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 [...]

It’s official! Nadia signs with Hip Chick Music! HCM is a boutique, indie label focused on developing and promoting the world’s best female talent. Nadia was selected, out of hundreds of artists who submitted their music, to join the label’s exclusive artist roster. Expect to see and hear more of Nadia performing live on TV, [...]

Artist: 3style-boy Label: AMAdea Records Album: Electro House Genre: House Buy CD ARTIST DESCRIPTION Kamberov Denis whose artistic pseudonym is 3style-boy is young and promising composer, who is very passionate and devoted on music itself. Although he was born in Bulgaria, he moved to Belgium, where today he develops his music career. This is the [...]

Press Release Contact: Cheryl Hughey Promotions 314-660-1755 [email protected] Vibes Alive Releases After Hours Los Angeles, CA Vibist Dirk Richter’s story is about discovery and passion. Before Dirk was even old enough to go to school, he was hanging out at the local music store. At the tender age of four, Dirk was intensely studying music [...]

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 — [...]

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, [...]

Leon Newton is considered a new songwriter while actually he has been writing songs for over ten years. It was only a couple of years ago that he decided his talent for writing could lead to commercial success. It all started when he began entering songwriting contest and the recognition and encouragement he received motivated [...]

Randy, Paula and Simon are always talking about song selection, and the right choice can make all the difference – just ask Syesha. With the help of some top songwriters (“Love Is A Battlefield,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”), we choose specific songs that will wow the judges. Some of the advice: http://www.songfacts.com/writing/2008/04/american-idol-song-selection.html Make It [...]

An Interesting Non-Dogmatic Blog Showcasing a Certain Calibre of Songwriter I have been running an interesting blog on MySpace now for the last eight months or so, at http://www.myspace.com/musicandspirit . There are currently 32 AMAZING artists in my Top Friend who are all very much worth supporting. In addition, there are many more in my [...]