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The 2010 Grammy(r) Awards nominations are in and Dangerous Music is once again proud to have several clients represented who used Dangerous Music audio hardware for recording, mixing or mastering some of these prestigious projects. Dangerous Music users and their nominated projects include: producer and engineer Jaquire King (Kings of Leon), producer Jerry Harrison and engineer ET Thorngren (Kenny Wayne Shephard), mastering engineer Dave Kutch (John Legend, The Roots, Jazmine Sillivan), artist, engineer & producer Dweezil Zappa (Zappa Plays Zappa), remixer Morgan Page (Nadia Ali), remixer Dirty South (The Temper Trap), producer and engineer Count (Trombone Shorty), and producer and engineer Fab Dupont (Kirk Whalum).

Amateur songwriters from around the world are invited to compete in the 2011 Annual Song Contest hosted by the Dallas Songwriters Association (DSA). This year’s contest will feature eight categories judged by established music industry professionals and will offer almost $5,000 in prizes to the top winners in each category.

In order to be prepared for the World final of the Global Battle of the bands which will take place on the 26 of February, and also to satisfy their growing number of fans, The Amazing Insurance Salesmen are continuing to play around the best venues in Beijing.

New talent is set to perform at the heart of MIDEM 2011 with the launch of a new Fringe performance stage inside the main MIDEM exhibition hall.

Connecting bands, visual artists and fans with the most accomplished professionals in the worlds of music and art is the focus of the Driven Music + Art Conference. Bands and artists will be in the position to advance their careers while fans will enjoy the best of both emerging bands and visual artists Saturday, January 29th, 2011, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

Following up on 2009's successful debut CD "The Twenty Second Century, Canada's 22nd Century released "Where's Howie?!!". Produced by legendary rock producer John Webster (credits: Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Scorpians, Motley Crue) and mastered by Todd Simko (Pure), Where's Howie was recorded in Vancouver's Mushroom studios and released Jan 6, 2011 on Bugnut Records. The 10 song CD includes covers of Martha and the Muffins "Echo Beach" and The Angel's (aka "Angel City") No Secrets which charted in Australia as high as #8 in 1980.

Out of the city and home of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" comes an artist named JOMO with a song titled "What I Want" which is beginning to make rounds and "noise" in the Music Industry through Licensing, features and radio airplay through his companies "Lyles-Belton Music" and "Jomo-N-Keys Entertainment LLC,".

Today, maurices announced the winner of its "Small Town Sound" nationwide band search. After several months of competition, fans voted Illinois-based band Audri & Aaron through the final round and named them the hottest female-fronted band in the country.

Variety show "Underground Americana" – hosted by Andy Rocco, will be held at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York on January 8th at 12 midnight. Congruent with the UCB’s mission of "big names for small change" tickets are only $5. The lineup includes Anthony Atamanuik from the TV show "30 Rock," Matt Koff who writes for The Onion, and musical artist Little Embers who ran a successful crowdfunding campaign with RocketHub and is releasing a much-anticipated ne

Sad Robot the Los Angeles, modern alternative rock band, has just released to iTunes, their debut EP, The Beginning of the End.