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New York, NY (March 27, 2023)—Auto-Bounce by Tom Salta is a new application for Logic Pro users that automates processing stems, multi-tracks and mixes. Within Auto-Bounce, which runs alongside Logic Pro, users can choose any combination of tracks, folder stacks, and summing stacks to bounce. They can bounce out different cycle ranges, mute AUX channels for running “dry” stems/mixes, and bypass FX plugins on the Master Out channel. Entire job sets of bounces can also be saved for easy recall.

Live this morning, an unusual two-instrument recital: Miriam Kessler from Midwest Young Artists Conservatory is an accomplished performer on two different instruments. She brings harp music by Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith, and Carlos Salzedo; piano music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and William Grant Still; and her own composition, Op. 55. An...

AS PICTURED (L-R): HUNTER PHELPS, ANDY ALBERT, DUSTIN LYNCH. MACKENZIE PORTER, WILL WEATHERLY / PHOTO CREDIT: ERIKA ROCK. Nearly one year after making history with PLATINUM, six-week #1 collaboration “Thinking ‘Bout You (feat. MacKenzie Porter),” Broken Bow Records MULTI-PLATINUM star Dustin Lynch toasted the record-smashing single among key industry tastemakers, friends, and family. Hosted at curling and bowling bar-restaurant Tee Line in Nashville, TN, yesterday (3/21), BMI, ASCAP, BMG, Tape Room Music, Warner Chappell Music, Concord, Studio Bank, and Broken Bow Records honored BMI writer Lynch and Porter, alongside Lynch’s fellow writers Andy Albert, Hunter Phelps, and Will Weatherly. The celebrations were extra special for Porter, as “Thinking ‘Bout You” notched her first U.S. #1.

Auckland & Melbourne-based actor Kelvin Taylor has the jazz, swagger and presentation of an electro-pop artist from Sweden. Born on the Middle East coast of Virginia, he’s been surrounded by musical legends all his life. His mother Rhonda Walker and three uncles living next door to Teddy Riley in Harlem New York. Teddy would later scout Kelvin as a DJ to accompany the R&B troupe Blackstreet of “No Diggity” fam for their comeback tour. However for evangelical reasons, his uncle and music manager Mark Walker intervened. Undeterred, music and performing arts still became inescapable. This is the story of a Breakdancer turned actor and how the music industry never seems to escape him even while in Aotearoa.

ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers today released the results of its biennial election for the Board of Directors. ASCAP President and Chairman of the Board Paul Williams announced the 12 writer and 12 publisher members elected to serve on the Board for a two-year term beginning April 1, 2023.

SXSW is well known for bringing in artists from all around the world. This year, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, also known as ASCAP, partnered with SXSW to bring together musicians in order to partake in a song camp. ASCAP is the only US performance rights organization that operates as a not-for-profit and aimed to support emerging music creators.

The 82-year-old Omaha, Nebraska-born actor and songwriter Paul Williams has led many creative lives. The artist started out as an actor, working on films like Smokey and the Bandit, but he’s much better known today as a musician and songwriter, having written tunes for artists like Frank Sinatra and Barbara Streisand.

Singer and songwriter Beth Nielsen-Chapman will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 24, at Unitarian Church North in Mequon. Tickets for the concert, part of the Wisconsin Singer/Songwriter Series, are $25 in advance, $29 at the door and $12 for students. A discount of $1 per food item...

Missoula, MT (KGVO-AM News) - Since the inception of commercial radio, broadcasters have always paid royalties to organizations like ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Artists, and Musicians), BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated), and SESAC (Society of European Stage Authors and Composers) to compensate the composers of the songs we enjoy on the radio.

The Hope College Great Performance Series will conclude its 2022-23 season with the Camille Thurman Quintet, a rising jazz star, on Friday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the Knickerbocker Theatre. The New York Times has said, “You're hard pressed to find rising talents more exciting than Camille Thurman whose...

One of the most important skills organisations must learn is how to continue operating successfully through challenging times. Particularly during COVID, so many businesses had to figure out how to maintain their competitiveness. One such example of a sector that had to fundamentally adjust its offerings in order to remain profitable and competitive is the restaurant sector. However the restaurant business still faces a number of difficulties after COVID.

Young Concert Artists has announced that Alistair Coleman has been named as their 2023 Composer-in-Residence. His thee-year management contract comes with a $18k award for three YCA commissions to be written over the course of his residency. Selected from a pool of 150 applicants, Coleman is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree at the Curtis Institute of Music. He is the winner of two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the 2020 Brian Israel Prize from the Society for New Music, and awards from the American Composers Forum, NPR’s “From the Top,” and the National YoungArts Foundation.

The fast rise of AI technology has opened up a world of brain-busting questions about copyright and creators’ rights — for example, if David Guetta drops a song with a ChatGPT-generated verse from a fake Eminem, who gets paid? — and it’s safe to say them music industry is alarmed by this universe of new challenges.U.S. Recorded Music Revenue Scores All-Time High of $15.9 Billion in 2022, Per RIAA Report A new coalition to meet those challenges called the Human Artistry Campaign was announced at the South by Southwest conference on Thursday, with support from more than 40 organizations, including the...

Missoula, MT (KGVO-AM News) - Since the inception of commercial radio, broadcasters have always paid royalties to organizations like ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Artists, and Musicians), BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated), and SESAC (Society of European Stage Authors and Composers) to compensate the composers of the songs we enjoy on the radio.