Archive for September, 2009
This Fall, The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University is proud to commemorate Motown’s 50th anniversary year with a FREE eclectic conversation series on the famous record label, open to students and the general public. NYU students also get to attend private, closed Motown events, and [...]
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Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music instructor Vivien Goldman, who’s blessed us with innovative classes on Punk music, Reggae, and the history of Island Records, wrote a feature on multicultural British rock trio The Noisettes in today’s New York Times. You can read it here. Vivien (pictured above on the left teaching a class, with [...]
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Nobody Can Dance – “Anarchy” (download)
24 Sep 2009Get a free download of “Anarchy,” the first single release from Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music alumnus Sam Belkin’s band Nobody Can Dance. If you prefer to buy your music, the song is available on most digital music stores. Enter “Nobody Can Dance” in the search bar of a store like iTunes or Amazon.com [...]
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It’s not often we’re discussed in the context of fashion and glamor, but this summer The Clive Davis Department was glad to get a shout out in August’s fifth anniversary issue of T, the New York Times’ style magazine, distributed on Sundays. The subject was legendary fashion stylist/costume designer Arianne Phillips (pictured above), who [...]
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Brian Eno’s New iPhone App: Ambient Goes Mobile
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22 Sep 2009Never one to remain behind-the-curve on musical technologies, Brian Eno – a musical visionary whose work is regularly studied as part of the curriculum here at The Clive Davis Department – has just released his second iPhone app, the pragmatically-titled Trope. As the follow-up to his first app Bloom, Trope was co-created with Burning Shed’s [...]
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Dan Chertoff: A&R Manager on the rise
In: alumni|announcements|news
21 Sep 2009In May 2008, Dan Chertoff was getting ready to graduate from The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. He’d also just started a new A&R gig at Canvasback, a record label headed by industry vet Steve Ralbovsky as a joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment. Now Canvasback has jumped the Sony ship and moved over [...]
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Starting February 2010, The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music will be inaugurating a new intensive 12-week workshop for high school students, called Future Music Moguls. This innovative new workshop program is designed to introduce talented high school juniors to all aspects of the contemporary music business – including songwriting, production, marketing, promotion, publicity, branding [...]
With record sales in seemingly never-ending freefall and artist tours and music festivals breaking records, you can’t afford to sleep on the live event industry. Kobi Wu-Pasmore, the former director of special events at Cornerstone Promotions (where she played a big role in developing the stellar Pharrell-Santigold-Julian Casablancas Converse campaign) and the former manager for [...]
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Last night’s Michael Jackson panel event was a resounding success. The final round-up of speakers included: Daphne Brooks, Margo Jefferson, Spike Lee, Alan Light, Jody Rosen, Toure, Harry Weinger, and Armond White. Artistic Director Jason King moderated. Pictures and video are coming. While you wait, click HERE for today’s Washington Square News article on the [...]
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Watch: Rioux – “Shoulderpads” video
18 Sep 2009“Shoulderpads” comes to us from rioux, the musical project from sophomore student Erin Rioux. In rioux (yep, all lowercase), Michigan’s long legacy of experimental electronic music lives on, and the baritone vocals over quirky synth-pop also remind us of Remain in Light. All music is written, recorded, and performed by rioux. The whimsical video is [...]
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- veronica: Is there a workshop for adults? Or is this strictly for high schoolers? There really needs to be an [...]
- Quincy Brown: I am a student at Santa Monica College and plan to transfer to a 4 year University in the Fall 2012, [...]
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- Xavier Leong-Hussey: Just curious -- now that the deadline has been extended to November 18, will those of us who applied [...]
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- Recorded Music Announces Spring 2012 Collaboration with The Recording Academy to Present “The Music Business NOW” in LA, CA! – REGISTER NOW!
- NYU STUDENTS ONLY – Def Jam @ 25 – “Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label”
- Clive Davis Institute Alum & MBK Entertainment/RCA Records Artist, Elle Varner – debuts music video with J. Cole!
- NYU STUDENTS ONLY – RSVP NOW: ASCAP Songwriting Series with Benny Blanco!
- The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music Names Ryan Leslie Artist in Residence
- NY Times mention for Clive Davis Institute student Daniel Bazan Jr.
- NEW!! – Wintersession 2012: Study Abroad in Jamaica
- Gone, but not Forgotten: Remembering Gerard Smith
- “Music & Film – From the Script to the Score” with Swizz Beatz