Music In Advertising – Yell or Whisper?

Music In Advertising – To Yell or To Whisper? We get bombarded by it every day , from every conceivable angle. It’s the song that gets stuck in your head, the word you feel you must Google when you get home, the joke that you’ll laugh at a couple more times even after you get…

ByPMMSeptember 23, 20140Comments

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Music in Video Games – From the Stone Age to the Space Age

Music in Video Games - From the Stone Age to the Space Age From 'Space Invaders' to 'Need for Speed' or from 'Earthworm Jim' to 'Tomb Raider', there has got to be at least one videogame out there that can get your blood rushing, your head spinning and your mind craving for more; virtual realities…

ByPMMSeptember 23, 20140Comments

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Review of Song Tipsheet myHitOnline

Review of Music Tip Sheet myHitOnline by David Goldstein With dozens of different music tip sheets – also known as song tipsheets – out there, it’s not easy to figure out to which one to subscribe. See, there are two types of tip sheets out there: solicited and unsolicited. Song tipsheets that offer solicited tip sheets,…

ByPMMSeptember 1, 20140Comments

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Indie Music – The New Mainstream on TV and in Film

Indie Music on TV - The New Mainstream in Film and TV Music supervisors and their ingenious music selections are quintessential, although we are sometimes unaware of it, in the success of a movie;”Titanic” would not be the heart-breaking and inspiring colossus of a movie it is if it weren’t for Celine Dion’s masterpiece and the…

ByPMMAugust 1, 20140Comments

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Music Licensing in Bollywood

Music Licensing in Bollywood It is hardly a trade secret that the Indian film industry, or Bollywood, as it is practically universally-known, is one of the fastest growing and most successful film industries on the planet – India actually overtook America as the world’s most prolific film producer back in the 1970s. Bollywood film producers…

ByPMMJanuary 1, 20140Comments

A&R’s & Music Supervisors People

Music Supervisor Dan Hubbert

Music Supervisor Dan Hubbert How did you get into music supervision? Music Supervisor Dan Hubbert: You know I started my career, I was a musician I grew up playing guitar. My older brother wanted to play guitar and I was like 11 years old and said, “I want to play guitar too!” It was one of…

ByPMMJune 1, 20120Comments

A&R’s & Music Supervisors People

Music Supervisor Lindsay Wolfington

Music Supervisor Lindsay Wolfington Music has become, more than ever, human kind's magical ointment; it heals us in times of grief, provides hope in times of despair and makes the smile on our face widen considerably in the presence of the small,yet so enjoyable things in life. Music is no longer a complicated, tragic opera…

ByPMMMay 1, 20120Comments

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Music Supervisor Adam Swart

Music Supervisor Adam Swart We sat down with Adam Swart who is the music coordinator and co-supervisor at music supervision and consulting firm 35Sound in Los Angeles, California. Together with his partner and veteran music supervisor G. Marq Roswell, who founded 35Sound, Adam handles music supervision projects ranging from TV, and documentaries to major…

ByPMMApril 1, 20120Comments

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Can you compete with this killer demo?

Can you compete with this killer demo? This Ryan Tedder song was rumored to have been shortlisted for Rihanna. I am posting it here, so you can hear the quality of the “demos” that Ryan produces before he pitches his songs to A&R’s and artists. Again, your demos have to be at this level, if…

ByPMMApril 1, 20120Comments

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Music Supervisor Jim Laquidara

Music Supervisor Jim Laquidara We had the chance to catch up with Music Supervisor Jim Laquidara to talk about some of his latest projects as well as tips and tricks to get your music placed in film, TV, ads and video games. About Music Supervisor Jim Laquidara: Jim is the owner of Audio Motion Musicand…

ByPMMApril 1, 20120Comments

Music In Advertising – Yell or Whisper?

Music in Video Games – From the Stone Age to the Space Age

Review of Song Tipsheet myHitOnline

Indie Music – The New Mainstream on TV and in Film

Music Licensing in Bollywood

Music Supervisor Dan Hubbert

Music Supervisor Lindsay Wolfington

Music Supervisor Adam Swart

Can you compete with this killer demo?

Music Supervisor Jim Laquidara

Sting on overcoming writer’s block

will.i.am on the music business

Justin Bieber in the studio