Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so we’re really pleased to see The Village Voice lauding Taylor Swift and her major label Big Machine for delivering music with pizza. While it’s still a good idea, they should have called The All Night Party. Not only did we do this three years ago, we did it better!
The first difference is of course the pizza itself. The Sundresses Pizza was offered by Northslice Pizza, as opposed to cardboard Papa Johns (big mistake). Maybe Taylor’s demographic is older, whiter, and uncooler, in which case it makes some sense. The Sundresses Pizza was simply a better pie: the music was another topping alongside your preferences, and you got an entire pizza, not a dough-faced homage to Brad, Jeremy or Makenzie (Swift’s pie is smaller than a regular and larger than a small). Oops.
The Sundresses’ partner Northslice was intimately connected to Cincy’s music scene. Located in Northside Tavern, they served music fans daily until their closing (a couple years after this promotion).
The All Night Party hosted a free legal seminar at Ultrasuede Studio, put together by Play It Forward and law students at Northern Kentucky University’s Chase Law School on Sunday October 14, 2012. Play It Forward was founded by local radio personality and musician Gary Burbank to take care of musicians in need. They’ve stepped up for all kinds of emergencies and been there for artists, so we wanted to stand with them. Legal issues are confusing, sometimes painful for musicians. It’s kind of our bag, so this was a great opportunity for us to give back to a great institution in our community.
While we’ve been licensing music from Day One and have specialized in digital distribution management for bands, physical distribution and band-friendlier licensing enrollment remain unrealized dreams. We always assumed a bigger, richer company would fix the obvious problems with distributing CDs and products, but 3 years in it remains an undiscovered country.
The Cincinnati Zoo’s new Cat Canyon exhibit just opened and is already a hit with zoo-goers. Thanks to lots of thick glass, the new enclosures let visitors get up close and personal with malayan and white tigers, and snow leopards (not to mention cougars, between the Night Hunters exhibit and Cat Canyon). As you walk through you’ll hear a special soundtrack featuring forest sounds, birds and cat-calls native to each animal’s native habitat. The All Night Party not only created the soundtrack, we consulted on speaker placement and tuned the program to recreate a natural environment for both cats and visitors.
As we headed off to Austin to be the first Cincinnati music or licensing company to every host a SXSW showcase, we were a little worried: The Lions Rampant, one of the strongest bands in our line up, were going head to head with Heartless Bastards on the first night of the festival (before most fans or bands had arrived). ANP’s marketing and sales head Monika Roberts had a Big Idea: since many Austin clubs sell ear plugs for $2/pair why not buy a bunch to give away, featuring music from our Midwest by Southwest tour bands? Being a marketing diva, she devised a Facebook ad plan to reach fans in Austin who might be interested, and tasked Chief Daved with putting together a few hundred sets for the promotion.
In the sweltering heat of June The KillTones and Mad Anthony invaded Mt. Adams, playing raw, sweaty rock for the masses.
In May our Third Thursday series at aliveOne continued with a two-band line up: Young Heirlooms and The Ridges packed the house and brought their folkishly freaky tunes to Mt. Adams.
The All Night Party helped aliveOne (941 Pavilion St in Mt Adams) kick off a new music series with regular free (!!!) shows on the 3rd Thursday of each month.