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The Wait is over –  The 2008 National Musicoz Awards are now open for entries!
Entries ore now open for Australia’s Premier Musicoz Awards for Unsigned and Independent Artists.
There are 17 different categories to enter into including:

Rock, Pop, Dance/Electronica, Urban, Country, Alternative, Acoustic/Singer-Songwriter, Schoolies, Video, Metal/Hardcore, World/Folk, Jazz/Classical, Blues/Roots, International, Christian/Spiritual, Live, Instrumental

All of the above are National Musicoz Awards in their own right. As well as this we have several other awards chosen from entries in the above categories, these include:

The Nova Unsigned Initiative Award
The APRA Songwriter’s Award
Tony Mott Photography Award
Garth Porter Producer Award
People’s Choice (Public Vote) Award
Artist of the Year Award

As well as the prestige of winning an actual National Musicoz Award, we also have amassed well over $150,000 worth of cash, prizes and industry opportunities for winners of our various awards. Prizes include recording time in Australia’s best recording studios, Record deals, Publishing Deals, Photo Shoots, Music Videos, and prizes from Turramurra Music, Maton Guitars, Rode Microphones and Roland, (and a few major surprises to come)

All artists get their own profile page on our popular website which can be also used for your own promotion. We also have a professional song feedback service designed to assist developing songwriters to further their craft. With an ever increasing success story roster, The Musicoz Awards are proud of playing a major development role with the following artists:

·                Porcelain-Now residing in L.A and signed to Universal Music U.S.
·                Sender-Signed to Sony/BMG Australia- Reached no 19 on the national ARIA charts
·                Bliss’n’Eso-Signed to Illusive Records Australia-Reached no 7 on the national ARIA charts
·                Sick Puppies-Now a sensation in the U.S and signed to Roadshow Music., toured with Evanescence in the US
·                Blue King Brown-No 1 on the Australian Independent charts
·                The Sunpilots-No 1 indie band on MySpace, No 1 added band to commercial radio FEB 2008
·                The Fumes- Album of the week FBI Radio and The Drum Media
·                Felicity Urquhart- 2007 Golden Guitar winner and No.1 video on CMC.
·                Anthony Snape – Currently Touring the U.S
·                Gian – Signed to ABC/Warner Music
·                Stone Parade – No 17 ARIA charts, No 1 AIR charts May 2008
·                Borne – Played Glastonbury Festival (UK), 25,000 downloads iTunes US, #1 iTunes Australia
·                King Farook – Headlining Major Festivals across Australia
·                BlueJuice – Played Big Day Out, Come Together, Splendour In the Grass Festivals

All of our categories and awards except one, are judged by an elite Musicoz Judging Academy, representing major and indie labels, managers, booking agents, radio and TV program and music directors, record producers and engineers and major music journalists, including:

Michael Parisi President of A&R Warner Music, Jay Dee Springbett A&R Director Sony/BMG, Willy MacAlister Assistant Program Director Nova 96.9, Jason Healey New Media Manager & Artist Outreach Roadrunner Records, Matthew Capper General Manager Warner/Chappell Publishing, Jonathon Moran Music/Entertainment Writer Sunday Telegraph Anthony Agizi Producer DNA Songs, Michael Taylor General Manager of A&R/Head of Island Records Australia Universal Music Australia, Simon Moor Head of A&R Sony ATV Publishing, Courtney Hard Senior A&R Manager Sony/BMG, Matt O’Connor A&R Manager The A&R Department.com, Sam Righi Managing Director Big Deal Entertainment, Mark Bolton General Manager MGM distribution, Denley Healy A&R Manager Shock Records, Adam Gould A&R Manager Sony/BMG, Craig Hawker A&R Manager EMI, Catherine Haridy Manager Eskimo Joe, Mark Neilson Editor The Drum Media, Adam Jordan Head Engineer Mainstreet Studios, Simon Cahill A&R Manager Sony/BMG (Red Label), DW Norton, Producer/Engineer Faultline Records, Denny Burgess Chairman Australian Songwriter’s Association, Marshall Cullen Manager Fogsongs, David Liotta Producer Tonemarket Music, Michael Smith Associate Editor the Drum Media, Geoff Trio Booking agent/Manager Code One Entertainment, Adrian Karvinen A&R Island Records Australia/Universal Music Australia, Warwick Marsh Manager Australian Heart Ministries, David Page Producer Nikinali Studios, Bill Cullen Manager End of Fashion/Paul Kelly/Sarah Blasko, Sharnee Davis Manager Studios 301, Carl Whitbread Producer, Adam CurleyEditor Inpress Magazine, Greg Grant Manager Adrenalin Sounds Peter Billing Rolling Stone Magazine Garth Porter Producer, Tony Mott Photographer Monious Producer, Paris Pompor Managing Director Groovescooter Records, Russel Hannah Illawarra Folk Club, Yvonne O’Grady Director Illawarra Folk Club Tim Daley Program Director Country Music Channel, Matt Fell Producer Love Hz Studios, Mark Gable Choirboys, David DeSanti Festival Director Illawarra Folk Club, Mark Holland A&R Scout EMI, Robbie Specogna Producer/Engineer Mainstreet Studios, Danielle Courtney Shrine Promotions, Nick Skitz, Dennis Koks Jazz Guru, Damien Wilson Global Sales and Marketing Director Rode Microphones, Christie Eliezer Music Journalist Ace Media International, Denley Healey Promotions Manager Shock Records, David Musumeci Producer DNA Songs, Geoge Said Creative Manager Peer Music Publishing, Paul Paiello Director Musical Content Mercury Mobility, Katania Young Country Music Manager One Stop Entertainment, Brett Nositer Program Director Channel [V], Sue Taylor General Manager Trackdown Scoring Stage, Elaine Beckett Operations Manager Trackdown Scoring Stage, Bishop David Cremin St Michael’s Parish Hurstville Steve McPherson Manager Hillsong Publishing, Steve Berry Lecturer Southern Cross Uni School of Contemporary Music, Michael King Country Music Artist, Graheme Morrison, Illawarra Folk Festival, Peter Butler Illawarra Folk Festival, Suzie Mylecharane Ku Promotions, Jim MacQuarrie Director NSW Folk Association, Jamie Hilton Producer Ticket To Ride Productions, Helen Clemens Video Director Ticket To Ride Productions, Mark Callaghan General Manager AMPAL (and Gangagang), Dan Nash Senior Recording Engineer Glebe Studios, Francis Coady Manager Coady Music International Artist Management, Claire Roberts Manager KISS Events, Glen Bowker Manager Rockdog

The only Award not judged by the industry is the People’s Choice (Public Vote) Award. All entrants in all categories are eligible also for this award which is determined by receiving SMS votes. All artists and bands can receive votes and potentially go into the Musicoz interactive voting charts.

For the past eight years , Musicoz has been at the forefront of the surge in popularity in independent music in Australia and the National Musicoz Awards has been a true breath of fresh air in an industry that otherwise had limited scope for advancement for many artists.

So if you’re unsigned or independent, if you’re a solo artist or in a band, no matter what style of music you create, go to www.musicoz.org and upload your music now. Entries close August 31st.

This Sunday we have a huge show coming up… Side Show
Sideshow is an exhibition put together by a group of illustration students from NMIT.

The aim of the show is to raise funds for their combined end of year exhibition in August.

The exhibition will showcase a diverse and innovative range of talent, at affordable prices.

There will be raffles for show bags containing , toys, donated artworks, badges and live painting performed by participating artists. The resulting piece will be included in the raffle draw.

There will also be tasty tunes provided by DJ Little Cake, alcohol and cupcakes will be available for a gold coin donation.

Exhibition Runs from 1^st till 14^th of June. Opening night 1^st June 6-9pm.

IN January 2005, the Art Gallery of NSW opened a large survey exhibition of photographs by Bill Henson, one of Australia’s most internationally renowned artists. It included themes present in his work since the 1970s: landscapes, objects, people young and old, The show attracted 65,000 over three months in Sydney: a remarkable number for a photography exhibition. It later travelled to the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, where a further 50,000 saw Henson’s work.

Bill Henson – art or pornography in public

A NAKED lass with budding breasts looks down at the caps lock key on my computer. Her face seems a bit sweaty but the light is dim, as a beam transfixes her from behind and a soft glow fills out her middle with tender reflections and shadows. This tentative juvenile beauty — looking lost and vulnerable — arrived in an email advertising Bill Henson’s exhibition in Sydney, the one that was closed down by the police on Thursday evening.

Bill Henson – art or pornography in public

POLICE are trying to track down a girl, 13, who was photographed naked as part of a Bill Henson exhibition that has been withdrawn from a Sydney gallery Interstate authorities will play a role in determining what charges are laid over images of the girl seized by police from a Sydney art gallery. Rose Bay Local Area Commander Allan Sicard says the 13-year-old girl featured in the studio-produced large prints, photographed by renowned Melbourne-born artist Bill Henson, did not live in NSW.

The opening night of an exhibition by the photographer Bill Henson featuring images of naked children was dramatically cancelled after police visited the Paddington gallery to investigate child pornography claims. The future of the exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery, which featured images of a girl and a boy, aged 12 and 13 – some of which also appear on the gallery’s website – is now in doubt.

Gallery manager Amanda Rowell said the reaction action was blown out of proportion.
“It’s (the reaction) never been like this before.
“This is no different to any other exhibition he’s had and he’s had many exhibitions here.
“He’s a master, there’s no one else in the world like him. They’re amazing technically and aesthetically.
“He works with the same models for a number of years. Some now in their 30s are coming to the opening.”

More from the gallery

• Group Show – OBLIVION PAVILION – Marley Dawson, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Matthew Hopkins, Emily Hunt, Tim Schultz, Raquel Welch – curated by Amanda Rowell
• Rohan Wealleans – Slave of the Cannibal God, 2008
• David Noonan – MARKUS, 2008
• John Conomos – John Conomos, Lake George after Mark Rothko
• Mandy Martin – Mandy Martin, Wanderers in the Desert of the Real, 2008
• Linda Marrinon – Figure Sculpture II, 2008
• Tony Clark – Tony Clark, Prix de Rome, 2008
• Octavia Cook – Venerable Heirlooms from the Cook & Co Coffers, 2007

DECIDE FOR YOURSELF

CRIMES ACT 1900 – SECT 91H

Production, dissemination or possession of child pornography

Members of Sydney’s art community have come out in support of controversial photographer Bill Henson.

Henson has been quizzed by police after his exhibition featuring shots of naked teenagers was closed down last night.

The New South Wales Community Services Minister, Kevin Greene, says his department or the police may take legal action.

“If there are any suggestions that these photographs were taken in New South Wales, we’ll then look to see what our options are,” he said.

But John McDonald, art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, says there is nothing sexual about the photos.

Bill Henson Website >>

More art or what is it?

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Facebook is raising $100 million in debt, bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars. This most recent round will be used to scale the service via another 50,000 or so servers. Facebook now has over 70 million active users and around 109 M monthly visitors – Compare that to Google, which operates at least a million servers (and is adding 500,000 per year, says Business Week), and Microsoft, which is adding 200,000 servers per year.

Facebook says that “less than 1,000? users have 5,000 friends today. There are around 70 million active Facebook users, so the number of users who are affected is around one thousandth of a percent.

The 2008-09 Budget Papers will be available after 7:30 pm, Tuesday 13 May 2008 from www.budget.gov.au and from Department of Finance and Deregulation, Australian Taxation Office, australia.gov.au and Parliament of Australia.

I bet theres a few dollars set aside for me…

St George burnt by credit dragon and cuts forecast: The global credit crisis and sharemarket turmoil have forced St George Bank to cut its earnings forecast for the rest of this financial year from 10% to as low as 8%, after first-half core profit growth slowed to 6%.

 Oh dear, poor st george bank. does that mean their variable interest rates will rise 2 times every month on personal loans??? OF COURSE it does.

St George, don’t your directors buy newspapers and milk and bread and have families to feed as well?

quote: ‘the amount of distributable profit to shareholders by 10% to just $514 million’ – IS that all? read more about this event >>

Steve Danzig

Title:
Anthropo-ecosophy
Medium:
works on paper
soundscape/video projection
lightbox installation

Images:
1. Anthropo-ecosophy image gallery

Essays on Anthropo:
1. Stephen Rainbird – senior curator QUT art Museum
2. Dr Stephen Jones – Australian academic
3. Laurence Gartel – digital media pioneer

Statement:

The title is a mix of two words: Anthropomorphic and Ecosophy.

Check outhe IDA latest offering from Steve D – brilliant.

In the 1970s they were cutely called hot pants, the successor to the miniskirt, and were a huge rage. That was followed by a revival in the 1980s. More than 20 years on, hot pants are hot again this season, with major fashion labels offering grown-up and glamorised remakes. {thank you! – ed}

In the entertainment industry, hot pants have long had an illustrious presence – Raquel Welch and Brigitte Bardot were among the sex sirens who drove the guys crazy by squeezing themselves into tight, little and oh-so-hot pants in the 1970s. This time, it is the likes of Jessica Simpson who have helped bring hot pants back in vogue.

Teen pop sensations Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera were practically born into the music industry wearing hot pants, although at her worst, Spears embraced the hooker-shorts look – torn fishnets and cleavage bearing tops – while Aguilera is currently channelling Marilyn Monroe in her 1950s glamour puss styling.

check the hot pants story >>