http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@a1articles.com By Mark Kirby When you ask someone why he or she likes a band, performer or style of music, the usual response is either, "they're awesome," “they rock" or "it's fun stuff." People tend to say that music is simply for entertainment. And as for mu... http://www.a1articles.com/article_589777_48.html 24th July 2008 A Review by Mark Kirby Over a decade ago, rappers Chuck D and Public Enemy asked, "Who Stole the Soul?" Today, after Christina Aguilera's R&B-infused Back To Basics double CD and the Amy Winehouse soul explosion, the real question is, "Who stole it b... http://www.a1articles.com/article_587223_48.html 23rd July 2008 Smoothjazznetwork.com has invited Boosweet Records guitarist and label CEO Vernon Neilly to debut his 1st Smooth Jazz single titled "I Was Made To Love You" featuring U-Nam from his latest project, which is a Stevie Wonder tribute compilation entitled: ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_583517_55.html 22nd July 2008 Polarity/1, the multi-genre artist best known for bold, honest, hard-hitting songs, is re-releasing his hit album, Yankin' the Food Chain, now with re-mastered tracks. Polarity/1's music has been incorporated by dance theaters and documentarists, includin... http://www.a1articles.com/article_578437_55.html 17th July 2008 On August 24, 2006, Wildflowers Records alternative-country artist Amy Speace stopped by Fort Collins' KRFC 88.9 FM for a live in-studio interview and performance on the station's Live@Lunch show. Now MusicDish is making 8 tracks available from that mem... http://www.a1articles.com/article_573146_55.html 10th July 2008 LOS ANGELES, CA (June 20, 2008) - CHAINDRIVEN won the 95.5 KLOS' Mark and Brian show's "Webstock: Battle of the Fans contest," the band announced today. As the winner, the band gets the opportunity to open the show at The Rowdy Frynds Tour with Lynyrd S... http://www.a1articles.com/article_570627_55.html 07th July 2008 PHOENIX, AZ, June 11, 2008 -- FROM THEIR HIGH-POWERED CD -- "UN NUEVO ESTILO"..... International Latin sensation STILL ALIVE, the Colombian family group who cuts and creates their own style and version of Hip-Hop, Reggaeton, R&B, and too many other musi... http://www.a1articles.com/article_559945_55.html 20th June 2008 The JUNE edition of Bandit has just been published to my strictly limited number of subscribers world-wide. Another brand new batch of world-wide labels, publishers, managers, producers, etc all eager to get involved with new music and artists. This ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_557369_55.html 18th June 2008 411 On The Independent Music Movement DVD series offers detailed instruction for independent artists on how to promote and sell music in the US and internationally. Music industry experts come together to offer guidance in the 6 hour, 3 disc series. ht... http://www.a1articles.com/article_557348_55.html 18th June 2008 MOSCOW, RUSSIA - They're dark and intense. Frontman is covered with tattoos. They play blistering heavy metal laced with throat-scalding vocals and string-shedding guitar. And they sing songs about : Gorbachev? http://www.myspace.com/anjkill America... http://www.a1articles.com/article_551821_55.html 05th June 2008 Website Music Player Joins Forces With LicenseQuote.com To Offer Licensing Integration To Its Artists, Bands, Publishers And Record Label Customers LicenseQuote.com and WebsiteMusicPlayer.com have teamed up to provide an easy-to-manage solution that ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_551271_55.html 05th June 2008 Producer: Dino Maddalone (Winner of 4 LA Music Awards, 12 GMA Dove Nominations), with recording artists featured: Gregg Wright (guitarist for Michael Jackson, Mick Fleetwood, Greg Allman), Billy Meza, Jimbo Ross (string artist for American Idol, Celine ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_550423_55.html 04th June 2008 Brothers and a Sister From Another Planet By Mark Kirby, MusicDish e-Journal One night several years ago at an Irish pub in the East Village of New York City, the discussion of music turned to disco. It involved musicians and people over 40 years-ol... http://www.a1articles.com/article_549782_48.html 02nd June 2008 The "Plácido Domingo 40th Anniversary Gala Concert" To Air Exclusively on HDNet Sunday, June 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET Network to present special concert event in full 1080i HD and 5.1 surround sound (DALLAS) May 22, 2008 - Broad General Director Plácido ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_548850_55.html 29th May 2008 Randy, Paula and Simon are always talking about song selection, and the right choice can make all the difference - just ask Syesha. With the help of some top songwriters ("Love Is A Battlefield," "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"), we choose specific songs ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_544351_55.html 21st May 2008 Longtime Hollywood music company, Goodnight Kiss, is conducting a search to find new songs for a 2009 record release by Cathy Kent. The winning songs will be signed to their publishing catalog and cut as part of Cathy's next project. Kent's latest singl... http://www.a1articles.com/article_543268_55.html 21st May 2008 HDNet to air an exclusive presentation of this historic music event recorded live in at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, TX WHAT: HDNet saddles up and hits the road with "The Outlaw Trail: Where Outlaw Legends & Outlaw Music Meet" Sunday, May 18th at... http://www.a1articles.com/article_541993_55.html 20th May 2008 Three influential U.S. music marketing and promotional companies have come together to provide indie artists a vast array of personalized marketing and consulting services. MusicDish, Inside the Music Business (sm) and Serchlite Music have announced... http://www.a1articles.com/article_539012_55.html 15th May 2008 When we last left John Corda, in the guise of drum 'n' bass superhero Mashed Buddha, on his full-length CD subdue your mind, he was adding elements, musical elements, to a genre that doesn't go much past mechanical repetition in rhythm and bleating elec... http://www.a1articles.com/article_533810_48.html 08th May 2008 Artist development and marketing firm MusicDish LLC has been selected by Toronto-based Pop/Rock musician Peter Bloom to provide artist development support, including full online marketing, brand management and industry outreach in North America. Musi... http://www.a1articles.com/article_530541_55.html 07th May 2008 On December 11, 2006, Wildflowers Records singer-songwriter Amy Speace was in NY for a live interview on WFUV 90.7 FM's "Folk Sunday Breakfast with John Platt." Now her live performances on the show, including songs 'The Real Thing,' 'Dreamin' and 'Step... http://www.a1articles.com/article_529014_55.html 02nd May 2008 Wildflowers Records alternative-country artist Amy Speace has been interviewed and performed live on countless radio stations across the US in support of her third album "Songs for Bright Street". MusicDish Network is now making some of her most memorab... http://www.a1articles.com/article_520857_55.html 22nd April 2008 Whatever one could say about Hills Rolling, the moniker of one-man band Trey McGriff, you can't accuse him of having shallow roots. On his myspace page he lists as influences about one hundred or so bands and musicians. There are old schoolers (Otis Red... http://www.a1articles.com/article_517972_48.html 16th April 2008 Drum n bass n keyboardist Mashed Buddha (aka John Corda) announced the release of his latest album "Zen Conspiracy." The album represents a new direction for Mashed Buddha, first introduced in his prior EP release "Four Keys To Zen," offering an intrica... http://www.a1articles.com/article_517050_55.html 14th April 2008 By Mark Kirby, MusicDish e-Journal If I had the power, I would change the title of the new Soundside CD from "Seconds to Sunrise" to "Working Man's Soundside." No, not as some type of homage to the Grateful Dead or their album of the same name, but b... http://www.a1articles.com/article_514830_48.html 10th April 2008 By Mark Kirby, MusicDish e-Journal Whether you call it praise music or New Jack gospel, this genre is most often a classic case of "preaching to the choir," with song lyrics lifted artlessly from the King James bible and histrionic music calculated t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_509798_48.html 06th April 2008 Mike Cameo’s Indies Top 10 Collects Chart Topping Indie Artists Worldwide for Podcasts To the rapidly changing and expanding universe of Indie pop music, a new website - Mike Cameo’s Indies Top 10 ( http://www.IndiesTop10.com ) - brings a tool fo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_504155_55.html 02nd April 2008 By Mark Kirby, MusicDish e-Journal Whether it has to do with the philosophy of better living through habit, thought or magical action, things that are associated with "New Age" are theoretically supposed to have some basis in spirituality. Yet much o... http://www.a1articles.com/article_503970_48.html 02nd April 2008 Anyone who has had the inspiring opportunity to read Eckhart Tolles bestselling new book, "A New Earth" will enjoy and benefit from Miss Kristin's new music release, "The Runner" available April 1 on Amazon MP3 and iTunes worldwide. http://www.misskristi... http://www.a1articles.com/article_503076_55.html 02nd April 2008 By Mark Kirby, MusicDish e-Journal The picture on the front of her CD Cover to Cover shows singer songwriter Julie Moffitt covered with a bed sheet and smiling unselfconsciously at the viewer. This image, in its simple honesty, is appropriate for her... http://www.a1articles.com/article_502050_48.html 01st April 2008 SafeMedia, the preeminent provider of “Clouseau” a P2P Active Denial Network Security Appliance announced today it has expanded its reseller channel through an agreement with Systems Design & Support Inc (SDSI). “Systems Design & Support’s co... http://www.a1articles.com/article_500801_55.html 31st March 2008 Cevin Soling, producer for the cult film 'A Hole In The Head,' will be on-hand for its virtual premiere screening in the MusicWorld3D virtual community on Thursday, March 27th at 9:00 PM EST. Cevin will introduce the hour-long film about trepanation - t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_499502_21.html 28th March 2008 LicenseQuote ( http://www.licensequote.com ) provides an easy to manage online solution that helps independent artists, labels, producers and music publishers to license their own songs, recordings and related assets directly from their own web sites. ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_499385_48.html 28th March 2008 ANN ARBOR, MI - As the Great Lakes Songwriting Contest celebrates its fifth year of operations, the entry fee has been lowered and the Grand Prize increased. http://www.GreatLakesSongs.com This year, the Grand Prize will be $2,000 cash, plus tuiti... http://www.a1articles.com/article_493646_48.html 25th March 2008 Psychedelic rock in the 1960's had two edges and came from two different strains. One was the heavy and intense Acid Rock of bands like Buddy Miles' Electric Flag, The Zombies, and countless other fuzzed-out, guitar-led bands going on sonic mental trips. ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_484734_21.html 03rd March 2008 If you’re like most people, you probably think that you need a mind-expanding experience like you need a hole in the head. There are others – artists, intrepid explorers of the mind – who would say the opposite, that you need a hole in the head in... http://www.a1articles.com/article_479880_21.html 23rd February 2008 It’s A Celebration Of Soul This Sunday On HDNet With The Exclusive Premiere Of “Stax Records 50th Anniversary Concert” From The Orpheum Theatre In Memphis, TN WHAT: The venerable Stax Records celebrates its 50th anniversary, and HDNet is there to... http://www.a1articles.com/article_475802_48.html 18th February 2008 WHAT: HDNet presents eleven concerts from various 2007 Grammy nominees all day Sunday, February 10 beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET. From Ben Harper, to Foo Fighters, from R. Kelly to Willie Nelson, HDNet will serve up concerts to suite every musical palate. ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_470629_48.html 08th February 2008 The Law of Attraction has been labeled as part of a New Age movement, and the labelers have said there is no grounding within the Law of Attraction or that it is just a way to escape from the world. They believe that we believe that all one has to do is ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_246577_24.html 14th November 2007 Pop/Jazz vocalist Slim Man has been nominated for International Vocalist of the Year by the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards committee. The CSJ Awards, now in its fourth year, will be held in Ontario, Canada... http://www.a1articles.com/article_246578_48.html 14th November 2007