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Tuesday, November 24 2009
Scion inks exclusive publishing deal with producer Ty Fyffe. Ty honed his craft working under super-producer Teddy Riley. Fyffe has 17 Platinum and 10 Gold records to his credit including 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, Ja-Rule and Mims.
Tuesday, September 15 2009
Mason Jennings’”Blood of Man,” his second record for Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records, hits stores on September 15th. Mason played and recorded all of the instruments, mixed and mastered the entire album himself– a display of extreme talent and an anomaly in today’s music industry.
Tuesday, September 8 2009
Scion inks a publishing admin deal with Capitol recording artist MIMS. “Move (If You Wanna),” the first single off his sophomore release “Guilt,” was featured on the hit TV show “So You Think You Can Dance” and peaked at #63 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Friday, August 28 2009
Scion Music Group’s record label division has signed a distribution deal with world renowned Universal Fontana Distribution. Look out for Scion’s first release in mid 2010.
Tuesday, July 21 2009
Hip-hop heavy-weight Twista is back with his seventh studio album “Category F5,” featuring some of the biggest names in hip-hop. The album includes “Birthday” written and produced by Scion’s Marlin ‘Hookman’ Bonds. “Category F5″ debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200.
Friday, June 5 2009
Scion Music Group expands it’s world wide publishing network, adding two new SOCAN affiliates ‘Scion Arctic’ and ‘Scion North’. The formation of these subsidiaries allows Scion in-house administration of the catalog within Canada.
Thursday, April 16 2009
Scion Music strikes a publishing administration deal with Seattle’s The Blakes. Praised by Pitchfork for their “swampy guitars, twitchy rhythms and power pop vocal harmonies”, The Blakes recall the stinging catchiness of early Who, Kinks, and other spitfire rock bands.
Tuesday, November 4 2008
Hip-hop veteran Q-Tip samples the Black Ivory classic “You and I” within “Gettin’ Up,” the first single off of his new album “The Renaissance”. The official remix features Eve and production by Swizz Beatz.
Tuesday, October 14 2008
Yo-Yo Ma has included “Vassourinha” on his new holiday album entitled “Songs of Joy & Peace,” released by Sony Classical. Part of the Scion Three Music catalog,”Vassourinha” is a Brazilian folk song credited to Matias da Rocha and Joana Batista Ramos.
Thursday, October 2 2008
AMP takes on artist Coconut Records, the musical solo-project by actor-musician Jason Schwartzman. Look out for the upcoming Dentyne Gum campaign featuring two Coconut Records songs,”Summer Day” and “The Thanks I Get”. Coconut’s sophomore release “Davy” is due out early 2009.