Welcome to spinme.com, where we help working musicians make more money making music. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or our weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting!At 4ish on the West Coast, fax machines are buzzing with contracts.
I’ve received confirmation from two reliable sources so far that [...]
Because the scope of the discussions are going way beyond just this competition, I’ve opened up a discussion form area for songwriters to connect with each other… Follow me this way to the official discussion thread!
UPDATE 917am — Thanks for letting me know that the board script is messed up. Fixing it now…
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And the discussion keeps on going, with most folks looking at the estimated 1500:1 odds that they might be getting a phone call from American Idol’s A&R department on Friday morning.
When you think about it, those aren’t bad odds.
Because the voting begins on Wednesday, it’s reasonable to assume that the team will have selected their [...]
About three years ago, we had a clever little podcast experiment called TryTunes that lasted about two weeks because I was too busy to keep it fed.
However, in the past few days, a number of songwriters have asked if we could host their American Idol songwriting contest entries so folks could hear them. (In many [...]
Our discussion about your entries into American Idol’s songwriting contest rolls on. For newcomers, we’ve been splitting comments into new threads every 100 comments or so to keep our server from melting. Beyond that, there’s a lot of fun, positive discussion going on between some industry veterans and some newbie songwriters about everything from whether [...]
The discussion among American Idol Songwriter entrants is still going strong. We have opened up a new thread just about every day to accommodate the comments without bogging down the server or creating huge page downloads. If you’re new to our site, welcome!
Later this week, I hope to pull together a list of links to [...]
In addition to the gold-standard program at Vanderbilt and the budding concentration at the University of Georgia, App State’s starting to add music marketing instruction to its music performance curriculum. While Berklee’s obviously done this for years, and written a few of their own course texts along the way, it’s great to see other schools [...]
It’s been covered in a few tech journals today, but the news that Gracenote will soon distribute song lyrics online is great news for songwriters and for working musicians alike.
Although the web seems like a perfect place for song lyrics, copyright and trade association rules about distributing sheet music has made it pretty hard to [...]
UPDATE - APRIL 27: Big, huge, fun American Idol liveblog + discussion happening on our new discussion boards.
It’s a really fun week here at spinme.com, because a lot of our clients and readers are waiting anxiously to hear whether they have been chosen as one of the Top 20 finalists in the American Idol Songwriter [...]
Because I spend much of my time working with performers, it’s really great to see so many songwriters stopping by the site to comment about the American Idol Songwriter entry process.
Here’s a new thread for you to keep the discussion going about your entries, your other songs, and the run up to May’s unveiling of [...]
