Saturday, April 30, 2011

Mark from Musicians Together Interview on Spotlight Tomorrow!

Hey guys, I know I haven't done a regular blog in a while, but I wanted to let everyone know that I'll be having Mark from Musicians Together on the show this week. My good friend and colleague Deb from the Unsigned Musicians show will be joining me as co-host. It's been a while since we've done an interview, and almost as long since I've had Deb join me on the show so I'm really looking forward to this. For those who missed my earlier blog about Musicians Together, it's here.

Sunday, May 1st, 9 pm (eastern U.S.) time and I hope to see you there!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Can't Say Goodbye: Kyle Marney

Not 100% sure but I think this is the one that Kyle said he quit smoking for 2 weeks so he could hit the high notes.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

O Seven O Eight (Native American Style Flute)

Very nice one by Didgerod, sit back, relax and enjoy!

Monday, April 25, 2011

Trouble in Mind

More incredible blues! Not sure if you guys have noticed but I've been trying to post either a blog or a video every day here lately. Enjoy!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

It's Up to You - Eva Walsh (original)

A fun one by our good friend Eva Walsh, check it out!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Countach Cowboy

Another great one by our good friend Rob Mazurek

Monday, April 11, 2011

RIAA Radar -- Another Great Site

As we talk about often during the show, there are "indie" labels that are actually RIAA labels.

Want to know who they are? Check out http://riaaradar.com/

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Musicians Together

Recently I found out about a website called Musicians Together. It's a really cool site for independent musicians to upload videos, and get to meet other musicians and fans as well. It's free, very well run, and there are alot of really great people over there, so I hope you guys will check it out.

Here is why, in my opinion, great sites like MT are important. As regular visitors to this blog (as well as the weekly show on blogtv) know, the major music industry has been steadily getting it's hooks into the websites that independents have traditionally used to self promote, network and get their music out. One great example is Myspace. Once upon a time that was THE site to be on if you were a musician. Since 4 of the major record labels bought into it, this is no longer the case, the site has completely turned it's back to the musicians that help build it. Now, it's just a big advertisement for the artists the major labels think we should be listening to, and the indies are shoved in the back somewhere. In fact they've become such a narcissistic, self important piece of crap website that myspace isn't even useful as a social networking site anymore. I was on there recently and can plainly see why people are leaving in droves, the site is almost impossible to navigate. Not only that, user generated content (such as bulletins and updates) are even pushed aside for whatever the majors flavor of the week is. In fact I still haven't figured out where they moved the bulletins to!

YouTube is another great example of a site that has, at least in my opinion, turned it's back to the musicians that helped build it. Since they downgraded the "music" category making it harder to find independent musicians and the music. Because the content on YT is more diversified I don't expect them to have the same downfall Myspam (oops I mean myspace) did, however from talking to some of the musicians I've found out that the view counts on their videos are way down from what they used to be.

This is whats great about Musicians Together, it's a site created by a musician, for musicians. There isn't a bunch of "white noise", it's picking up where other sites have left off. You don't have to look for the latest video from your favorite musician, it's right there.

Musicians Together is a young site, they are just starting out, but if the history of how some of these other sites is any indicator, I think they will be huge.

And I don't expect that they'll go the route of the other sites mentioned here and sell out.

Check them out, create an account, make a few friends and be a part of something pretty awesome, you won't regret it!


http://musicianstogether.com/

Friday, April 1, 2011

Updates, and Where I've Been...

I apologize for not having posted a blog in a while, to be honest with everything I've had going on over the last month or so I have had a real hard time putting my thoughts together in my head, much less get them down in print. While sitting here listening to Didgerod tonight I have to say that the music has really helped calm my busy little brain down to where I can finally focus on some of the things I've been neglecting, the blog being one of them.

Rod, I don't know if you ever read my blog, but if you do, thank you.

I don't generally talk about my personal life online at all, but for those of you that don't know my mom passed away several weeks ago. Needless to say it's been one hell of a month and I've really been having a hard time getting back into the rhythm of, well anything. I'm not going to lie, I've been having a real hard time dealing with this.

One of the things Rod (Didgerod) is talking about during his show is the Native American belief that spring is the renewal of life. It's been therapeutic listening to this music tonight and I would encourage everyone, especially if you are going through a stressful time, to check out his broadcast as well as his youtube channel. It'll help you clear you head a bit, and maybe help you relax. Tonight is the first time since this happened that I've been able to do exactly that.


Honestly speaking I've been on autopilot for the last several weeks. I ended up taking a couple of weeks off from the show, and when I did make it back on the air I was there, but not really. I'm sure you folks know what I mean but I do have some things that I want to blog about, including a new website for independent musicians as well as some other stuff in the music industry that's been going on and I will try to have those posted pretty soon.

Maybe now in a healthier state of mind I'll be able to get it done. I've said it before but music is magic!