The multi-platinum international phenomenon known as Owl City is teaming up with the world’s largest and notably most successful online distributor TuneCore in a unique partnership designed to empower developing artists.

TuneCore has created a special website in collaboration with Owl City. Artists that choose to go through this website for distribution can have Owl City’s Adam Young listen to one “single” off their release. Young will choose his favorite among all of the music submitted and provide a constructive critique of the song directly back with the artist. Young will choose the artist and song on December 1, 2010.

“When I look back on the last 24 months of Owl City – the ease of getting music pushed out to the masses in the music industry today was without a doubt a huge factor in people being able to discover my music, said Young. “I feel honored to work with TuneCore to provide Owl City fans this same opportunity I was fortunate to have at the inception of my project.

Hootsuite.com has made it easy to manage your social networks and keep your sanity doing it. The site offers more than just a website link shortener for users to utilize.

The Twitter focused site lets you add and update your social networks including Facebook, WordPress, LinkedIn, Myspace and Ping.fm.

This site has recently streamlined its interface to make it easier to use. You can now customize your streams, tabs and columns on the dashboard.

Former vocalist of Come & Live’s Holding Onto Hope, Cory O’Keefe has launched his long awaited project, LUVD.com.

“LUVD is certainly not mine, it belongs to everyone. This is 100 percent a family,” O’keefe explained. “Each one of us has the capacity to inspire and uplift another human – the first step is just believing we are capable.”

The site is designed to be a community for the arts. Whether its music, fashion, photography or whatever you feel your creative calling to be, LUVD.com has something for you.

The indie music website, Mixest.com, is all about the music and nothing more. The site’s mission is to “maximize your exposure to new indie music.”

The look of the site is simple with a streaming music player and three commands including pause, next, and more obscure. The ‘more obscure’ option allows users to skip that song indefinitely.

Attention indie  bands and artists, Headliner.fm wants to help you connect with other musicians and ultimately reach new fans and better promote your music. The website is a “promotion exchange” for bands and artists to help build awareness for each other.

Bands who sign-up on Headliner are able to join forces with and promote other bands on each other’s Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace profiles. Members are rewarded a number of “band bucks” (proportionate to how many followers they have on their social media sites) which can be used to buy requests from other bands to give your band promotion on their social media profiles.

The Protégé Podcast will be releasing a mix tape featuring the hottest indie artists titled “Gossiping Heifers Indie Exposure”.

The mix tape will be distributed as a free download to be distributed to the public and music industry professionals.

The preferred genre of the mix tape will be urban format (R&B, Jazz, Reggae and Hip Hop) with comedy commentary with the hosts of the Protégé Podcast in between the music tracks.

Brooklyn-based God Within Recordings is back with Beat Freak EP, the latest in the series of eclectic remix EPs featuring tracks off of Scott Hardkiss’ acclaimed LP Technicolor Dreamer.

Remixers this time around include Paul Woolford, Q-Burns Abstract Message, Fort Knox Five and Scott Hardkiss.

Beat Freak EP includes the original, instrumental and acappella versions of the song, taking it and the EP series in a bold new direction with a diverse mix of styles and the most dancefloor-friendly mixes in the series to date.

TheBuzz recently caught up with singer Tanner Howe of  Disco Curtis for our new weekly interview feature, TheBuzz-By. Get to know various artists with a short list of random questions.

Disco Curtis just released their EP, “Play with Fire Get Burned,” and have a video out for their single, “Ashley.”

The band is gearing up to hit the road on the 2010 Van’s Warped Tour.

KH: If you weren’t a musician what other career would you pursue?

TH: Underwear model

KH: Do you have any celebrity crushes?

TheBuzz caught up with guitarist and vocalist for unsigned band, Washington Square Park, for our new weekly interview feature, TheBuzz-By. Learn more about indie artists with our short list of random questions.

Washington Square Park is currently touring and will be releasing their self-titled debut album on June 22^nd. For fans of The Movielife and Jimmy Eat World, Washington Square Park has the goods to be the breakout band of the summer.

What are your favorite websites you like to check out on the road?

MR: I like watching tons of youtube videos.. that is enough to entertain me for hours on end.

“World Of Imagination Vol.3″

(Square foot Exhibition)

3/5/2010

2000 paintings in one gallery at one time….

Do you want to be a part of it?

For the third time, APW Gallery is presenting the largest exhibition at our new location. Last time we had over two thousand 12″ x 12″ paintings on display at our gallery.

This time we want to supass the previous and present the biggest and best square foot exhibtion in NYC.

Every Indie music artist should think about starting a blog.

First though, a little rant. I’m always shocked by the amount of crudeness people will allow on their MySpace pages. It’s not always their own content either. In fact, usually it’s the comments other people leave on their page.

If people start dropping comments on your page like, “Yo man, ur shits smashin, check out my dope new tracks !!”, not only should you not check out their dope new tracks, but disable comments on your page altogether because your page is becoming a spam farm. If your page is attracting these types of numnuts, pretty soon you’ll be inundated with more garbage than a Mumbai slum.

I’ll be the first to admit that New Year’s resolutions are kind of stupid. They usually involve quitting something (smoking, drinking, eating too much) that I end up doing on New Year’s Day because the party’s still on, and after that, I need my favorite vices to recover from the craziness of the holidays, and by the end of the week, I’m wondering why I bothered making a stupid resolution in the first place, and what’s so great about New Year’s, anyway?

But there is a secret to keeping a New Year’s resolution. The secret, friends, is to resolve to do something totally amazing with your new year. Don’t plan to wallow in miserable self-denial. Don’t plan to change who you are. Just plan on being completely awesome.

Doing great things is a particularly excellent plan if you’re someone whose future depends on your ability to succeed with no one cracking the whip behind you. Like, say, for example, if you’re an indie musician. Inertia can be a killer. So what better time to commit to becoming rich and famous than on January 1st?

“World Of Imagination Vol.3″

(Square foot Exhibition)

3/5/2010

2000 paintings in one gallery at one time….

Do you want to be a part of it?

For the third time, APW Gallery is presenting the largest exhibition at our new location. Last time we had over two thousand 12″ x 12″ paintings on display at our gallery.This time we want to supass the previous and present the biggest and best square foot exhibtion in NYC.