Guest Music Bloggers

Artist: Amethyste Label: AMAdea Records Album: Shimmer Genre: New Age/Chillout/Vocal Buy CD ARTIST DESCRIPTION For over a decade, I repressed this burning longing to express myself through vocal art. In trusting and carefully listening to my heart, I have finally decided to let people hear this ethereal gift that has been granted to me. Usually [...]

Artist: Bulgarina Label: AMAdea Records Album: Nuggets Of Gold Genre: Traditional Folk Buy CD ARTIST DESCRIPTION Zhelyazko Zhekov is one of the famous producers in the field of the Bulgarian’s folklore. He is also musician, composer, arranger, teacher and as a whole – connoisseur of the Bulgarian traditional and national music. During the years Zhelyazko [...]

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 [...]

New Orleans Blues/Funk Man Mem Shannon releases new single: “Good-Bye Mr. President (Time For You To Go)”. It’s a funny funky little tune wishing “you-know-who” a final farewell. Stop by www.memshannon.com and listen to a clip.

Tamara Lewis is a brave soul. After suffering through 10 years of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction, she decided to pick up the guitar, write songs and sing them. All of this happened at the tender age of 46. Now if that is not inspiring, what is? Living Down River is a ten track recording encompassing [...]

Campus Movie Fest 2008 – 2009 World Tour will feature Nadia’s original music. The tour is called the world’s largest student film festival and film students across the world will have access to Nadia’s music for use in their creative projects. “Love Song”, “Born To Be Wild”, “I Never Knew”, and “Tears Of Mine” were [...]

On Jude Johnstone’s third effort Blue Light I discovered a rare new talent that had enormous potential. On Mr. Sun, that potential comes bursting through every song in the most beautiful untarnished way. The session prior to this is what spurred Jude on to get into a creative groove that kept going so they just [...]

New York, NY – When it comes to show business, Grammy Award-winner Jesse Cutler has seen it all—the good, the bad and the ugly. But through 40 years in the entertainment industry, as singer, musician, composer and arranger, he has somehow managed the remarkable feat of surviving it all in surprisingly good shape and with [...]

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 [...]

Hit songwriter Craig Bickhardt has released a song written for his son, Jake, who has Cerebral Palsy. The song was posted this week on his popular blog, Ninety Mile Wind — www.ninetymilewind.blogspot.com. It is also available for free download from his website at www.craigbickhardt.com, or it can be streamed from his My Space page — [...]