The 5th Annual IAMA (International Acoustic Music Awards) is now accepting entries. IAMA promotes excellence in Acoustic Music Performance and Artistry. Acoustic artists in various genres can gain exciting radio and web exposure through this competition. Participating sponsors include D’Addario Strings, New Music Weekly, Loggins Promotion, AirplayAccess.com,Sonicbids.com, Acoustic Cafe Radio Show and XM Satellite Radio.
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(From the July 2008 Newsletter)
Quite a few things have been happening at The #1 Songwriting Blog
Plurk … My New Favorite Since Twitter
If you have used Twitter to keep up with your songwriting buddies and were disappointed with all the downtime, you weren’t alone. People started trying other services like Friendfeed and others. But a few […]

Amie Street Lands Big Content Deal With Orchard
Amie Street, the music store that features dynamic pricing that varies according to a song’s popularity, has secured a deal with digital music distributor The Orchard, which holds a catalog of over 1 million songs. For the time being not all of The Orchard’s music labels will be […]

The Atlantic has posted some great videos from two creative icons; David Lynch and Donavon.
Here’s David Lynch on ideas:
It’s like there’s a man in another room with the whole film together, but they’re in puzzle parts. And he’s flipping one piece at a time into me. At first it’s very abstract I don’t have a […]

Even just the last few months has seen a meteoric rise in the number of great songwriting blogs and sites around the web. So many that I can hardly keep up. I used to cover many of the popular songwriting sites quite regularly and nowadays I just stockpile articles in my STARRED newsreader folder for […]

Press Release
NASHVILLE, TENN. – Close your eyes and imagine you are in Nashville. What do you see? More importantly, what do you hear? For many it is the sounds of Music City that draw them in, and it’s not just the steel guitar and fiddle they hear either. Nashville’s music scene is turning heads and […]

Article contributed by Mahmoud Ibrahim of Songwriting Fever.
A song is music and words, but there are two questions concerning the relationship between music and lyrics in a song. The first is which is more important and the second is which should be written first. This article is about the first question.
To answer the first […]

The five key steps to pitching songs in the Nashville Market, from a Music Row insider and pro songplugger.

American Idol Songwriting Contest is not what it seems?:
An amazing amount of research on CyberMidi about the intricate network of connections between American Idol performers, FOX, and actual contestants.
“On the eve of the 2008 American Idol finale, there is a growing conspiracy theory about the songwriting contest. Last year’s winner had relationships with American Idol. […]

ASCAP’s Mike Todd shares some frequently asked questions after conversations with a group of film and television music supervisors who gave their advice about song placement.
Corey Stewart offers twelve ways in which you can enhance and improve your songwriting process, finding a songwriting collaborator, and expanding on your possible song titles.
Keller Williams on songwriting.
Andrea […]