Musicadium Blog

Musicadium has partnered with Valleyarm to add 100s of new outlets for you to distribute to. Have your music sold in heaps of new digital stores including Spotify, Guvera and Bigpond!

• You’re already on iTunes and perhaps, AmazonMP3, eMusic and Nokia
• There’s 100s of digital stores out there selling music to fans like yours every day
• And artists just like you are bringing in extra revenue from these new, exciting stores
• You can be part of that action too and Musicadium is here to help!

Expose and sell your music to massive new audiences throughout Australia, Asia, Pacific, US, UK, Europe etc in heaps of new stores including …

Spotify, BigPond, Optus, Virgin, Vodafone and Guvera!

There’s no need to pay $39 for every new outlet we bring on board. Simply get them all in one hit! For a limited time, have Musicadium place your release in 100s of new stores around the globe for a once off fee of $100 AUD (ex GST).

Note: after June 25 you can still purchase this distribution offer but it will be around twice the price!

Of course you’ll still be covered by our friendly, flexible distribution agreement meaning…

• we pass on all the royalties we receive to you
• no lock in term contracts
• non-exclusive
• you choose what regions, outlets, genres etc you wish to be in.

With the 100s for 100 promo, get…

• Your release added to stores such as Spotify, BigPond, Optus, Virgin, Vodafone and Guvera and hundreds more new outlets over the next couple of months
• Your release placed in all new stores we continue to bring on board (100s more coming)
• 24×7 access to sales royalty reports and royalty collections in the Musicadium members area
• Option to select the territories and genres to distribute to

And until 25 June 2010 receive all this for…

• $179 $100 AUD excluding GST once only distribution fee which covers all deliveries to all new stores and to those stores we keep adding
• Pay on-line with a credit card or using your PayPal account (happy to accept other payment options too)

For every new store we bring on board, your music will be included in those stores. The more stores we bring on board, the more value your $100 buys!

What do I do next?

The brilliance of this offer is in its simplicity…

• As a Musicadium customer, simply login to your account, edit the outlets for each of your releases, make the once off distribution payment and we’ll take care of the rest!
• For new Musicadium customers, simply create an account, then add your release, make the once off distribution payment and let Musicadium take care of the rest!

Extra Special Bonus for a limited time…

If you purchase within the next seven days (ie by next Thursday 10 June 2010) you’ll also receive:

• Your chosen track included on our brand new compilation album specific to your genre
• The compilation album exclusively promoted and sold through iTunes starting this July
• Valued at $55 but yours free if you purchase before 10 June 2010!

We look forward to getting your music even further out into the world!

Digitally Yours,

The Musicadium team

PS Every existing Musicadium customer taking up this offer also receives a special gift just for being a valued Musicadium family member. Our team has chosen something especially for you!

PPS Maybe you also want to pick up the gaps in your current distribution beyond the original four Musicadium outlets (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, Nokia). Dring this 100s for 100 promo, you can add your release to those selected stores for only $9.75 AUD ex GST for each outlet.

PPPS Not yet a Musicadium customer or perhaps you’re an existing customer and want to add another release, then we also have a special offer of $139 AUD ex GST to distribute to all four original Musicadium outlets ( iTunes, eMusic, Amazon, Nokia) PLUS to all the new stores including Spotify, Bigpond etc. Just create an account or login and select those outlet options.

Click here to add 100s of new outlets for $100

In June last year Musicadium artists Montpelier were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to fly over to the USA to make a record with a producer named Kevin Augunas.  Kevin has made records with Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Yves Klein Blue to name a few.

This video serves as aa look at their time in the studio and in th United States, but features their fantastic indie-pop rock tunes.  A perfect soundtrack to accompany four young, bright musicians recording their debut EP.

If you like what you hear, check out Montpelier at http://www.myspace.com/montpeliermusic or buy their music on

We love this video here at Musicadium!  It’s hard to be down and unhappy when you have tunes like this playing in the office.  The bright, colourful tones of this song are matched by the crazy brightness of this quirky, funny, happy clip. A relative newcomer to the Brisbane music scene, Ball Park Music nailed a single of the week on iTunes earlier this year.  If you don’t believe us on how good they are, check out what Time Off Magazine had to say..

‘After a short break Ball Park Music take the stage with a lazy brass intro to ‘Black Skies’, before launching into the real track with the tremendous energy which has become a staple of their live performances. The band can hardly be seen from the back of the room as the crowd rush to the front, blocking the view of anyone more than 20 metres away from the stage. ‘Culture Vultures In The Year 2008’ is a number that truly takes the crowd to another level – with its fast tempo and catchy chorus line, the track allows the crowd to have a great time without them even realising it. The band is truly impressive this evening, with The Troubadour obviously being a venue which suits them perfectly. The many tones of their various instruments are not lost or blurred in this set: their sound is clean, crisp and quietly delightful. It’s performances like this that show exactly why Ball Park Music are as popular as they’ve recently become in the Brisbane indie-pop scene – this band is certainly one with an exciting future in front of them, although only time will tell exactly how exciting that will come to be’

- Time Off Magazine 10/2/10

Check them out at MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/musicfromtheballpark or buy their music from

The Shiny brights are releasing their long awaited EP “Too Many Chiefs” this month! Here’s a great marketing strategy to initiate before a launch. Check it out below. Let us know of any other bands doing weird and wonderful things before a launch!

Check them out on:

MySpace

Twitter

Facebook

This week, we are featuring Spearmint Fur’s cute and adorable and just a little bittersweet video for their track, Maybe.

From their MySpace:

Spearmint Fur’s music features smooth melodic vocals over melancholy, spacey and sometimes crashing guitars, and has been likened to bands such as Lush, Pixies, Drugstore, Cranberries, The Sundays, Cocteau Twins and Morrisey just to name a few. The name Spearmint Fur was inspired by an episode of the Canadian TV series Corner Gas. Spearmint Fur is singer songwriter Zadia Lenders, a multi instrumentalist who has been writing songs for many moons.

Check out Spearmint Fur at MySpace, Facebook or buy their album, Immune, at

‘Superpad’ showcases Askii’s love of synths. The track seems about to burst with crunchy leads and synthetic strings, and lets the music set the agenda rather than the vocals taking the limelight. Mink Engine combine a sizzling array of beats and riffs to make a super-saturated monster that has proven itself to be a dancefloor favourite from Melbourne to Shanghai to Tokyo, from London to Berlin and beyond.

And ladled in giant spoonfuls from their continually simmering hotpot of audio-vision comes the video clip to ‘Superpad’. Band members Touch Me Tiger and Askii (starring as leaders of competing dance gangs, recruiting and training their dance elite) challenge each other to a battle-style dance off. As you can imagine, total chaos ensues with the help of a very talented choreographer and teams of dancers in outfits that make Lady Ga Ga look conservative. The clip is a colourful and psychedelic portrayal of the parallel universe that Mink Engine inhabits.

Check out Mink Engine on MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/minkengine or buy SuperPad on

A fantastic find from “Who the Bloody Hell are they?“, Cameras have just signed up with Musicadium.  An absolutely beautiful song is accompanied with a magical film clip.

Check them out at MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/camerasband.  Their music is available on

This week we are featuring Jacob Butler’s neat-o video for his song Coma.

It’s the first single to be lifted from the album and is a multi-formatted pop/rock track featuring strong vocals and melodic hooks.

The video for Coma features Pippa Black and Sweeney Young from Neighbours and has been supported by Video Hits nationally on Network 10.

Coma, which was written by Jacob, is a song that he is incredibly proud of. The track was mixed by production wunderkind Richard Stolz, and further highlights Jacob’s passion for English guitar driven rock.

Check out his music on

Deadline Approaching Soon: October 7, 2009

The 2009 International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is well underway, with 55 celebrity and industry professional judges, 21 categories to enter your songs into, and over $150,000 in cash and prizes including a Grand Prize of $25,000 cash and $20,000 in musical equipment and services! This is the largest cash Grand Prize of any major songwriting competition in the world.

Easiest of all, if you have a MySpace page with your songs on it - simply email a link to your songs (along with the entry form info at http://www.songwritingcompetition.com), and they will be listened to on your MySpace page! It’s very easy and is the most cost effective way to enter - no songs to upload online, no post office to deal with, no postage fees!

ISC accepts original songs from musicians, artists, groups, and songwriters at every level from amateur to professional. Click here to go to the entry form on the ISC MySpace page - http://www.myspace.com/isc or simply go to the ISC website at http://www.songwritingcompetition.com for more information about entering through the mail or online.

Each year ISC is privileged to assemble an outstanding judging panel, and the 2009 competition is no exception. ISC’S panel of judges consists of highly respected recording artists and some of the most influential executives in the music industry including Presidents of record labels such as Epic, Universal Republic, Sire, and Nettwerk Music Group!
Please go to www.songwritingcompetition.com for an entry form or more details.

This week we are profiling Abbie Cardwell’s track from the great new Australian movie, Subdivision, produced by Freshwater Pictures and distributed by Buena Vista.

Subdivision stars fantastic Australian Actors Gary Sweet, Brooke Satchwell and Bruce Spence amongst others and premiered at the Brisbane International Film Festival.

This is the film clip for Abbie Cardwell’s song So Said Muhammad Ali, which is on the soundtrack.  The film clip features footage from the film, as well as footage of Abbie dancing in and around the same area that the film was made.

Abbie’s song So Said Muhammad Ali will be available on iTunes very soon.

Abbie Cardwell on MySpace
The Official Subdivision Website