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Court Decision Ensures All Voices Equal Online (The Greenlining Institute)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Jun 2016
The Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and organizational members of the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) applaud the U.S ... It's time for companies like Comcast and AT&T; to stop trying to undermine the voices of marginalized communities through practices that subject people to a second-class Internet experience,' said Steven Renderos, Senior Campaign Manager at CMJ....

Feel the music with Jocelyn and Chris Arndt

Edit The Examiner 09 Jun 2016
The first thing that hits is the voice, that big huge vocal coming from the tiny young woman on stage. Walking up on that performance, it’s easy to see why Jocelyn Arndt’s vocals are often compared to Janis Joplin ... Jocelyn described the two of them as “secret nerds.” Yes nerds that happen to play stunning rock music ... They have performed at The Sundance Film Festival, Mountain Jam Music Festival, CMJ, SXSW and The Florida Music Festival....

The Cult's Ian Astbury on being a rock 'n' roll survivor

Edit Toronto Sun 08 Jun 2016
The Cult’s Alive in the Hidden City Tour has been a revelation to Ian Astbury. “These shows we’re doing now are so intense,” the 54-year-old frontman says from his home in Los Angeles. “The new material demands so much in terms of being present as a performer ... Oh yeah. I love seeing how Canada has grown up ... It rejuvenates ... The only award we got of any significance was at the CMJ Awards in 1985 or ’86....

Whitney: the band that’s sensitive on the inside, lairy on the outside

Edit The Guardian 06 Jun 2016
The Chicago group are bringing back indie fever with a combination of lyrical introspection and raucous partying. @harrietgibsone ... Related ... Facebook ... Their combination of charm, silliness (their unfiltered social media accounts often document weed, nudity and conquests) and musicianship has won over the industry at key showcases such as CMJ and SXSW this year, while fans are so enamoured they’ve even started fainting at their gigs ... ....

CMJ Founders Launch New Festival (That Sounds an Awful Lot Like CMJ)

Edit Billboard 02 Jun 2016
Sound familiar? The founders of Mondo.NYC are Bobby Haber and Joanne Abbot Green, the former minds behind CMJ, which is held annually each October in New York and is, functionally, the blueprint upon which Mondo.NYC is based. Haber founded CMJ in 1978 as a trade magazine for college radio stations before starting CMJ Music Marathon in 1980 ... CMJ's New Owner Has Big Plans for the Beleaguered Brand....

Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete dies of cancer at 27

Edit Springfield News-Sun 02 Jun 2016
Thomas Fekete, guitarist for the West Palm Beach, Florida, indie-rock band Surfer Blood, died on Monday after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 27 ... The band formed in South Florida before getting their break at festivals such as South by Southwest and the CMJ festival, which went over well for them. “We were freaking out, hoping to get one CMJ show,” Fekete told the Post in 2009 ... ....

St Mary’s Research Finds Mechanical Similarities Between Common Resistance Exercises (St Mary's University College, Twickenham)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
In the study, eight physically trained men, aged around 22 years old, completed three repetitions of countermovement jumps (CMJ) followed by three repetitions at each required load for both jump squats (JS) and push jerks (PJ), after abstaining from training for 24 hours prior to the test ... Based on correlation analysis, similarities between lifts and CMJ decreased as load increased....

Album Review - The Edge of Paradise "Immortal Waltz"

Edit The Examiner 26 May 2016
It's rare for an album to make me smirk - I'm talking that sleazy, sly smirk that you get when you're doing something bad and you just don't care ... Their debut album Mask came in at #6 on CMJ radio, right behind Machine Head and Five Finger Death Punch, and this album is climbing the charts in great leaps and bounds ... ....

Law student granted 50k as compensation from uni

Edit The Times of India 22 May 2016
The North Goa consumer disputes redressal forum recently granted compensation of 50,000 to a law student as CMJ University Meghalaya failed to conduct the examination of the course in 2013 after the student had paid fees. Vishal Gaonkar had filed a complaint against the Engineers Learning Institute (ELI), Panaji , Apex Learning Technology Ltd (ALTL), Bengaluru and CMJ University, Shillong....

Why Support for Industry Showcasing Is So Important to Musicians Across the World

Edit Huffington Post 19 May 2016
Like programmes run by music export offices in other parts of the world, the UK's International Showcase Fund supports travel, accommodation, visa costs and per diems of emerging talent ready to showcase their music at one of the industry's major meeting points, such as SXSW in Austin, and CMJ in New York ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... In the words of Manchester band Everything Everything who attended CMJ in 2010, "The whole thing is a chain reaction ... ....

The death of Tony Cozier rings a sad knell for the decline of the West ...

Edit The Independent 13 May 2016
Morning all ... And this week Cozier, a brilliant Bajan to go with CMJ’s Englishman and Benaud’s Australian, breathed his last ... Like CMJ, he had the glorious humility and decency of the amateur, zealously committed to the game but not so arrogant as to think he could do better than those whose actions he analysed for listeners at home. Read more....

Stream Seratones’ Brilliant Debut Album ‘Get Gone’ – Plus Read Singer AJ Haynes’ Exclusive Track-By-Track Guide

Edit NME 06 May 2016
Fat Possum’s new act Seratones hail from Shreveport, Louisiana, which is smack bang in the middle between Jackson, Mississippi, where The Rolling Stones were “sat in a bar, tippling a jar” and Dallas, Texas, where Tommy from Butthole Surfers’ ‘Pepper’ lost his leg ... She’s able to flit from a soothing coo into something altogether more raucous in an instant ... Headtrip We wrote this after coming back from CMJ ... A sexy trainwreck....

Women are Dominating Houston Music, Both Onstage and Behind the Scenes

Edit Houston Press 03 May 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. -. Within the past year, one Houston band has released a critically acclaimed album, wowed industry insiders at New York’s CMJ Music Marathon conference and earned a slew of new fans right here at home. That band is not named The Suffers ... This band is also not known as The Suffers ... The name? Nope, not The Suffers ... Fonseca Tickets Sat., May. 7, 7.00pm ... 8, 5.00pm ... 8, 7.00pm ... ....
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