Submitted by phil on Wed, 2008-02-27 17:22.
Thursday February 28: 6:30 – 9:00 pm (Doors open at 6:00 pm)
Institut Trebas | Trebas Institute 550 Sherbooke Ouest, 6iËme Ètage, Tour Est MontrÈal
*** There is no cost for this event. ***
Participants will get valuable insight and information from professionals in the music business and will have the opportunity to network with other songwriters and other industry professionals. During this event, packages from writers and artists will be evaluated and some members of the audience will have the opportunity to get personal feedback on their presentation and demo from a distinguished panel.
It is not necessary to bring a package to attend and hear what the panelists have to say.
Panelists: Julie Blake – Licensing Manager – Third Side Music
Jeff Waye – A&R – Ninja Tune / Big Dada / Counter Records
Eli Bissonnette – Owner/A&R – Dare To Care Records
Moderator: Mary-Catherine Harris – Marketing – Third Side Music
More information available here http://www.songwriters.ca/EVT20.php?event_id=280or email maryc@thirdsidemusic.com
Submitted by phil on Mon, 2008-02-18 20:09.
Third Side Music artist-writers are in the Top 20 for this year’s MIMI’s
Ghislain Poirier
Torngat
We are Wolves
Besnard Lakes
Congratulations to the Besnard Lakes for their nomination for Galaxie Rising Stars Award. They will be a featured performer at CMW (Canadian Music Week).
Ghislain Poirier and Sixtoo have been invited to showcase at SXSW in March, and Torngat and We Are Wolves have received a heads up to appear at the Great Escape in Brighton this May.
Third Side Music has a new signing, singer-songwriter Jason Kent.
Submitted by phil on Thu, 2008-02-07 15:29.
New signings and new personnel signal positive impact and significant growth for company.
With the new year barely underway, Third Side Music is charging ahead with lots of initiatives and added personnel. The company expects to continue to be a leader and innovator in order to demark itself from the standard music publisher. 2008 will see further growth for TSM with a number of improvements in terms of its service both to writer-artists and to clients. TSM aims to continue their phenomenal upward success, especially in music licensing, where income will soon reach over 1 million in song placements alone, achieved since the formation of the company two years ago.
On the personnel front, TSM proudly announces that Julie Blake, their premier licensing manager is now officially a partner. Julie has been responsible for the huge growth in the Third Side sync department, and has forged great relationships in Canada and the US.
Stateside, Third Side will be working with a new rep, Ram Borcar, a successful artist and soundtrack composer who will add his in-depth knowledge of punk and metal to Third Side’s great team and help strengthen ties to multiple users of these genres.
Internally, Third Side has hired another licensing person, Simon Petraki, who is learning the ropes under the très cool licensing whiz Julie Blake – who by the way is now taking French lessons! Pour qu’elle puisse parler en bon franglais.
In addition TSM has added people on the administrative side: Karine Fontaine will now be working now full-time taking registering songs, filing concert performances and tracking cue sheets. Also aboard is Monica Castilla, (trilingual in French, English and Spanish) who takes over royalty accounting and administrative duties. Third Side is purchasing some snazzy new software to streamline its publishing operations.
Third Side Music adds some awesome talent to an already stellar roster of artist-writers. We have just signed the Besnard Lakes!!
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Submitted by phil on Wed, 2007-09-19 13:34.
Independent Montreal Publishing Company Signs Polaris Prize Winner
Third Side welcomes young orchestral wizard Owen Pallett to their roster
Emerging from Canada’s vibrant independent-rock scene, Pallett, under his artist name FINAL FANTASY, has wowed critics and fans with his highly original style. His talents won over the judges of the prestigious 2006 Polaris Music Prize, an award based solely on artistic merit.
Trained in contemporary opera composition, and unrestrained by any musical genre, he had already written three film scores by the age of 16. and two operas by the age of 21. After performing around the Toronto scene, he now creates very eclectic, evolved songs that showcase his musical genius. Much in demand for his skills, he wrote string arrangements for Arcade Fire, performing with them on tour. He is presently writing for baroque music ensemble Tafelmusik, looking at film projects and composing new works for his next album.
Final Fantasy is touring North America this fall in major cities across the continent. His intimate and theatrical shows were initially presented as a one-person orchestra, but his concerts now include a live string quartet with Pallett on harpsichord, singing with his distinct choir-boy clarity.
As his melodramatic baroque pop continues to win hearts over, Third Side Music is proud to represent such a passionate talent.
QUOTES:
“A perfectionist who adores the rough-hewn, he is at once hopelessly nerdy and improbably cool”
-The New York Times
"It reaches as deep and as recklessly as the country's more rockin' talents, and it's all performed with such ease and generosity that you'd think it was as easy as pushing your hair away from your eyes."
- www.saidthegramaphone.com
“He Poos Clouds seems like the real thing: No matter the title, there's an ambition here, and a dedication to Pallett's own mission, that's a joy to hear. This is, in a word, fierce.”
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
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Submitted by phil on Wed, 2007-03-21 18:41.
Oh they warned us to not "mess with texas", but we ignored them, and texas was messed with real good.
I haven't slept in 4 days, I've dealt with airline problem after airline problem (as apparently did everyone), but I'm finally back. Julie Blake however is soldiering onwards to LA to put Third Side acts Les Breastfeeders & Plaster on stage alongside Patrick Watson.
Given my sleep-less state I'll run down the high-lights in point form before falling on my face...
Highlights include...
-The worst turbulence ever on my flight as we landed in the middle of a storm. Made comical by the fact our flight was full of people going to SXSW and by a load of Christians going to "recruit" at SXSW. According to the girl beside me... "God had a plan for us, and I shouldn't be worried about the turbulence". I'm pretty sure god gave up on me a long time ago, but sure okay.
-Between the 3 days of lightening storms in Austin and then the snowstorms in the North-East I don't know anyone who didn't have a nightmare getting there but in the end we all made it.
-Canada Blast BBQ making me realize that I actually see people from Montreal more in other cities then I do in Montreal.
-M For Montreal night at Maggie Mae's was a huge success. Shout out's to Avalanche, Bonsound, Dare To Care crews and Julie from Third Side for making it such a success. All bands delivered stellar sets.
-Drinking 15 beers at the M For Montreal show and wondering why I wasn't loaded. Then remembering it's American Beer. Next year we're bring Maudit to rep with the poutine (see below).
-Particular shout out to Eli & Alex from Dare To Care for smuggling two suitcases of un-pasteurized cheese and gravy mix over the border to deliver Poutine to Texas. Screw you Frito Pie there's a new artery hardener in town! Best Poutine moment... Patrick Watson taking a bite, looking really home sick all of a sudden, and exclaiming "that will keep me on the road for another month". It was easy to tell who was from Quebec and who wasn't by the look on their face as they ate it.
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Submitted by phil on Mon, 2007-02-19 16:29.
On the licensing tip...
Our singular mission to own all the airwaves continues with Julie bumping music into all sorts of new productions & shows. EA game "Army Of 2", Cadillac Film Shorts, Snowbowl commercial, and numerous placements on the Canadian tv shows..ReGenesis, Falcon Beach, Tout Le Monde En Parle, and Durham County to name but a few.
Also note that she's finalizing our TSM licensing library. This is for bulk licensing packages that allows for easier/quicker turnaround for smaller library music productions. If you haven't discussed this with her, drop her a line if you want any tracks included. These licenses tend to not pay as much but they can happen with greater frequency and sometimes generate decent back end royalties.
On top of all this her depth of music geek-dom is being tapped to do some music supervision for one of L.A's most prominent film and advertising supervisors.
Trips, trips, and more trips...
Third Side represent…
Pat Curley recently returned from Midem. This year he managed to avoid the dreaded dodgy Canne cheese and was able to sit through every meeting without looking green (seriously, that cheese almost ate our apartment last year). Once again we appeared to be the quaint publisher on the Riviera by not having a yacht and cigars but then that's not how we want to roll. Instead the end result is that our international sub-publisher chain is getting tighter, particularly in France given the amount of quality Quebec music we're representing these days.
Next up is the SXSW take-over where myself (Jeff), & Julie Blake will be heading to "Fuck With Texas" along with TSM & Ninja acts. In the Austin BBQ pits with us will be Malajube, Champion, Kid Koala, Les Breastfeeders, Amon Tobin, We Are Wolves, Pop Levi, Plaster, The Besnard Lakes, Daedelus, and more more more.
Then it's WMC, Tribeca Film Fest, NXNE.... and onwards.
Go airmiles. And have I told you how much I hate airports these days... actually that would take up way to much space... but I find the concept of having liquid fit into a pre-determined sized baggy as being what makes it "not a threat" to be totally ridiculous. It's okay... the gun is in a zip-lock bag, don't worry about it.
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Submitted by phil on Thu, 2006-11-23 15:26.
Why hello there music makers and dreamers of the dream. Welcome to the first of a regular monthly update (tendonitis problems pending). After spending the first year (damn...it's been a year already) manically building accounting systems, getting things registered, putting music on music supervisors radar, putting our system of world-wide collection in place, and generally not sleeping, we're finally ready to... well... actually have a second to talk about it.
Licensing
Our licensing secret weapon and all around Third Sider who's young enough to stay up all night at shows, Julie Blake, has been busy placing music in all sorts of productions. To name a few... Rogers, HBC Olympics, and Videotron ads, Food Jammers, The L Word, Falcon Beach, Godivas, Whistler, La Vie Secrète Des Gens Heureux, Tout Le Monde En Parle, The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down, MTV, Fuel TV, Tony Hawk, ReGenesis, Web Dreams, 15 Love, NBA Live, Champion's League and more, along with also landing lots of smaller bulk licenses, remixes, work for hires, and other special projects for our artists. Daily she's on the phone looking for more and more licenses & opportunities… yet still manages to look so fresh.
She also capped off a successful trip to the Toronto Film Festival by having Champion tear the roof off the Canadian Music Cafe to a room full of music supervisors, and her andPhilippa just got back from L.A where they spent the week at The Billboard Music supervisors joint doing the Hollywood Shuffle, pitching tunes and meeting people.
Awards
Congrats go out to one of our favorite bands (and recent Third Side signing) Malajube for their Polaris nomination, their nomination for the ECHO songwriting prize, and their ADISQ awards for Révélation de l’année, Album de l’année – Alternatif, and Pochette de disque de l’année. Not to mention their recent run of press and shows in the U.S.
Congrats also to Champion for his ADISQ awards for Spectacle de l’année, and Auteur-compositeur-interprète, and to Dobacaracol for picking up SOCAN’s Top 10 Most Performed Francophone Songs in Quebec award.
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Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-04-13 20:18.
In a revolutionary new venture, Third Side Music has tapped into the Canadian music scene which has gained prominence internationally and amassed a catalogue of some of the finer offerings by Canadian indie labels and artists. In a move that will enhance partnerships between music creators and users, Third Side Music has utilized new technologies to deliver music to users through a rapid and efficient method of access great recordings Third Side’s experienced partners will offer creative support to help filmmakers and ad agencies with the right music for their productions, including help with pitches, providing quick musical references and immediate permissions to use customized lists of recordings, tailored to the client’s needs thru a state of the art system via the web. In addition to maximized opportunities presented by new and existing catalogues Third Side Music has a roster of experienced music composers with access to top notch recording facilities to create music on demand. Third Side Music has already delivered hundreds of licenses to companies in film, television, video games and advertising. It has advantages not only of speed and efficiency, but also of fair pricing, since the bulk of its catalogue comes from smaller, independent record labels. Today, of course, many artists of stature are signing with such imprints as ….names: Ninja Tune, Justin Time and such artists as (list of artists – ) who offer them fairer dealings and higher royalty compensation. Having acquired strong legal expertise and in depth knowledge of synchronization licensing and deal negotiations Third Side is also prepped to offer consultation and music clearance services.
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-04-13 20:17.
Third Side Music has emerged on Montreal’s heated up music scene and is primed to become a major player in the industry.
As a result of a merger between Plateau Musik, a music placement company and the domestic licensing operations of Ninja Tune Records, an uber-cool electronica and hip hop imprint, Third Side Music will use its musical savvy and great A&R skills to offer music users an enhanced catalogue of recordings from a variety of genres.
Third Side plans to topple some of the existing (low) standards in the industry, offering fair dealings to artists, and transparency in its reporting to owners of copyrights and recordings. By taking advantage of new technology, Third Side will also be able to respond to music requests more rapidly on the one hand, while tracking use of the works accurately and efficiently.
This new venture will introduce some revolutionary new concepts in an industry that has traditionally quashed the creative and artistic sides as well as getting a bad rep for cutting raw deals with artists. Third Side Music will be a fresh option for writers, publishers and labels who need a partner to solicit profitable deals in film television, advertising and other areas. Third Side Music will be able to capitalize on an existing world wide network of contacts to maximize revenue streams.
On the client side, Third Side Music will provide a state of the art system to music users, by which they will be able to access customized lists of recordings, tailored according to the material they are seeking.
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-04-13 20:09.
In an exciting merger, Plateau Musik, a music placement company based in Montreal, has joined forces with the domestic operations of Ninja Tune Records, opening up opportunities for
partnerships between talented creators and music users in fields such as film, television, video games and advertising. The newly formed company offers music clearance, licensing and legal services as well as full-on music publishing activities
Third Side Music has signed on some exceptional creative talent as well as obtained representation rights for catalogues from great Canadian indie labels, to promote their music & to open up advantageous income streams and business opportunities. The company is also working with composers to score original music.
Clients who are searching for recordings can count on Third Side Music to propose the perfect match for their needs from its high quality catalogue of works from numerous genres. Third Side Music can rapidly fulfill client requests for music with “one-stop shopping”
Third Side Music is building on existing relationships and is introducing a new web system that will service music users with no delays and more choices. In addition to offering legal and negotiation expertise the company has full time agents working on licensing deals.
Third Side Music will be using the latest technology to speed up their transactions – vastly improving efficiency in responding to requests, pitching & delivery of recordings, as well as superior royalty collection on copyrights worldwide
