Rumblefish Drifts Into Viral Territory With ICON Motosports!

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Check out ICON Motosports‘ latest video “Motorcycle vs. Car Drift Battle 2″. It features ALL Rumblefish music, some amazing footage, cop cars “drifting” (think Hollywood and ‘Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift’), action, danger, and more!

The video has gone viral in a huge way and has hit 7 million+ views since it was posted a few short weeks ago on January 12th!

Congrats to Rumblefish artist Five Horse Johnson, as two of their songs made the cut: “She Don’t Know” and “Odella”, both of which are available for licensing in both our Friendly Music portal and our Music Licensing Store portal.

ICON Motosports is just one of the many brands that uses Rumblefish music to power their internet web video music presence. Do you need music for your videos and marketing projects? Be sure to contact us today, and let us help you go viral with great music to compliment your amazing visual works!

Is The Music Business Finally Rebounding? New Numbers Say Yes.

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Great article in Forbes magazine last week about the music industry’s rebound, entitled “Is the Music Business Finally Rebounding? New Numbers Say Yes.” For the first time since 2004, overall music sales are up. Sales aren’t up much (1.4%), but it’s been eight years since sales have been up, at all. A great sign, regardless of your measure. Also, 2012 is already shaping up to see huge focus on live shows/merch & sync licensing as new focus areas of growth for artists and labels. This is going to be one exciting year for the music industry.

The CW Network Taps Rumblefish Artists For Promotional Runs Once Again

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The CW Network has tapped into the indomitable Rumblefish catalogue to power its television promos, and this past quarter, Rumblefish secured 29 usages throughout their promo runs.

Congrats to the Rumblefish artists below on their placements! We work hard to get our artists and their incredible music seen by the masses. Have you had your Rumblefish fix yet? Hit us up for licensing and awesome music for your productions — both large and small.

  • CW’s show Supernatural used: Acid King – “Drive Fast, Take Chances” from their album Busse Woods
  • CW’s show H8R used: Masonic – “Nothing But A Good Time” from the album Too Far. Too Fast. Too Soon.
  • CW’s show The Vampire Diaries used: Slowride – “Ten Dashes (Instrumental)” from the album C/S
  • CW’s show Ringer used: Mount Sims – “Ashes” from the album Wild Light

Rumblefish and CD Baby Partner

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CD Baby

Today we announced a partnership that’s been in the making for some time: CD Baby. It’s great to do a deal in the music industry with another Portland company, but we’re way more excited than just that. CD Baby has 250,000 artists with 3.5 million tracks. The company just announced more than $200 million has been paid to their artists in royalties. With partnership between Rumblefish and CD Baby, their artists can now choose to create a new income stream in sync licensing. If you’re a CD Baby artist, you can go here to sign up your albums for sync.

Read more here.

Rumblefish Goes International!

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Rumblefish international partner Songs To Your Eyes Ltd., which is based in Israel, has secured the placement of some of Rumblefish’s catalog in some local TV commercials in that territory.

Rumblefish artists Bell Plaines and Supabeatz both achieved placements for this past 3rd quarter 2011 with “Strange Season” and “Sexo Perfecto” respectively.

Congrats to them both and stay tuned as Rumblefish expands into more and more international territories!

TANKED #1 with All Smiles

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We’ve decided to spotlight a Rumblefish artist each month in a video blog post entitled TANKED.  We were fortunate enough to have Jim Fairchild of All Smiles (also of Grandaddy and Modest Mouse) join us for our Friday Afternoon Meeting.  We caught Jim and fellow musician, Davey Brozowski, just before they headed out to Brazil by way of Austin while playing with indie-rock stalwarts Modest Mouse.  Tanks again, fellas!

Jim’s band, All Smiles, somehow manages to be both anthemic and intimate, serving up close to 100 tracks, including instrumentals, in the Rumblefish catalog. All are available for sync licensing. If you’re interested in getting some of his music, email us at licensing@rumblefish.com!

You can also follow Jim on Twitter at @allsmiles! Be sure to follow Rob Thomas, Licensing Account Manager at @therobrumbles if you want to stay abreast of what’s going on in Sync at Rumblefish as well, and if you’re looking for music, hit him up!

The Diplomats of Solid Sound Get Connected To “50/50″

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Rumblefish is hard at work getting our hustle into Hollywood, and our latest placement is Rumblefish artist The Diplomats of Solid Sound into the film “50/50″, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen.

“50/50″ is a film inspired by a true story, and is a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy (Gordon-Levitt) who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

The song “Soul Connection” was used in the film, and we are glad that our catalogue continues to provide the soundtrack to Hollywood and beyond.

For music licensing opportunities for your project, be sure to hit us up!

Anuhea Is Kind Of A “Big Deal” To Us Here At Rumblefish! Check This Performance!

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Anuhea is a Rumblefish artist, and we are proud to represent her for licensing opportunities. She visited us and graced us with a song from her repertoire called “Big Deal”, playing guitar and jamming out for all of our staff!

She’s a great pop/rock talent and has lots of other awesome songs available for sync licensing. If you’re interested in getting some of her music, email us at licensing@rumblefish.com for more info!

You can also follow her on Twitter at @anuheajams! Be sure to follow Rob Thomas, Licensing Account Manager at @therobrumbles if you want to stay abreast of what’s going on in Sync at Rumblefish as well, and if you’re looking for music, hit him up!