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Bella Nae Takes 2013 by Storm

2013 has been a great year for emerging pop and R&B artist Bella Nae. She’s been touring with rapper Machine Gun Kelly (Interscope/Bad Boy), released her debut EP H.I.G.H. XOXO, and dropped her newest single, "AB FABB”. Music’s available for digital download on iTunes. Check out one her of trending videos at AllHipHop.com. Follow @TheRealBellaNae for all the latest updates on live appearances and reviews.

Eating Myself Crazy Book Launch

Author Treena Wynes recently celebrated the release of her book Eating Myself Crazy, a guide that empowers readers to overcome emotional eating. In support of the book, Wynes has made numerous in-store appearances and was the special guest speaker at the National Institute for Eating Disorders symposium in Toronto. Eating Myself Crazy is published by Indie Ink Publishing and is now available in bookstores nationwide.

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Posts By Nelson, co-CEO

Sequestration, Record Store Day and Ides of March — it’s connected.

February 28, 2013
Nelson, co-CEO
· Industry News

So everyone is counting down the days to Sequestration and if your not one of them it’s Tomorrow March 1st. And while many of focused on the impact on the Government and it’s services, there is starting to be a realization that without our Government fully functioning that business in the US are going to have a hard time of this too.

So, stories like this one really got me thinking about what’s the potential impact for our industry.

Automatic federal spending cuts could shut down two out of three security checkpoints at Memphis International Airport and close air traffic control towers at airports in Millington; Olive Branch; Jackson, Tenn.; and Tupelo, Miss. airports.Read here/

Considering come the middle of this month, hence Ides of March, record labels, manufacturing plants and music stores across the country could find themselves in the position of having some tasty vinyl for this now important day, April 20th, and not being able to get it to stores and the fans that will be lining up as they have over the last 4 years. Why is that, Well right now flying across the country and world for that matter are the bits and pieces that make up a record, or any other product for that matter and any delays in shipping of parts and peices will have serious impact on the deliver date of end products.

Come on think about it…..Every single business or services that depends up interstate shipments will be impacted.

There’s not a contingency plan for not having records available for Record Store Day and without airports operating at full function companies like UPS and FexEx will not be able to ship and we’ll not have the full sales potential of that day and others as well. It’s estimated that last years RSD12 had 4 million dollars worth of wholesale activity associated with this one shopping day. Let’s make no mistake about this without Record Store Day US retail sales number will drop in April and the damage to the small companies that have prospered via RSD will be huge on our industry and any other that requires shipments by air ground or sea.

I’m sure law makers when coming up with this plan didn’t think about the Mom & Pop Record Shop, wholesalers, labels and bands, that will be impacted, however, I’m pretty sure that only a very few public officials every stop to think about US MADE MUSIC and it’s role in our economy and it’s something that should have been avoided.

BTW I had to post this in a hurry and I’m thankful for those that pointed out a couple of issues. The point is important so any feed back to make this particular example more poignant are welcome.

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Music Stores are still part of our Montgomery County and we’ll be at one Sat the 23rd to prove it.

February 20, 2013
Nelson, co-CEO
· Artists · Company News · Industry News · Live Music and Events · Music · Physical Media

I know that in 2013 that most of the people reading this will have assumed that every single store that sells music has relocated to the internetwork and boarded up their physical locations. However! we take great pleasure in saying that it just ain’t so. Altavoz a, Montgomery County based business has been for the last two years building up a presence distributing entertainment products espcially in the physical retail marketplace; And, we are now getting a chance to bring one of our biggest recording stars to the area for an old fashion in person CD signing.

Now in true Altavoz fashion we’re not just inviting Dawn’s fans to this event we’er asking members of Montgomery County Counsel and Office of Economic Development, as well as Maryland officials to come by and see for themselves the power of music. Since this is our industry we already know why we’re involved and it seems that we’re not alone in thinking that music is more then a service that appears in the background of daily life for FREE. Just look at what the City of Seattle and King County, WA. have recently embarked upon. ” A new plan to raise awareness of the economic impact of music, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce announced its plan last night at the Triple Door to propel Seattle’s music community and industry to the forefront of a rapidly expanding creative economy.” http://www.bit.ly/seattlemusicpro

Why did Seattle do this. Well it might be the 2.2 billion dollars in revenue that Music brings in or the 20 thousand jobs, or the fact that recorded music is a market that the USA developed and it’s part of our culture and fabric, Who’ knows what really got them interested, and who cares. We’re just happy that someone in GOV has a clue as to the impact on USMADEMUSIC in their community and around the world and we look forward to seeing what our local Gov can and will do going forward.

Here’s the detail of the FYE instore

Saturday Feb 23rd 2013

f.y.e. Lakeforest Mall –

701 Russell Ave., Gaithersburg, MD

2-4 pm.

Starting at 10am on Saturday, February 23, be one of the first 120 fans to purchase Dawn Richard’s new CD, Goldenheart, at the Lakeforest Mall f.y.e. store and you’ll receive a wristband that gains you access to the autograph signing at 2pm!Ask an f.y.e. employee for details!

Follow these twitter feeds for live updates and instore pictures.

twitter.com/DawnRichard

twitter.com/fyeguy

twitter.com/LakeForestMall

twitter.com/AltavozDistroCo

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I always heard that many recording artists have always requested a vinyl master and these acts of rebellion against the digitalonlies and of course all the house DJ keep vinyl on life support and allowed it the chance to come an important part of of the music landscape once again.

We've had music longer than any other form of communication, in fact at the San Francisco Music Tech Summit Bryan Kim was quoted as saying "Music has been with us longer than writing, agriculture and civilization." - and he put up a side showing music being 40 thousand years old and agricultural civilization being only 10 thousand and writing not showing up until about 6 thousand years ago.

While I may only quival about the dawn of civilization, due to being an Sumerian, I do have a issue with the age of music. I would suspect that some of the songbirds or now extinct animal was giving out singing lessons for million of years before we came to release what music even was, which I'm still working on figuring out what is music or not. Thus, this leads me to believe that music is much more ingrained in ourselves, dna and civilization than most realize and thus this subject is really more complicated than most are aware or even care to realize.

I haven't seen one movie or read a book that ever mentioned life without music nor could I and everyone else for that matter.

Now don't think I'm some kind of digital hater, please note that I've been trying to stream music online since 1994ish on a jouney that started with me to putting up Altavoz.com as one of the 1st 50 thousand domains in the world;.Streaming a concert called Marsday.com from Washington, DC (Big Organge Pop, Live Alien Broadcast and the Loose Nuts).in 1999; and launching three of the first steams for WindowsMedia.com.

"The company hosted its first Mars Day for “alien” — or non-mainstream bands — on Aug. 16, 1999, which was broadcast over the Internet."

Now, way back In 2008 Nielsen had vinyl at .08 with 2008, 1.88 million vinyl albums were purchased, and now some mere four years later the consumer has driven this number up to close to 2.8 million units sold in 2011 and reports I've see say 2012 is up 16% from this same time last year. I'm also pretty sure we're really not getting the full picture sure since many stores that sell vinyl don't SoundScan and many of the releases don't have a UPC code. Nonetheless vinyl is selling just as well as digital and digital is all the MSM seems to be covering.

So why is vinyl selling. I always heard that many recording artists have always requested a vinyl master and these acts of rebellion against the digitalonlies and of course all the house DJ keep vinyl on life support and allowed it the chance to come an important part of of the music landscape once again. So for many it's a remembrance of a different time in their lives when they could sit bad, maybe down in a beanbag chair with some earphones on music cranked and mind melting into the liner notes journeying into sometimes crazy other time melodical stories that recording artists alone are able to understand and convey with the help of craftsman & women, that know music is more than a service it's magic when done right it's still the best format we still have today However, I also have another theory

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It's called stick it in your eye old people theory. Or the fact that so many have proclaimed that digital is the only way to go separating themselves from their physical buying older sibling or worse parents! Now the tide has come back in, it always does, and the generation coming up started checking out vinyl just to be different from the Digitalonlines

Once this next generation of consumers/fan also found about these things called record stores they got hooked, not just on the colors, artwork and liner notes they found that music stores have a cultures that you don't get from those other places that also sell music like Starbucks, 7-11 and Wholefoods, (they all have music right) and for all we know vinyl sales and will be with us for another 100 years since there is still no better way to represent an analog event then with an analog recording. This being said with all due respect to Blu-ray audio.

So for every article you see about digital just keep an eye and ear out for record players, vinyl records and the fans with their heads in the cloud not their music when it comes time to really enjoy the magic of music.

October 9, 2012
Nelson, co-CEO
· Industry News

I have heard that many recording artists always request a vinyl master. This act of rebellion against the “digital onlies” as well as all the house DJ’s keep vinyl on life support allowing it to continue its significant impact on the music industry.

We’ve had music longer than any other form of communication. In fact, at the San Francisco Music Tech Summit, Bryan Kim was quoted as saying, “music has been with us longer than writing, agriculture and civilization.” He put up a slide showing that music is 40 thousand years old with agricultural civilization coming in at only 10 thousand and writing not showing up until about 6 thousand years ago.

While I don’t quibble about the dawn of civilization, I do have a issue with the age of music. I would suspect that some of the songbirds or now extinct animal was giving out singing lessons for millions of years before we came to understand what music even was, which I’m still working on figuring out. Moreover, this leads me to believe that music is much more ingrained in our DNA than most realize. This is perhaps a subject more complicated than most are aware or even care to realize and a great subject for another blog post.

I haven’t seen one movie or read a book that ever mentioned life without music. I can’t imagine it, you probably can’t either.

Now, I’m not a digital hater; I’ve been trying to stream music online since 1994ish on a jouney that started with me to putting up Altavoz.com as one of the 1st 50 thousand domains in the world. I started out by streaming a concert called Marsday.com from Washington, DC (Big Organge Pop, Live Alien Broadcast and the Loose Nuts) in 1999 and launching three of the first steams for WindowsMedia.com.

“The company hosted its first Mars Day for “alien” — or non-mainstream bands — on Aug. 16, 1999, which was broadcast over the Internet.”

Way back in 2008, Nielsen had vinyl at .08 with 1.88 million vinyl albums purchased. It seem that wax releases were slowly climbing out of their so called grave from about 2006 onward. Some mere four years later the consumer has driven this number up to close to 2.8 million units sold in 2011. I’ve seen recent reports saying in 2012 vinyl is surging from this same time last year with an 16.3% increase to 3.2 million sold. I’m pretty sure we’re really not getting the full picture to boot. Many stores that sell vinyl don’t SoundScan and many of the releases don’t have a UPC code. Nonetheless and comparatively, vinyl is selling just as well as digital.

So why is vinyl selling? I have heard that many recording artists always request a vinyl master for their recordings. These acts of rebellion against the “digital onlies” and the house DJs keep vinyl on life support so it continues to be an important part of of the music landscape. Perhaps today, for many it’s a remembrance of a different time in their lives when they could sit back, maybe in a beanbag chair with some earphones on, music cranked and mind-melting into the liner notes, journeying into sometimes crazy and other times melodical stories that recording artists alone are able to understand and convey. To so many of us, music is more than a service. It’s magic. When done right, vinyl is still the best format we have today. However, I also have another theory about why it’s selling so well.

Music that Changes the world is 44 pages of mind expanding liner notes

It’s called the “stick it in your eye old people” theory. It goes alone the lines of this: the fact that so many have proclaimed that digital is the only way to go. Whether it was to separate themselves from their physical buying older sibling or worse, their parents, or just to be new, they did it! Now the tide has come back in. It always does and this generation coming up started checking out vinyl just to be different from the “digital onlies” big brothers and sisters before them. After all, what’s more different from an MP3 than wax?

And, once this next generation of consumers/fans found out about these things called record stores they got hooked on vinyl, not just on the colors, artwork and liner notes… they found that music stores have a culture that you don’t get from those other places that also sell music like Amazon, iTunes, Starbucks, 7-11 and Whole Foods. For all we know, vinyl sales will be with us for another 100 years since there is still no better way to represent an analog event than with an analog recording, with all due respect to Blu-Ray audio.

So for every article you see about digital just keep an eye and ear out for record players, vinyl records and the fans with their heads in the clouds not their music when it comes time to really enjoy the magic of music.

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