{"id":918,"date":"2017-06-21T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine?p=918"},"modified":"2024-05-07T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:37:36","slug":"behind-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/behind-the-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind The Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Blue Hawk Records is a student club that was formed in 2013 under the guidance of Joe Rapolla \u201990M, chair of Monmouth\u2019s Department of Music and Theatre Arts and director of its Music Industry program.<\/li>\n
  2. Its mission is to give students, regardless of major, hands-on experience running a current-day music label.<\/li>\n
  3. The students do everything\u2014from finding the talent and recording the songs to branding the label\u2019s artists and marketing and distributing the final product.<\/li>\n
  4. The label released its 10th studio album\u2014aptly titled Hang Ten\u2014in April.<\/li>\n
  5. Every record release is celebrated with a student-produced concert featuring artists on the new album.<\/li>\n
  6. Performers that have recorded with Blue Hawk Records include students, alumni, and even faculty. Hang Ten features a cut from The Professors, whose members include Rapolla, Specialist Professor George Wurzbach, and adjuncts Erik Romero, Mark Muller, Bob Boyd, and Jay Sweet.<\/li>\n
  7. All albums are recorded at Lakehouse Recording Studios, a world class studio in Asbury Park where Monmouth students take classes.<\/li>\n
  8. You can purchase and stream Hang Ten on all major digital platforms (e.g., iTunes, Amazon, Spotify) and check out past albums at bluehawkrecords.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. Blue Hawk Records has an international following: Its artists toured Italy in 2014 and the label has sales in seven countries.<\/li>\n
  10. Former members have gone on to careers at Sony Music and Warner Music Group.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    10 things to know about Monmouth\u2019s student-run record label. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currents","category-tides"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"Currents, Tides","issue":"Summer 2017","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}