“Falling Slowly” Wins Best Original Song Oscar

Remarkable acceptance speeches from Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova:

Send Music Business Radio a Jingle!

Here’s one place where exposure — to the right people — can actually help you. Our friend David Hooper over at Music Business Radio is looking for some new jingles and stingers to punch up the production on the new series of the show. You could have fun with this, and get yourself on the [...]

American Idol Songwriting Contest Discussion Continues…

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 [...]

American Idol Songwriting Contest Raises Great Questions

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 [...]

Make Make a Pancake

Are you having this much fun making videos? If not, you should: I think I’m gonna have some pancakes for breakfast today. Also, make sure you watch past the credits. [ via Natalie Dee ] Technorati Tags: music+business, make+make+a+pancake, music+video

5 Things to Do Everyday to Be Successful

Andy tagged me on this one, and I know I’ve got to catch up on my tag-memes… If you ask anyone that knows me, they’ll tell you that I’m a creature of habit Check the metrics. I’m a huge fan of metrics, because they tell me where I need to put my energy to get [...]

Flutes on the Highway

Y’all shouldn’t be practicing on the way to a gig, unless your band’s in a van or a bus driven by someone else. I’m looking at you, flute players. Technorati Tags: music+business, flutes

Did Faith Hill Just Punk Carrie Underwood on National Television?

…that’s what most of the music industry is trying to figure out this morning. According to different sources, Faith is either: a) Pranking us all. b) A little confused. c) Punching her ticket to Diva-land. I love Gretchen Wilson’s, “I know I ain’t gonna win this, y’all” smile, though. We were watching this on TiVo [...]

Saturday Fun: Ben Folds’ Cover of “Such Great Heights”

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