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March 03,
2010
Newsletter #134
Hello from Ariel!
In This Week's Issue:
- Where’s Ariel?
- Come Follow the Music Success In Nine Weeks
Blogging Contest!
- THIS WEEK'S FEATURED ARTIST - Vitamin -
D
- THIS WEEK'S FEATURED VIDEO - "Girl
Like Me" by Katia
- THIS WEEK'S FEATURED RESOURCES: A
BLOG, A PODCAST, & A STATION
- NEW MEDIA PIONEER: Scott Preston of
Cincy Groove Magazine and Cincy Groove Live
Podcast
March 4-7
– ECMAs – Cape Breton
Canada
http://www.ecma.ca/
March 10 – 14
– Canadian Music
Week
http://www.cmw.net/cmw2010/index.asp
Come
Join the Contest To Have Dinner With Me and Jay
Frank _at_ CMW
Read all about it and Join in!
http://arielpublicity.com/2010/02/15/cmw_dinner/
March
14- 20 – SXSW
http://sxsw.com/
Come Follow the Music Success In Nine
Weeks Blogging Contest!
Over 30 artists have taken me up on my offer to
read and blog their way through my book. I am
humbled and delighted by the experience and
touched at how my book has been affecting their
careers.
To find links to all participants
and full contest details click
here:
http://cyberpr.squarespace.com
Cheer
them on by leaving feedback on their blogs! Also
feel free to spread the word on your site as
well!
Demimonde Slumber
Party
http://www.dspband.com
http://melissalandblog.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/DSP_ROCK
Shttp://www.facebook.com/DemimondeSlumberParty
Moss
Bluff
http://www.myspace.com/mossbluff
http://blog.myspace.com/mossbluff
http://twitter.com/mossbluffmusic
http://www.facebook.com/people/Moss-Bluff/1000241813
Icky's Ego
http://www.ickysego.com/
http://www.ickysego.wordpress.com/
http://www.twitter.com/IckysEgo
http://www.facebook.com/celascott
Vitamin – D –
Brooklyn, NY
Genre:
Alternative Pop
http://arielpublicity.net/clients/2703 Vitamin-D
offers fetching soundscapes and musical nuances
based around vibraphonettes, tremolo guitars, and
looping trumpets. Dennis Cronin, the
trumpet-wielding composer at the center of
Brooklyn’s Vitamin-D, prefers musical nuances to
oversized statements. Among others, Cronin and his
trumpet have collaborated with alternative
darlings Lambchop and Vic Chesnutt and performed
with Yo La Tengo and Camera Obscura.
THIS WEEK'S
FEATURED VIDEO
"Girl Like Me" by
Katia
Genre: Pop, Rock,
SingerSongwriter
http://arielpublicity.net/clients/2709
New York-based
singer-songwriter Katia has a pop music style as
unique as her background. She is a classically
trained pianist who remains one of the youngest
vocal soloists ever to perform with the Russian
Philharmonic. Songs like her debut single "Girl
Like Me" reveal her classical melodicism within a
pure pop context, in which her lyrics about the
"day-to-day stuff that girls go through" are
nailed by her beautiful but insistent singing
voice.
http://www.blip.tv/file/3288431
Featured Blog:
Writer
C.W. Ross's Blog
http://writercwross.wordpress.com/
This blog combines C.W. Ross' three previous
blogs (see below) into a one stop shop for
information, commentary, interviews and reviews
for a wide variety of Indie and Christian
music.
Indie Music Stop-
IndieMusicStop.com
The CD Reviewer-
TheCDReviewer.com
Christian Rockers Online-
ChristianRockersOnline.com
 Featured
Podcast:
The
TheDean! Show
http://thethedeanshow.blogspot.com
The TheDean! Show is a weekly
podcast, recorded by TheDean! with guest host
Thaddeus Penguin and produced by Logiconor. It
reviews the week's pro-wrestling, as well as
movies, music and games from time to time, and
there are regular segments such as: Mussolini
Corner (makes fun of Muss.), TheDean! Sings( in
which TheDean! must, without preparation, add
lyrics about a specific subject to an instrumental
track), The Smiting List (wherein someone is
'smitten' with a giant LAZOR) and lots
more.
 Featured
Station:
Middletown
Station
http://www.middletownstation.web-log.nl/
Middletown station is a live streaming radio
station and podcast based in the Netherlands
airing every Sunday.
NEW MEDIA
PIONEER: Scott Preston of Cincy Groove Magazine
and Cincy Groove Live
Podcast
http://www.cincygroove.com 
http://www.twitter.com/cincygroove
Q) Tell us a little bit about your
blog. What inspired you to start
it?
A) I have always had a strong
interest in music ever since my first concert I
attended back when I was 16. I bought the
domain name for the site back in 2005, knowing
that I wanted to start my own site someday.
I knew there were things about running a music
magazine web site that I didn't know, so I did
some photo and review work for various music
magazine websites to learn what to do and what not
to do. I ended up wanting to go shoot a lot
more shows than I could get credentials for, so I
decided to take more control over my own
career. Since I had been a concert
photographer since 2000 I had built up a lot of
contacts. So when I started the website it
made it a lot easier for me to get interviews,
press passes to shows
etc...
Q) Why do you
believe new media resources (i.e. blogs, podcasts,
internet radio stations) have become so popular?
How have they been beneficial to artists? How have
they been detrimental?
A) I think blogs, podcasts,
and Internet radio stations are so popular because
anyone can start their own blog or record their
own podcast. It gives the band from a small
town in Nebraska the same ability for exposure as
a more popular band say in Chicago. Once
something is posted it has the potential to be
viewed by anyone in the world. Just 20 years
ago only artists such as U2, Madonna, or Metallica
had the ability to reach that many people.
That's the beneficial part. The detrimental
part is the fact there is too much out there for
your senses to comprehend. But overall I
think these new media sources are a very good
thing. With anything new there are growing
pains.
Q) Media 2.0 has
changed the way artists communicate with fans.
Where do you envision online communication going
next? Any thoughts on what Media “3.0â€ð will look
like?
A) I often think about what is
going to happen next. It may sound silly,
but I can see people putting on some sort of
helmet where you will be in a virtual holographic
environment where you can talk with someone face
to face. Something even more exciting would
to be able to virtually attend a concert in the
same fashion. I have no idea how that would
work, but it sounds like something that could
become reality.
Q) What
does an artist have to do to get your attention?
Are their specific characteristics that you look
for?
A) Really to get my attention,
sending less is better than sending a lot of
info. When I get physical press kits, a cd,
a one page bio, and a photo is really all that is
needed. I tend not to look at press kits
with 20 pages of reviews etc.. I get so many
at times I don't have time to look at all that
stuff. When I get emails from artists, just
telling me a little about the band along with a
link to their website or myspace page is
enough. I am open to all genres of music,
whether you are in a bluegrass, blues, or heavy
metal band.
Q) What do
you ultimately hope to accomplish with your
blog?
A) Ultimately I hope I can
help some artists gain some exposure while having
fun at the same time. I like working with
local bands here in Cincinnati just as much as
doing an interview with a national artist.
By working with national and regional artists I
hope I'll be able to help as many local artists as
I can, no matter where they are
from.
Podcast Info - I have titled my
podcasts, "Cincy Groove Live". I try to
record audio from every concert I go to. So
each Sunday I plan to feature 3-4 songs from a
concert I attended in a podcast.
ABOUT US
Ariel Hyatt is the founder of Ariel Publicity
& Cyber PR, a digital public relations firm
that connects clients to the new media including
blogs, podcasts, Internet radio stations and
social networking sites. Over the past 13 years
she has represented over 1,435 musicians and
bands.
Educating musicians is her passion and several
times a year, she leads workshops teaching her
strategy of combining social networking with
Internet marketing to help clients grow larger
fanbases and earn more money.
The Second Edition of Music Success in Nine
Weeks is now available and has helped hundreds of
musicians navigate the new music marketing
landscape. "Sound Advice," her bi-weekly ezine and
Internet TV series currently reaches an audience
of over 20,000 music professionals. She is a
contributing blogger for Music Think Tank, and
Know The Music Biz.
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CONTACT & INFO
Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR
389 12th
Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
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