Nettwerk Press Blog

Canadian Music Week 2010 is in full gear in Toronto and Nettwerk is playing a big part in the week of events! 

Our very own CEO Terry McBride is the Keynote Speaker at this year's music industry conference. Speaking Friday morning, Mr McBride's seminar is entitled "Real Time Artist Mentoring." Nettwerk co-founder Mark Jowett will also be lending his expertise to several panels today, tomorrow and Friday including "The 10 Commandments For Aspiring Publishers" and "Rights and Royalties: How Songwriters Get Paid." 

New Nettwerk signing Kidstreet play tonight at Sneaky Dee's, showcasing their hi energy indie dance live show. Morgan Page will be in town to rock the decks at This is London on Friday night. Closing off the festivies are the Great Lake Swimmers who have been tapped to play the closing awards ceremony at the Royal York Hotel. The band could be in for a big night, with two Indie nominations for Best Album and Best Roots Album.

For everything Canadian Music Week visit CMW.net

Matt Wertz's brand new EP, While We're Becoming, debuted today at # 9 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart. The Nettwerk-managed artist, who in the past has toured with the likes of Gavin DeGraw, John McLaughlin and Jamie Cullum,recently kicked off a Spring tour with Five For Fighting. Check out the full list of dates below and grab your copy of While We're Becoming HERE.

Check out Matt Wertz's latest video installment of the making of While We're Becoming HERE. 

After what has already been a world-wind 2010 for Nettwerk Management artist Katherine Jenkins, her latest announcement ensures things are only set to get bigger for her!  Katherine has been given the honour of recording the title song to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s highly anticipated production, Love Never Dies - the sequel to Phantom of the Opera. 

An excited Katherine says, “I’ve known Andrew for many years, and when we first spoke about me recording this track, I had to jump at the chance. It’s been an amazing twelve months, so for me this really is the cherry on the cake”.

The track, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nigel Wright earlier this year, will appear on a new edition of Katherine's latest album, Believe, due March 29 in the UK. What's more, fans can also look forward to Katherine and French tenor, Amaury Vasilli's beautiful interpretation of 'Endless Love," which will also feature as a bonus track on the album.

Alternative Break Tour - Service at the North Texas Food Bank in Dallas March 3

At State Radio's two night sellout this weekend at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., Calling All Crows, the band's service organization, announced their 2010 fundraising campaign to support Sudanese women. In partnership with Oxfam America, State Radio and Calling All Crows have set a goal to raise $100,000 through their Trees, Training, and Donkey Carts initiative. Calling All Crows is asking at least 100 fans to raise $1,000 to provide tree seedlings, vocational skills training and donkey carts to women. More info HERE.

This week, Calling All Crows and State Radio are hosting the first ever Alternative Break Tour: Destination New Orleans! Over March 1-7, 2010, nine service-minded State Radio fans are devoting their spring break traveling by tour bus down South, volunteering with members of the band at local non-profits by day and experiencing State Radio LIVE each night! Follow their adventures through photos, video, and blog posts HERE. Check out full list of events below. 

LILITH 2010 ALERT***LILITH 2010 ALERT***LILITH 2010 ALERT

KELLY CLARKSON, THE BANGLES, THE GO-GO’S,
COURTYARD HOUNDS AND MARTINA MCBRIDE
AMONG NEWEST LINE-UP ADDITIONS

March 4, 2010 (New York, NY) – The 2010 Lilith Tour announces some major additions to the already eclectic and notable list of confirmed female acts. Newly added artists include: Kelly Clarkson, The Bangles, The Go-Go’s, Courtyard Hounds (Emily Robison and Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks), Martina McBride, Suzanne Vega, Anjulie, Anya Marina, Jesca Hoop, Kate Miller-Heidke, Lucy Schwartz, Miranda Lee Richards, Nikki Jean and The Rescues.

Additionally, Birmingham, AL joins the list of cities the tour will go through this summer.

Time to pop a bottle or two, as Nettwerk artists collect several nominations for this year's 2010 Juno Awards in St Johns Newfoundland.

The Great Lake Swimmers hit yet another high note with their album Lost Channels, which gets the nod for Best Roots & Traditional Album Of The Year: Group. The nomination is the latest and greatest accolade for an album that has been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, The Folk Music Awards and two Canadian Indies Awards.

Nettwerk One had a great day as well, with two more of their artists getting some major nominations.  Johnny Reid received 4 Juno nominations:  Juno Fan Choice Award; Album of The Year (Dance with Me); Artist of The Year; Country Album of the Year (Dance with Me). New signing Ryan Stewart was nominated for Songwriter of the Year for Carly Rae Jepsen's "Tug of War" and "Money and Ego". He also received a nomination for Dance Recording of the Year for his song and production of "Shine for you" Carmen and Camille.

USAToday.com premiered the new single from DJ Dan & Überzone called "Operator," which features vocals by former American Idol contestant and USA Today Idol Chatter guest blogger Blake Lewis. Check out the video by clicking above or HERE.

Grab the Soundcloud stream of the track:
DJ Dan & Überzone - "Operator" feat. Blake Lewis (radio edit) 

"Operator" will appear on DJ Dan's third EP, DJ Dan Presents: Future Retro, Evolution 3 (April 6), in anticipation of his first full-length release, Future Retro. The track  was originally a chart-topping R&B smash for Midnight Starr in 1985, and serves of Dan's third "retro" tribute. 

Nettwerk management artist Matt Wertz has released a new EP today called While We're Becoming, which features 5 new tracks from the Nashville-based singer/songwriter. Grab your copy of the EP from iTunes HERE; available everywhere else March 23. For a short time, visit the Matt Wertz website for limited-edition pre-order bundles. 

Wertz has just kicked of March and April tour dates supporting Five For Fighting. In the past, he has toured with the likes of Gavin DeGraw, John McLaughlin and Jamie Cullum, as well as sold out headlining dates across the country. (full list of dates below)

Watch the first of a series of video shorts on the making of
"While We're Becoming" HERE

Jenny Owen Youngs returns with a special EP just in time for her March Spring Break Forever tour with Bess Rogers and Allison Weiss. The "Last Person EP" features the album version of the track from Jenny's latest full-length, Transmitter Failure, as well as 5 alternative versions of songs from the album. The live recordings of "Led To The Sea," "Start + Stop," "Secrets," and "Last Person" were recorded by Dan Romer in Brooklyn, and "Dissolve (The Lovely Light re-think): was arranged and recorded by Saul Simon-MacWilliams at the Lovely Light (Brooklyn) and performed by Saul and Jenny. Check out the EP HERE, and make sure to catch Jenny in your city (tour dates below).

Waterloo electro trio Kidstreet have signed to Nettwerk. The group will celebrate with a headlining showcase spot at Sneaky Dee’s on Thursday, March 11 at Canadian Music Week.

Made up of a two brothers and one sister, the gifted young family of Karl Snyder on drums, Cliff on synth + guitar and younger sister Edna on piano + vocal are relatively new on the scene, but already turning heads for their unique form of synth-pop.

Onstage, the band blends electronic elements with live drums, vocals, guitar and synths – while encouraging the crowd to dance. "We reproduce our recorded sound as much as we can. We're trying to make fun, new sounding dance music with the intention of sounding like DJ while having the energy of a live band,” explains older brother Karl.

Look out for the band’s track “Song” currently being used in Tokyo/Glow, a new short film for the extremely awesome footwear line The Generic Man. Check out the blog feature now on Style.com

Brand new full-length album set for release summer 2010.

Check out the video for “Penny Candy”