I know that everyone probably has more important things on their mind such as the holiday tomorrow and all the stress that comes along with it (eating tons of turkey is tiring!!) However I wanted to take a moment to let everyone know that we have reached 200 views Give yourself a pat on the back and eat lots of turkey tomorrow
-In Touch
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Who is AEMMP Records?????
So as the first little bit of AEMMP information that we have we wanted to take a few minutes and introduce some information on AEMMP. You heard the boring history of AEMMP but we thought you might be more interested in learning more about who is in charge of running the revamped AEMMP records so that it will become better then ever!!!! Keep checking this posting. These people are busy and we had to hunt for them to get what we could from them.
First off it is run by two teachers (advisors or whatever you wanna call them)
Martin Atkins-
Maybe you heard of a band called Public Image Limited??? (or maybe not) Anyway this man has been in bands for years. He is has run his Chicago based record label Invisible Records for more then 20 years. Martin wrote the book Tour:Smart which is the bible on touring. He is revamping the label this year with his experience and an amazing team.
"20 is the number of years before i can have a legal drink with my youngest son Cole Vincent.....if i have re-started drinking by then"
David Lewis-
Ever been to the portfolio center? You might know him from there. He is specifically the Creative Industry Liaison...
David has spent the last 10-years of his life pinching himself -- not in a weird masochistic way -- but rather because he has had the honor of working with such a variety of talented people. As a teenager he began programming arts events and concerts. Before long he found himself knee-deep either marketing, booking, or running PR campaigns for some of the nation's biggest underground comedians and musicians: Death Cab For Cutie, Bright Eyes, Blur, The Blood Brothers, Brian Posen, Ted Leo, Dr Dog, Patton Oswalt and Jawbreaker to name a few. Upon finishing his degree at the Art Institute Of Chicago Lewis founded Riot Act Media, to offer proactive, scalable, artist-friendly campaigns for the arts & music community.
Lewis has spent time in the trenches as a writer (Time Out Chicago, Planet, Thrasher, Play), a film maker / editor, and most recently as a father of his son, Harper, whom enjoys throwing food, waking up at 4 am, and yelling nonsense .... much like his dad.
The Student team
Mark Kucera
- 26
- senior
- AEMM/AEMMP
- Emmis marketing/promotions dept (Q101.1/The Loop 97.9)
- WKQK programming dept (Q101.1)
- WKDI on-air DJ (NIU radio)
- I like walking on the beach for a while. Not too long
Matthew Baker
Works A&R and am in charge of developing the Emerging Artist Showcases for Platform One Entertainment.
Nicholas Terry
Inspired by the ever-changing melodies that paint his world Nicholas Terry is a songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and artist developer. Having worked in Jazz, R&B, Pop, Acoustic and Folk music among other genre's Nicholas has crafted a diverse background in the music industry. After pursuing many routes in the music industry he has found his home in Chicago, where he's in his final year at Columbia College.
To me 20 is important because it's the age when the last two genius's in soul music were as they created the first of many classic albums. Stevie Wonder with Music of My Mind the first of his self produced, self written classic albums in the 70's. And Prince with his self-titled album which was also the first of his completely self-produced and self-written classic albums.
Zak Jablow
Although we are missing a bio from Zack he sent us a great video of what 20 means to him
First off it is run by two teachers (advisors or whatever you wanna call them)
Martin Atkins- Maybe you heard of a band called Public Image Limited??? (or maybe not) Anyway this man has been in bands for years. He is has run his Chicago based record label Invisible Records for more then 20 years. Martin wrote the book Tour:Smart which is the bible on touring. He is revamping the label this year with his experience and an amazing team.
"20 is the number of years before i can have a legal drink with my youngest son Cole Vincent.....if i have re-started drinking by then"
David Lewis-
Ever been to the portfolio center? You might know him from there. He is specifically the Creative Industry Liaison...
David has spent the last 10-years of his life pinching himself -- not in a weird masochistic way -- but rather because he has had the honor of working with such a variety of talented people. As a teenager he began programming arts events and concerts. Before long he found himself knee-deep either marketing, booking, or running PR campaigns for some of the nation's biggest underground comedians and musicians: Death Cab For Cutie, Bright Eyes, Blur, The Blood Brothers, Brian Posen, Ted Leo, Dr Dog, Patton Oswalt and Jawbreaker to name a few. Upon finishing his degree at the Art Institute Of Chicago Lewis founded Riot Act Media, to offer proactive, scalable, artist-friendly campaigns for the arts & music community.
Lewis has spent time in the trenches as a writer (Time Out Chicago, Planet, Thrasher, Play), a film maker / editor, and most recently as a father of his son, Harper, whom enjoys throwing food, waking up at 4 am, and yelling nonsense .... much like his dad.
The Student team
Mark Kucera- 26
- senior
- AEMM/AEMMP
- Emmis marketing/promotions dept (Q101.1/The Loop 97.9)
- WKQK programming dept (Q101.1)
- WKDI on-air DJ (NIU radio)
- I like walking on the beach for a while. Not too long
Matthew BakerWorks A&R and am in charge of developing the Emerging Artist Showcases for Platform One Entertainment.
Nicholas TerryInspired by the ever-changing melodies that paint his world Nicholas Terry is a songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and artist developer. Having worked in Jazz, R&B, Pop, Acoustic and Folk music among other genre's Nicholas has crafted a diverse background in the music industry. After pursuing many routes in the music industry he has found his home in Chicago, where he's in his final year at Columbia College.
To me 20 is important because it's the age when the last two genius's in soul music were as they created the first of many classic albums. Stevie Wonder with Music of My Mind the first of his self produced, self written classic albums in the 70's. And Prince with his self-titled album which was also the first of his completely self-produced and self-written classic albums.
Zak Jablow
Although we are missing a bio from Zack he sent us a great video of what 20 means to him
SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY AEMMP!
AEMMP RECORDS is Columbia College's student-managed, not-for-profit record company. AEMMP (Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Program) Records was founded by Irwin Steinberg, then chairman of Polygram Records, and Chuck Suber, then publisher of Down Beat magazine and director of the graduate program AEMM department.
The principal purpose of AEMMP Records is to provide a real-life, hands-on experience in the professional operation of a recording company. The company is part of the "Decision-Making: Music Business" course and is managed by graduate and qualified undergraduate students in the music business concentration. The students are required to follow established business procedures, and make business decisions for talent selection, manufacturing, distribution, promotion and marketing.
The company signs and promotes one act each year. One of the goals of this project is to demonstrate through the students' efforts the market potential of the product they have chosen to release. Two of the acts AEMMP Records has released over the years have been signed to record labels with major distribution, as a result of the students' collaborative efforts: the pop/rock band The Bad Examples, and the dance band A.T.M.
19 hours!
WOW where does time go? did you know that there is only 19 and some odd hours left until we announce what 20 means to US! It's pretty exciting!! Make sure to keep checking back. We have some new and exciting things coming up after the big reveal!
Monday, November 17, 2008
Did you know?!?!
Hugh Hefner was 20 years old in 1946.... 46 years before the birth of his newest twin girlfriends!
The Raleigh Twenty
A conventional bicycle is too large to fit conveniently in a car trunk. Bicycles are prohibited as baggage on many bus and rail lines. Airlines charge ridiculous amounts of money to transport bicycles. A folding bicycle can solve all of these problems. Folded inside a duffel bag or carrying case, it passes anywhere as just another piece of luggage.
Some folding bicycles, designed to be as compact and light as possible, sacrifice riding qualities. Many don't even have enough seatpost extension to allow a grown man of average height to pedal efficiently. The frame is often flexible, and there may be little room for baggage.
The Raleigh Twenty, on the other hand, is a workhorse. Its small wheels entail some slight increase in rolling resistance, but it has a normal riding position and good handling qualities. With the small rear wheel placed well behind the seat tube, the wheelbase is conventional, and a large amount of baggage can fit on top of the rear rack.
You have to see it to believe it. This little bike folds up into a suitcase!
Want to look into it a bit more?
http://www.bikexprt.com/bicycle/twntyinst/index.htm
Want to buy one? These nifty little bikes show up on EBay frequently
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=raleigh+twenty&_sacat=See-All-Categories
20th Century
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (spelled from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation), also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six major American film studios.
Located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch. The company was founded in 1935, as the result of a merger of two entities, Fox Film Corporation founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures. Some of 20th Century Fox's most popular movie franchises include the Star Wars, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Home Alone, Die Hard, Revenge of the Nerds, Alien and Predator series.
Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc. is the television production division of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, a subsidiary of News Corporation. Twentieth Television is a separate distribution arm overseen by News Corp.'s Fox Television Stations Group, although it uses a variant of the studio logo.
20th Century Fox Television was founded in 1949 as other studios were branching out into television production as well.
At that time, the company was known as TCF Television Productions, Inc. until 1955. The logo from 1960 to 1992 seemed to suggest that the division was called 20th Television Fox, but this was untrue. TCFT absorbed the operations of TV production companies Metromedia Producers Corporation in 1986 and MTM Enterprises in 1998, and is the current distributor for most of the shows originally produced by the two companies. Since 1986, TCFT has produced the bulk of series airing on the Fox network, including The Simpsons, M*A*S*H, Married... With Children, COPS, Doogie Howser, M.D., The X-Files, NYPD Blue, King of the Hill, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and 24.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
The Curse of Tecumseh
Legend: A death curse threatens U.S. presidents elected in years evenly divisible by twenty.
Origins: With one exception, since 1840, U.S. Presidents who have been elected in years ending in zero have been killed or have died of natural causes while in office. And the one exception literally came within an inch of death.
It's hard to know what to make of such a sequence, but folks have certainly tried over the years. Such a string of presidential mortality is deemed too improbable to have occurred naturally, giving rise to rumors about a fatal Indian curse among those unwilling to recognize that chaos sometimes takes the form of coincidence. Randomness is disquieting; Indian curses are, in comparison, the lesser of the evils because they at least support the illusion that there is order in our universe. In this odd way, belief in predestined fatalities is comforting.
William Henry Harrison, who was elected in 1840, died of pneumonia at the age of 68, exactly one month after his inauguration.
Abraham Lincoln, first elected in 1860, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth just after embarking on his second term in office in 1865.
James A. Garfield won the 1880 election. He was shot in the back in a Washington railroad station waiting room in July 1881 and died of his wounds in September 1881.
in 1811. (Tecumseh died in the 1813 Battle of the Thames, again fighting troops led by Harrison.) According to lore, the famed Indian chief cursed the Great White Fathers. No explanation is given for why the chief's curse would only affect one presidency in five, but one cannot, after all, expect the fanciful to cover everything.
Another version attributes the curse to Tenskwatawa (also known as "The Prophet"), a Shawnee medicine man who was half-brother to Tecumseh. The hex was supposedly his revenge for the death of his half-sibling.
"Harrison will die I tell you," the Prophet reportedly said. "And after him, every Great Chief chosen every 20 years thereafter will die. And when each one dies, let everyone remember the death of my people."
Stirring words indeed, but there's no reason to suppose they were actually uttered. No record of either Tecumseh or Tenskwatawa laying a whammy on American presidents has yet surfaced — it's all undocumented folktale at this point and is as likely just someone's imaginative backstory to the inexplicable as it is anything else.
Folks have been taking note of this string of presidential deaths for quite some time — it's not a new snippet of spooky information recently dropped into the lap of the American people. A Ripley's Believe It or Not book published in 1934 noted the coincidental twenty-year pattern of presidential deaths between 1840 and 1920, with question marks in place of a name for the upcoming 1940 entry indicating the presumption of a continuing pattern. The pattern did, of course, hold true again when Franklin Roosevelt, who had been re-elected in 1940, filled in that blank by dying in office in 1945.
As to what to make of the "curse," it's interesting to note that since 1840, only one President other than those supposedly felled by this ill-wishing has died in office: Zachary Taylor, who was elected in 1848 and died in 1850 of a stomach ailment. (Taylor's body was exhumed in 1991 to investigate a theory that he had been poisoned with arsenic, but the results were negative). Also interesting is the notion that the curse is a
William McKinley was re-elected in 1900. In September 1901, after giving a speech at an exposition in Buffalo, he was shot while shaking hands
with wellwishers. McKinley died of his wounds a little more than a week later.
Warren G. Harding, elected in 1920, expired of a stroke or heart attack in 1923. It was long rumored his wife had poisoned him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, re-elected in 1940 for a third term, suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage and died just after having started an unprecedented fourth term in 1945.
John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960 and assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 but managed to cheat the Grim Reaper by a matter of an inch, the distance by which would-be assassin John Hinckley's bullet missed his heart in 1981.
Maybe Reagan also broke the "every 20 years" curse. Or maybe it's just sleeping.
Those who look to make sense of eerie coincidences have come up with an explanation to account for this string of deaths: an ancient Indian curse, supposedly administered by Tecumseh himself after suffering defeat at the hands in William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Origins: With one exception, since 1840, U.S. Presidents who have been elected in years ending in zero have been killed or have died of natural causes while in office. And the one exception literally came within an inch of death.
It's hard to know what to make of such a sequence, but folks have certainly tried over the years. Such a string of presidential mortality is deemed too improbable to have occurred naturally, giving rise to rumors about a fatal Indian curse among those unwilling to recognize that chaos sometimes takes the form of coincidence. Randomness is disquieting; Indian curses are, in comparison, the lesser of the evils because they at least support the illusion that there is order in our universe. In this odd way, belief in predestined fatalities is comforting.
William Henry Harrison, who was elected in 1840, died of pneumonia at the age of 68, exactly one month after his inauguration.
Abraham Lincoln, first elected in 1860, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth just after embarking on his second term in office in 1865.
James A. Garfield won the 1880 election. He was shot in the back in a Washington railroad station waiting room in July 1881 and died of his wounds in September 1881.
in 1811. (Tecumseh died in the 1813 Battle of the Thames, again fighting troops led by Harrison.) According to lore, the famed Indian chief cursed the Great White Fathers. No explanation is given for why the chief's curse would only affect one presidency in five, but one cannot, after all, expect the fanciful to cover everything.
Another version attributes the curse to Tenskwatawa (also known as "The Prophet"), a Shawnee medicine man who was half-brother to Tecumseh. The hex was supposedly his revenge for the death of his half-sibling.
"Harrison will die I tell you," the Prophet reportedly said. "And after him, every Great Chief chosen every 20 years thereafter will die. And when each one dies, let everyone remember the death of my people."
Stirring words indeed, but there's no reason to suppose they were actually uttered. No record of either Tecumseh or Tenskwatawa laying a whammy on American presidents has yet surfaced — it's all undocumented folktale at this point and is as likely just someone's imaginative backstory to the inexplicable as it is anything else.
Folks have been taking note of this string of presidential deaths for quite some time — it's not a new snippet of spooky information recently dropped into the lap of the American people. A Ripley's Believe It or Not book published in 1934 noted the coincidental twenty-year pattern of presidential deaths between 1840 and 1920, with question marks in place of a name for the upcoming 1940 entry indicating the presumption of a continuing pattern. The pattern did, of course, hold true again when Franklin Roosevelt, who had been re-elected in 1940, filled in that blank by dying in office in 1945.
As to what to make of the "curse," it's interesting to note that since 1840, only one President other than those supposedly felled by this ill-wishing has died in office: Zachary Taylor, who was elected in 1848 and died in 1850 of a stomach ailment. (Taylor's body was exhumed in 1991 to investigate a theory that he had been poisoned with arsenic, but the results were negative). Also interesting is the notion that the curse is a
William McKinley was re-elected in 1900. In September 1901, after giving a speech at an exposition in Buffalo, he was shot while shaking hands
with wellwishers. McKinley died of his wounds a little more than a week later.
Warren G. Harding, elected in 1920, expired of a stroke or heart attack in 1923. It was long rumored his wife had poisoned him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, re-elected in 1940 for a third term, suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage and died just after having started an unprecedented fourth term in 1945.
John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960 and assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 but managed to cheat the Grim Reaper by a matter of an inch, the distance by which would-be assassin John Hinckley's bullet missed his heart in 1981.
Maybe Reagan also broke the "every 20 years" curse. Or maybe it's just sleeping.
Those who look to make sense of eerie coincidences have come up with an explanation to account for this string of deaths: an ancient Indian curse, supposedly administered by Tecumseh himself after suffering defeat at the hands in William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
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