Just back from vacation, I see a few notes in my box asking if I have any new books coming out.
Yes and no.
If you haven’t visited the site in a while, you might have missed a list of the topics I’m exploring this year. Somewhere in that list, there’s another book brewing, though I [...]

I’m just back from vacation, which is why posting’s been light. While I catch up, check out this excellent advice from Bobby Borg…

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While a whole lot of hype is building around The Search for the Next Great American Band, a report from the Fox upfront casts some light on another project that will be interesting to musicians. Nashville is from the same production team as MTV’s Laguna Beach, and it’s going to follow some young musicians through [...]

How many ways can you possibly pitch a talent competition to a television executive? According to the producers of America’s Hot Musician, a series airing on the Oxygen Network this spring, FremantleMedia and 19Entertainment are just copying the idea they came up with a few years ago.
The thing is, there have been plenty of [...]

American Idol’s producers have already told us how they’re going to spending the fall looking for “The Next Great American Band.”
What they didn’t tell us was just how bizarre this contest is shaping up to be.
According to this report from MeeVee, there will be the customary audition rounds, followed by competition among ten semi-finalists and [...]

19 Entertainment wants us to stay glued to our screens all summer as they search for the Next Great American Band. Looks like the Idol format, but with bands instead of solo performers. The biggest questions I have right now… Will they be coming to my town? Will they help me party it down? More [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]