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Tag Archives: A&R
Don’t look! A&R’s changing..
Ayush Shrestha is a twenty-something year old who was selected by the D&F Academy in Germany for a fellowship called ” The Music Project,” a program installed in order to inspire people through music. Vasuda Sharma is a twenty-something year … READ MORE
Posted in Column
Tagged A&R, Ayush Shreshta, Ayush Shrestha, Berklee School of Music, blueFROG, business strategist at Blue Frog, Coke Studio, Malini Hariharan, mohit chauhan, Simran Mulchandani, Thomson Andrews, Vasuda Sharma
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Cover it up!
Fans collect album covers, pin them up, frame them, worship them and even sport them on Tshirts. What goes behind the creation of art so memorable and collectible? Which are the forces behind these timeless, avant-garde creations? Album art is … READ MORE
Posted in Features, Main Story, Show Case, Spotlight
Tagged -D scanning machine, 150 pixel JPEG, 45 million copies, 78 rpm records, a Japanese artist, A&R, Advaita, Airside, album art, album covers, alex steinweiss, Amarass Records, anand srinivsan, Ankur Malhotra, avant-garde, Binaural, Bob Dylan, Brave New World, CDs, Co-Founder of Only Much Louder, coldplay, Columbia Records, Creative Director, crowdsourcing, Daniel Tyler, Dark Side of the Moon, debossing, Designer, Dev Kabir Malik, die cuts, digital, digital age, digital downloads, director, Dischordian, Divya Naik, Duke Ellington, East St Louis Toodle, embossing, EMI, Eye Magazine, Facebook, Founder, four colour photos, Fred Deakin, frontman, Girish ‘Bobby’ Talwar, Hemant Kumar, hip-hop, history of album art, Hubble space, Human Empire, inlay, iTunes, James Brown, Jan Kruse, John L Walters, Joy Division, kraft paper, Label Manager, Liner notes, long players, LPs, Managing Director, Mannu Kohli, Masato Samata, Mozart, Mtv, Music Today, NASA photographers, packshot, Pearl Jam, Peter Saville, photo shoots, Pink Floyd, PMS inks, pop art, Royal Mail, Rush of Blood To the Head, Shakespeare, size format, Sony Music, Stanley Kubrick, street art, Swarathma, Sølve Sundsbø, The Beatles, The Feni Farm Riot, The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, The Rite of Spring, The Silent Sea, Tom Recchion, Topiwalleh, Traditional band shots, UK Government, Unknown Pleasures, Vasu Dixit, vinyl, Vivek Paul
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Is the A&R era back? Part 2
The Last decade ‘Artiste and Repertoire’ has remained merely a dormant profile at record labels over the last decade. As film music became the core of business, labels acquired ready made content from the film producers, marketed it across platforms … READ MORE
Posted in Show Case
Tagged A&R, A&R department, All India Radio, Amazon, Artistaloud.com, Awadhi, Beatsondia.com, Bhojpuri, Bickramjeet Singh, Black Eyed Peas, Bollywood, Bombay Rockers, Bundelkhandi, CD Baby, classical, Dancing with Shiva, Devotional, EMI Music India, Frankfinn, ghazal, Hard Kaur, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, Indiabeats, Indie, Indonesia, Indya Records, Ishq Bector, iTunes, Jayesh Veralkar, Kumaoni, Maldives, Mannu Kohli, MIDEM, Music labels, Myanmar, Pandit Ronu Majumdar, Pandit Ulhas Bapat, Panjabi MC, Punjabi, Raghu Dixit, Rajasthani, Rajeetah Hemwani, Ratnakar Kumar, RDB, Rhapsody, Rustam Fateh Ali Khan, Sabir Khan, Samiran Gupta, Shoma Ghosh, Soumini Paul, Sourish, Sri Lanka, T Suresh, Thailand, The Laya Project, The Raghu Dixit Project, Times Music, UGC, Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Sultan Khan, Vishal – Shekhar, Vivek Rajgopalan, VS Music, Worldwide Records, film producers
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UK-based alternative rock band Keane
England based English alternative rock band Keane was spotted by Caroline Elleray (who also signed Coldplay) almost a decade ago. Being involved in nurturing the band, she signed them to BMG Music Publishing years before they got record deals. Their … READ MORE
Posted in Case Study
Tagged A&R, Andy Kenyon, BBC Radio 1, BMG Music Publishing, BRIT Award, Caroline Elleray, Island Records, iTunes, Keane, Myspace, Simon Williams, South coast of England, Steve Lamacq, Tom Chaplin, UK-based alternative rock band, Universal Music Publishing, YouTube
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