Grinding. It all goes back to “WOODSTOCK”?

Posted by: admin on 10/03/2010

When in doubt call it another failure of the Baby Boomer generation. Crazy. From a Washington Post article this weekend:
“Sexually suggestive dancing was hardly invented by today’s kids. Young people say it is harmless fun, and sometimes it is.
But sometimes there is something more troubling going on: Boys often walk up to girls who don’t already have a boy thrusting his genitals at them and just start right up, no permission sought. Many girls, who even in the 21st century will do nearly anything to win a boy’s attention, allow them to go ahead without a word. Of course, there are some girls who initiate it themselves. That’s no better.
What this points to is the failure of many baby boomers to teach their daughters to respect themselves and their bodies and make their own choices, and to teach their sons to view women and girls as something other than sex objects.”

Wait a minute. Aren’t Baby Boomers actually GRAND PARENTS to high school and younger kids? Is the blame more likley placed on Gen x, y or z. No, guess not…somehow it all goes back to Woodstock.

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School Dance Top 30 Safe Songs 10-1-10

Posted by: admin on 10/01/2010

Just one new add to the Top 30….Great dance song from Pitbull.  Check out the 4 new adds to the National “Do Not Play” list.

LW	TW	Artist	Title	Featuring	Prime Cuts #	BPM	Notes
1	1	Usher	DJ Got Us Fallin In Love	Pitbull	201029	120	Edit
3	2	Katy Perry	Teenage Dream		201031	120
4	3	Enrique Iglesias	I Like It	Pitbull	201019	129
2	4	Eminem	Love The Way You Lie	Rihanna	201027	87	Edit
5	5	B.O.B	MAGIC	Rivers Cuomo	201028	83
7	6	Kesha	Take It Off		201028	125
8	7	Bruno Mars	Just the way you are		201030	109
6	8	Taio Cruz	Dynamite		201020	120
14	9	Justin Bieber	U Smile		201032	75
9	10	Jason Derula	Ridin Solo		201019	90	Edit
10	11	Sean Kingston	Letting Go (Dutty Love)		201025	92
13	12	Jay Sean	2012 (It ain’t the end of the world”		201032	127
15	13	Nelly	Just a Dream		201032	90
11	14	Flo Rida	Club can’t Handle Me	D Guetta	201024	128
12	15	New Boyz	Break My Bank	Iyaz	201028	91	Edit
19	16	Ne-Yo	One in a Million		201035	100
16	17	Katy Perry	California Gurls	Snoop Dog	201020	125
18	18	Kid Cudi	Erase Me	Kanye West	201034	94	Edit
22	19	Only Girl (In the world)	Rihanna		201037	126	EDIT
17	20	B.O.B	Airplanes	Hayley Williams	201016	94	Edit
24	21	Will.I.am	Check it Out	Nicki Minaj	201037	130	edit
20	22	Usher	OMG	Will I am	201012	130
27	23	3OH!3	Double Vision- Dance Edit		201035	120
21	24	Travie McCoy	Billionaire	Bruno Mars	201011	88
23	25	Mike Posner	Cooler Than Me		201014	130
25	26	Lady Gaga	Alajandro		201012	99
26	26	Mike Posner	Please Don’t Go		201034	121
28	27	Auburn	La La La		201031	112
29	28	Akon	Angel		201039	126
30	29	Travie McCoy	I Need You
New	30	Pitbull	Hey Baby		201037	128
		Recurrents- (Still popular)
		Lady Gaga	Alajandro		201012	99
		Tao Cruz	Break Your Heart		201004	122
		Drake	Find your Love		201019	95
		Black Eyed Peas	Rock That Body		201013	125
		Ready Set	Love Like Woe		201020	90
		3OH!3	My First Kiss	Ke$ha	201019	138
		Nicki Minaj	Your Love		201013	95
		David Guetta	Getting Over You	Fergie & LMFAO
		Cali Swag District	Teach Me How to Dougie
		Kesha	Your Love is My drug
		Jay Z	Young Forever
		Justin Bieber	Somebody to Love
		Jason Derula	In My Head
		Justin Bieber	Baby	Ludacris
		LaRoux	Bulletproof
		Lady Gaga	Bad Romance
		Timberland	If We ever Meet again	Katy Perry
		KE$ha	Tic Toc
		Timberland	Carry Out
		Christina Aguilera	Not Myself Tonight
		Selena Gomez & The Scene	Naturally
		Black Eyed Peas	Imma Be
		B.O.B.	Nothing on you	Bruno Mars
		Trey Songz	Say Aah
		DO NOT PLAYLIST ADDS
	New	Taio Cruz	Dirty Picture	Ke$ha
	New	Waka Flocka Flame	No Hands
	New	Kanye West	Monster	Jay Z -Rick Ross
	New	Eminem	No Love	Lil Wayne
		Trey Songz	Bottoms Up	Nicki Minaj
		Bumpy Ride	Mohombi
		F**K You	Cee Lo Green
		Right Above It	Lil Wayne	Drake
		Fancy	Drake
		Rick Ross	Blowin Money Fast
		Chris Brown	Deuces
		Drake	Fancy
		Richard Vission/Static Revenge	I Like That	Ludacris
		Far East Movement	Like a G6
		Glasses Malone	I Get Doe
		Soulja Boy	Pretty Boy Swag
		Kanye West	Power

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Powerful promotional video to boost your Karaoke business

Posted by: admin on 10/01/2010

My good friend Bruce Butterfield posted this on his Facebook wall and I had to snag it to pass along. If you are in the Karaoke business, this might give you some inspiration for doing your own promotional video.

I’m glad I could help!

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Corporate America kills the Radio Star?

Posted by: admin on 09/30/2010

News today of yet another casualty to “live and local” radio.  In my part of the world (Seattle) one of the last remaining super talents is bumped from the line-up at KZOK to move toward a more music (less expensive) morning show. Morning star  Bob Rivers’ contract has not been renewed.     Blame it on corporate greed?   Wait a minute…corporations by design don’t really have a conscience…they are an entity simply charged with the responsibility by its share holders to do one thing:  make money.   It’s therefore incumbent  on us (our government leaders) to apply the guidelines to  force (regulate) the public airwaves to suit the needs of it’s people.

We walked away from that responsibility starting in 1985 by easing the regulation of station ownership limits from 7 AM Stations, 7 FM stations and 7 TV stations (to 12/12/12) and then began the long ugly death of “live and local” radio with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed ownership of up to  8 radio stations in any one market and no limits on the number of stations nationwide.   Thus triggering a buying frenzy by corporate media companies each trying to secure a dominant number of radio stations in each market and nationwide.  In the process they were paying 3 or 4 (maybe more) times the real value of the station, showing shareholders significant revenue (not profit) increases, without regard for the huge debt they were also racking up.    When it came to the real life operating of the  broadcast stations it was a virtually a no-win scenario, the once cash and profit heavy industry was strapped with so much debt they couldn’t make the business model work.  Add to that an all new set of media challengers (Satellite, I-Pods, Internet Radio, Pandora) and it was time to slash and burn.  Cut the operating overhead to try to make it work.  Pipe in syndicated radio shows, perfect the art of pre-recording radio shows in bulk,  drop the expensive “live and local” talent.

Radio has turned it’s back on “live and local” the very ingredients that made it  viable when challenged by the introduction of Television.  And the amazing catch 22 is now radio is training it’s listeners to live without “live and local” by offering up generic music packages,  so there is no real reason for listeners to tolerate commercial interruptions.  If it’s just about music packages, these days, that’s available everywhere…even on your phone.  Radio’s only real viable and distinguishing media advantage is “Live and Local”.  Chances are the corporations won’t or can’t (economically) recognize that and somewhere in the not-too-distant-future they will auction off, or spin off at fire-sale prices their radio properties at prices that are sensible and can actually sustain the advertising business model that radio thrived on.   Hopefully it won’t be too late and would-be listeners have not been thoroughly retrained to depend on other media options.

Don’t blame the loss of “Live and Local” on the station program director, or the Station General Manager or even corporations that got us into this quagmire  (after all they were doing what corporations are suppose to do:  make shareholders happy.)   Blame it on a government that failed its responsibility to protect our public airwaves by bowing out in 1996.

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School dance DJ’s not forgotten

Posted by: admin on 09/28/2010

Ryan Burger is the Publisher of the DJ industry’s most respected DJ magazine, and producer of the huge DJ conference in Las Vegas each year.   His work has helped elevate the mobile DJ industry to a greater standard of professional excellence.  It was a real honor to have my School Dance Network featured in his publication this month.  The School Dance Network “Safe Songs Top 30″ chart will be published in the on line version weekly at www.mobilebeat.com and in the magazine’s print publications.  In an industry that seems to be obsessed with WEDDINGS.. it’s great to know Mobile Beat pays it’s due respects to the school dance DJ.

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