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Kerchoonz Scraps Artist Fee During Unsigned Competition

Kerchoonz.com - the much anticipated answer to the music industry's current downloading problem - is to scrap its artist sign-up fee for Christmas.

The groundbreaking new website, swamped by over 8 million hits and 80,000 unique visitors in November, is scrapping its £12.50 fee to mark the start of Kerchoonz Live - a month long competition to find the hardest working unsigned acts on the circuit.

Bands and artists have until the end of December to use Kerchoonz.com to promote themselves and earn money in a bid to bag a recording session at a famous Glasgow studio. As well as being able to record three tracks at the hands of top producer Ian Morrow (Wet Wet Wet, Rod Stewart, Seal), acts will get to keep all money earned from plays and downloads on Kerchoonz.com.

"I can imagine it's going to be huge and why not?" says former Stereophonics star Stuart Cable. "Becoming a professional musician in a band is the hardest job in the world - so to do it this way is great."

The social media platform lets registered artists and songwriters share their music and videos with fans while getting paid for every stream and download through a combination of the ISRC and play counts by utilizing unique coding and encryption within the application. Kerchoonz pays unsigned acts half a penny for every play and up to 10p for every download - by far the largest payments available to any act choosing to give away their music online.

Artists can even earn money by recommending other musicians to the site and, with no limit on the number of people you can recommend, it's the hardest working acts that will reap the greatest rewards.

"Kerchoonz.com takes the world of online music to a completely different dimension by allowing musicians to earn money from their work without being exploited" says Co-Founder, Indiana Gregg.

Kerchoonz.com is currently locked in talks with both independent and major record labels to bring further content to the site, providing a comprehensive music catalogue for fans.

"If bands and artists use the promotional tools we provide for them, Kerchoonz.com will act just like a record company. Artists can effectively ‘sell' their music without charging their fans anything for it," says Gregg.

Kerchoonz is a place where musicians, artists, film makers, fans, business people, and technologists can meet and exchange in a free and open environment. Our mission is to provide a social platform that enables all of us to explore and create, listen and be heard, give. receive, and discover. Kerchoonz was founded by musicians who believe that artists and musicians should be encouraged and also compensated for their work.

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Jonathan Lieberman: From the Ivory Tower to Your Headphones
It's been almost 30 years since Afrika Bambaataa helped birth hip hop music in the South Bronx. Most recently, the genre's latest iteration has shifted from 80's New York City discotheques to mainstream Eastern Seaboard universities.

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What happened to the world-class elegant American music of the 70s/80s?

Why does the media insist on shoving crap at us, music enthusiasts? I mean, there are a lot of very talented American artists even today who make some of the best quality & elegant music - but the media does not project them, instead they play very ordinary and repetitive artists' music on the TV or Radio.

If you're talking about bands like the Eagles, the Doobie Brothers, Boston, Frank Zappa, Tom Petty, Journey, Styx, et al, then the answer is everyone didn't bother to learn to play their instruments. The American music industry hasn't catered to good music in a while. They got it down to a formula and like everything else they're looking at the quick buck.

How many people have heard Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci? You don't see them on VH1.

I think this why I listen to fusion now The musicianship is not there.

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Are there any websites that are dedicated to 80s R&B music & artist?

Most of the websites I have searched put too much emphasis on 60's & 70's music.

http://www.imissthe80s.com/rnb.htm

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Times have sure changed in the Christian music scene. With new artists like Brandon Heath, Rush of Fools, and Lincoln Brewster topping the Christian Adult Contemporary charts recently, it may be easy to forget artists like 2nd Chapter of Acts, White Heart, and Leslie Phillips. In an effort to keep the past alive, here is an objective look back at the Christian music artists of the 1980's.

Using CCM magazine's Adult Contemporary Airplay charts, data was collected for every song charted by every artist during the decade. The following formula was used:

1. Points were earned for each song's peak position (#1 = 40 points, #2 = 39 etc.).

2. One point was awarded for each week a song was on the chart.

3. Finally, one point was given for each week a song was at #1.

To get the artist rankings, the total points that each song earned were added together.

Of the 254 artists whose songs made the charts in the 1980's, Amy Grant came out on top. Fueled by 21 top tens (5 of which went to #1), Grant ended the decade with 1488 points. The Imperials charted 25 songs during the 80's and finished in second place. Sandi Patty's five #1 songs helped position her in third. Twila Paris reached the top spot 6 times during the decade, placing her fourth. To the surprise of some, Wayne Watson came in fifth place. Michael Card edged out Michael W. Smith by a point for the #6 spot. Dallas Holm came in eighth. Steve Camp, whose song "He Covers Me" was the top song of 1987, finished the decade in ninth. Petra, with their five #1's, rounded out the top ten.

Go to http://www.topchristianhits.org to view the top 100 artists of the 1980's and the top songs of each year.

Nate Ohman has been a longtime fan of Christian music and statistics. He has combined the two on his website http://www.topchristianhits.org He currently resides in West Michigan with his wife and two children.

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What would be good music 80's and 90's music to dj a 18 year old girls party?

I have to dj a party for an 18 year olds graduation party. She likes 80's and 90's music. I have no clue what music would be good to play and dance to.

80's
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer
Celebration - Kool & The Gang
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Like A Virgin - Madonna
Dancing On The Ceiling - Lionel Richie
Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany
(I've Had) The Time Of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
My Prerogative - Bobby Brown
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
90's
push it-salt'n'pepper
Here Comes the Hotstepper - Ini Kamoze
boombastic-shaggy
wannabe-spice girls
whoomp there it is- tag team
macarena-los del rio
u can't touch this-mc hammer
livin la vida loca-ricky martin
believe-cher
all i wanna do- sheryl crow
baby one more time-britney spears
bump n grind - r.kelly

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Even if heavy metal is seen by many people as evil and destructive it is still very popular among young and old. It is pretty obvious that the thing teenagers today (and yesterday and tomorrow) are crazy about is music. Of all the musical genres the one with probably the most enthusiastic fans has to be heavy metal and all the hundreds of sub-categories, whether it is classic hard rock or grindcore.

Discordant heavy metal music struck a chord with many teenagers during the late '70s and '80s. The loud, fast, guitar-driven music has since languished commercially as successive generations have chosen newer soundtracks to fuel their rebellion against the establishment. Many of the original fans, however, never moved on, even as they aged, started careers, got married and had children of their own.

"If you're seeing a 40-year-old at a concert, you're quite sure at 18 you know what kind of music he was into. For so many people the music of the most emotional point of their lives is a touchstone that they return to for the rest of their lives, there keeping their own youth alive.

Heavy metal fans wear their passion on more than just the sleeves of skull T-shirts and black leather jackets. For many of them, the music--louder and faster than anything heard before--became a way of life. The mostly white, mostly male and mostly middle-class listeners found a feeling of power over their parents, over their teachers, over the jocks at school that treated them as outcasts.

Metalheads, or headbangers, as they called themselves, built up a community linked through underground tape swapping networks and conversations about Metallica lyrics while camping out on line for concert tickets.

A second wave of British and American rock bands became popular during the late 1960s to the 1970s, with groups that were more steeped in American blues music than their more pop-oriented predecessors. Bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Status Quo, Aerosmith, Queen, Black Sabbath, and Uriah Heep played highly amplified, guitar-driven hard rock that would come to be known as heavy metal. Heavy metal languished into obscurity in the late 1970s. A few bands including Kiss, Queen, Black Sabbath,AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith maintained large followings and there were occasional mainstream hits such as Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper". Music critics overwhelmingly disliked the genre. This began to change in 1978 following the release of Van Halen's eponymous, self-titled debut album. The album helped to usher in an era of high-energy rock and roll, based out of Los Angeles, California.

One genre that was widely popular in the 1980s (c.1983) was glam metal. Taking influence from various artists such as Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Queen, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, (all but Queen would eventually play glam metal at some point in the 80s), Sweet and the New York Dolls. The earliest glam metal bands to gain notability included: Mötley Crüe, W.A.S.P. and Ratt. They became known for their debauched lifestyles, teased hair and use of make-up and clothing. Their songs were bombastic and often defiantly macho, with lyrics focused on sex, drinking, drugs, and the occult.

By the mid 1980s, a formula developed in which a glam metal band had two hits -- one a "power ballad" (slow-dance tempo, with soft verses and bombastic anthemic choruses), and the other a hard-rocking anthem. In 1987 a second wave of glam metal acts, sometimes referred to as sleaze rock, emerged including L.A. Guns and Faster Pussycat.

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80s underrated/forgotten artists?

Ok I asked a question before about 70s forgotten artists or that should have been more popular sooooo im gonna do that for the 80s as well. How many of you remember these forgotten or should have been more popular 80s artists:

Red Box
Jetboy
Circus of Power
Blow Monkeys
The Models
Happy Mondays
Blanc Mange
PM
David & David
Tenpole Tudor
Five Star
Book of Love
Romeo Void
Plimsouls
Payolas
Judson Spence
The Alarm
Inspiral Carpets
Zodiac Mindwarp
Real Life (awesome band)
Bonnie Hayes
The Sherbs
Mondo Rock
Matt Bianco
Level 42
Planet P Project
Shalamar
Zebra
Ultravox

Of course some of them had a few shining moments but for the most part dont get mentioned that often when talking about the 80s music scene, which is a shame. Please feel free to add to the list, fun to see what others think. Theres obviously alot more than I put, but those are the ones that lept to my gray matter first.

I haven't heard of those groups, I like some 80's music but not much.

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