Hi friends!

Join us this Sunday for our 2nd CD Release party for our brand new CMC + Relay Recording Local Music Compilation Volume 1!

February 28, 2010 - North Market Test Kitchen (upstairs) - 1-5 pm - ALL AGES + FAMILY FRIENDLY!

Music by: Flotation Walls, Dan and Sean from Bookmobile, Time & Temperature and Jordan Martin.

Special guests: Clint Reno, What The Rock, Made By Amy D, Flamestitch, Sweet Stella Designs, Balloon Animals by Dr. Silverfoot and more!

Admission is free with a suggested donation of $5 for the CMC Musicians’ Assistance Program.

The local music comp is $5 and features 11 songs by Columbus musicians!

Read more about the project here:

http://www.columbusunderground.com/cmc-relay-local-music-compilation-released

http://www.columbusalive.com/live/content/features/stories/2010/02/11/ca_m_locals_columbus-music-coop.html

SEE YOU SUNDAY!

Hello! We hope everybody is staying warm during our recent winter blast!

We are super excited that our CMC/Relay Recording Local Music Compilation is finally here! We can’t wait to share it with you and we’ll celebrate with 2 CD release parties in February!

 THIS WEEK!  CD RELEASE #1 - SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 13, 2010 @ CARABAR! FREE!

Music by Bookmobile, The Lindsay, Shin Tower Music and Jinx Palm.

This is your first chance to pick up the CD for only $5! Come celebrate with us on Saturday!

Carabar is located in lovely Old Town East at 115 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215

The Columbus Music Co-op and Relay Recording are proud to announce the completion of a local music compilation!  Jon Fintel at Relay Recording donated all of the recording, mixing and mastering and 11 amazing bands and solo artists donated their songs and time.  The end product is 11 songs from a combination of experienced Columbus bands, high school and college artists and a couple of Columbus ex-pats still supporting and contributing to our vibrant music community with all the music recorded at Relay Recording in lovely Old Town East!  The cd features songs by Dead Sea, The Lindsay, Bookmobile, Flotation Walls, Time & Temperature, Jinx Palm, Shin Tower Music Jordan Martin, The Dolby Fuckers, Dylan Kappler and Ben Schwabe.  And, awesome artist and general nice dude, Clint Reno, donated his time to all of the album artwork and layout.

To celebrate the CD and to raise money for the Columbus Musicians’ Assistance Program, the CMC and Relay will host two release parties!

Saturday, February 13, 2010 - Carabar - Come be our Valentine! - FREE!

Music by Bookmobile, The Lindsay, Shin Tower Music, Jinx Palm. This will be your first chance to pick up the CD for $5!

Sunday, February 28, 2010 - North Market Dispatch Test Kitchen - 1-5 pm -$5 suggested donation

Music TBA soon but this will be a family-friendly, all ages event! So grab brunch or lunch from one of the awesome North Market vendors and meet us upstairs for our second cd release party!

We’ll have lots more info soon, but please mark your calendars; we hope you can come celebrate with us in February!

For more information about Relay Recording, check out www.relayrecording.com

The 5th Annual Rock Potluck endeavors to bring together musicians from all corners of the Columbus music scene to foster community and celebrate artistic collaboration.

This year’s event features 41 amazing musicians representing 41 different bands. They will be jumbled up randomly to form eight new super-groups for this one night only! They get together the afternoon of Dec. 5th to fashion a band name, create two original songs and learn one cover. Then, they’ll play what they have created for us that Saturday night at Skully’s.

They meet each other, make this music and perform it live all in the span of about ten hours, which makes for a very exciting and entertaining experience for the players and audience alike.

This year will take it a step further, filming the entire process for a feature-length documentary to be screened in the Spring. We’ll meet some of the artists involved and learn what their daily lives are like and what it takes to put something like this together. We’ll film the rehearsals where all the music is made – the social interaction, the process, the magic. And, of course, we’ll witness the best of the live performances. So, grab your friends and come be a part of this historic document!

Also, please consider bringing a dish of any sort (Crockpot, cookies, cakes, whatever) to share as part of the actual potluck at 9pm.

Music will begin at 10pm sharp! It’s 21+ with a $5 cover (a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Columbus Music Co-Op).

And here are this year’s Rock Potluck players:

Sarah BB (Terribly Empty Pockets)
Sam Brown (You’re So Bossy)
Joe Camerlengo (This Is My Suitcase)
Roseanne Claiborne (Wing and Tusk)
Jesse Cooper (The Receiver)
Tyler Evans (Super Desserts)
Canaan Faulkner (The Randys)
Corey Fry (Monolithic Cloud Parade)
Jay Gasper (Chris McCoy Band)
Faith Gehring (Deerhead)
Andrew Graham (RTFO Bandwagon)
Daniel Hagquist (Phantods)
Aaron Hibbs (Sword Heaven)
Mark Himmel (The Compressions)
Dave Holm (Ugly Stick)
Melanie Holm (Total Foxx)
Ryan Horns (Paper Airplane)
Ryan Ida (Vug & The Stallions)
David James (The Black Canary)
Leslie Jankowski (Behind You With Knives)
Aaron Klamut (Jam Division)
Jenny Lute (The Wet Darlings)
Chris Lutzko (The Unholy Two)
Jess Martin (Mexican Standoff)
Joe Peppercorn (The Whiles)
Nick Schuld (Obviouslies)
Adam Scoppa (The Main Street Gospel)
Eve Searls (Bird & Flower)
Kyle Siegrist (Second State Butchers)
Jon Slak (Sick Thrills)
Adam Smith (Dead Sea)
Adam Smith (Necropolis)
Bob Ray Starker (Whoa Nellie)
Tristan Swan (Love Culture)
Dane Terry (Dane Terry)
Nick Tolford (Nick Tolford & Co.)
Brian Travis (Church of the Red Museum)
Aaron Troyer (Day Creeper)
Dustin White (Moons)
Jacob Wooten (Mr. Fahrenheit and the Lover Boys)

They’ll announce the official band line-ups and set times on Thursday, Dec. 3rd. Until then, feel free to dream up and post your favorite wishful pairings.

Check out: www.rockpotluck.com

Columbus Music Co-Op caps successful 2009 by announcing disbursements, new board appointments 
Organization expands, raising health care funds for working musicians 
 
Local non-profit the Columbus Music Co-Op (CMC) has capped a successful 2009 with the disbursement of nearly $10,000  for the year, funds that will be used to cover the costs of much needed health care for several area working musicians. In addition, CMC has added two new board members, growing to its largest size in the organization’s three-year history. 
 
Through a series of music and art events during the summer of 2009—Parking Lot Blowout, Urban Scrawl, Independent’s Day—CMC raised funds for its Columbus Musicians Assistance Program (CMAP), which disburses mini-grants to working Central Ohio musicians who are lacking health insurance coverage and are experiencing health-related financial hardships. (Criteria and application information for CMAP is available at the CMC website at columbusmusiccoop.org). 
 
“Our goal is to be able to provide working musicians in Columbus with assistance when it’s most needed,” said CMC Executive Director, Erin Moore. “And more people than ever are seeing the value of what we’re trying to do—we’re confident we’ll be able to break the $10K threshold in 2010.” 
 
While CMC’s foremost goal is to provide short-term funds for working musicians who are in need of health care, the organization has larger, more long-range goals on its agenda: health care advocacy and enhancing the cultural landscape of Columbus.  
 
“We would honestly prefer not having to raise money for supplemental health care, says Moore. “But until universal health care is an option for everyone, we fill a void for a slice of the population we care deeply about.” Beyond advocacy, there are also the benefits to the economy of Central Ohio. Moore adds, “If creative people can’t find a welcoming environment here, they will move somewhere else. We see our efforts as enriching the cultural landscape and enabling economic growth in a discreet but fundamental manner.”  
 
To aid in those efforts, new board members—Shirley Tobias and Jerry Dannemiller—bring CMC board membership to seven, the most in the organization’s three-year history. Tobias is a User Experience Designer with Nationwide and Dannemiller is Director of Marketing at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Both bring a wealth of experience to the board, having played and/or written about music for many years. “Shirley and Jerry bring a new level of visibility and credibility to CMC. Both have great reputations in the music scene (and beyond) for their passion and creativity,” said board president Jessica Faller. “I’m ecstatic they’ll be able to bring those same qualities to the CMC.” Besides Moore, Faller, Dannemiller, and Tobias, the CMC board includes Laddan Shoar, Elizabeth Lessner, and Ben Chenoweth.

Initiatives for CMC in 2010 ar many: full 501(c)3 status, extending CMC’s reach into a broader cross-secion of musical communties, a “Local Music Month” in July, and new corporate sponsorships around and expanded slate of fundraising events, including the 5th Parking Lot Blowout (mark your calendars now: July 10, 2010).

This Friday, October 9 is the Musician Inc: The Working Artist Conference! The conference is brought to you for free by Crumpton Law LLC, the Columbus Music Co-op, Central City Recording, and The Sports & Entertainment Law Association at the Moritz College of Law.  Panels begin at 1:00 and last until 5:00 P.M.

The event is being held on Ohio State University’s campus at the Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC), which is just Southeast of Ohio Stadium. The best place to park is in the Neil Avenue Parking Garage. 

This year’s confirmed panelists include platinum producer/engineer Eddie Ashworth and Saving Jane singer Marti Dodson.  Eddie has worked with a number of notable artists, including Sublime, Pennywise, Great White, Slightly Stoopid, Blackalicious, and Unwritten Law.  Eddie mixed and engineered Sublime’s debut album , which has sold over 5 million copies and contains the hit songs What I Got, Santeria, and Wrong Way. Marti is the singer and songwriter for Saving Jane, a band whose hit song Girl Next Door, reached # 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to being a touring rock singer with commercial radio success, Marti is an Ohio State University alum.
Below is the schedule of panels and speakers for the event:

1:00 – 2:00 Recording and Mastering Panel

Eddie Ashworth (Engineer/Producer), Andy Dodson (Central City Recording), Chris Graham (Chris Graham Mastering)

• Considerations before entering the studio
• What to look for in a studio
• What is mastering and why does it matter

2:00 – 2:45 Interview with Marti Dodson from Saving Jane

How did you go from wanting a music career to having one?

2:45 – 3:15 Press/Publicity Panel

Chris DeVille (Columbus Alive), Jef Shaffer (Fliprag Magazine)

• How to build buzz
• Tips for getting press coverage

3:30 – 4:00 Booking Panel (Getting Gigs)

Paul Painter (Victorian’s Midnight Café), Gabor Klein

(Undercurrents), John Latimer (Undercurrents)
4:00 – 5:00 Music Law and Business Panel

Matthew Crumpton, Esq. (Crumpton Law LLC), Lee Bass, Esq.

(Chester, Willcox & Saxbe LLP)

• Music Law Basics
• Music Business Discussion

Well friends, ID09 is almost here! Please join us downtown on September 19, 2009, on Gay, Pearl and Lynn, from 12-10 pm for 3 STAGES OF LIVE & LOCAL MUSIC, art, vendors, Ohio Rollergirls, a downtown yard sale, Via Calori, yummy food from Dine Originals, Urban Scrawl painters and tons more!

Here is the outside band line up (but check out inside Skylab and the Shelf for even more music!):

Gay Street Stage
12 p.m. - Andy Shaw Band
1 p.m. - Bush League All Stars
2 p.m. - Burglar
3 p.m. - Moon High
4 p.m. - Brain Double
5 p.m. - You’re So Bossy
6 p.m. - Sick Thrills
7 p.m. - Church of the Red Museum
8 p.m. - The Patsys
9 p.m. - The Lindsay

Pearl Alley Stage
12:30 p.m. - LES Crew
1:30 p.m. - Shin Tower Music
2:30 p.m. - Couch Forts
3:30 p.m. - Blastronauts
4:30 p.m. - Moondrones
5:30 p.m. - Floatation Walls
6:30 p.m. - Six Gallery
7:30 p.m. - D Rob
8:30 p.m. - Tin Armor
9:30 p.m. - Karate Coyote

Lynn Alley Stage
12:15 p.m. Mono to Mono
1:15 p.m. Vug Arakus & The Stallions
2:15 p.m. Available Light Theater Company
3:15 p.m. Old Worlds
4:15 p.m. Make Ready the Fleet
5:15 p.m. Curtis Cole
6:15 p.m. Super Desserts
7:15 p.m. Maza Blaska

And make sure you come say hi to the Columbus Music Co-op! We’ll be at the corner of Pearl and Gay with info about local music, the festival band merch tent, info about our Columbus Musicians’ Assistance Program and a raffle to win CMC gear, recording time from Central City Recording and more!

See you tomorrow!

www.thisisindependent.com

Independents’ Day 2009 is only 5 days away!  The music committee needs some help running the main stages and the band merch tent. We need:

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.  Stage hands/Floater-parking

2-5 p.m.  Merch tent/Stage hands/Floater-parking

5-8 p.m.  Stage hands/Floater-parking

8-11 p.m.  Merch tent/Stage hands/Floater-parking

All volunteers will also get an ID09 tshirt!

Want to help? Email: columbusmusiccoop@gmail.com

You can also check out the entire band schedule and event program here:

www.thisisindependent.com

The weather is going to be beautiful! This event starts at 2 pm in the Fireproof Storage parking lot in the Short North on the corner of High and 2nd…it’s free, all-ages and chock full of music, art, food, fun and of course, lots of PBR! PBR is generously donating the proceeds from the beer truck to the CMC and Couchfire Collective, so you can have fun and support art and music at the same time! SEE YOU THERE!

Independents’ Day is a simultaneous effort by active and creative people of Columbus to display their talents and abilities. An all-for-one, one-for-all mentality culminates into a day-long explosion of creative spirit.  ID09 is September 19, 2009, downtown on Gay Street, Pearl and Lynn Alleys between 3rd and High!

The Columbus Music Co-op is happy to once again be helping coordinate music and the band merch tent.  We’ll be bringing you 2 main stages of awesome local music featuring 20 amazing Columbus bands! Additionally, Gay Street art spaces the Shelf and Skylab will host music and there will be an acoustic side stage in Lynn Alley!

Live performances on the main stages from:

Andy Shaw Band
Brain Double
Blastronauts
Burglar
Bush League All Stars
Church of the Red Museum
Couch Forts
D Rob
Flotation Walls
Karate Coyote
The Lindsay
Make Ready the Fleet
Moondrones
Moon High
The Patsys
Shin Tower Music
Sick Thrills
Six Gallery
Tin Armor
You’re So Bossy

Set times and more info coming soon!

Wanna volunteer? Email columbusmusiccoop@gmail.com

ALL INFO HERE: www.thisisindependent.com