Guest Music Bloggers

CHAINDRIVEN won the 95.5 KLOS’ Mark and Brian show’s “Webstock: Battle of the Fans contest,” the band announced today. As the winner, the band gets the opportunity to open the show at The Rowdy Frynds Tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hank Williams Jr. on July 18, 2008 at the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, CA.
WHO:
CHAINDRIVEN
Mando [...]

SUPAJAM AND VINCE POWER’S ‘FAST TRACK TO BENICASSIM’ COMPETITION GOES TO THE PUBLIC VOTE
SUPAJAM/FASTRACK TO BENICASSIM HEINEKEN – NOW YOU DECIDE!
Having launched to a phenomenal response on the 21st May through www.supajam.com/fasttrack, the ultimate unsigned band competition ‘Fast Track to FIB Heineken’ is all set to enter its second phase. After ploughing through over 1,000 [...]

Russian Born Alt-Pop Singer Lena Compared To “Female David Bowie”, Is Giving Away $5000 For The Best Fan Made Music Video To The Song “Good Bye!”
Best clip for song “Good Bye,” as judged by Russian-born alt-pop artist Lena and her fans, wins grand prize, with eight runners-up also awarded; submissions deadline is June 30.
Lena is [...]

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 Your Own [...]

Longtime Hollywood music company, Goodnight Kiss, is conducting a search to find new songs for a 2009 record release by Cathy Kent. The winning songs will be signed to their publishing catalog and cut as part of Cathy’s next project. Kent’s latest single, “Ka-Ching!” is currently drawing attention on iTunes.
http://www.goodnightkiss.com/contest.html
Sponsored by online music giant Broadjam, [...]

The 2008 USA Songwriting Competition deadline is fast approaching. Win a top prize of $50,000 worth of cash and merchandise such as cool gear from Sony, Ibanez Guitars, D’Addario Strings, Peavey, Audio-Technica and more. Also, have your winning songs played on radio! Enter in Pop, Rock/Alt, Folk, R&B, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Instrumental, etc.
http://www.songwriting.net/tagit.html
Since 1995, USA Songwriting [...]

The Warped Wannabeez are finalist to be included in the soundtrack for a movie about Big Foot. The bands for the movie will be picked by votes made at www.alice1059.com The Warped Wannabeez song is called “Mary Contrary”. The Warped Wannabeez are teenage sisters who love making good music.

Hello music fans…We have entered 2 groovy jazz tunes- “Zack In The Box” and “Yo Bro” in a contest at Ourstage.com.
The prize is a gig at the JVC Jazz Festival in Newport. We have now been Number ONE on the CHART since early April and would love to land the gig. We have dates [...]

Lily Vasquez, singer/songwriter born in Colombia and raised in New York, has become part of a revolution in the music industry by becoming the first Latina to reach the goal imposed by the European consortium sellaband.com of collecting, with assistance from internet fans, $50,000 to produce her own CD.
http://www.lilyvasquez.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbIEIPlJMhg
Pasion de Mujer will be released globally [...]

Laurel Canyon, Calif. – No one guessed that the piano, harp and other sounds came from a drum – but that’s what the folks at Synesthesia ( http://www.synesthesiacorp.com ), the company behind the stealth What’s That Sound? online contest, expected. “Synthesizer” was as close as anyone got, and Megan Hardman of Deer Creek, Oklahoma is [...]