January 2012
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Proudly Presenting...ktc mgmt
wow, its finally here…
I started ktc mgmt as a consulting company back in 2004. My business partner and I had helped a few big companies with projects and did fairly well in doing so. We learned a lot, won some and lost a few too. Things were pretty good.
In 2008, I decided to change the companies focus towards music because of many personal influences, my family and because I thought...
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College - "A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth) Over...
Short video we made of an LAX landing set to the amazing song “A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth)” by the artist College off the movie “Drive”.
Happy Friday!
ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com
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Fallen, No. Teetering, Possibly: Snow Patrol ‘s...
By Charissa Lock @charissalock
When I think of Snow Patrol, the first thing that comes to mind is “Chasing Cars” and Gary Lightbody lying peacefully on the ground in the middle of the street and other inconvenient and chaotic places. This meditative reaction (shown by vocals) to a fast-paced and intricate world (the instrumentation and musical arrangements) is how you will want...
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SOPA & PIPA are just the beginning...
Learn a little bit more about SOPA and PIPA.
My official take on these bills:
“Although I do believe artists deserve better protection for their music, I think both of these bills (SOPA and PIPA) are poorly written. However, I personally and professionally hope every traditional and digital medium realizes this as truth and will work together to formulate a plan that will solidify...
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Justice & The Rapture @ Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas
Check out this uber cool video from Justice called Civilization from last year.
We’ll be here, without fail:
Direct support will be provided by The Rapture. Here is “In the Grace Of Your Love”:
matt
ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com
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M83 "Wait" Live at Club Nokia 1/12
M83 “Wait” live this past Thursday at Club Nokia.
matt
ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com
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M83 Pours Heart into Club Nokia Performance, Luck...
M83 played Club Nokia last night in Los Angeles. This was the first of two nights at 2300 capacity club. The band seemed to have some equipment problems and didn’t seem to warm up until about three quarters of the way through the set.
Not to mention the substandard sound quality at Club Nokia that just wasn’t what I’m used to as an avid concertgoer. Regardless,...
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A Musical Para- Para- Paradise: Coldplay’s Mylo...
By Charissa Lock @charissalock
If I could force Chris Martin and the rest of the band to make an album specifically designed for me, their fifth release comes quite close to any expectations I could fathom. Coldplay has always been one of those bands that I enjoyed, but always overplayed, a little too mainstream and I never caught on. “Yellow” was pretty good… Recently I heard...
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The Shins Introduce a "Simple Song"
If you were a fan of the movie “Garden State” then for ~75% of you this was the first place you heard the band “The Shins”. A washy, guitar-laden, poppy alternative rock band founded by James Mercer, originally from New Mexico, and based in Portland, Oregon.
A short history of the shins: They were founded in 1996 and originally called “Flake Music”. After releasing a bunch of singles and a...
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10 Days, 6 Great Songs
Some great new songs I’ve heard through the first ten days of the year.
Awolnation - “Not Your Fault” (special thanks to @jade_sue)
Ryan Adams - “Do I Wait”
Alex Day - “Forever Yours”
Cub Scouts - “Evie” (special thanks to @wearehunted)
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Fireflight - Wrapped In Your Arms UNOFFICIAL FAN...
Short video for the song “Wrapped In Your Arms” by Fireflight off their album “Unbreakable” released on Flicker records March 4th, 2008. You can purchase this album here: http://itun.es/iLz3xL They have a new album set for release on March 6th, 2012. You can find out more information here: www.fireflightrock.com or here: www.facebook.com/fireflightrock matt
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coming very soon...
15 months of long nights and we’re less than a week away. #proud
matt
ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com
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Interview: Chris Morris from "Morris and the East...
Interview by Charissa Lock (@charissalock) with Chris Morris (songwriter, frontman and guitarist)
CL: Charissa Lock
CM: Chris Morris
I guess there are some things we can thank for Facebook besides finding that our middle school bully put on 100 pounds, has three bratty kids, and looks miserable. One of them happens to be the band Morris and the East Coast, a local band (for me) from...
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How Much Do You Artists Make?
I was just got asked a question about how much artists make on Facebook by graphic designer, developer extraorderinaire
Here is the questions and the replies:
Q from Jessie Nivens:
How much money does a band make from: 1) A full length CD sale 2) A 1.29 itunes download 3) A .99 (?) Amazon download 4) A play on Spotify 5) A play on Rdio 6) A play on Grooveshark 7) An inclusion in a major...
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Can't Miss January Concerts in L.A.
Partied in the new year with Phish at MSG (above pic). Looking forward to seeing some great live shows this month in the Los Angeles area. Here is a scattering of some great shows coming!
January 12th and 13th M83 has two nights at Club Nokia. Both are sold out.
January 13th (a Friday by the way) Colin Hay (formerly of Men At Work) is performing at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills.
January...
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January 2012 Releases!
Albums to get excited about:
Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory [Carpark]
Super pumped for this band to shine in 2012. They rock n roll very hard.
Snow Patrol: Fallen Empires [Fiction/Interscope]
I’ve been listening to these guys for a third of my life. With classics such as “Run” and “Chasing Cars” in their already dynamite catalog, they look to add...
December 2011
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2012!!!
thanks to my friend Jackie for this cool “city” landscape picture.
I want to get in shape. I want to breath better. I want to sleep better. I want to work harder. I want to contribute more. I want to listen better. I want to share more. I want to donate more. I want to see more of the world. I want to reconnect with people I miss. I want to be closer to the people I love. ...
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Top Two Albums of 2011
This was tough because there was two albums that really took up the bulk of my listening time this year. I tried to not be biased about the one, as I knew it would be great and as for the other, well the band toured with friends of mine so bias laid there as well. Bias wins.
Lets get to it.
#2 Hooray For Earth - True Loves (Read Charissa Lock’ review by clicking the link)
An amazing...
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Toe-Tapping, Head-Bobbing, Feel Good Tunes: The...
By Charissa Lock @charissalock
I have been a fan of The Kooks since hearing “Naïve” on the radio 5 years ago off of their Inside In/Inside Out album. They were upbeat, fun, and though they could be classified as “pop,” I put them in 1960s pop category instead of comparing them to 21st century pop. I think they would appreciate this, based upon their 60/70’s style suits for shows and music...
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2011 Music Business Numbers
Album sales are up over 1% compared in 2011 comapred to 2010 which had a ~12% decline. (year over year 2009 to 2010)
Top Performers: (to the date of this writing) m=million k=thousands
ALBUM SALES
Adele “21” - 5.2m
Lady Gaga “Born This Way” - 2m
Michael Buble “Christmas” - 1.9m
Lil Wayne “Tha Carter IV” - 1.8m
Jay-Z and Kanye West...
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Top Videos of 2011
Tyler T Williams (Director, Producer) and Trevor Powers (Youth Lagoon) teamed up to bring the most powerful video, in our opinion, of 2011. The combination of music and passion in this treatment blows anything away we’ve seen all year.
1. Youth Lagoon - Montana
Best usage of Buffalos. (None were hurt in the filming of this video, at least we think)
2. Justice - Civilization
Super...
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Unexpected, but Beautifully Done: Bombay Bicycle...
By Charissa Lock @charissalock
The second I started listening to Bombay Bicycle Club’s (BBC) newest album A Different Kind of Fix, I was thrown off guard. I think I may have even double checked to see if I had purchased the correct item and not a John Mayer cover band. When it was confirmed that I was indeed listening to BBC, I decided to take it as a blending of their folk with the...
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Best Soundtrack of 2011
vs.
This was a tough pick. Back in November I would of unequivocally told you that the Breaking Dawn soundtrack was the best soundtrack of the year. This album is littered with amazing tracks from Aqualung, Iron & Wine, Bruno Mars, Christina Perri, The Joy Formidable and Sleeping at Last just to name a few.
Then I listened to the movie soundtrack for the movie “Drive”.
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Up Next: Cloud Nothings
Spend a week with a young and talented musician and he’ll be sure to show you a band or two about a band or two right?
right!
Cloud Nothings “Attack on Memory” due out January 24th, 2012 on Carpark records.
Two songs already available off this upcoming release are:
“No Future, No Past” http://youtu.be/6X1URP5eg6I
“Stay Useless”...
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Top 25 Songs of 2011
This list was compiled of music found and listened to (a lot) by me in 2011. Although the majority was, not every song was technically released in 2011, they were just consumed by various mediums such as iTunes, Amazon, Turntable.fm, Rdio, Spotify, Google Music Beta, my iPod (R.I.P.), Earbits and discovered through various blogs/magazines such as Pitchfork, WeAreHunted, Spin, Rolling...
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So Many Genres Heard In So Few Songs Results in...
By Charissa Lock @charissalock
On a historic island in the Mediterranean Sea nestled an art residency where Hannah Hooper and Christian Zucconi met with Sean Gad, Ryan Rabin, and Andrew Wessen. This meeting, friendship and music collaboration were the roots to which grew into their creation of a wondrous band known as Grouplove, an EP in 2010, and in September 2011 came a...
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Superdrag Rules! →
Superdrag performs “Sucked Out” on Conan O’ Brien in 1996.
Blast from the past.
#greatband
matt
ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com
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Projects Filled With Love →
A few days ago we re-launched our website theprojectmatters.org and I’m so proud of it. The re-design was the vision of the web design and development team known as: www.imakesound.com. They do a range of services from photography, to video production and website design. They also make up a large part of the band Escape Directors (Twitter: @escapdirectors or escapedirectors.com).
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No Need for Keyboards When You Have Thirteen...
by Charissa Lock @charissalock 12/08/2011
Why have one drummer when you can have two? Why have just two drummers when you could have two violinists, two guitarists, two trumpeters, a percussionist, a pianist, a cellist, a bassist, a horn player, and every one of them can sing? The Portland, Oregon-based indie band, Typhoon realized that having more is the most appropriate...
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Holiday Music from Escape Directors and Mitchell... →
Our friends Escape Directors, along with Mitchell Grey, have put out a free Holiday EP for your enjoyment. Grab it here: http://bit.ly/EsDiMG
Download. Love. Share.
Twitter: @escapedirectors & @mitchellgrey Facebook: facebook.com/escapedirectors & facebook.com/mitchellgreymusic
matt
ktcmgmt.com, killingthecabinet.com
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The Future of Music Videos
MTV is still very important to the music business. While music and music videos are an integral part of their online, cable and satellite channels they remain focused on serving a younger demographic scripted and reality television programming. What MTV solely used to be is now self-serving at YouTube, as well as an industry run music video website called VEVO.
VEVO describes itself...
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2011 Recorded Music Sales
We look a bit deeper into the 2011 recorded music sales revenues in today’s blog. Most of the figures below are gracefully lifted from nielsen SoundScan reports. They claim that these numbers are “compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack sales reports (that are) collected”. These numbers are all year to date from January 1st to November 27th, 2011. With a month to go and the...
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Off To a Good Start Filled With Potential: Escape...
by Charissa Lock @charissalock 12/01/2011
New Jersey seems to be the reproductive center for many creative and fresh musicians; with a handful of great bands I keep hearing all claiming their birth in The Garden State. This quartet (Steve Carter as lead vocalist and on guitar, Nick Wilson with backing vocals, as well as on guitar, and keyboards, Colin Rieser on drums, and...
November 2011
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TuneSat(ing)
Yesterday, the wonderful Escape Directors and I sat with TuneSat in New York City to demo their audio monitoring service. If you “think” you have music on television, this service might be the one to help get you just the proof you need to compare to your PRO statements. (BMI, ASCAP and SESAC). TuneSat claims that 80% of the music on television is inaccurately accounted for.
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Getting Scalped and Inspired
I’ve been traveling a ton recently from the east coast and west coast continuing to promote the beginnings of everything ktc mgmt. 2011 has been a whirlwind of a year and just when I think it can’t get any better I get a quick dose of reality.
In the past month alone, I’ve been working on the finishing touches of ktcmgmt.com 2.0, a video treatment, music...
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Thoughts From A Different Perspective: Incubus’ If...
by Charissa Lock @charissalock 11/17/2011
In every relationship, being honest from the very beginning is key. So when I consider a writer’s relationship with their readers, I’m going to follow the same approach. Here’s to honesty. Since Incubus started their musical inspiration on the world in 1991, I have never caught on to the phenomenon. I’m sure all these questions and...
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Earbits(ing)
UPDATE: The earbits people corrected me on some of my statistics below. They have 200+ labels and 50,000 songs (not 100 labels and 20,000 songs as I indicated below…Thanks for the info @earbits!).
Earlier this year I came across a few new music services. Turntable.FM, Rdio and Earbits. Rdio is ok but needs a bigger catalog. Turntable is cute and at its peak earlier this...
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There’s More Here than Just Fancy Sneakers
by Charissa Lock @charissalock 11/17/2011
This album may be more difficult to write about, knowing that it’s one of the more mainstream bands I have ever reviewed. In all actuality it took me awhile to get into Foster the People and to accept Torches as a creative and unique album – probably based on the fact that “Pumped Up Kicks,” could be heard everywhere. Whether in D’Angelo’s, on...
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Back the F*%@ Up Two Times
I’ve always stayed ahead of the curve technologically yet, I never considered myself a dweeb, just informed enough that I can help others while satisfying some of my curiosities. I bet some of my friends would think otherwise (and girlfriends would probably disagree completely) but whatever, screw you all! LOL! Today has been a frustrating!
I woke up today and had a menu...