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10 Key Components When Looking for a Producer

Avoiding the production abyss
by Julian Coryell

After weeks, months or even years of writing, you’re finally ready to record that long awaited album but you’re lost in the production abyss. Where do you begin? Here are some key components …

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F*#@!

I have a manager who is on Facebook, Twitter, etc. quite often and uses it  for personal and also business. He posts things that I think are  inappropriate  like swearing, his personal views on politics and religion. I know he …

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TRAVIS T. WARREN

Blind Melon frontman takes Apollo to the moon
by Stephen Stern, executive editor, Music Insider Magazine

At 17, Travis T. Warren sold $250 of musical equipment to help pay for gas for a ride west in the Apollo. Compared to …

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DEAR DIARY …

On the road with Exhumed
by Matt Harvey

Part I …

Exhumed has never been a band to shy away from playing live, and since we’ve gotten back in action, that has held more truly than ever. Since the release …

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RISE UP AGAINST THE AM/FM MACHINE

Royalties for musicians now!
by Stephen Stern

The Performance Rights Act (PRA) might as well be in Guantanamo Bay rather than on life support with an intravenous drip since 2009 in the halls of Congress. In Guantanamo, Cuba, the lobbyists …

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Make Your Fan Base Soar

Shining a spotlight on your newsletter
by Meryl Evans, editor of Professional Services Journal

You click “send” and anxiously wait to see the newsletter’s success rates. That darn “number of subscribers added” number won’t budge, or maybe it changes a …

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The Gypsy Sons - Walking on the Water
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The Gypsy Sons – Walking on the Water

by Brian McKinny

‘The Gypsy Sons’ are a soulful, bluesy, country rock quartet from Northern Virginia. “Walking on the Water” is their sixth album, and they already have two hits with ‘Sweet Soul Sunshine” and “Right Kind Of Lovin’”, both …

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Baby Nash’s Fight Against Cancer

Nash Lexington Luker entered this world on May 20, 2012 bringing incredible, indescribable joy & love to his parents Allison Schneider Luker (my sister) & her husband Seth Luker.  He was born on the same day of the spectacular & …

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