December 2009
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Nashville Song Demos - Submit a voice recording of... →
Music Xray has been receiving a lot of inqueries about how lyric writers and songwriters without professional sounding demos can still use Music Xray to submit to professional opportunities listed on our site. Nashville Song Demos provides a service to turn your lyrics or rough demos into professional sounding recordings.
Nashville Song Demos charges a small fee (beyond the $3 transaction fee...
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Roster Consideration at Revolver Records →
Revolver has been at the forefront of new music, signing acts such as The Stone Roses & Jane’s Addiction.
The birth of Revolver Records can be traced back to 1982, having started as an offshoot from its sister label Heavy Metal Records (which itself began in 1979).
Today, Revolver Records operates alongside Heavy Metal Records as a fully-fledged label in its own right, releasing new...
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Use the TuneCore module to sell your songs right from your Music Xray Song Presentation Pack.
See an example here: http://present.musicxray.com/xrays/1659/public
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Get a Professional Critique and Consideration for... →
Devon Jackson has written about music and film for a variety of publications— from Entertainment Weekly and The Village Voice to Rolling Stone and Details. He is also the author of Conspiranoia! and currently the editor of Santa Fean magazine.
Publicity is the job of getting the print and broadcast media to talk about your music by printing or broadcasting a story, an interview, or a review...
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Get a Professional Song Critique and/or Advice on... →
Ken Riley brings years behind a board and in front of a mic to the table when he offers Career Coaching and Song Critiques. Concentrating working with Christian musicians in his current work, he offers musical wisdom with a Christian twist.
Ken can also give you insightful studio tips that will help you improve your recordings.
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Interact Directly (back and forth conversation)... →
“Over the years I have consulted songwriters and bands as a favor to some of my music industry friends. After being approached to consult on the internet I finally decided that this scenario could be quite intriguing. I have a limited amount of time but am eager to help you get to the next level”.
This opportunity enables you to converse back and forth about your music with CB...
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Get A Music Critique from Jazz Singer Carmela... →
Song critiques give you the opportunity to have your song or lyrics analyzed by professionals in the music industry. This allows you to see your strengths and weaknesses as a song writer and helps you improve and develop your skill. Carmela has the Professional Experience to help you fine tune your music, lyrics, melodies, and other essential elements of your material. Before sending out your...
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Consider following us on Facebook. We sometime post special opportunities there and really engage our community.
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Get Hands On, Face to Face Career Development... →
This is a no nonsense opportunity only for those who are most serious about their careers at the top of the music industry. If you are accepted as one of Charlie’s clients his services will have a considerable fee but you will get dedicated, personalized, face to face artist development services by one of the worlds proven star makers. It’s hard to find an opportunity that offers you a...
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Song Critiques & Label Roster Consideration by... →
Black Cherry Group is a new independent label group based in San Diego, California. The company launches wth an ambitious purview and a desire to acquire talent, license songs and to grow quickly by bringing to market great new music.
Black Cherry Group is seeking to expand its roster and welcomes song submissions.
Additionally, the company says, “Have one of our many staff writers...
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Submit Theme Music For Marc Maron's WTF Podcast →
Maybe you’ve seen him on Letterman or Conan. Maybe you’ve seen one of his stand up shows or maybe you’ve heard him on Air America Radio. Now, Marc Maron has the third highest rated podcast in America today called WTF.
In a recent episode he put out a call for new theme music for his show.
You can submit original music here and it is delivered right to Marc for his...
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Another Success Story →
Hey everyone another success story on Music Xray… you could be next check this out!
http://www.musicxray.com/success-stories/2009/12/15/underride-inks-deal-with-rafelson-media.html
Seattle band Underride has inked a placement deal for one of their songs with Peter Rafelson of Rafelson Media.
Band member Rev writes, “Back in July we test drove musicxray as a referral from our...
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Success Stories
We posted a few success stories here http://www.musicxray.com/success-stories/ including Rob Guajardo’s licensing and publishing deal that you can read about here http://www.musicxray.com/success-stories/2009/12/11/rob-guajardo-gets-licensing-deal-then-gets-publishing-deal.html.
We want to continue posting more success stories so keep the music coming and we will do whatever we can to...
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Interactive Career Consultation with Lynn Marie... →
Please pay special attention to our latest interaction opportunity. We have added in new functionality that makes it even easier for artists to connect to people in the music industry!
This is a new kind of submission / interaction here on Music Xray. You submit your song and you don’t simply get a song critique in return, rather you actually begin a written, threaded conversation with the...
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Label Deal / Roster Consideration & Songs... →
Mercury Records is a music label that operates as a subsidiary of Island Def Jam Records and is part of the Universal Music Group, the largest of the major label groups. The label is home to artists such as Jesse James, Anastacia, Duffy, Parachute, Portishead, Babyface and One Block Radius.
An A&R executive and/or talent scout at Mercury Records will listen to all submissions received on the...
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Label Deal / Roster Consideration - Global Music... →
Global Music Group is a United States based record label, distributed by Universal Fontana. The company also has divisions in Canada, Asia and Europe. Global Music Group is a power house indie label with a star studded roster.
A member of our A&R team will consider your submissions and contact you if there’s a good fit. We have some specific requirements. Please read the details.
We...
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What is a song survey and why would I want to... →
To conduct a song survey, set your Music Xray’s “Survey” module to default “open” and devise some “yes or no” questions about your song (Is the guitar too loud? Does this song sound like a hit? Should there be a saxophone solo? Does it need more cow bell? Etc.). Then, you can send your Music Xray’s URL to your friends, fans and people whose opinion you respect and they can answer the questions you...
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Roster Consideration at VeeDee Records →
Inspired by the likes of Elephant Six and Twisted Nerve, this loose collective of artists was founded. All involved are dedicated to the same goal. Good music. So much of today’s music business is exactly that - business. We here at veedee Records are proud to be the antithesis of corporate.
We believe in good music. We don’t want money; we want to make music
We value albums over...
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"Submit your song to various play listings" →
Some of the radio airplay, podcast and other type of considerations are from the likes of Ken “Special K” Spellman, Jezz Harkin at BreakThru Radio (BTR), Brian Hardgroove’s The Art is in the GROOVE, BAGeL Radio, WBLS, JT’s Indie Christian Music Podcast, Robot 40 Podcast, Uwe Hermann’s Podcast, Rich Palmer’s the Audio Gumshoe, Accident Hash podcast in Boston, CFMU Radio, and...
