Catch Neff and the Court’s debut single “Best is Yet to Come (feat. Phinisey)” on the new Nintendo Switch ad campaign airing in the North America through 2021.
Check out Neff and the Court’s artist profile here or on Spotify and Youtube.
Our Search for THE ONE
One questions we get asked a lot is about what tools we use to manage our songs and keep our pitching organized. I will say, we researched and tried out a LOT of services; well over 15 different companies all aiming to be the solution for independent labels, licensing agents and music supervisors. A lot of the known players like Synchtank, Soundgizmo, and SourceAudio are out of budget for most start-ups or solo operations. Furthermore, the design and user experience for most are bulky and not something I was proud to send to clients.
Warning: I’m about to sound like a fanboy but I’m not an employee nor am I compensated by Disco. However, after literally years of searching and easily spending over a 100 hours testing options, it’s understandable that I’d want to gush a bit when I finally find “the one.”
Do You Disco?
When I was first introduced to Disco, a music catalog manager and pitching app, I couldn’t believe that one company had finally hit all the notes I was looking for. Disco was designed from the ground up by music supervisors for music supervisors. It was initially used as an internal tool for their team to pitch music, keep track of those pitches, organize playlists, manage metadata, and collaborate with other members of their group. They soon saw the hole in the market for an easy to use catalog manager that didn’t forget about aesthetics! And so, Disco was offered to the public.
What’s Love Got to Do With It
One of the big missing features in other services was an elegant way to pitch your playlists. Soundcloud had a nice looking player but you couldn’t easily share hi-res and MP3 files with it. Box, Dropbox and the rest are okay but quickly auditioning songs is not easy and you can’t check the lyrics while listening to a song.
ENTER DISCO…
With Disco you can customize each of the playlists you send out with background images and custom logos/artwork. All of the playlists allow the end user to download MP3’s, WAV/AIF or both! Within the same one page playlist they can also view lyrics without interrupting the music player and you can add custom notes (ie – “this artist is on tour with John Mayer” or “this is a cover song but we’ve cleared it easily in the past”).
All of the playlists you send out can be assigned unique URL’s that are linked to the emails of the person you’re sending them too (or you can send them directly using Disco’s internal email form). All of which can be tracked and instantly reported with Disco’s analytics. You can see immediately when someone has opened your playlist, streamed or downloaded a song or downloaded the entire playlist!
One of the coolest features is that you can upload just one hi-res file and Disco will automatically create a MP3 version. No more managing separate MP3 and hi-res files!
Take It to the Outro
I could go on and on about my favorite features (not to mention the fact they they are remarkably better priced that any of the other options out there), but if you’re interested I would highly suggest you contact the fine folks at Disco and set up a one-on-one walkthrough. When I did my Skype one-on-one they made specific suggestions on how to organize my catalog for the specific work we do at 3 Theory Music and it literally eliminated 2 spreadsheets I was using to keep track of where my music was going and where it had been. Give Disco a try and let me know what you think! Find us on Twitter –> @3Theory.
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Sports streamer DAZN will explore the career-defining matches of football greats in its first global original.
Landmark interview series The Making Of (9 x 25 minutes) will feature matches chosen by the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr. and football manager José Mourinho.
DAZN will release The Making Of in all of its nine markets for the first time, forming part of an evolving content strategy that combines premium on-demand sports with original programming.
The series finds such figures re-telling meaningful matches and the impact they had on their careers and lives.
In addition, other players such as John O’Shea, Rafael Alcántara, Fernando Santos, Roberto Carlos and Julio Cesar who were also on the pitch share their insights about the game, in addition to journalists covering the matches and fans.
The series will see Ronaldo relive his appearance for Sporting Lisbon against Manchester United in 2003; Mourinho’s Champions League victory over Manchester United with Porto in 2004; and Neymar Jr.’s performance for Santos against Flamengo in 2011.
The DAZN Originals production is made in association with UK prodco Archer’s Mark. Executive producers include Grant Best, SVP of original programming and content development for DAZN, and Toby Burnett, executive creative director for DAZN Creative.
The series is directed by Dan Riley and produced by Ian Henderson.
DAZN’s previous series include MotoGP doc series In Our Blood; the documentary Being Mario Götze; three-part doc series Canelo vs. Rocky; and boxing doc series 40 Days.
The Making Of launches on 9 August.
Check out Brittany Pfantz on Spotify and Youtube.
“Push Pull” On Dealiest Catch, season 14! Listen for Brittany Pfantz’s single “Push Pull” at the end of Deadliest Catch (Season 14/Episode 15). They played almost 2 full minutes of the song and we’ve gotten a lot of love on our socials from DC fans telling us how much they loved the song. Yayyy! Thank you Deadliest Catch team!!
Check out Brittany Pfantz on Spotify and Youtube.
The Upsided‘s single “That New Thing” will be part of AT&T’s new ad campaign, “More For Your Thing” airing in Summer of 2018.
Disable Danger’s single “Scratching the Surface” will be featured on ABC’s The Crossing airing on May 14, 2018.
Listen for Brittany Pfantz’s song “Push Pull” in Showtime’s “I’m Dying Up Here” season 2 trailer: https://youtu.be/BV9lZscJAOc
The series takes place in the stand up comedy scene in Los Angeles in the 1970’s, following both aspiring and established comics who inhabit Goldie’s, the hottest comedy club in town. The series stars stars Academy Award winner Leo, Ari Graynor, Michael Angarano, Clark Duke, Andrew Santino, Erik Griffin, RJ Cyler, Al Madrigal, and Jake Lacy.
The series was created and executive produced by Dave Flebotte and executive produced by Jim Carrey, Michael Aguilar and Christina Wayne. Cindy Chupack, Adam Davidson and Endemol Shine Studios serve as executive producers on Season 2. It is produced by Showtime and based on the non-fiction book of the same name by William Knoedelseder.
Check out the full song on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7zvf5nldECyOyg0ErmV7UT?si=b7Ea941iTF60QttWyslwYw
Disable Danger’s single “Can’t Tame the Wild” will be featured on MTV’s Teen Mom airing on Jan 22, 2018. This will be the 3rd song from the 3 Theory Music catalog to be in Season 7 of Teen Mom.
Amazon Studio’s Gringo soundtrack will include 3 Theory Record’s artist Base Model Empire, featuring their single “Balloons.” Gringo is due to be released March 2018. Check out the trailer here.
Gringo, a dark comedy mixed with white-knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, explores the battle of survival for businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) when he finds himself crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal.
Gringo is directed by Nash Edgerton and written by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone. The film stars David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton and Sharlto Copley. The film is scheduled to be released on March 9, 2018, by Amazon Studios and STXinternational.