Lest you think that this weblog has gone “All American Idol, All The Time,” here’s news on another wildly popular subject around here: Burnlounge. David Jackson from Musician’s Cooler is hosting a live podcast on Burnlounge this Sunday night, and…
American Idol Songwriting Contest Winners Being Notified This Weekend
At 4ish on the West Coast, fax machines are buzzing with contracts. I’ve received confirmation from two reliable sources so far that contracts are going out to songwriters who have been selected to compete in the online voting round of…
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…
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…
More Music Marketing Courses at Colleges
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…
Legal Song Lyrics Coming to the Web
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…
213 Area Code Calls from American Idol’s Songwriting Competition Judges?
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…
Tell us about your American Idol Songwriter contest entries…
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…
A quick note about comments at spinme.com
We’ve had some of the most vibrant discussion in our site’s history over the past few days, which has been really, really rewarding to read. A few of our newer site visitors have asked why comments on our posts go…
Does your band offer health insurance?
The Houston Chronicle profiles the extraordinary benefits package that you get if you join Robert Earl Keen on the road as a member of his band or his crew. And while most of the musicians who read this blog on…
Have you entered a song into the American Idol Songwriter Contest?
UPDATE – APRIL 27: Big, huge, fun American Idol liveblog + discussion happening on our new discussion boards. If so, we’d love to hear it! A number of songwriters commenting in a previous thread have started sharing their songs with…
Rob Thomas: My Secret Record
The old adage in the music business is that it takes about ten years to find overnight success. While other Billboard chart toppers stumble over themselves to sign up for reality shows, Rob Thomas brought documentary director Gillian Grisman along…