Friday, March 14, 2008

Top 10 Marketing Hits 3/14

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TOP 10 MARKETING HITS
Week Ending March 14th, 2008
10. Dream Theater will appear on the cover of the summer issue of Limelight Magazine for their "New York Bands" special.
9. 3 Inches Of Blood's video for "Trial of Champions" is one of the featured videos on MySpace's A Place for Metal this week.
8. Theory of a Deadman shot their first video from Scars & Souvenirs, "So Happy," in Vancouver last week as label mates, Airbourne took over the streets of Los Angeles and shot their second video from their debut, for "Runnin' Wild" that features a cameo appearance by the legendary Lemmy of Motorhead. Both videos will be available mid-March.
7. Megadeth's Dave Mustaine will play with Dave Navarro for an upcoming episode of Dave Navarro's TV show on Mania TV. The footage will also be used for the second season's opening credits.
6. Revolver is running a Cavalera Conspiracy guitar giveaway contest in their April issue, on sale 3/25, with a coinciding online component. Winner receives an autographed ESP guitar signed by the legendary Max and Iggor Cavalera.
5. Airbourne secures new licenses with a 2nd track on NASCAR 2009 ("Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast") and Madden NFL 2009 ("Stand Up For Rock n' Roll"), bringing their song placement in games total to FIFTEEN!
4. Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy jams on Motorhead's "Overkill" with Overkill's Bobby Blitz and Anthrax' Frank Bello on FUSE's Talking Metal. Episodes airs tonight, 3/14.
3. DevilDriver is destroying on their first headlining tour which kicked of two weeks ago. The band recently shot a video for "Clouds Over California" with director Nathan Cox (Airbourne, Linkin Park, System Of A Down). It is due in-house at the beginning of April.
2. Airbourne GameStop promotion will run for the entire month of April with a 1:30 clip airing on the chain's Channel M in over 4,000 locations. The link to their interview clip will be circulated soon.
And The # 1 HIT for Roadrunner Records for the week ending March 14th, 2008 is...
1. Roadrunner Records hosts its first ever label showcase at SxSW tomorrow! The showcase is sponsored by Revolver, Guitar World and Heineken and features Airbourne, The Parlor Mob and De Novo Dahl. Editorial coverage will run in May issues (on sale April) in both magazines. Footage of the live show and b-roll content will appear on Guitar World's DVD, which comes with every issue. Footage and coverage will also run on both magazines' websites for a month following the event. In addition, all three bands will be interviewed by Xbox. The interviews will be spliced with performance footage and air on Xbox Live which has over 10 million subscribers. De Novo Dahl is also taking part in a "Game For Fame" appearance where they will challenge Xbox Live subscribers to a game of Rockband over the internet.

QuickTime Guide Features

We've got several upcoming video features in Apple's QuickTime Guide and Player.

3/24: De Novo Dahl - Shout
3/24: Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse
3/31: Madina Lake - One Last Kiss
3/31: Dream Theater - Forsaken

I'll post links when these are live.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

De Novo Dahl on Artist Direct

The "Shout" video is being featured on the home page video section and alt. rock section of ARTISTdirect.com starting today. In addition, an interview with the band is in the works right now to go up next week.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

3 Inches of Blood - Trial Of Champions on MySpace

The new 3IOB video for "Trial of Champions" is being featured on A Place for Metal. Check it out!

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Airbourne On ClearChannel

Airbourne has been added to ClearChannel's NEW! Program for March. This will feature the band on dozens of radio station web sites with a focus on "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast." The band is also one of 14 "Artists to Watch" this month, getting major focus on the main ClearChannel properties. With each feature there are direct links to purchase the album.

http://www.clearchannelmusic.com/cc-common/new/6/indexrock.html
http://clearchannelmusic.com/cc-common/new/6/indexrock.html
http://clearchannelmusic.com/cc-common/new/6/player.html?art=1466&dartSplitName=local&gateway=exiting

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Gamestop Update

Via Madelyn Scarpulla

As promised, here is the Dragonforce clip that airs in all GameStop locations for the month of March. It's also streamed on the Channel M (GameStop TV) website. This was originally a :60 piece featuring the video and some of the interview footage edited by GameStop. As you will see, Channel M gave us more than TWICE what was committed: a full minute of intro from the host as well as 1:30 of video/interview footage for a total of 2:30 minutes of Dragonforce!

Enjoy: http://www.channelm.com/gstv/march2/dragonforce.html

Additionally, GameStop cameras conducted their own interviews with Airbourne last week in LA. Airbourne will be featured in a similar way for the month of April. Stay tuned!

Cavalera Conspiracy Beating it at Radio

Via Mark Abramson

The band is doing amazingly well in its second week. Without even truly putting the press on to be #1 yet, CC is easily #2, vaulting over other established bands. It’s the #1 album at Metal Specialty (we’re specifically addressing those stations that haven’t played it so far and ensuring that it will chart next week). WSOU is lined up to feature the entire album this week as well. Most importantly, Metal radio really likes the album, and it’s going to be played for a long time to come. We’re in a great position to be #1 next week, and we’re going to push hard to make sure that it is. Here’s the details:

CMJ Loud Rock - #2 (from 40)

FMQB Metal Detector - #2 (from 15), 184x/+83

Mediaguide Metal Specialty Albums - #1 (from 3), 49x/+16

Mediaguide Metal Specialty Songs:

“Sanctuary” - #1 (from 10), 17x/+9

“Inflikted” - #3 (from 1), 13x/-3

“Dark Ark” - D38, 5x

CMJ Loud Rock Select Albums - #9 (from 57), 43x/+28

CMJ Loud Rock Select Tracks

“Sanctuary” - #19 (from 98), 22x/+17

“Inflikted” - #41 (from 99), 9x/+4