PUB CRAWLING

Extreme Music, Sony/ATV’s worldwide production music unit specializing in licensing music for film, TV and commercials, launched its multi-CD “G Series," executive-produced by pop culture icon Snoop Dogg at an exclusive preview listening session for 35 of the industry's most influential music supervisors at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios in Santa Monica. Snoop played a selection from the first five albums in the series, before everyone passed out from the skunk being passed around…. Harmonix and MTV Games have added eight more tracks from The Cars’ self-titled 1978 debut album to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content for Nintendo’s Wii. Ric Ocasek still won’t tour with the band… Toronto-based ole and its music-publishing co-venture tanjola ink songwriter/producer/remixer Alex Greggs to a worldwide deal. Gregg’s writing credits include Brandy, Ricky Martin, JC Chasez and Paris Hilton, among others, while trying to shake the paparazzi… Warner/Chappell bolsters its A&R teams in N.Y. and L.A. under new Chairman/CEO U.S. Scott Francis, naming Lee Dannay and Brad Aarons to VPs A&R as well as Peter Visvardis to Sr. Director A&R. All report to SVP/Head of A&R Greg Sowders, with Dannay based in New York, Aarons and Visvardis in L.A. Everyone follows everyone else on Twitter… Universal Music Publishing has signed worldwide publishing deals with U2 producer Daniel Lanois and Britney Spears collaborator Rafael Akinyemi, producer/co-writer of the worldwide hit, “Womanizer”… BMI fetes producer/songwriters Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff as Icons at their 57th Pop Awards, May 19, at the Beverly Wilshire, in L.A. where boss Del Bryant will haul his tux out of mothballs for the occasion. In other BMI news, they name Matthew Janszen the winner of its 21st annual Pete Carpenter Fellowship for aspiring film composers under the age of 35. Janszen will get to trim the cuticles of TV composer Mike Post. Post was partners and a longtime friend of Carpetner, who co-wrote such TV themes as NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and Law and Order with him… ASCAP salutes it own Grammy winners, including Robert Plant, who led all winners with five, while Coldplay, John Mayer, Ne-Yo, Brad Paisley and Sugarland also earned multiple honors. Old friend Tom DeSavia is still trying to remember where he was that night… Music Sales Corporation is marking what would have been the 100th birthday of songwriter Carl Sigman by spotlighting the legendary tunesmith’s catalog, which includes such classics as “It’s All in the Game,” “Ebb Tide,” “What Now, My Love” and “Arrivederci Roma” with a three-CD box set or re-recorded standards and a songbook featuring a 15,000 word essay about Sigman by his son Mike, a longtime pal and former L.A. Weekly publisher… Longtime publishing exec Allan Tepper puts up his own shingle as Tepper Music Management, specializing in music publishing, songwriter and artist development, as well as licensing songs for movies, TV and advertising placement. He has been with Warner/Chappell Music, MPL Communications, Columbia Pictures Music Group, United Artists Music, MCA Publishing, CBS Songs and, most recently, Bicycle Music, where he coined the term Tepperwear for his fledgling clothing firm. E-mail him at [email protected] for more... Got any more publishing, licensing or perf rights info? E-mail [email protected]…