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Thursday, December 31, 2009

One to watch for 2010 - Taylor Bright - Billboard Dance Chart at 29 with the MyMusicSuccess / Mike Rizzo Remixes http://tinyurl.com/yzr6zaq
Check out the latest music project from Switzerland's Max Makin - Elektrosphere http://tinyurl.com/yjwevub nujazz jazz new year 2010
One to watch in 2010 - Brigitte Meuwsen's new album "Pfff" pop meets dance http://bit.ly/7Anw0R pop dance music 2010
New album "Certitude" from US Jazz Diva due late January - one to watch for 2010 http://bit.ly/4PVrb6 jazz
The label to watch in 2010 - Platinum Trini Entertainment http://bit.ly/8a7b5y hiphop #r&b rnb music dancehall
Taylor Bright "Striped Socks" breaks Billboard Top 30 at 29 w/c 16th Jan 2010 with the MyMusicSuccess / Mike Rizzo remixes. http://bit.ly/78IhiO - its unstoppable!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

MyMusicSuccess.Com Maximum PR - We get US independent Taylor Bright coverage on the Top 40 section of About.Com... http://bit.ly/7XCDkT

Monday, December 21, 2009

Reverbnation to discontinue Retail widgets from 1st Jan 2010 http://bit.ly/7Gccjf reverbnation music social network widget news bands
Jamie Sparks takes his R&B tracks to the Japanese Music Market! http://bit.ly/4Dhmsx
good post from Seth Godin, do something badly...http://ping.fm/NXbLR

Friday, December 18, 2009

One of the essentials for building music sales is having a fan list and regular band newsletters. Recommended - YMLP http://bit.ly/6tWHL9
great article on using facebook to promote your independent music. http://ping.fm/luWzu
Taylor Bright confirmed at 35 in New Year Billboard Chart, up another 4 places! http://ping.fm/Gh92M

Friday, December 11, 2009

Great news just in for Christmas: Taylor Bright Breaks Billboard Top 40 Club Chart @ 39 http://bit.ly/67LgAM billboard dance chart news
Texas USA: Jazz vocalist Dena Taylor releases details of her new CD, featuring Redd Volkaert on guitars http://bit.ly/5HLArD jazz news

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

2010 ECMA & Independent Music Award Nominee Jamie Sparks releases Christmas song: Canadian R&B, Juno nominee, a.. http://bit.ly/5czX55

Monday, December 7, 2009

Singer songwriter David Louthan Hits All The Right Notes With His ReverbNation Fans: Pennsylvanian independent .. http://bit.ly/5Q9D05
MyMusicSuccess.Com co-founder Simon Adams interviewed on Digital Music Trends Ep.27 http://bit.ly/jcWx0

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Brigitte Meuwsen: Debut album "Pfff" released today at Amazon MP3, Recommended! http://bit.ly/5WHEdW musicmonday

Roger & The Rockets Release New Swedish Americana CD “Walking Band”

Independent Singer-Songwriter Roger Häggström and his band Roger & the Rockets release their second CD with a mix of Americana genres. The songs cover styles from acoustic bluegrass, country and blues all the way to rock. Strong up-tempo melodies and heartfelt lyrics blend this diverse set of songs together.

Walking band is the second CD of the band from Örnsköldsvik-Sweden. The recordings were made at Tonteknik Recording in the neighbouring town Umeå. Once again friends and fellow musicians gathered to record songs from their extensive catalogue. The new CD is the follow up to their debut album Unknown man which was recorded and released in 2008.

One charming addition to the new album is the vintage instruments that were used for the first time. Roger is an avid collector of vintage odd stringed instruments and gear. The album features an 1890 Viola da Terra, a 1920 Banjolin, a harp-guitar from around 1900 and ancient Vega tube amps from the 30’s to name a few. Most of the old instruments used were restored to a playable condition by Roger himself before the recordings.

The lyrics of the 13 original songs are all short and to the point and talk about loneliness, love, politics and everything in between. Some of the lyrics are deep, like the bluegrass tune "Crash & burn", and some, like the title track "Walking band", are meant for nothing but fun.

"Red robed Jesus" has a Christmas theme, albeit from a very twisted viewpoint. Roger has always had a thing for old time American music and shares the same roots as the folksingers of the 60's. Songs are written in almost all Americana styles, and over 50 songs were reviewed before the final track list for the album was chosen.

Sweden’s own Americana superstar, Roger Häggström, is back with his Sgt. Pepper opus, “Walking band” – Garageband

"A memorable and simple melody and a fresh topic for the lyrics is the basis for all my songs", says Roger. "The goal is to make songs that have a distinct profile, too much of the music I hear just doesn’t cut it if you strip away the production values. The songs I make must sound good with just a voice and a guitar", he says. Two of the songs are in fact stripped down to a voice and a strumming guitar, the old school protest song "One United State" and the very last tune on the CD, "Don't feel sorry".

For more information on Roger Häggström and his band Roger & the Rockets, visit

Band homepage: www.raketerna.se
MySpace: www.myspace.com/rogerrockets
Buy digital files online: www.rogertherockets.bandcamp.com
Buy CD: www.rogertherockets.bigcartel.com , www.cdbaby.com/cd/rogertherockets2

US Roots Rock And Reggae Singer Songwriter Scott Turchin Targets Japanese Music Market


Californian singer songwriter Scott Turchin becomes the latest artist to promote his music to the Japanese domestic market through MyMusicSuccess.Com, with the release of his new Japanese web and mobile presence at http://scottturchin.musicsugoi.jp

Scott is also featured on the home page of leading Japanese online music portal Topmusic.jp, and Japanese consumers can now purchase Scott's tracks directly from all the leading download stores including iTunes Japan, Amazon Japan, and leading Japanese music discovery service OnGen.

Simon Adams, Co-Founder of MyMusicSuccess.Com said today, "With our Music Sugoi japanese promotion service, we are able to help artists access the second biggest music market, and break down the language barrier that stops 89% of the domestic market in Japan from buying western artist tracks. We're glad to be able to help Scott market his fantastic catalogue of tracks to new markets"

About Scott Turchin

After a steady diet of radio folk (Weavers, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen), bluegrass, jazz, rock (Beatles, Who, Peter Gabriel, Elvis-both of 'em, Bowie, Seal, Sting/Police) and later reggae music (Marley, Tosh, Cliff, UB40, Israel Vibration), Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter SCOTT TURCHIN left his home in New York's Queens Borough on a "mission from God" to go to California and create a unique blend of Southern roots rock and reggae music, with a feel for African and other World music, and in the process winning Top 20 in the Unisong International Song Contest for Reggae, Song of the Year Nomination for Country, and numerous awards on musician review site GarageBand.com.

With and without his band, THE SCOTT TURCHIN BAND, he has played most of the venues in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas, including opening for Harry Dean Stanton at The Mint and running a Song Circle Showcase at coffeehouses, as well as acted in television, films, voiceover and stage. RIVER CAN CRY, his most ambitious album done with a single band and production team, received heavy rotation in Australian and English Internet Radio. He is proud to have 5 albums released for digital distribution, covering his three main genre areas of REGGAE, ALT-ROCK and ALT-COUNTRY/AMERICANA. His first CD, "SCOTT TURCHIN", a cool collection of "live" studio takes, also garnered CDBABY's "Editor's Choice" in both Reggae and Roots Rock!

Visit the Scott Turchin homepage at http://www.songmon.com

Independent Artists Kick Start Their Music Career For 2010 With The “Music Success Mindset” Program From MyMusicSuccess.Com

MyMusicSuccess, the leading promotion, publicity, and artist development company, has launched The "Music Success Mindset" a series of powerful online audio seminars offering personal coaching to independent artists worldwide covering topics such as setting goals for your music career, developing a never quit attitude, and techniques on maintaining the right mindset for success as an independent artist.

With less and less support from the major record labels, independent artists are faced with managing their own careers without the traditional artist development and support that a traditional record label deal previously provided. Record deals typically offered the support and advice from A&R executives, managers, coaches, experts in the fields of marketing and promotion and much more, but for the majority of the new generation of independent artists this has been out of reach until now.

Simon Adams, co-founder of MyMusicSuccess.Com has addressed this situation with the Music Success Mindset e-Seminar Program, and aims to help independent artists grow their music career by developing the right attitude and toolsets to succeed.

Commenting on the launch of the program, Simon says "We are right in the middle of a revolution for independent artists at the moment, but whilst living in a digital age brings many new opportunities, the key thing that is missing right now is personal support for artists. It's great to have new toolsets such as digital distribution, social networking and access to millions of potential fans, but if you don't combine these with the right mindset you are missing the biggest opportunity for success in the new music business."

Simon also goes onto say that all successful major artists have the same determined mindset to succeed, and independent artists can learn the same techniques, regardless of age, social status or background. "With the Music Success Mindset e-Seminar Program, we teach the artist how to set goals and reach them, we'll be offering advice on how to develop their personal confidence, overcome their fears, and how to connect with others on a human level, which is essential for building a dedicated fan base. In upcoming seminars we'll also be addressing things like how to develop sales relationships with your fans to boost income on MP3 downloads, how to run a profitable music business by increasing the revenue you make from digital distributors such as iTunes, and how to constantly take action that will accelerate your music career faster than you have experienced before"

To mark the launch of the new service and the the upcoming new year, MyMusicSuccess is offering a 50% discount on every artist who subscribes to the Music Success Mindset e-Seminar Program before 31st December 2009.

Subscribe to the Music Success Mindset using the following promotion code

mymusicsuccess2010

at the website http://www.mymusicsuccess.com and you'll not only gain access to all current and future seminars at half the usual price, but MyMusicSuccess will also give you access to their database of music industry contacts, access to their one on one coaching forums, and give you a massive 25% discount on selected publicity and promotion services.

Thinking Inside The Box



Often the most recognisable feature of a TV show, film or advert is the soundtrack. What first comes to mind with the UK bank, Lloyds TSB campaign? The campaign name, For the journey...? The banking features Lloyds offers? The animated characters? Or the staccato soprano soundtrack?

A 5 year old composition and 2 year old recording, the publicity that followed for Elena Kats-Chernin's piece after the 2003 launch of the Lloyds TSB campaign was highly successful. Eliza Aria from her ballet Wild Swans is the unforgettable soundtrack featured in the Lloyd's UK adverts; as soon as it hit the video site www.youtube.com it received over 250,000 views, and is still the first recognisable factor of the whole campaign. Further use of Eliza Aria in remixes has offered Kats-Chernin more exposure than ever before, transporting her ballet composition to dance genres and beyond.

Although a classical piece, mainstream pop artists have found similar success through their songs being synched to ad campaigns, film and television. Broadcast 2000 launched their professional music career following synch deals with E-on power and I-tunes. TV shows like Skins and the O.C. have taken a step to promote artists and bands within their shows through gig scenes and soundtrack competitions, cutting out the usual middle-men of record labels and sync music consultants.

In usual cases, however, the people to approach are record labels, music publishers or independent synch companies, asking them to promote your music for use in the media. Send your demo to any of the publishing companies, production houses, and synch consultants that you can find; even production music will gain you good contacts as a composer or session musician - many established artists are involved in media music as a side project and for extra income. Publishers and labels often have an internal department to promote their catalogues to TV agencies, production companies and broadcasters for use in the media. These synchronisation staff will overlap with A&R scouting roles, seeking out music that is suitable for such purposes.

This is a great way to get your music out there for publicity and promotion to an audience larger and more diverse audience than you will be able to reach through CD sales or live gigs.

Article credits:
Victoria Cran - MyMusicSuccess.Com Features Reporter

For more great articles on the new music industry visit the article section at our website.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

In Memory Of Jim Rohn - You Were An Inspiration To Us All...

It is the philosophies and teachings of the great mentors like Jim Rohn that inspired me to start MyMusicSuccess.Com to help musicians access the same personal development techniques that have helped millions worldwide. It is uncanny that I launched the Music Suc...cess Mindset on the day one of the greatest inspirational speakers leaves us to continue his spiritual journey. RIP Jim Rohn, and thank you for helping us all to discover what "living your life" truly means.

The sad news that Jim Rohn passed away http://ping.fm/EGdnZ
Latest music success newsletter for independent artists online now at http://ymlp.com/zdfJWM independent music news midem artist indie
Independent Artists Kick Start Their Music Career For 2010 With The Music Success Mindset Program: Leading prom.. http://bit.ly/7lACiC

Thursday, December 3, 2009

ABM has a show coming up on 12/04/2009 at 10:00 PM @ Area in WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA http://ping.fm/Yyspp - Wine Down!!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

for those who dig the music of crazy genre-crossing artist SCOTT TURCHIN in REGGAE, ALT-COUNTRY/AMERICANA and ALT-ROCK! http://bit.ly/6pjaVT
Latest Article: Music for TV, Film, Advertising - Think Inside The Box - http://ping.fm/4o5kR