There are a lot of sites that claim to get your songs exposure or provide an avenue directly to people in need of songs for placement in movies, TV commercials, and so forth. To help bolster their claims, Broadjam has provided a list of notable artist successes for 2008.
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Musician Birthdays Today
Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division) is 53. Country singer Patty Loveless is 52. Rock singer Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) is 49. Country singer Deana Carter is 43. Rock musician Benjamin Darvill (Crash Test Dummies) is 42.
Rock Songwriter Delaney Bramlett Dies
Singer-songwriter-producer Delaney Bramlett, who penned such classic rock songs as “Let [...]
Beach House talks songwriting
This band came through town recently and I was blown away by their songwriting prowes. Check out this article and then go download some songs to get an idea of how great they are.
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How to setup a songwriting group
Andrea Stolpe at Berklee Music Blogs has another great post. Most importantly - [...]
Steve Jobs summoned the spirit of Pablo Picasso when he said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Reuters reports that on Thursday Joe Satriani filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the British rock quartet Coldplay, contending that the Coldplay song “Viva la Vida” makes use of “substantial original portions” of his composition “If I Could Fly,” [...]
Songwriting for Rockers
Musician’s Notebook has a post “The 5 Rockers You Can Learn Songwriting From”. Despite ending their blog post with a preposition, the author has posted examples from Guns and Roses, Alice In Chains, and others that have inspired him when looking for songwriting inspiration. [Read More]
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Smashing Magazine examines the Top [...]
The Philosophies of Work: A Conversation with Derek Sivers of CD Baby
While this is primarily a business conversation at the San Fran MusicTech Summit between Derek and Tim Ferris (author of the famed “The 4-Hour Workweek“) there are many points in the discussion for songwriters looking for success on the business side of the music [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
