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Jack & Sara Springer Celebrate 30 Years Of Teknicolour Marketing

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Congrats To Jack & Sara Springer!



Next MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd marks the 30 Year Anniversary of CLEVELAND-based TEKNICOLOUR MARKETING SERVICES. JACK SPRINGER started the company in 1991 and his wife, SARA (A.K.A. SANDY DOWNS) joined in 1995 and they are having a blast 24/7 running the business together. They were both previously in CLEVELAND bands and now are helping break Alternative bands. 

JACK’s record career began while working as a manager at MELODY LANE RECORDS in LAKEWOOD. He began his National Record Promotion career in 1976 and witnessed the lurid side of record promotion in the 70’s before mov from PROGRESS RECORD DISTRIBUTORS in CLEVELAND (who had ABC, MOTOWN, A&M, 20TH CENTURY FOX, STIFF RECORDS among others). Landing as Head Of Pop Promotion for the music world magnate, MIKE CURB, SPRINGER spent six years in LOS ANGELES. He moved back to CLEVELAND to be closer to his family and launched TEKNICOLOUR MARKETING SERVICES. INC with a phone and a fax machine in a small office above the FLAT IRON CAFE in the historic CLEVELAND FLATS before moving into the WORLD FAMOUS AGORA concert venue. In his 50 year career, JACK has worked with these highly esteemed ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME inductees: BEASTIE BOYS, DAVID BOWIE, JIMMY CLIFF, ELVIS COSTELLO, GREEN DAY, THE POLICE, THE PRETENDERS, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, REM, LOU REED, STEELY DAN, CAT STEVENS, THE TEMPTATIONS, TOM PETTY, U2, STEVIE WONDER, ZZ TOP, and NINE INCH NAILS.

“It’s all about our 6 R’s – ROCK AND ROLL, RADIO, ROLLERCOASTERS, RELIGION, RACING AND ARRRRRRRGH, MATEY,” said JACK SPRINGER.

ALL ACCESS SVP/Strategy, Music Formats, Alternative Editor SHAWN ALEXANDER interviewed JACK & SARA this week on Alternative 10 Questions. JACK noted, “Back in the day, DAVE SHOLIN (GAVIN REPORT from years ago) had schooled me and sent me a list of the Top 99 excuses programmers use. He told me to memorize it and I did — never really had to use most of them — it was just fun talking to folks.” Check out the 10 Questions interview here.




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Rita Ora is going to get ‘really deep’ on her third album – Music News

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The 30-year-old star says working on her recent collaborative club EP, ‘Bang’, with producer-and-DJ Imanbek, allowed her to “take risks” and step outside of her comfort zone, and the songs will act as a “bridge” into her follow-up to 2018’s ‘Phoenix’.

In an interview with Brazil radio station POPline on Instagram Live, Rita said of the EP: “I wanted to remind people that be in control of yourself, you have to take risks. I challenged myself by doing something like an EP rather than an album. I didn’t want any pressure. I just wanted to experiment. I needed that for myself. When I do my own album, which I will probably end up recording this summer, I now have a new lease of life. [‘Bang’] is like a bridge.”

The ‘Body on Me’ singer has been busy penning new tracks and admitted she is “way more in tune” with her “vulnerable side”, which will show on her new album.

She added: “I’m doing a lot of songwriting. I’m definitely getting way more in tune with my vulnerable side. There’s going to be a lot more emotion with this record. This year has been such a transformative experience for all of us that to be transparent is really what we need. With this new album, I’m going to really get deep.”

Rita previously explained that she wanted to “come face-to-face” with “a bit of a challenge” on her next studio effort.
She said: “People have been coming to studio sessions from all over the world. I’ve been working on this now for the past two year on-and-off. I have plans for this third album to be something I’ve never done before and I really want to experiment and come face-to-face with a bit of a challenge. So there are writers I’ve never worked with before and live instrumentation.”



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Alice Cooper: ‘Audiences these days are shock proof’ – Music News

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Alice Cooper believes modern audiences are “shock proof”.

The 73-year-old rocker doesn’t think the theatrical performances his group staged in the 1970s – which featured snakes, blood, and guillotines – would cause so much controversy today because crowds aren’t fazed by anything.

‘You could cut off your arm and eat it on stage and it wouldn’t matter. The audience is shock proof,” he told Independent.co.uk.

The School’s Out rocker wanted to give fans something their parents wouldn’t approve of and for it to be so shocking, people couldn’t take their eyes away from the stage.

“We gave the audience everything their parents hated,” he smiled. “The way we saw it, if you’re driving by and you see Disneyland on the left side and a plane wreck on the right, you’re going to look at the plane wreck. We were that plane wreck.”

But the band’s early work proved too much for the local scene in Los Angeles and Alice – whose real name is Vincent Furnier – admits people didn’t understand what they were trying to do.

“I think we scared the LA audience, he recalled. “They were mostly on acid and Alice Cooper is not what you want to see when you’re on acid.”

The veteran rocker is looking forward to getting back on stage once the coronavirus pandemic eases and he insisted he always feels comfortable performing I’m Eighteen because his alter ego is just a character and never ages.

“When you sing that song in front of an audience, you are 18,” he explained. “The way I look at it, Alice is like Batman or Spiderman. Those characters never age.”



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Mandy Moore fuming at interview snub over refusal to relive abuse trauma – Music News

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Mandy Moore has taken aim at the press after she was snubbed for an interview because she apparently refused to revisit her allegedly abusive marriage to Ryan Adams.

The This Is Us star went public with her claims against Adams in a damning expose published in The New York Times in early 2019 when she claimed the musician, to whom she was married from 2009 to 2016, was psychologically abusive during their relationship. Adams has denied the accusations despite several other women, including his ex-fiancee Megan Butterworth, called him out on sexual misconduct and manipulative behaviour.

Since speaking out, Moore has been able to let go of her painful past and enjoy the true happiness she has found with her second husband Taylor Goldsmith, with the couple now expecting their first child.

However, Moore was left fuming after editors at an unidentified publication scrapped plans to interview the star unless she opened up further about “a certain subject” – indicating it revolved around her former marriage – even though the article was supposed to profile her “entire life and career”.

In a lengthy Instagram Story post on Tuesday, Moore admitted she had “hesitated” in sharing the news online, but knew she had to address the snub after waking up with her blood “still boiling”.

Alongside a shot of the message she had received, informing her the interview could no longer go ahead, she wrote: “When they (the publication) were told that I had spoken plenty about a certain subject in my life and would have no further comment (truly there are countless interviews they could pull from, that story is over and there’s nothing more to say.), this was the response we got back (sic).”

She fumed: “Any comment I make about said experience becomes clickbait and gives them (abuser) the energy and time they seek and have already stolen from too many for too long.”

Moore added: “the message this sends is insulting and so out of touch with the cultural discussion around abusive relationships, directly linking someone’s value back to their abuser.”

She closed the missive by writing: “I am about to give birth any second and I’m not afraid to draw healthy boundaries. Bye.”



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The Chicks’ Natalie Maines: ‘Name change released invisible weight’ – Music News

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Natalie Maines agreed dropping “dixie” from The Dixie Chicks lifted a “weight” the group hadn’t realised they were “carrying… until it was gone.”

The Cowboy Take Me Away singers announced last summer they would be known as The Chicks following a public plea by U.S. journalist Jeremy Helligar, who explained the word “dixie” is “the epitome of white America” and “conjures a time and a place of bondage”.

Bandmates Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer agreed and quickly ditched “dixie” from their name online – with Natalie telling Apple Music’s Essentials Radio that she felt a certain amount of pressure had gone after the swapped their name.

“You didn’t even know you were carrying that weight until it was gone,” she said.

“Then it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re The Chicks? What were we thinking? That’s a way cooler name. What are we so scared of? We’re The Chicks,” she went on.

Maguire added that she and her bandmates were pitching “ridiculous” name ideas for the group during a Zoom call with their management.

“We had a really funny management Zoom call where we were throwing out ridiculous names and it just came back to… ‘OK, the most obvious thing is The Chicks,'” she recalled, noting the band contacted their legal team to get the name change started as soon as they had agreed on the new moniker.



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Kodak Black establishes scholarship in memory of late Parkland student – Music News

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Rapper Kodak Black has paid tribute to a Parkland school shooting victim by establishing a scholarship in her name.

The Tunnel Vision star spent Valentine’s Day in Parkland, Florida attending a memorial to mark the third anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, when 17 people were killed.

Among the victims was student Meadow Pollack, who was a big fan of Kodak, and, following the commutation of his prison sentence by former U.S. President Donald Trump last month, the rapper decided to pay his respects in person at the event.

While there, he announced plans to launch a $100,000 (£72,000) scholarship fund in Pollack’s memory at the Nova Southeastern University Law School in Florida, where her brother, Hunter, is a student, with the money benefiting those wanting to study justice reform.

Hunter was present at the emotional gathering and expressed his gratitude to Kodak by giving him a big hug, before they jointly lit a candle for the victims of the Parkland shooting, reports TMZ.

It’s Kodak’s latest act of kindness since walking free from prison – he also recently offered to cover the costs of college tuition for the young children of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents killed in the line of duty in his native Florida.



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Britney Spears’ former assistant: ‘I was scared off by singer’s dad’ – Music News

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Britney Spears’ former assistant was so terrified of upsetting the pop star’s father, Jamie Spears, she blocked calls from the singer.

Alli Sims, who is also Britney’s cousin, was ordered to stay away from the singer by Jamie, revealing things got so bad she feared for her life if she picked up a call from the Toxic star following her meltdown in 2008.

In an interview with NBC News, Sims claimed that Jamie demanded she cut ties with Britney after he took over as the conservator of her affairs – and she didn’t want to risk any repercussions.

“I didn’t answer (her calls),” she said, recounting how the pop star tried to reach her following two involuntary psychiatric holds in 2008, using “random people’s phones”.

“The situation had become way over my head at that point and her dad and other people were involved,” Sims added.

“I really do believe he (Jamie) would have done something if I didn’t remove myself from the situation,” she went on.

Sims also reflected on the time she spent working for her cousin, recalling the media scrutiny was crazy.

“Just because I was smiling in a photo going through a drive-thru (restaurant) doesn’t mean that I wanted the attention,” she explained, insisting: “I would have much rather been able to drive around town with nobody bothering us.”

Now married with a daughter and living in Louisiana, Sims still feels “a lot of guilt” for abandoning her cousin when she needed her the most.

“I can’t imagine how alone (Britney) felt,” she confessed, admitting: “Do I miss her as a person and think about her all the time? Yes. She’s all over the place still. You can’t help but think about her every day.”

Sims’s comments come 10 days after the release of a damning new documentary, New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears, which debuted on TV in America earlier this month. The film studies the conservatorship in charge of Spears’ estate and the level of control her father has over the singer.



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Emeli Sande has left her record label – Music News

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The ‘Next To Me’ hitmaker has left EMI after a decade as she felt a lot of pressure trying to live up to the success of her 2012 debut album ‘Our Version Of Events and she’s said to now be feeling more relaxed about her musical future.

A source told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “Emeli and her label have decided to go their separate ways after ten years together.

“She had a great time and with their support she became a massive success story thanks to Our Version of Events.
“But her two follow-up albums haven’t had the same sales figures and it has been difficult for her.

“Emeli sat down with the label and decided now was the right time to do her own thing.

“She is hard at work on a new album. This has allowed her to take the pressure off and she is feeling very relaxed.”
The 33-year-old singer revealed in December she was taking a break from social media in order to work on her new music.

She said: “I’m taking a break offline now to focus fully on finishing the next album and to prepare for when I can perform live for you again.

“I’ll see you on the other side with a whole new chapter of life, love and music to share!”

Emeli previously admitted she “doubted” whether she should continue as a musician while battling anxiety and depression after she split from husband Adam Gouraguine in 2013, less than a year after they tied the knot.

She said: “I doubted whether I wanted to continue being a musician. I questioned whether people wanted to hear me, because people were saying I was on TV too much. People said I was overexposed, and then I thought, ‘Maybe I don’t have a place in this music industry, and if people don’t want to hear it, what shall I do?’

“I was going through my separation, and really trying to get my head around the industry and where I sat in it.

“It was everything all at once, and I lost my confidence. Even though I was shy as a kid, I was very confident about what I wanted to do, and I worked to try to make it happen.

“The saddest part, when someone’s suffering like that, is you lose your natural personality and the confidence goes.”



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Brandon Flowers set to undergo shoulder surgery after biking accident – Music News

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The Killers frontman has revealed he flew over the handlebars of his bike and tore his right shoulder, throwing the ‘Bones’ hitmakers’ May shows in jeopardy.

The Las Vegas rockers are due to kick off their UK run on May 25 at Doncaster’s Keepmoat Stadium, but he admitted it’s “not looking great”.

Brandon told fans on Instagram “I went over the handlebars. I have a torn right shoulder so I am going under the knife in a couple of weeks to get that taken care off. Maybe one day I will play golf again. I will be in a sling for six weeks.

“We hope May happens. It’s not looking great.”

However, the 39-year-old singer teased fans can expect plenty of new music, including a seven-minute-long number about a gambling addict, and vowed to be back on stage “as soon as we can”.

He added: “I have a seven-minute song about a slot technician with a gambling problem. It’s good. One day you will hear it.

“Making music has become a part of our life now as this is what we get to do. You look at people who have lasted. We are on our seventh record.

“We will be back live as soon as we can.”

Last month, Brandon and co released a new track called ‘C’est La Vie’, from the deluxe edition of their 2020 album ‘Imploding The Mirage’.

The extended album also includes acoustic live cuts of the tracks ‘Blowback’ and ‘Caution’.

What’s more, the group also teased fans about their new album and reunited in the studio with guitarist Dave Keuning.

The musician took some time away form the group to work on his own music, releasing his debut solo album ‘Prismism‘ in 2019, but he’s seemingly back in the band after not contributing to ‘Imploding The Mirage’.

During an Instagram Live, Dave was seen in the recording booth with the band as they teased previews of their seventh record.

Brandon had previously promised fans won’t have long to wait to hear new music after a “fruitful” creative period amid the COVID-19 lockdown.

He said: “Every time someone makes a record they say that they have 50 songs and they’re going to release another record. We really are.

“We’re going to release another one in about 10 months. We’ve already gone back into the studio with [Jonathon, producer] Rado and Shawn [Everett, producer]. We did a week in Northern California.

“I had a lot of time on my hands. Before I’d normally be gearing up to tour, all of that time has gone back into writing more songs. It’s been pretty fruitful.”



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