dotFM Announces the Newest Station to Discover the Power of a Web Address ending in .FM!

(PRWEB) August 20, 2002

GCC Radio‘s KXIX.FM, Power94 (http://www.power94.fm) is Bend, Oregon’s “Home for Today’s Hottest Music” and is also the newest station on the planet to “Sign On” under .FM! By extending their brand online, Power 94 ensures top of mind awareness and also makes it easier for their listeners to locate them on the Web. Now it’s as easy as http://www.power94.fm!

“Broadcasters go to great lengths to ensure that they have a simple, easy to remember, set of call letters, slogan, and toll-free number.” remarked George T. Bundy, Chairman & CEO of BRS Media Inc. “A station’s Web Address should be just as important. And, what’s easier to remember than a catchy, great sounding web address? Like HOT 105 FM (http://www.hot105.fm) or WZIP.FM (http://www.wzip.fm).” adding, “We’re thrilled to see Power 94 utilizing the extraordinary branding power of the .FM domain!”

BRS Media’s dotFM was the first domain registry in the world to offer premium multimedia domains like .FM. And dotFM has enlisted thousands of web sites and radio stations to brand on the power of .FM since 1998, including: LA’s #1 station, Power 106 FM (http://www.power106.fm), Las Vegas’ Lite 100 FM (http://www.lite100.fm), Logan Utah’s 94.5 VFX FM (http://www.vfx.fm), and San Juan, Puerto Rico’s WMEG LaMega 106.9 FM (http://www.lamega.fm). As well as, International stations like: Argentina’s LA 100 FM (http://www.la100.fm), Rotterdam’s 91.8 FunX FM (http://www.funx.fm), Mandaluyong City Philippines’ 103.5 K-Lite FM (http://www.1035klite.fm), and Greece’s Radio Loud 88.8 FM (http://www.radioloud.fm). And also Internet-Only stations like: #1 Online Jazz station – eJazz.FM (http://www.ejazz.fm), Total 70s.FM! (http://www.total70s.fm), and SHOUTcast’s #1 station, Digitally Imported Radio (http://www.di.fm).

BRS Media currently offers .FM domain names to anyone interested in obtaining their own “Great Sounding Web Address!” at dotFM (http://www.dot.fm) or through any of our more than 8,000 .FM affiliates, registrars, and marketing partners worldwide.

BRS Media, a member of the International Webcasting Association (http://www.iwa.fm) and the National Association of Broadcasters, is a full service Internet e-commerce firm that helps radio and multimedia web sites build and brand on the power of the Web. The Company’s online divisions include dotFM, dotAM & dotzCD (http://www.dot.fm) (http://www.dot.am) (http://www.dotz.cd), domain registrar of premium .FM, .AM, & .CD (TLD) domains. HostRock.Net (http://www.hostrock.net) a full-featured discount web-site hosting service, and the ever-popular Web-Radio (http://www.web-radio.fm) the leading portal for “Tuning In” radio on the Internet. BRS Media Inc. can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.brsmedia.fm. dotFM is a registered trademark of BRS Media, Inc.

dotFM Announces the Newest Station to Discover the Power of a Web Address ending in .FM!

"The Latin Hurricane – Chayanne, releases his first DVD and a new English CD”

Dubbed “The Latin Hurricane” (PRWEB) October 10, 2002 -

Miami, Fla. –out concert after another, Puerto Rican singing star, Chayanne, has launched his first, long-awaited DVD. At the same time, he is taking an important step into the Anglo pop music market with a new single — the English version of his hit song, “Y Tu Te Vas”(“You Walk Away”).

The DVD of his latest “Grandes Exitos” (Greatest Hits) album was released in the United States on September 17th, and is currently being released in Mexico, Argentina, and other important global markets over the next few weeks. Like the album, it contains a compilation of videos of Chayanne’s best hits of the past, 13 videos in all.

Long awaited by thousands of fans the world over, the DVD also contains an interview, photo gallery, biography, discography and “behind the scenes” looks at the star, and other high points of his 22 year career as an entertainer. The DVD is a production of Sony Music International/LAR-Miami DVD’s. It is currently available in music outlets across the country and on the Internet including Wherehouse Music, Amazon.com, Best Buy, and CDNOW.com. Grandes Exitos DVD is also available in VHS form at the same outlets.

Chaf Enterprises, Chayanne’s management company located in Miami, Fla., also announced that he has recorded the English version of his Latin hit, “Y Tu Te Vas”, a single that was a chart-topper across the country for 21 weeks and has been on the Top 10 list for 30 weeks, on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks. It’s the opening song on his Grandes Exitos album, which also includes two other new songs, “Quisiera Ser” (“He Wanted To Be”) and “Torero” (“The Bullfighter”), currently holding down the top selling slot in many Latin countries today.

To be released by Sony Discos to the American mainstream, Anglo, radio stations within the next few weeks, the new English single, titled You Walk Away will mark Chayanne’s first totally non-Hispanic pop entry since beginning his musical career as a child star singing with the Latin group, Los Chicos (The Boys). Lauded as being one of the best Latin pop performers of today, the dynamic singer has more than 50 gold and 20 platinum Spanish albums already to his credit.

In the midst of his 5-month long “World Tour 2002” (following a highly successful 10-city appearance schedule in the U.S.), Chayanne was asked recently in Spain, why he feels the need to record in English. The 34-year-old star said, ” No, it’s not that it is needed, but it is important to embrace more languages, to extend to more markets. I have also recorded in Italian, French and in Portuguese…to sing in English I see like an expansion of my career.”

Chayanne, this darkly handsome, muscular, singer/actor/dancer is best known in the U.S. for making a big splash with his steamy starring role in the 1998 Columbia Pictures film, “Dance With Me”, (Bailar Conmigo) co-starring the beautiful Vanessa L. Williams and the former singer-turned-actor, Kris Kristofferson. Reruns on cable TV brought even more Anglo fans to his court. This is true especially on the Internet where there are three major web sites of fans, Chayfans.org, Islachayanne.org and Cafechayanne.com, dedicated to spreading the word about their idol and his career, in addition to a Sony Discos site.

Chayanne was also highly praised last season, when he appeared in two episodes of the popular Fox TV series, Ally McBeal. He thrilled his Hispanic fans last season, by starring in a soap opera, novela series,”Provocame” (“You Provoke Me”) on Latin television in many different countries around the world. In addition, he was recently nominated for the Top Male Singer of the Year award for “Y Tu Te Vas,” in the “Los Premios Oye,” ( What You Hear Award or The Best Sound Award ) to be given out on Nov. 26, by the Mexican Association of Producers of Fonogramas, (AMPROFON) and CIE, a television spectacles company.

When Chayanne completes his world tour in the fall, he is expected to return to the recording studio to produce a new crossover album, this one containing several songs in English.

"The Latin Hurricane – Chayanne, releases his first DVD and a new English CD”

The Barnburners with Big Harmonica Bob to perform at Di Piazza"s

(PRWEB) December 2, 2002

For Immediate Release:

Southern California Blues band The Barnburners with Big Harmonica Bob! will perform live on January 16, 2003 at 8:45 pm Live Magazine Night at Di Piazza’s in Long Beach, California to promote the Orange County Music Awards. The showcase includes various Southern California bands involved in the Orange County music scene.

Di Piazza’s is located at 5702 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach, CA 90815 The information line is: 562-498-2461

The Barnburners with Big Harmonica Bob! c.d.s are available for purchase at DWMmusic.com.

The Barnburners with Big Harmonica Bob! are in regular rotation on the following radio shows::

Mario’s Blues Thang

Mario Robles

FM 90.3 U.C. Davis

Davis, California

Things To Hear

Jean Paul Tertocha

WKRP FM, (Internet Radio)

Warrenburg, Illinois

Blues Flight

Mark T. Smith

KSLU FM 88.9

Jefferson City, Missouri

La Maza Blues Show

Pablo Piñeiro

FM 104.3

Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Taxi Blues Show

Dan Alexandru

Radio Total FM 96.9

Bucharest, Romania

The Red House Blues Show

Stephen Hall

FM 99.3

Sydney, Australia

The Sunday Blues with Dar

Darlene McCauley

FM 88.5 WKPX

South Florida

The Barnburners with Big Harmonica Bob to perform at Di Piazza"s

INTERNATIONAL DESIGNERS GRACE NEW YORK’S CATWALK

(PRWEB) February 21, 2003

On February 6, 2003, USA International Fashion Shows introduced four fashion designers to the New York City market. The runway shows of Clive Rundle, Jorge Isaac, Fabrizio Celleri and Lourdes Atencio took place at the luxurious Manhattan Penthouse on Fifth Avenue before an audience of fashion buyers, a select group of VIPs and members of the international press representing publications from Japan, Germany, Argentina, the Dominican Republic and many other countries. As a direct result of their participation in the event, two of the designers are already in negotiation with one of the USA’s largest retailers. Photos, videos and slide presentations showcasing the fashion collections are now available to member of the press and buyers not present at the event.

A high level of cooperation was in evidence among the staff, designers, models, volunteers and producer of the shows. “At one point,” according to Andres Aquino, producer of the event, “it seemed that everyone — including the designers — were working with everyone else to make the shows a complete success. There is an incredibly high energy level,” Mr. Aquino noted. A number of members of the press expressed their enthusiasm about the shows. As one editor put it, “The USA International Fashion Shows are needed in New York to bring out fresh talent from other countries… it compliments the existing shows that we see during fashion week.”

The February show was just a taste of what will be the beginning of an international event of great magnitude in the fashion industry in the USA. A number of designers have already signed up for the September 2003 shows that promises to be the first truly international runway fashion event in New York City with the participation of designers from around the world.

The designers presented:

JORGE ISAAC. A native of Ecuador, this talented fashion designer was inspired early on by the natural beauty and color palette surrounding him. In 1991, Jorge moved to New York City to follow his dream of becoming a successful fashion designer. His premiere collection for Fall 2003 is a product of Jorge’s fashion sensibility and creativity in a mélange of pieces designed to complement a woman’s natural sensuality. “I believe that beauty lies within… Just give it a nudge to bring it forth…”

http://www.usafashionshows.com/fall2003/jorgeisaac/photos.htm

FABRIZIO CELLERI. A well-established, award-winning designer in his native Ecuador, Fabrizio Celleri is a former fashion consultant for TC Television and Ecuavisa. He opened his first boutique in Guayaquil in 1997. In 1998, Fabrizio was invited by the French consulate to present his collection along with students of the Ecole Bercole in Paris. He has presented his collections throughout South America, France and the United States. Fabrizio Celleri’s designs are sold at Oxygen and Nuriel in Miami, as well as through his New York showroom.

http://www.usafashionshows.com/fall2003/fabriziocelleri/photos.htm

CLIVE RUNDLE. Born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa, Clive Rundle is an established South African designer. Drawn to fashion early in life, Clive studied his craft in Johannesburg. In 1986, he was invited to show a small collection at the Coer Des Beaux Arts in France with other young designers. Soon after, his label was hanging in more than 50 stores in South Africa and Clive decided to launch his own boutique. Clive Rundle’s collection is sponsored in part by world-renowned Swarovski crystals.

Clive attributes his primary influences to beauty, nature, complexity of construction, fabric, color, composition, art, sculpture and music. The essence of his designs is a complicated garment structure, which is an extension of his entire thought process. The language of form, line, color and texture is his means of communication.

http://www.usafashionshows.com/fall2003/cliverundle/photos.htm

LOURDES ATENCIO. A native of the Dominican Republic, Lourdes Atencio is a visionary designer with a sophisticated taste for fashion and the fine arts. Lourdes’s designs are progressive yet elegant, appealing to glamorous women of all ages. In 1991, Lourdes launched the Avant-Elite design label that caters to an exclusive clientele including top models, media personnel and socialites. Her designs have been featured on the Despierta America and Primer Impacto television programs. Aero Mar and Falcon Airlines have commissioned Lourdes to design their work and leisure uniforms.

Since 1995, Lourdes’s designs have been featured in numerous beauty pageants and fashion shows. Prestigious London publisher Co & Bear recently featured some of Lourdes’s stunning designs in the hefty coffee table book I Do: 100 Years of Wedding Fashion. Selected for their exquisite workmanship and innovative spin on traditional form, photos of Lourdes’s wedding gowns appear in the book along with those of top designers including Christian Dior, Betsey Johnson, Yves Saint Laurent and many others. For the new millennium, Lourdes Atencio (Avant-Elite Designs) and Peter of London Salons and Spa have entered into a strategic alliance to launch new designs for the woman of the new era: independent, progressive, educated and highly sophisticated.

http://www.usafashionshows.com/fall2003/lourdesatencio/photos.htm

The next series of shows are scheduled for September 7-10, 2003 in New York City. For the September 2003 event, USA International Fashion Shows will present the first International Fashion Designer Award to an established fashion designer who is distinguished by his/her creativity, accomplishments and contributions to social and business endeavors.

Negotiations are currently underway with a number of prominent companies in a variety of fields regarding sponsorship of the event. Many businesses are recognizing the valuable marketing potential of the event for their respective products and services, including travel-related services, cosmetics and hair care products, print publications, liquor and soft drinks, and fashion-related companies such as fabric, notion, jewelry and accessories businesses.

The event is an Andres Aquino production sponsored by Fashion Syndicate Press. Fashion Syndicate Press photographers have covered designer runway shows in South America, Canada, New York, South Africa and Europe since 1997, with fashion photography and articles appearing in hundreds of magazines, newspapers and books worldwide. The company owns over 25 web sites, one of which — fashionshowroom.com — receives some 5 million hits per month making it one of the most visited fashion web sites. This formidable Internet presence greatly helps in marketing the designers participating in the USA International Fashion Shows. The background of producer Andres Aquino includes over 20 years in international business, fashion photography and event production.

Members of the press may request hi-res images access photos regarding the event here info@usafashionshows.com

Buyers, boutique owners and members of the press interested in additional information, please contact: Andres Aquino

andres@usafashionshows.com

Fax 212 202-4604

Tel 203 820-7927

INTERNATIONAL DESIGNERS GRACE NEW YORK’S CATWALK

Tourist Web Site Emerges To Show The World “Buenos Aires The Easy Way”

(PRWEB) August 6, 2003

Launched in July, Easy Buenos Aires City shows the world the beauty of this South American city that is known throughout the world as ”The Paris of South America.” The website offers 21 easy-to-navigate pages with overall information about the city as well as recommendations on food, hotels, entertainment, local culture and much more.

Easy Buenos Aires City makes it easy for everyone to enjoy this culturally rich city where tango music and the arts get mixed with the passion for soccer and the love for food inherited by its strong European heritage.

Now is the time to visit Buenos Aires. Recent economic stressors have turned this once prohibitively expensive city into one of the best bargains in world travel.

Please visit http://www.easybuenosairescity.com today, and see how easy touring Buenos Aires can be. Your comments and suggestions for the site are appreciated and can be forwarded from the “Contact Us” navigation button.

Tourist Web Site Emerges To Show The World “Buenos Aires The Easy Way”

PERSIAN CENTER BRIDGES "FROM IRAN TO ARGENTINA" WITH THE IRANIAN GUITAR DUO.

(PRWEB) September 5, 2003

PERSIAN CENTER BRIDGES “FROM IRAN TO ARGENTINA” WITH THE IRANIAN

GUITAR DUO

Event at San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre on Sept. 14,2003 dedicated to the victims of Sept. 11, 2001

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — September 3, 2003 —- Persian Center (http://www.persiancenter.org)proudly presents a night of music and dance, featuring the Iranian Guitar Duo, Babak and Pedram Falsafi (http://iranianguitarduo.com/),Sunday,September 14, 2003, at San Francisco’s Herbst theater http://www.performances.org/theaters/herbst.asp).

The brothers plan to shatter preconceived notions of the sounds of the classical guitar, as they take the audience on a journey “From Iran to Argentina”, with intricately woven music from these regions. For the traditional Persian music lovers, there will also be a complex composition for two guitars and Iranian drums (tombak & daff) played by Kamran Modirian, accompanied by Niosha Dance Academy (http://www.niosha.com).

The visual delights will continue as tango dancers Sandor and Parissa (http://www.sandorparissa.com/) perform to the Iranian Guitar Duo’s romantic sounds from South America.

Tickets are available through City Box Office at 415-392-4400 or

http://www.cityboxoffice.com.

Babak and Pedram Falsafi formed the Iranian Guitar Duo after many years exploring Iranian and Middle Eastern music on the classical guitar. Babak studied the guitar in Tehran with renowned guitar teacher Bagher Moazen and later at the Prague Conservatory of Music with Milan Zelenka, while Pedram immigrated to the United States and became a lifetime guitar and composition student of Dusan Bogdanovic. The brothers, who reunited in San Francisco, shared that “traveling, learning foreign languages, and meeting many artists worldwide has helped us appreciate different cultures, traditions and art forms, and has had an impact on our music.” Although influenced by numerous classical music recordings including Bach’s Cantatas and Mozart’s Concertos, they remain eager to learn more about other styles of music such as popular and folk.

From traditional to modern music and dance,the evening ventures to create dialogue and bring understanding and appreciation among various cultures, without the spoken word. This event is dedicated to the victims of the September 11th, 2001 and all other innocent victims of violence in history. Shahin Tabrizi, Persian Center Board Member, commented that “lives have been shortened and dreams have been shattered because of the belief that taking an innocent life in pursuit of one’s own ideology is justified. Let us hope that there will be a day when we realize that there is no cause greater, no commitment more important, and no aspiration more precious than honoring a life.”

The Persian Center is a non-profit organization with a mission to create an environment in which to conduct social, cultural, educational, and recreational activities designed to strengthen the sense of identity and integrity of all Iranians and Iranian descendants, and to engage individuals interested in or related to Persian community and culture.

PERSIAN CENTER BRIDGES "FROM IRAN TO ARGENTINA" WITH THE IRANIAN GUITAR DUO.

The Gotan Project Brings Their Dazzling Tango Electronica to UCLA Live, with L.A.’s daKAH Hip-Hop Orchestra, Oct. 18

(PRWEB) October 10, 2003

LOS ANGELES— The Paris-based Gotan Project brings its soulful and fiery fusion of classic tango melodies, dub and electronica to UCLA’s Royce Hall at

8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. Presented by UCLA Live, The Gotan Project will be joined by Los Angeles’ 50-plus member daKAH Hip-Hop Symphonic Orchestra. This performance is approximately three hours with an intermission. For tickets call 310-825-2101 or visit http://www.UCLAlive.org.

In addition to Gotan’s principal members, including DJ/producer Philippe Cohen Solal, DJ Christophe Mueller on computers, and tango guitarist Eduardo Makaroff, the lineup features Cristina Vilallonga, vocals; Serge Amico, bandonéon; Arnaldo Zanelli, piano; and Line Kruse, violin.

With sales currently in excess of 600,000 copies worldwide, Gotan Project’s acclaimed “La Revancha Del Tango” was released domestically on Beggars XL in April 2003, featuring their jazz-house hit “Triptico.” Their remix of Sarah Vaughn’s classic, “Whatever Lola Wants” on the “Verve Remixed 2” compilation, featuring today’s greatest DJs remixing the legends of jazz, has enjoyed much airplay on alternative music programs. In addition, their music will be featured in the first episode of “CSI Miami” on CBS this fall.

These French dance producers turned world music crusaders are well on their way to invading the record boxes of DJs around the world. Left-looking spinners including Gilles Peterson, Thievery Corporation, Peter Kruder, UFO, Jazzanova, Rainer Trüby, Herbert and Mr. Scruff have all been championing Gotan’s continent-crossing fusion of tango, dub and beats since their debut single “El Capitalismo Foraneo” was released in January, 2000.

A Los Angeles phenomenon, daKAH is the world’s largest hip-hop orchestra featuring 58 musicians and almost every instrument imaginable. Led by Maestro Double G, daKAH has featured many of hip-hop’s greatest musicians including Macy Gray, Nikka Costa and members of the Breakestra and Black Eyed Peas.

Like a strange, mongrel beast, dance club music will feed off anything: salsa, Brazilian samba, Afrobeat, and now tango. In its native Argentina, the tango is the music of revolution, both sexual and political. It is Argentina’s pop, jazz and its folk music all rolled into one. It’s music that came from the barrios and swept the high societies of Europe in the early 20th century. The second tango invasion came much later: in the late 1970s, when the country’s right wing military junta forced many left wing musicians to flee and find refuge in more liberal cities like Paris.

“There has always been a big tango scene in Paris,” says Gotan founder Philippe Cohen Solal. Indeed the word Gotan itself is just “tango” said in Buenos Aires’ Verlan slang—the Argentinean underworld’s equivalent of old fashioned London argot like backslang. “In Verlan they use the word Gotan to mean tango,” explains Cohen Solal, “there was a tango club in Paris called Gotan in the 60’s.”

Employing some of the finest tango musicians in Europe, Cohen Solal and fellow Gotan projectors Mueller and Makaroff allowed them to freestyle around a theme—then returned to the studio to edit the jams into a seductive tango dub.

“We are not scared of treating or filtering the musicians,” they say. “We’re ‘using’ electronic tricks to make the tango more accessible and that’s why it works. We don’t want to do deep house, with long solos on top of that—it’s really boring. The improvisation has to come back to real melodies and bring melodies back into dance music. We love dub, we love soundtrack music, and we wanted to discover something surprising that nobody would expect.”

With cover versions of the theme from “Last Tango In Paris,” and a dubbed-out take on Frank Zappa’s “Chunga’s Revenge,” this is willfully weird but strangely compelling music that ignores both geographical and musical borders.

Cohen Solal has spent the last 10 years working as a musical supervisor, collaborating with film directors such as Lars Von Trier (on “Europa”), Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Nikita Yolande Zauberman (“Clubbed to Death”), before hooking up with mutual Mueller and veteran Argentinean émigré and musician Makaroff.

A veteran guitarist and singer who has already recorded 12 albums, Makaroff has written and played on film soundtracks and presented TV shows in his native Buenos Aries. He came to Paris in 1990, where he’s fronted the tango group Tango Mano and conducted the orchestra for the Paris tango club Dancing de la Coupole.

“We wanted to work together for a long time,” explains Cohen Solal, “and then Eduardo made me discover the really percussive, groovy side of Argentinean music. We wanted to do something we really loved, with no compromise or thinking about selling to others.”

Drawing upon influences from jazz, funk, European classical, hip-hop, rock and Latin music, daKAH Hip-Hop Orchestra has won critical raves and a loyal following for their recordings and live performances since its inception in 1999. Musically speaking, the sound is like a spice rack, featuring several flavors, aromas, herbs, seasonings, and applications. Orchestral instruments swing on dance rhythms to create the genre-defining sound of symphonic hip-hop. Individuals bring their unique talent to the center stage, while Maestro Double G directs the traffic. Most importantly, they have demonstrated a previously uncharted potential for both the hip-hop house party and the symphony orchestra.

This event is supported by the Henry Mancini Tribute Fund at UCLA.

The Gotan Project Brings Their Dazzling Tango Electronica to UCLA Live, with L.A.’s daKAH Hip-Hop Orchestra, Oct. 18