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…
David Byrne’s Tracking Webcasting Fees
From David Byrne’s Journal this morning, in reference to the recent ruling that the copyright panel in charge of setting webcasting licensing fees is refusing to hear further arguments: Here are some links/articles on the web radio issue that was…
Lou Pearlman at Large
Depending on whom you speak to, Lou Pearlman‘s been guilty of swindling money from people for years. When Lori and I lived in Orlando, his Trans Continental Entertainment organization cast a shadow over the entire region’s creative scene. Pearlman often…
More questions answered about the American Idol Songwriting Contest
UPDATE – APRIL 27: Big, huge, fun American Idol liveblog + discussion happening on our new discussion boards. Half of the songwriters I know are busy filing their taxes. The other half are working hard to get their entries into…