AirPlay Direct Secures Private Source Funding

AirPlay Direct, a leading provider of secure digital delivery of music and electronic press kits to music industry professionals around the world, today announced that the company had secured funding to develop a new platform and website. The funding, which came from a private source, will be used to develop a platform which will allow for expanded site usage, the roll-out of new features to radio programmers, artists and record labels, and increase the number of opportunities for independent artists to grow their careers.

"Even in this period of economic uncertainty, AirPlay Direct has been experiencing unprecedented growth as the music industry continues to embrace new content delivery options," Robert Weingartz, CEO of AirPlay Direct. "This round of financing is equally an endorsement of our position within this new content delivery paradigm and a springboard for our continued growth as a company. We are excited to have the opportunity to provide more powerful tools free of charge to our member base."

AirPlay Direct is an easy to use digital file transfer system that was developed to streamline radio / artist promotion activities for today's music industry. AirPlay Direct’s FREE services replace the unnecessary time and expense of putting together and sending out costly traditional artist packages and press kits via snail mail.
http://www.AirPlayDirect.com

Acclaimed Singer Songwriter Winifred Adams Releases "You Are My Rose" As A Mothers Day Tribute

Winifred's song "You Are My Rose" is the perfect tribute to one of the most important people in all of our lives, our Mothers. As Winifred says, "It's always been my intent to help people feel better from the inside out!" and this single will be sure to be the perfect tribute to your mom this Mothers Day!

After being discovered by a major music producer in Canada while shooting an exercise video, singer/songwriter, Winifred Adams, returned home with an audio tape in hand-instead of an exercise video! Very quickly, Winifred gained her first sponsor. Less than one year later, she made her debut in front of the Colorado Rockies 50,000 hometown crowd and went on to complete her first album. She landed on tv, set up distribution in major retail chains and sang at several of her own shows. Her original demo reached radio several times in different states, featuring different versions of her title song, "You Are My Rose." On an exciting adventure, Winifred went on to sing at Shea Stadium several times and numerous pro & semi-pro sports events.

2009 has begun with a run of world-wide radio play on major stations as well as internet and tv radio. All of her songs have been chosen for airplay and each year her special version of Santa Baby is played both domestically and now world-wide! Her songs have been featured on radio stations all across the country and the world.

http://www.winifred.net

NELSON Rock Band To Perform At Rocklahoma Festival - Reunited Multiplatinum Rockers To Perform July 9

Celebrity rockers Matthew & Gunnar Nelson announced their rock band NELSON is confirmed to perform at the Third Annual ROCKLAHOMA Music Festival in Pryor, Oklahoma on Thursday, July 9, 2009.

The internationally known rock group NELSON, stars identical twin brothers Matthew and Gunnar Nelson who have written and performed NELSON's #1 Billboard Mega Hit "Love and Affection", and top Ten Singles "After the Rain", and "More Than Ever". NELSON has sold over 4 million albums worldwide. NELSON, the original rock band (and a staple of MTV) recently reunited touring for the first time in 15 years. VH1 recently ranked NELSON's "Love and Affection" as one of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '90s".

"We're excited to be back on the road performing with our original rock band, NELSON," enthuses Gunnar Nelson. "And to play at ROCKLAHOMA, which is one of Rock's premiere festivals, is a wonderful opportunity to reintroduce NELSON to the rock fans".

"ROCKLAHOMA is the perfect event for NELSON to perform with original drummer Bobby Rock as well as guitar virtuoso Neil Zaza," adds Matthew Nelson. "We're thrilled to be a part of this premiere rock festival!"

Matthew and Gunnar Nelson are the identical twin sons of Rock'n'Roll Legend Ricky Nelson, and grandsons of TV's Ozzie & Harriet Nelson of the Nelson family -- the only family in entertainment history with 3 generations of #1 hitmakers according to the Guinness Book of World Records. NELSON rock band had (5) Five Top 40 Billboard hits, (4) Four #1 MTV videos and sold over 4 million albums worldwide!

Rocklahoma tickets are available online at www.feverfest.com or charge by phone at 1-866-310-2288.

Visit the official NELSON website at www.NelsonRockBand.com for more info.

License To Thrill Music Signs Award-Winning Composer Michael McCann

Las Vegas, NV - May 5th, 2009 - License To Thrill Music LLC (www.licensetothrillmusic.com), an independent music publisher providing one-stop music synchronization and licensing for advertising, films, television, radio, movie trailers, video games and new media, today announced a music publishing partnership with highly acclaimed Canadian composer Michael McCann. License To Thrill Music will represent original works by Michael McCann available for use in advertising, film, TV and other media productions.

Michael McCann's broadcast and composing resume includes some of the biggest companies in entertainment and advertising such as Deutsch Inc., Fox, MTV, Ogilvy & Mather, NBC, Alliance Atlantis and Ubisoft. His music credits range from national branding spots, (BP, The Gap / Old Navy); title music for multiple television series including ReGenesis (nominated for Best TV Theme at the Hollywood Music Awards); film and videogame trailers (Tom Clancy's EndWar, The Law of Enclosures); full game scores (including his award-winning music to Ubisoft's Splinter Cell: Double Agent); and original / licensed music for TV programs from VH1, LifeTime TV and Alliance Atlantis.

"License To Thrill Music is proud to partner with leading composer Michael McCann to promote and service his latest original works for placement in multimedia," said Valerie Vickers, A&R/Licensing Manager for License To Thrill Music. "Michael already has many internationally renowned commercial projects to his name and his music portfolio asserts an engaging appeal that is undeniably unique, identifiable, and commercially compatible on a global scale."

License To Thrill Music offers a boutique roster of commercially-driven and imaginative-thinking music and artists that enables a company, brand or medium to enhance, inspire and transcend their messaging. The team behind License To Thrill Music has worked on platinum selling records, films, #1 hit singles and critically acclaimed album releases by some of the biggest names in music, spanning a period of over 25 years in the music business with innovative artists such as Bjork, The Cure, Kraftwerk and Happy Mondays, and a decade of interactive entertainment marketing for global markets promoting soundtracks from the world's top video game companies including Microsoft, Sony and Ubisoft. For more information please visit http://www.licensetothrillmusic.com

New Wedding Song Released By Molten Mike

Imagine a room full of people and the bride and groom dancing to the strains of Molten Mike singing "One Little Love".

This happened.

On Saturday, April 11, 2009, Molten Mike's newest single was released at the Wedding of Randall Ierna and Sparky Paradis. Sparky, who is the President of the Molten Mike Fan Club, and Randall, who is Molten Mike's Publisher and Executive Producer were having supper in January, when Sparky Asked Mike to write a wedding song. Mike said "What kind of song do you want?" Sparky said "Something we can dance to that is Country."

But wait, there is more to this story.

Molten Mike has a select few people that he teaches guitar and songwriting theory to. One of his students, Christina Hope came into a class with a 3 chord riff that inspired Mike to come up with a beautiful Guitar part in 3/4 time.

He then wrote a verse, and called Randall to play the fledgling song over the phone. They decided to immediately go into production and booked the services of their favorite engineer, Glenn Laubaugh at ESP studios, who has recorded and mastered 4 of Mike's 5 full length CD's.

Personnel were assembled, notably Kenny K, the regions top Pedal Steel Guitar Player, Glenn Stevenson on Electric and Double Bass, Randall Ierna on Drums, Ralph Famiglietti on Mandolin, Hill Abrahams on Violin, Glenn Laubaugh on Synthesizer orchestrations, and April Yerger for Back up Female Vocals.

"We worked on this song until the day before Mike left for his 2nd Australian Tour, and then when he got back we finished the vocals, Mixing, Mastering and then a rush production job was sent to Disc Makers, in Pennsauken, N.J." said Randall Ierna. "Disc Makers did a super job with the artwork, and packaging and hit their deadline with a day to spare. Each of the guests received their own copy of the song."

"I was amazed at the audiance reaction to my song. Some people actually had tears in their eyes." said Molten Mike. "Ranluron Records presented me with a wall plaque showing the CD and the Artwork. "People were talking about the song and how beautiful it fit the Wedding. Later that evening I performed the song again at a special after party at Grazzi's Restaurant in St. Petersburg. The whole day was memorable." concluded Molten Mike.

"One Little Love" is just what I wanted." said Sparky Paradis. "Mike wrote a beautiful wedding song for us and I believe many Brides and Grooms will dance to this song in the future. I appreciate all the time, talent and energy that went into the production of this song." concluded Sparky.

Molten Mike has 5 Full Length CD's: "Blues Meltdown", "Genuine Bluesman" "The Movie", "Chameleon" and "All Blues". The first four CD's were all #1 Albums on www.mp3tunes.com and "All Blues" has been produced twice in Australia and once in the US. Some of Mike's songs have been used by ABC Sports and also in the movie "Steal Wheels". Mike has played for the House of Blues over 100 times and played pre-game entertainment for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for 7 years. He headlined the Buc's Super Bowl victory party at the Tampa Park to an estimated 70,000 people.

To hear a clip of "One Little Love" just go to www.CDBABY.com, and to order a download of this song, or any other Molten Mike Songs, you can go to all the download sites including i-tunes,www.mp3tunes, and digstation.

DJ's can download the song as well as some of his other most popular songs at www.airplaydirect.com/moltenmike.

For more information just GOOGLE Molten Mike or go to his official website. http://www.moltenmike.com