Review of MusicSupervisorGuide
by David Goldstein
MusicSupervisorGuide (http://www.musicsupervisorguide.com) is really three services in one: First, it is a music supervisor directory listing thousands of music supervisors and advertising agency creatives in charge of licensing music for film, TV, videogame and advertising projects. Two, the service provides a list of hundreds of active film and…
Review of the Song Tipsheet SongQuarters
By David Goldstein
When you're ready to take the training wheels off your bicycle, SongQuarters (http://www.songquarters.com) is probably the next best song tipsheet semi-professional and professional songwriters and record producers upgrade to. Like the grandpa of song tipsheets Songlink, SongQuarters features dozens of solicited song placement opportunities in any…
Songlink Review
By David Goldstein
First published in 1993, Songlink (http://www.songlink.com) is one of the oldest and most established song tip sheets in the music business. Published by David Stark, Songlink distinguishes itself from many other song tip sheets in publishing only "solicited" music placement opportunities. A solicited lead is one that the record label…
Review of the Taxi A&R Music Placement Service
by David Goldstein
The US-based Taxi A&R music placement service (www.taxi.com) is probably the grandfather of music placement services out there. Founded in 1992 by Michael Laskow, Taxi specializes in solicited leads for recording artists, commercials and also film and television. What’s special about the Taxi…