NMS Opening Night Party: Margaret Cho, Naughty By Nature, CuCu Diamantes, Kat DeLuna, Mickey Factz, Matt White & MORE - Monday, July 19th - NYC

NEW MUSIC SEMINAR NYC KICKS OFF WITH

EXCLUSIVE NMS OPENING NIGHT PARTY

FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY: NAUGHTY BY NATURE, KAT DELUNA, CUCU DIAMANTES, MICKEY FACTZ, MATT WHITE and DJ RANA SOHANY

HOSTED BY MARGARET CHO AND ROB CANTRELL

With Special Performance by Margaret Cho and Rob Cantrell

MONDAY, JULY 19^th AT WEBSTER HALL

July 12th, 2010, NY, NY - New Music Seminar (NMS) www.newmusicseminar.com, announces the exclusive NMS Opening Night Party at Webster Hall in New York City on Monday, July 19th, 2010.

The all-star night will feature performances by Grammy Award winning, platinum-selling Hip-Hop super group, Naughty by Nature; CuCu Diamantes, the Cuban born singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Grammy nominated Latin Fusion band Yerba Buena; Pop/R&B songstress Kat DeLuna; MySpace Hip-Hop sensation, Mickey Factz; and the acclaimed singer-songwriter, Matt White. The world's first iPad DJ, DJ Rana Sobhany will also be performing.

Comedian, actress and recording artist Margaret Cho along with fellow comedian Rob Cantrell will be hosting the party along including special comedy sets and a musical performance by Cho.

The Opening Night Party will begin with the NMS Cocktail Party from 6:00 PM to 8:00 with DJ Rana iPad Touching at 7:30 PM. Opening Remarks by Tom Silverman will be at 8:00 PM with the live performances starting at 8:30 PM.

For the full line-up and schedule go to www.newmusicseminar.com

Registration will be open from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. **You must be registered to attend the NMS Conference for entrance to the NMS Opening Night Party

NMS Conference Tickets are currently on sale for $175 and available at www.newmusicseminar.com. The price goes up to $200 starting July 16^th.

The next day at the official NMS conference, leaders from across the front edges of music, technology and beyond will speak and share ideas during this multi-day networking and educational extravaganza. NMS is ground zero for the new architects of the next music business, whether you are an artist or industry executive.

The conference includes five "movements" (focused discussions) over the course of two days, 8 NMS Intensives from key industry leaders, 22 mentoring sessions, nightly musical performances and ongoing networking opportunities.

About The New Music Seminar

From the co-founder and director of the original legendary New Music Seminar comes a conference for the Next Music Business. Artists have never had so much power to control their own careers and build their success. This affordable, future of music conference provides artists and their representatives the knowledge, tools and connections to step into the tomorrow's music business today. Delegates get an intense program including keynote, five Movements, NMS 18-Minute Intensives and mentoring sessions with an incisive curriculum redefining the music business from the artists' perspective. Delegates all receive the New Music Business Guidebook filled with important do's and don'ts by the experts, tips, information, forms and essential websites and blogs. The NMS exhibit area will provide additional resources for those in attendance, in addition to the ongoing networking opportunities. For more information go to www.newmusicseminar.com

The New Music Seminar is made possible by partnerships with leaders and innovators including: Diamond Sponsors: Mountain Dew, Doritos. Platinum Sponsors: Guitar Center, Tunecore, Gibson, NARAS, HipDigital, The Aquarian. Silver Sponsors: Aderra, Grooveshark, Jambase, RockShrimp, Ross-Ellis. Gold Sponsors: A2IM, Bandzoogle, Digital Music News, Discmakers, Eventric, Filter, Fuzztopia, Hypebot, Jakprints, Limelight, Mirror NYC, MusicDish, Next Big Sound, Nimbit, Ourstage, PRWeb, ReverbNation, RocketHub, Sabian, Section 101, Sennheiser, SESAC, SoundExchange, Little Steven's Underground Garage, Yamaha. Find out more at www.newmusicseminar.com/partners

THE ROOTS' "HOW I GOT OVER" SET FOR JUNE 22 RELEASE ; YIM YAMES, JOANNA NEWSOM, JOHN LEGEND GUEST-STAR!

) To call it “long-awaited” or “eagerly anticipated” would be the understatement of the year – as hip-hop’s most daring pioneers the Roots release their 9th studio album (and third for Def Jam Recordings) on June 22nd, HOW I GOT OVER. The album, which takes its name from Clara Ward’s gospel classic (made popular by Mahalia Jackson), is the Roots’ first new release since joining Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for a full time gig as the show’s house band. Grammy Award winners the Roots characterize the songs on HOW I GOT OVER as “depicting the everyman’s search for hope in this dispiriting post-hope zeitgeist”.
The lead single from the Roots new set will be “Dear God 2.0.” The track re-imagines the Monsters Of Folk song “Dear God” and features MOF members Yim Yames from My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes and M. Ward. HOW I GOT OVER also includes two appearances from Grammy-winning soul man John Legend: “Doin’ It Again” a re-working of his track “Again,” and “The Fire,” an original song written for the Roots' 2010 Olympic concert performance.
The Roots and Legend have developed a strong musical bond, as the group has produced John's entire upcoming release Wake Up, which shares the socially conscious themes of the "How I Got Over" set and is comprised of late sixties/early seventies covers.
Other guests on HIGO include Joanna Newsom on “Right On,” Phonte Coleman (Little Brother, The Foreign Exchange), Blu (Blu & Exile), Peedi Peedi , Mercedes Martinez, Icelandic alt-pop singer Patty Crash, newcomer Sugar Tongue Slim as well as long time Roots’ Crew members Dice Raw, Truck North and P.O.R.N.
More than two decades after ‘?uestlove’ and ‘Black Thought’ first met under nefarious circumstances in the principal’s office of Philadelphia’s High School For the Creative and Performing Arts – and over 15 years since the Roots recorded their indie debut album in 1993, in preparation for a year-long European sojourn – the group and its intelligent school of jazz-inflected hip-hop are more relevant than ever.
HOW I GOT OVER is the follow-up to Rising Down (released April 2008), praised by Rolling Stone more than a month before the album’s release, for spewing “rhymes from the perspective of the poor and the dispossessed, from North Philly to Liberia.” Rising Down’s guests list included Common on “The Show” (with Dice Raw); original Roots rapper Malik B. on “Lost Desire” (with Brooklyn’s Talib Kweli) and “I Can’t Help It”; and fellow Def Jam R&B singer Chrisette Michele and Washington D.C. rapper Wale on the lighthearted closing track, “Rising Up.” Philadelphia hip-hop voices Dice Raw, Truck North, Porn, and Peedi Peedi appear throughout, as well as Mercedes Martinez of the Jazzyfatnastees.
The Roots’ previous Def Jam album was their label debut, Game Theory (August 2006) which was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Rap Album. Its first single, “Don’t Feel Right” was nominated the same year for Best Rap Performance By a Duo/Group. The Roots won their first Grammy Award, Best Rap Performance By a Duo/Group, for 1999’s “You Got Me” (featuring Erykah Badu and Eve) from the album Things Fall Apart.
Today’s Roots are vocalist ‘Black Thought’ and drummer ‘?uestlove,’ long-time keyboardist Kamal Gray (a member since 1996’s Illadelph Halflife), Brooklyn-based guitarist Kirk ‘Captain Kirk’ Douglas, percussionist Frank Knuckles (both members since 2003-2004’s The Tipping Point sessions), Damon ‘Tuba Gooding Jr.’ Bryson, who joined the lineup after touring with the band in 2007 and the bands newest member Owen Biddle on bass (a producer on the 2006 Game Theory sessions, the Roots’ Def Jam debut).

TRACK LISTING
1) Walk Alone (Truck North, Porn, Dice Raw,Mercedes Martinez)
2) Dear God 2.0 (Jim James, MOF)
3) Radio Daze (Blu, Porn, Dice Raw, Mercedes Martinez)
4) Now Or Never (Phonte Coleman, Dice Raw)
5 )How I Got Over (Dice Raw)
6) The Day (Blu, Phonte Coleman, Patty Crash)
7) Right On (Joanna Newsom, Sugar Tongue Slim)
8) Doin It Again (John Legend)
9) The Fire (John Legend, Rick Friedrich)