INDIE NEWS BEAT October 18, 2007 Edition

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* What Is Music For Coffee Beings?
* Young At Heart Chorus Release DVD
* Get Your Music Videos On Broadcast TV
* Rick Denzien 2007 New Music Awards Nominee
* Lindsay D'arcy: Never Came!!
* Cathedral New Album - "The Bridge"
* Neall Alcott's Debut CD, Rittenhouse Square
* Closing Report With New FiguresPopkomm 2007

What Is Music For Coffee Beings?

MUSIC FOR COFFEE BEINGS is a compilation CD put together by Magic Puddle Productions, featuring Canadian and American independent artists. It is currently going out to coffee shops across Canada.

This is a groundbreaking initiative aimed at getting original music heard by customers in coffee shops across Canada. Magic Puddle's Pam Southwell has contacted 1,000 coffee shops across the country to ensure they played CDs or upload songs onto their iPods etc for their customers listening enjoyment.

Once this list was completed, Magic Puddle then sent out 1,000 FREE Music For Coffee Beings CDs to the 1,000 coffee shops along with 20,000 full colour brochures with info on the participating artists, links to their website etc. The goal is to get airplay to a wide demographic of the Canadian public. The Music For Coffee Beings CD is not for sale, but purely for the promotion of the participating artists through cafe airplay. The artists on this CD are truly exceptional.

This is Volume 1 of MUSIC FOR COFFEE BEINGS and future Volumes will be released every 6-8 weeks. This means new releases from up and coming artists can be promoted via this compilation series. Each track will be available for online listening at http://www.musicforcoffeebeings.com, along with artist info and links to the artists websites

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Young At Heart Chorus Release DVD

The Young At Heart Chorus and The Drunk Stuntmen long awaited "Back To Back" DVD is finally available to the public. The DVD documents the historic performance of the two bands from 2004 at the Academy of Music in Northampton, MA. "Back to Back" will officially be released on Saturday, October 27th at Drunk Stuntmen's 15th annual Halloween Party at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA. Showtime is 10 PM.

The DVD will also be available at the upcoming Young at Heart Chorus Shows when they perform at the Ulster Bank Dublin Theater Festival October 10th through the 14th.

For a sneak peek of the DVD click on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G0DyYpuxtM

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Get Your Music Videos On Broadcast TV

Who We Are: Canadian Music TV is a new service for indie bands and artists to gain further exposure to their music via traditional television AND the World Wide Web. By creating a synergy between the television program and the website, we endeavour to maximize your exposure to potential customers of your music. We too are 100% independent.

Our Goal is:
* To deliver to a specific niche marketplace the means to increase awareness of your music
* To increase revenue streams for you via downloads of your music video and or merchandise from our website and yours
* To increase viewer, listener and surfer loyalty and to foster incredible relationships within a targeted demographic
* To showcase you, because really folks, IT"S ALL ABOUT YOU!

Canadian Music TV airs late every Friday night/early Saturday morning (2AM) onvShop TV and is carried by three cable companies in the Greater Toronto area and south central Ontario reaching out to 1.5 million homes.

If your submitted video is selected to go to air it will play in rotation as our season develops and as other TV markets become available to us. Your video is always available online to be viewed, downloaded freely and for purchase on our site. We also upload your video to other video sharing sites for full viral marketing opportunities.

Your on air video also contains a 2 x 15 second banner ads created by you for your band as your performance plays. You also get a link on our site to your site (e-mail address if you do not have website).

Artist that submit their original music video are entitled to receive 60% of the net download revenue based on number of paid downloads and to be paid quarterly and paid out on accounts with more than $25.00 in downloads.

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Rick Denzien 2007 New Music Awards Nominee

Recording artist Rick Denzien has been nominated in two categories for the 2007 New Music Awards, including CROSSOVER ARTIST OF THE YEAR and AC/Hot AC Breakthrough Artist, announced Slot One Entertainment, Inc.

New Music Weekly magazine, sponsor of the New Music Awards, has announced 2007 nominees for the prestigious awards, including Fergie, Pink, Maroon Five, Elliott Yamin, Amy Winehouse, Daughtry and Bon Jovi among the pop nominees, while Country nominees include the likes of Taylor Swift, Tracy Lawrence, Tim McGraw and Montgomery Gentry. Categories also include Independent, College, and Top 40. The New Music Awards ceremony takes place on November 10th, 2007 at the Avalon Theater in Hollywood, California.

Philadelphia-based artist Rick Denzien (www.RickDenzien.com) has been nominated for the success of his single release entitled Tsai (pronounced Sigh) which broke into the TOP 10 on the New Music Weekly Hot AC Charts. Denzien is nominated in two categories, CROSSOVER ARTIST OF THE YEAR and AC/Hot AC BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST. The public can vote for New Music Award nominees at: http://www.newmusicweekly.com/nmwawards.php?d=y

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Lindsay D'arcy: Never Came!!

After some 9 months on myspace, Lindsay d'arcy has begun to be heard.

+ 30 k plays, #1 in the Czech republic's myspace charts in indie, folk and pop, and pre orders for his debut EP indicate a new British songwriter breaking the mould of Jame Bluntesque artist's - Lindsay D'arcy delivers something deep, sincere and fresh.. that's why he was voted 'diamond in the rough' of myspace by leading A&R.

Now, with a #1 USA producer approaching him, we expect a very special debut EP indeed. This producer has worked with Sufjan Stevens, Urge Overkill and many more as well as being a Rolling Stone 'producer of the year'!!

The EP is scheduled for release in November 2007.

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Cathedral New Album - "The Bridge"

"The Bridge" has been built. The big symphonic sound, the Mellotron, bass pedals, classical guitar, and dramatic themes have been carried over. Three years of experimentation and rehearsal have gone by, more than a year of recording, editing and mixing. Finally "The Bridge" is ready for the public. The classical precepts of progressive music were never far from our mind. The new work pays tribute to it's roots but is also a "bridge " to the Cathedral of the future. We literally had to rediscover our chemistry after thirty years of life experience and new technology. It has been a very challenging journey.

In 1978 "Stained Glass Stories" was recorded above the Palace Theater in the then wild and notorious Times Square of Manhattan. We had a week to do it. The modern Cathedral chose a more serene setting and pace. We spent much of 2006/7 at Ian London studios close to home on the South Shore of Long Island. Deer grazed on the back lawn but inside we were co-producing in the same passionate, intense way that we write our music. Our long time colleague and proprietor of Paris Recording, Brian Unger was brought in to engineer.

The future is now before us. We've already returned to writing, eager to put to use new ideas that have catalyzed from the process of last year.The chemistry is there, new compounds are forming, formulas evolving. Cathedral moves forward.

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Neall Alcott's Debut CD, Rittenhouse Square

Rittenhouse Square is the debut, self-released CD from singer/songwriter Neall Alcott. Neall is an indie songwriter from New Jersey who took almost 10 years off from the music industry while concentrating on his family life and career.

An IT (Information Technology) executive during the day, Neall was pleasantly surprised by the convergence of his two favorite pastimes: music and technology, in particular the Internet. This spurred Neall to get the guitars out of storage and to start writing and performing again.

Asked how he thinks the Internet has changed the music industry, Neall says "It has really given individuals like me an outlet to express themselves. 10 years ago, I would have had to be discovered by a record company, sign a contract that may or may not have benefited me, and then, if the stars aligned, been able to release a CD. With today's technology, I can record a professional sounding album in my home, use independent CD manufacturers, and independent distributors like CDBaby to get my music out into the marketplace Â all without a record company. If others discover and enjoy my music too, then that's great."

Rittenhouse Square is a collection of 12 songs recorded between Jan. 2007 and June 2007. The songs are in the pop rock realm, with different influences (Beatles, XTC, Lindsey Buckingham, Squeeze, Michael Penn, U2, and others) that are blended together. The songs are actually a diverse collection, with styles ranging from acoustic/electric pop rock to folk rock to modern rock.

When asked whether this collection of songs were too diverse for today's audiences, Neall says "At first I got concerned that the album was too diverse, but I always enjoyed diverse albums like the Beatles' White Album, so I figured why not? My approach with the CD was to write and record songs that I would enjoy. So hopefully that explains the different styles and feels to the songs."

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Closing Report With New FiguresPopkomm 2007: More Business And More Music

The 2007 Popkomm recorded increases in all its main areas: The 886 exhibitors from 57 countries represent an eight per cent increase over the previous year. There were also more trade visitors, 15.420 in all. The events taking place at the Popkomm Music Festival drew even greater crowds.

During the first three days the showcases and concerts attracted 82,000 visitors, 11,000 more than last year. This figure will be substantially increased by the attendance at the first Popkomm DJ Night, 22/23 September.Dr. Ralf Kleinhenz, General Manager of Popkomm GmbH: "The halls were buzzing with business, and there has been a great response to the conference panels. The quality of the showcases at the festival clubs attracted a great deal of praise. We are very satisfied with the results of Popkomm 2007." More international than ever before Among exhibitors and trade visitors alike Popkomm 2007 was more international than ever before. Turkey and Iceland were represented for the first time at this event in Berlin. Attendance from Eastern European countries such as the Ukraine, Poland and Romania was higher than in previous years. "Initiative Musik" launched at Popkomm

The partner country at this year's Popkomm, Germany, launched the "Initiative Musik" during the event to promote rock, pop and jazz. Federal funding totalling one million euros annually has been earmarked to assist newcomers to the music business, and to boost music exports and integration. The growing interest among politicians regarding the problems and challenges of the creative sector was demonstrated by the presence of a number of federal ministers, Michael Glos (Economics), Peer SteinbrÃ¼ck (Finance) and Brigitte Zypries (Justice), as well as the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and Berlin's Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit.

In the exhibition sector concert promoters, festival organisers, ticket outlets and other service providers in this field staged their displays in a Live Entertainment Area in the exhibition halls for the first time. The special exhibition areas such as the Label Camp and the Classic Lounge in Hall 21 were also well attended. Satisfied exhibitors from home and abroad Mario Rossori, music manager and stand coordinator for Austria: "There was even more going on at this year's Popkomm than there was last year. This trade show is essential for us and of course we will be back again in Berlin in 2008.

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