statement that a new deal would ... 8220;participate in and benefit from the financial growth of MySpace Music”. The agreement is to be announced formally on Monday. ... be eligible to make money from their content on MySpace Music and that a Merlin nominee had been invited to attend and participate ...

... #3 -- Indie Problematics Self-published authors often try to claim that because independent music took off, so too must independent writers. The problem is that a lot of the times, these same ... as a self-published form. After all, a consumer can listen to samples of music and spend only a few minutes of their day doing so; they cannot do the same with books. What all of these points come to is ...

... with the statement that "Your kind is not welcome here", and I would be cast out of the independent music scene to languish in the Kmart electronics section buying teen pop and soft rock for the ... represent the familial bliss that is supposed to accompany Thanksgiving. I think I would like their music more on a lazy summer day, or on a meandering roadtrip. This week, ...