Archive for October, 2008
Posted on October 26, 2008. Filed under: Composer, Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, Songwriting, TV, artist, gigs, music distribution, music website, new zealand, performer, performing rights | Tags: audience, australia, babies, baby, getty images, market potential, mp3, music forte, music samples, MySpace, new zealand, performer, performing, pump audio, selling music, selling songs, song commission, song competition, song market, song rights, song submission, songs for daughters, songs for tv, songwriter, Songwriting, songwriting competition, songwriting tips, sonic bids, sonicbids, USA |
Some time ago I was told about Pump Audio, but I hadn’t checked it out until now. I’ve been using Sonic Bids for some time and I suspect if I lived in the USA, they would be really good for me, but I haven’t seen any gigs in New Zealand to aim for and very [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2008. Filed under: Hit Songs, Music, Promotion, Songwriting, education, elearning, music education, music website, new zealand, podcasting, songwriting information | Tags: auckland, author, berklee music school, chuck wills, country music, critique, education books, elearning, gordon dryden, learning web, library, luigi cappel, monty powell, music business radio, music critique, music education, music industry, musicians cooler, nashville, networking, new zealand, pat Patisson, podcasts, songwriter, Songwriting, taura eruera |
This morning there was a feature in the Business Herald about Gordon Dryden, which I haven’t finished reading. Gordon is one of New Zealand’s prominent experts on education and I have a few of his excellent books in my library. The story was obviously related to the launch of his new book, The Learning Web, [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2008. Filed under: Christmas Songs, Entertainment, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, New Media, Radio, Songwriting, artist, gigs, music distribution, music fans, music forte, music video, music website, new zealand, songwriting information | Tags: Christmas music, Christmas Songs, don henly, favourite artiss, gigs, greenhouse, jimmy webb, Last FM, luigi cappel, music fans, music forte, music manager, MySpace, online music, only memories survive, post music, reflections, songwriter, sounds like, upload music, who do you sound like, williw nelson |
There are lots of sites where you can post your music and one of the ways people find you is when they are looking for people who sound similar to one of their favourite artists. MySpace has that feature. Last FM is built around that concept.
Last FM is like your own personal radio station that [...]
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Posted on October 11, 2008. Filed under: A&R, Composer, Music, Music Marketing, New Media, Promotion, Radio, Songwriting, Top Hits, music distribution, music website, new zealand, performer, songwriting information | Tags: A&R, American Idol, artists and repertoire, bbc, getsigned, jazz, luigi cappel, new artists, recording artist, recording contract, simon cowell, songwriter, Songwriting, talent scouts |
I’ve seen a few people find my blog when they are trying to find out about what A & R people do, so I thought I’d blog a little about them, not that I have met many yet. A & R stands for Artists and Repertoire.
Basically they are the talent scounts of the recording industry. [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2008. Filed under: Music, Music Marketing, New Media, Promotion, music fans, music website, new zealand | Tags: about songwriting, another toolbar, firefox, google toolbar, Music Marketing, music websites, social networking, stumbleupon, stumbleupon toolbar |
Having posted music on one or more websites as well as other marketing activity such as a blog, photo’s, social networking or whatever resources you are using, there are opportunities to market these.
One I recently found out about was Stumbleupon. It’s a very interesting concept. The key concept is that you register and then download [...]
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