Archive for September, 2009
Listen: John Record – “Money in the Bank” mp3
16 Sep 2009Freshman Clive Davis Department student and Pittsburgh native John Rectenwald goes by the pseudonym John Record – a name that suggests an intriguing cross between neo-soul singer-songwriter John Legend and late Chi-Lites’ frontman Eugene Record.
Not far off: “Money in the Bank,” produced, engineered, and mixed by Uri Djemal of Madpan Productions, captures a chilled-out, retro [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13
In: students
13 Sep 2009we're up and blogging…and twittering now! #
theme of the day, should you walk into our lobby, is 80s pop classics….go Belinda Carlisle! #
exciting weekend….NYU Open House is Saturday…The VMAs on Sunday….and then Oprah with Whitney Houston on Monday…yes! #
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Princeton gets thumbs up in The New York Times
12 Sep 2009Princeton @ Union Hall from Patrick Duffy on Vimeo.
Rock band Princeton, managed by Clive Davis Department alumnus Seth Kallen, received a positive review for their Sept. 9th Union Hall gig in the New York Times: reviewer Jon Carmanica called their upcoming album Cocoon of Love “harming and frisky, with touches of the Cure and Leonard [...]
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We’ve always been proud as an NYU department to bear the name of our principal patron and Sony Music Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Clive Davis.
This week we’re exponentially proud as Whitney Houston’s brand new I Look to You album – which Mr. Davis co-executive produced – hit the top spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 [...]
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Zach Berkman on MTV’s “P. Diddy’s Starmaker”: Departed…but Just Getting Revved-Up
In: alumni| announcements| students
11 Sep 2009Though 2008 Clive Davis Department alum Zach Berkman got voted off early this August from MTV’s reality competition show P. Diddy’s Starmaker, we look forward to bigger and better things from this talented singer-songwriter.
Zach’s updates since leaving the show, via the MTV blog site: “I released a brand new five-song EP called As Far As [...]
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David McTiernan plays the New York Musical Theater Festival
In: announcements| news| students
11 Sep 2009Clive Davis Department student/dexterous pianist David McTiernan (pictured above, in the red striped flannel shirt on the far right) will take the helm as band director and arranger for a darkly comic Off-Broadway indie-rock musical called Open the Dark Door, playing at the upcoming New York Musical Theater Festival’s Next Link Series.
The plot sounds positively [...]
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RocNation’s J. Cole comes to NYU on Sat, opening act is Nyle
In: announcements| events| students
10 Sep 2009NYU’s The Gentlemen of Quality present Jay-Z’s new RocNation artist J. Cole this Saturday at the Kimmel Center at 9 pm.
Clive Davis Department senior Kaleb Rollins serves as PR chair for The Gentlemen of Quality. Enterprising production-management venture Grand Staff (Kaleb co-helms it along with some of his fellow Clive Davis Department students) provides the [...]
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On Timbaland’s “Beaterator”
In: music Industry| news
10 Sep 2009As an undergraduate program teaching students about the art and business of creating and selling music, we’re admittedly intrigued by the possibilities for Timbaland’s application Beaterator, created for the Sony PSP in tandem with Rockstar Games, and due out in late September.
According to news reports, the purpose of Beaterator is “music creation.” In that [...]
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The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
The Record Label Series / Motown U
presents
REMEMBERING MICHAEL JACKSON
An exciting panel of scholars, writers, artists and executives considers
the legacy of one of pop music’s greatest icons. With:
SPIKE LEE, award-winning filmmaker, producer and author
GREG TATE, Village Voice journalist and author of Everything But [...]
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Clive Davis Department junior and NYU Reynolds scholar Genesis “Be” Briggs (a.k.a. Lo-Key) was featured in yesterday’s Washington Square News.
The article discusses the Biloxi native’s recent collaboration with Tisch graduate / theater director/film director Andrea Wong for her music video “I Don’t Discriminate.”
Looks like the video shoot was bubbling over with NYU alums. From the [...]
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- Shelia: I love it John. Sounds great and you will be out there soon. [...]
- Base Magazine » Blog Archive » REMEMBERING MICHAEL| VIDEO FLASHBACK: “THEY DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT US”: [...] on the charts, as it peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100. In September 2009, I attended [...]
- Karen Keavey: I knew Henry as a friend from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. It was a thrill to know him, and honor [...]
- Brian Hull: I took several courses from Henry. My senior year he served as my songwriting advisor. But what had [...]
- Jaime Garamella: Henry was my songwriting advisor at Berklee, and was friendly, warm, and candid. He was always fun [...]
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