2010 Conference News

New Noise offers a range of badges, wristbands and ticket prices, suitable for artists, industry workers, students and music fans. We have attempted to keep ticket prices as low as possible to encourage artists, songwriters and fans the ability to see our panelists without breaking their bank account.  We hope you can join us November 4-6 in Downtown Santa Barbara!

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NEW NOISE TWO DAY VIP FESTIVAL ONLY BADGE: ($40) … Limited # at this price. Buy now!

In town for just Friday & Saturday? Can't make it to our awesome Conference at the Canary Hotel during the day?  

• No cover and front of line access to New Noise sponsored club showcases at James Joyce,Velvet Jones, Whiskey Richards, Muddy Waters & SOhO Restaurant & Nightclub. (November 5-6)***
• Guaranteed no cover admission to New Noise official VIP party @ the Canary Hotel Rooftop: Friday, November 5th from 4:30p-9pm
• Complimentary New Noise Welcome Bag with discounts, freebies and more.

NOTES:
* All VIP badge holders will be give priority access to club shows as well as the ability to roam in and out of all our venues. This pass will save you tons of dough and give you the complete New Noise experience + ability to hang with some of the speakers and artists who perform at our Festival. An Evening with Dr. Drew (11/4) & Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation (11/5) tickets are NOT included in New Noise badges/wristbands. Tickets to these events are on sale now at all TicketMaster outlets.
***Pass holders are admitted before the general public, but access is subject to venue capacity. New Noise SB club shows are at all ages, 18+ and 21+ venues. New Noise SB will post age restrictions when schedule of club shows are announced.  

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NEW NOISE TWO DAY CONFERENCE ONLY: ($50) ….

• Guaranteed access to New Noise conference sessions (November 5 & 6 @ The Canary Hotel)
  
• Complimentary New Noise Welcome Bag with discounts, freebies and more
  

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NEW NOISE SINGLE DAY CONFERENCE ONLY: ($30 per day) ….

• Guaranteed access to New Noise conference sessions (November 5 OR November 6 @ The Canary Hotel)
  
• Complimentary New Noise Welcome Bag with discounts, freebies and more
  

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NEW NOISE VIP PARTY ONLY: ($20) …. Limited # at the price

• Guaranteed access to New Noise VIP Party (11/5) on the Rooftop of the Canary Hotel.  
• Featured DJ: Peanut Butter Wolf 
• Time: 4:30pm-8:30pm
• What: Relax and plot your evening activities high atop the Canary Hotel! We'll have great music, good peeps and some great drink specials ready to get you sorted for the nights fun. Capacity is limited for this special event featuring one of LA's finest DJ's, Peanut Butter Wolf (Stones Throw Records) including a very special DJ performance. Trust us. It's rad.   

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NEW NOISE CLUB SINGLE TICKETS:

• Tickets for New Noise Club shows can be purchased at the door of participating clubs. First come, first serve. No re entry. Some New Noise concerts will offer a limited number of advance sale tickets available online. New Noise will post information on which shows are allowing advance sale tickets. However, we strongly suggest you simply purchase a badge or wristband and check out a whole bunch of different music over three days with the ability to travel in and out. It is the best way to experience New Noise Santa Barbara and you'll always be treated to priority access at our clubs (subject to venue capacity).  New Noise sponsored clubs are: James Joyce, Velvet Jones, Whiskey Richards, Muddy Waters & SOhO. New Noise SB club shows are at All Ages, 18+ and 21+ venues. New Noise SB will post age restrictions when schedule of club shows is announced.  

We will be releasing information on the 2010 New Noise Music Conference & Festival in the next few weeks. Pardon our mess as we doll up the 2010 site for ya. The dates will be Nov 4-6. If you are reading this that means you rule. If you call the Canary Hotel right now-even before we *officially* announce our dates, you will be able to score the New Noise rate by just saying- hey- we wanna book a room during New Noise: Nov 4-6. It's really that easy. Any problems booking? e mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we'll sort um out for ya!

We CAN"T WAIT to have you back in the Fall and let you in on all our exciting additions to this year's fest. Thank you for supporting new music and Santa Barbara. BRB.

 

New Noise brings to Santa Barbara some of the best music and technology industry experts in an effort to allow fans, industry workers, artists, entrepreneurs and the community gain access and knowledge from their experience. You can purchase passes right now and experience and hang with some of the best minds in music. Some of our confirmed guests who will be speaking at the 2010 Conference include:

Kevin Lyman (Founder/Owner, Warped Tour)
Kevin is best known as the producer and creator of the hugely successful Vans Warped Tour, the longest running traveling music and extreme sports festival in the world today. Now entering it’s 16th year, the tour reaches more than 600,000 kids each summer, and has spawned a host of imitators. The “punk rock summer camp” has introduced audiences to artists such as No Doubt, Sublime, Blink-182, My Chemical Romance, Eminem and Fall Out Boy among hundreds of others.  With the Vans Warped Tour, Lyman pioneered the successful integration of corporate sponsors with the extreme lifestyle, creating a blueprint for sponsorship integration widely duplicated in the marketplace today.



Ian Rogers (TopSpin)
Ian Rogers, Chief Executive Officer of Topspin, is a music and technology industry veteran with roots in defining the way artists and consumers promote and experience digital media online. Rogers has been building digital media applications since 1992. He created one of the first music-related Web sites and built many of the original promotional sites for the music and movie industries.

David Andreone (GM, MySpace Records)
David is an A&R executive whose artist signings have resulted in sales exceeding 25 million units worldwide (Disturbed, Michelle Branch, Hoobastank, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Remy Zero, among others). Currently, David is the General Manager of MySpace Records. Previously, David was a Senior Director of A&R at Warner/Chappell, and a Vice President of A&R at Columbia Records.

Jason Fisher (Director of New Media, Epitaph & ANTI Records)
Jason started his career in freelance web/graphic design, later working in the new media department of Victory Records as well as serving as Director of New Media for Immortal Records.

Greg Sowders (Head of A&R, U.S. for Warner/Chappell Music)
Greg oversees the rock & pop A&R departments in LA and NYC. During his 19 years there, Sowders has played a key role in developing its roster including Nickelback, Green Day, Paramore, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Wainwright, Katy Perry and Disturbed. 
 
Jon Granat  (Film & TV, Chrysalis) 
Jon began his career in the realm of Film & TV Music.  First for Warner/Chappell Music in their Synch licensing department handling clients like MTV, VH1 & Lifetime, before leaving to run the day to day operations of a small boutique publishing company called Barton Music.  After several freelance music supervision gigs he took a job on the studio side of the business in Warner Bros. Television's music department handling music clearance for shows like Veronica Mars, One Tree Hill, and The Closer.  In 2007 Jon went back to music publishing when he joined the Film & TV department at Chrysalis Music Group where he oversees creatively pitching artists/songwriters like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blondie, and The Walkmen for placements in Film, Television, and Trailers as well as overseeing the Chrysalis web presence and acting as product manager for the several Chrysalis artists including Clint Lowery and Finger Eleven. Because he likes to stay busy Jon also runs a small independent music management company handling the artist careers of Eastern Conference Champions, Fay Wolf, and Mike Olson.


Bob Becker (Owner, Fearless Records)
As founder of Huntington Beach, CA's Fearless Records, Rowland Heights native Bob Becker transformed an unrivaled passion for music into a highly-successful business. Forming in 1994, the label became initially known for launching the careers of respected punk rock acts such as Sugarcult, Bigwig, The Aquabats, At The Drive-In, and multi-platinum selling band Plain White T's. In recent years, Fearless Records has become an internationally-renowned hotbed for up-and-coming rock bands, including Mayday Parade, The Maine, Alesana, Blessthefall, Breathe Carolina and Every Avenue. Becker is also the creator of Fearless' successful Punk Goes... compilation series, featuring popular rock acts covering songs in other genres. The tenth in the series, Punk Goes Pop Volume 3, is set for release on November 2nd, 2010.

Brian Mencher (Co-Founder/Partner, Beame & Mencher LLP)
Brian handles legal matters in the entertainment industries, with particular focus in the music business – artist representation, intellectual property management, deal-making, and general business governance. With a background in music, Brian enrolled in the University of Florida’s College of Law to learn the business side of the industry. While in law school, he worked at the nationally-renown law firm of Greenberg Traurig and was the founder of Music Law Conference. He graduated number five in his law school class. Brian’s clients include major label artists, producers, new media/tech upstarts, award-winning filmmakers, broadway/film actors, and other professionals in the entertainment industries. He is licensed in New York, and has published numerous articles for some of the country’s most prestigious law journals

Sean Campos (CTO and co-founder, Oniracom)
Oniracom is an interactive marketing agency for music and entertainment.  Sean directs the development of Oniracom's SceneConnection platform which manages marketing campaigns across disparate web properties including websites, social networks and mailing lists. Sean has spent several years developing and managing websites and other online presences for popular artists and festivals including Jack Johnson, The Counting Crows, Lenny Kravitz, Disney Records, Hawaii's Kokua Festival and Santa Barbara's own West Beach Music and Arts Festival.

Glenn Miller (Marketing Executive, CAA)
Glenn is a digital marketing executive in the Music department at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), an entertainment and sports agency based in Los Angeles with offices in New York, London, Nashville, and Beijing.  Miller conceives and implements strategic and creative digital marketing campaigns for CAA’s music and comedy clients. Miller joined CAA in 2009 from AEG Live, where he served as the Director of Interactive Marketing.  While at AEG Live, he created local and national digital media techniques which ultimately led to more than $100 million in ticket sales.  He previously worked as Director of New Media and Brand Licensing at Bill Silva Management.

Scott Parent (Founder, Silverjet Media)
Scott is the Founder of Silverjet Media, a marketing strategy firm based in Santa Barbara.  Previously, he was the Vice President of Emerging Media & Strategy at MediaTrust, a New York based digital advertising agency. He has been involved in the online media space for the last ten years with expertise in content creation, branding, reputation management and social community building. In addition to his weekly writing for numerous blogs, he has been a contributor to Adotas Magazine, a member of the IAB UGC & Social Media Committee, and the host of the popular web programs Relevantly Speaking and American Cliche. Scott also served as the Executive Producer of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s online video series. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in broadcast production from Franklin Pierce College and a master’s degree in corporate policy studies from Boston University.

Andrea von Foerster (Music Supervisor)
Andrea has done music supervision for film, television and online projects for the last ten years.  Credits include music documentaries such as Freestyle: The Art Of Rhyme, Mayor Of The Sunset Strip and The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights, as well as independent films such as Ten Inch Hero, (500) Days Of Summer and most recently, It’s Kind of A Funny Story.  Television work includes The O.C., Grey’s Anatomy and Dollhouse and numerous MTV shows such as Run’s House and Life Of Ryan. She is currently working on the independent films From Prada To Nada (Lionsgate) and The Secret Lives Of Dorks in addition to the TV show Stargate Universe (Sy-Fy).

John Lefebvre ( Environmentalist and Songwriter)
John Lefebvre doesn't just sing about social change, he affects it. As a sitting member of the board of directors for the David Suzuki Foundation he is closely connected to the acclaimed conservationists there who aim to provide science-based education, advocacy, and policy work in order to affect social change on a number of pressing environmental issues, including halting climate change and protecting endangered ecosystems.

Michael Howe (VP of A&R + Licensing, Downtown Records)
Until late 2005, Michael was Director of A&R at Virgin Records, where he was responsible for handling US A&R duties for The Rolling Stones, as well as signing and developing We Are Scientists.  He has served as a membership representative at ASCAP and as an A&R consultant for Epic Records.  He has also advised several artists on career decisions and was instrumental in securing a recording deal for The All-American Rejects (Interscope), among others.  Currently, Michael is VP of A&R and Licensing for Downtown Music, home of Gnarls Barkley, David Gray, Santigold, Cold War Kids, Miike Snow, Brett Dennen, Mos Def, The Drums and more.

Michael Crandell (CEO and a founder of RightScale)
Michael provides the vision and direction for the company as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. Crandell is a frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com. Crandell received his B.A. from Stanford University and completed graduate studies at Harvard University.

Lucas Keller (Manager, The Collective)
Lucas Keller joined The Collective in 2009 with over 8 years of experience in the industry as artist manager, promoter, agent, and label consultant. As a manager, Keller is known for his grassroots marketing skills and entrepreneurial vision to develop acts from the ground up. In recent years, he has had success with creative ventures that involve co-branding tours, launching major music campaigns in television and film and building, developing, and signing young acts to major record /publishing deals. Keller has the unique position of representing bands at The Collective while simultaneously representing and publishing producers and songwriters for the company's new venture, The Collective Songs. Prior to joining the company, he spent the last five years at Uppercut Management in Chicago where he worked with a variety of acts ranging from
Better Than Ezra to All That Remains as well as representing a power list of top songwriters. Keller is currently working on everyone from the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus to Peter Gabriel as well as multi platinum Grammy award winning producer / writers David Hodges, Gavin Brown, Eman, Harvey Mason Jr, and a number of other talented clients. His ability to be proactively involved in both artist management, producer management, and music publishing, while developing new talent, makes him a rare asset to The Collective.

Cyndi Lynott ( Artist Manager, Stiletto Entertainment)
Cyndi Lynott started her career in music as a sales clerk at Tower Records in Ann Arbor, MI. After deciding she was hooked, she moved out to New York City and worked in marketing and artist development at Island Def Jam Records. She then moved over to Atlantic Records where she spent 5 years working first as a Director of Mobile Sales and Marketing and then as a Director of Marketing. While in marketing, Cyndi coordinated 23 album releases including Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas, Twilight Soundtrack, Eclipse Soundtrack, Straight No Chaser and more, plus worked with WMG labels Chop Shop Records and Fueled By Ramen Records. In 2010 she moved out to Los Angeles to pursue a career in artist management with Stiletto Entertainment.

Rico Csabai (A&R, American)

Bob Bradley (Director of Licensing and Marketing at Authentik Artists)
Bob was previously with Fearless Records as head of new media and as a web manager at Purevolume.com. In addition, Bob toured for many years in a band signed to Victory Records.

Heather Peggs (Hell Ya! Records)
Heather Peggs  started out at KROQ Los Angeles, distributing mix- tapes to on-air DJ's. From there, she began booking club shows titled Hell Ya! and launched her own label. Peggs started working in A&R at Capital in 2004 and was recently recruited to join Atlantic Records, running Hell Ya! as an imprint of Elektra/Atlantic.

Luke Ebbin (Producer, Co-Founder Music180.com)
Luke Ebbin is a 13-times platinum, Grammy-nominated record producer, composer, and songwriter who co-founded Music180.com – a new artist development platform designed to give aspiring artists guidance and coaching from top music industry professionals. Credited for the comeback of Bon Jovi by his production of the worldwide smash single "It’s My Life" and the album Crush, which sold nine million copies, Luke returned to his indie roots by producing the critically acclaimed album United By Fate for emo all-stars Rival Schools and wrote “Losing Myself,” featured on the Plain White T’s top-selling record Hey There Delilah.
 
Eric F. Galen  (CEO at Music180.com, Entertainment Attorney)
For over a decade, Mr. Galen has helped independent artists succeed in all aspects of their financial and creative endeavors.  As a trained musician and successful music attorney, Eric has worked with some of the top music professionals and companies in the business, including Sony/BMG, Warner Bros., The Eagles, Mariah Carey, and many other producers, songwriters and independent artists. Eric launched Music180.com – a new artist development platform that helps aspiring artists meet and work with top industry professionals for guidance and personal coaching.
 

Todd Parker (A&R GURU, Interscope Records)
Todd Parker is currently A&R at Interscope Records in Santa Monica, CA, and is also a Grammy nominated Los Angeles based engineer/mixer. After graduating from the recording arts program at the esteemed Full Sail University, Todd started his career at age 19 at the legendary Hit Factory recording studios in New York City and later moved to Sear Sound recording studios before becoming a freelance engineer/mixer. Some of the artists Todd has worked with in the studio include David Bowie, Chris Cornell, Weezer, Jakob Dylan, Taking Back Sunday, Jane Monheit, Earl Scruggs, Hilary Duff and Lamb of God. As A&R at Interscope Records since 2007, some of the artists Todd has worked with include Enter Shikari, Chester French and Chris Cornell.

Chris Trovero (Director of Marketing, Epitaph/Hell-Cat Records)
Chris Trovero is the director of marketing for independent powerhouse Epitaph Records. Chris has also been the assistant music buyer at Hot Topic headquarters, and was also assistant marketing director at Interscope and Warner Bros Records before “leaving the sinking ship that is a major label” for Epitaph.

Constantine Roussos (.music)
Constantine Roussos has long been on the cutting edge of emerging technologies in the music entertainment and Internet (affiliate, social media, search & SEO) industry. He is the pioneer behind dotMusic (.MUSIC), the top-level domain name and industry standard for official music websites on the Web. It paves the way for the post-dotCOM era and next-generation of the Internet by building a home to everything related to music, giving music entities an exclusive, branded .MUSIC domain web address.

Chris Baumgartner, manager at Effect Partners: Chris has worked for five years helping to bring a more sustainable approach to marketing and touring. Effect Partners has worked with Jack Johnson, Black Eyed Peas, U2, and other big acts to green their tours by integrating recycling measures, energy saving strategies, and other sustainable practices. I will start with Chris and ask for an assessment of how the music industry has done in 2009-2010 in terms of sustainability. See http://www.effectpartners.com

Steve Casper, owner, Zero Impact Guitars: Starting in 1986, Steve, whose main company is Casper Guitar Technologies, began making sustainable guitars and now makes his “eco-axes” with “Smartwood” as dictated by the guidelines of the Forest Stewardship Council. I hope Steve, whose work has been featured in BusinessWeek magazine, can tell us a little about the everyday musician's desire to go green, and how much the sustainability trend is tricklign down to the everyday picker. Steve will also have some of his wares on display in our listening lounge throughout the conference, and will probably play a tune or two himself. See http://www.zeroimpactguitars.com

Jonathan Gelbard, founder and executive director of www.ConservationValue.org: Combining the skills of a conservation scientist, sustainability experts, and communication specialist, Jonathan uses his nonprofit to build bridges between the science of sustainability and business solutions. His work involves the entertainment industry, and he produced the Rothbury Think Tank at the Rothbury Festival in Michigan and the eco-component of the Green Apple Festival in D.C. I will have Jonathan discuss the difference between greenwashing and true sustainability within the music business, have him highlight some successes and/or failures in this regard, and then get his assessment on the future of sustainability in music. See conservationvalue.org

John Lefebvre, musician/environmentalist: A former attorney straight outta Canada who started his songwriting career at age 56 after being busted for an Internet gambling operation, John is now an “eco-troubadour” who uses his music as a platform for spreading the message of environmentalism. His songs resonate with sustainable notions, and he's also an active supporter of the David Suzuki Foundation and the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education, both of which are located in Vancouver near his home. I'm hoping John can let us know why music can be a weapon against climate change, and clue us in on how he and other musicians are leading this charge. See www.johnlefebvre.com.

Craig Lyons, musician on The Second Life: Each month, more than one million people tune into SecondLife.com, where they can live a parallel existence as online avatars who, among other activities, like listening to live music. Craig is a real-life musician who plays as much as three times a day for these crowds, and makes real money in the process — often as much as $200 a gig, with sometimes three gigs a day. As such, he's touring the “world” and attracting actual fans without making much of a carbon footprint. I'll ask Craig to explain this bizarre arrangement, why it might even be better than a live show in a packed bar, and see how the virtual world can grow the music scene without trashing the planet. See http://world.secondlife.com/group/80ebeb75-15cc-1ada-9581-478617b070b8 and http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/09/entertainment/la-et-secondlife-concerts-20100609

Jacob Tell, CEO of Oniric Records and Oniracom: As the mastermind behind the websites for Jack Johnson, Brushfire Records, Counting Crows, Matisyahu, John Legend, Lenny Kravitz, and others, Jacob knows a thing or two about new media marketing, which is much less impactful than the traditional paper-based strategies. Additionally, Jacob produces the “Solutions for Dreamers” series of albums; the third season is out now and, among other artists, features the first new song from the Wailers in many years while also raising money for the World Food Programme. I will get Jacob to talk a little about the eco-advantages of new media marketing as well as the intersection of music and philanthropy in general. See http://oniricrecords.com and http://oniracom.com

Mikey Doling (Producer, Songwriter, Founding Member of Snot & all around rad dude) 

Matt Kettmann (New Noise co-founder/journalist, The Santa Barbara Independent and TIME Magazine)

Bob Becker (Owner, Fearless Record) 

Michael Howe (VP, Downtown Records)

Mikey Doling (Producer, Songwriter, Founding Member of Snot & all around rad dude) 

Greg Sowders (Head of A&R, Warner/Chappell Music Publishing US)

Lucas Keller (Artist Manager, The Collective)

Daryl Berg (Music Supervisor, Fuel TV)

Glenn Miller (Digital Marketing, CAA)

Brian Mencher (Entertainment Attorney

Meiko (Artist/Songwriter)

Mollie Moore (A&R, Atlantic Record)

Kyle Wilensky (Agent, CAA)

Gabe Apodaca (Agent, The Agency Group)

Jonathan Granat (Director Film/TV, Chrysalis Music Publishing)

Luke Ebbin (Producer/Songwrite)

David Andreone (GM, MySpace Records)

Andrea Von Foerster (Music Supervisor, 500 Days of Summer)

Michael Crandell (CEO, RightScale)

Mike Savage (Mike Savage Artists Management)

James Leach (SESAC)

Scott Parent (Founder, Silverjet)

Bob Bradley (Authentik Artists)

Rico Csabai (A&R, American Recordings)

Gary Tovar (Concert producer/co-founder Goldenvoice)

Chris Trovero (Epitaph/Anti Records)

Eddie Numbskull (Concert Promoter)

Greg Danylyshyn (Music Supervisor, GoBig Entertainment)

Tavi Shabestari (BMI)

Sean Campos (CTO, Oniracom)

Jason Fisher (Epitaph Records)

Todd Parker (A&R Interscope)

Bob Bradley (Director of Licensing & Marketing, Authentik Artist)

Heather Peggs (A&R, Hell Ya!)

Cyndi Lynott  (Artist Manager, Stiletto Entertainment)