Musicadium Blog

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!

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

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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

HELM’s Video for debut Single ‘Release the Eagles’. Filmed, Directed, Produced by Talon Clemow.

From their myspace - http://www.myspace.com/ghostatthehelm - Mat, Scott, Ryan, Lucas. Four seasoned musicians who have come together to write music that they would want to listen to themselves as well as enjoy playing. Still in its early stages of growth, HELM looks to hold an exciting future for the band & homegrown music, having managed to put together an album of extremely strong and original songs in just over a six month period since first forming.

As far as the music goes and what to expect? True to songwriter Lucas Stone’s approach, fans of anything ranging from inspiring artists such as Cult of Luna & Isis right through to our own Cog, Tension, The sea shall not have them or even Pink Floyd to Tool to Meshuggah will find more than enough to split their eardrums with. This is BIG, epic experiMETAL rock…?!

HELM’s debut release Volume 1…Keelhaul is available on

A few weeks ago, we helped Tokenview have their song What Can I Do get the Free Single of the Week on the front page of the iTunes Store! We loved the song as soon as the disc came in. Now we have just found the film clip for the song and this RULES!

This video was directed by Josh Groom (Birds of Tokyo, Angus and Julia Stone) and Maddi Milasas. Featuring guest vocals from The Basics (Wally de Backer, Kris Schroeder, Tim Heath).

Let us know what you think of the clip  - leave your comments here!

Check out Tokenview at their Myspace or purchase their music online at

Check out this great film clip from The City Shakeup and take a look at their myspace!

Their music is available on