Guest Music Bloggers

The September 30th, 2008 deadline for submissions to the New York Songwriters’ Circle’s (NYSC) annual Songwriting Contest is quickly approaching. For over 18 years such notable artists as Vanessa Carlton, Norah Jones, Gavin DeGraw, Jesse Harris, Lisa Loeb, Charlotte Sometimes, Avril Lavigne, John Oates and Chris Barron (of the Spin Doctors) have all been a [...]

Boston, MA — If you’re riding the wave of the indie music revolution you’re about to get a huge boost. Music career coach Peter Spellman has just released the second edition of Indie Marketing Power: THE Resource Guide for Maximizing Your Music Marketing – a 388-page resource-rich handbook designed to help all music entrepreneurs navigate [...]

* Prizes include up to 4 IK Multimedia Total Guitar & Bass Gear Bundles and Drummerheads InstantDrummer Sessions * Sonoma Wire Works announces RiffRumble 12, an online song contest for RiffWorks recording software users. Entries will be accepted for two weeks: September 10 – 23, 2008. Contestants worldwide will record songs on their own or [...]

London, UK — Kerchoonz, the UK-based social networking site that pays musicians for the use of their music and videos, announced today that they will be the first site to use age certification and rating system for videos content streamed on the site. The announcement conforms with recommendations made last month by Parliament’s Commons Culture, [...]

Grammy Award Winner of the Faith Hill/Tim McGraw song “Like We Never Loved At All” and former leader of the Philadelphia phenomenon Wanderlust, Scot Sax, launches his new publishing company Songlife Artists Inc. with a special artist showcase on Saturday, July 26th, 2008 at Milkboy Coffee, 2 East Lancaster Ave., PA. Call 610-645-5269 or visit [...]

The “Music and Spirit” blog now has a new feature, called “Awesome Artist of the Month”, which consists of an interview with an (awesome) artist (duh!) combined with a song by that artist on the profile page of the blog. For those who are just hopelessly “out of the loop” { } and still have [...]

The JUNE edition of Bandit has just been published to my strictly limited number of subscribers world-wide. Another brand new batch of world-wide labels, publishers, managers, producers, etc all eager to get involved with new music and artists. This month we have a top producer looking for a female singer for a major label project, [...]

411 On The Independent Music Movement DVD series offers detailed instruction for independent artists on how to promote and sell music in the US and internationally. Music industry experts come together to offer guidance in the 6 hour, 3 disc series. Aneel Robinson is the man behind the “411″ DVD. As a performing artist on [...]

Producer: Dino Maddalone (Winner of 4 LA Music Awards, 12 GMA Dove Nominations), with recording artists featured: Gregg Wright (guitarist for Michael Jackson, Mick Fleetwood, Greg Allman), Billy Meza, Jimbo Ross (string artist for American Idol, Celine Dion, Aerosmith, P. Diddy, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page), Nika Stein-Ross (Cello & strings for American Idol band, Earth [...]

Three influential U.S. music marketing and promotional companies have come together to provide indie artists a vast array of personalized marketing and consulting services. MusicDish, Inside the Music Business (sm) and Serchlite Music have announced the Music Consulting & Marketing Collective (MCMC) – a full marketing and promotional service providing a new arsenal of cutting-edge [...]