Musicadium Blog

Yesterday, Tim was walking home from the Musicadium office, hurrying to beat the storms coming in from

the west of Brisbane, when he saw Clint Boge from The Butterfly Effect!

We are once again joining forces with Chiki Productions!  This time we are bringing you the first of Musicadium’s “With Digital Love” free-entry industry showcase nights on Tuesday November 25 at Bar Soma at 7PM.

The evening aims to showcase some of the amazing hip hop, funk and reggae artists being distributed globally through Musicadium to digital download outlets such as ITunes, eMusic and Amazon MP3.

Headlining the night will be Omni Anti, a Brisbane Hip Hop collective who emerged in 2007.  They have seen massive success nationally. Their infectious grooves are full of funky hip hop beats, edgy lyrics and soaring saxophone melodies.

Supporting Omni Anti is Benjamin Hooper, whose fusion jazz and funk influenced genre sees a concoction of theatrical sounds! He’s entertaining and cheeky, reads the audience well and delivers on his promise that his live shows are always unique.

As well as Ben, Omni Anti will be joined by The Lyrical Shamon; winner of The Valley Busking Awards.

More information about the artists and the showcase can be found on the Musicadium website at www.musicadium.com.  The event starts at 7PM and is 18+.

We are all looking forward to this party!

Go to the Facebook Event Invite.

How’s this for a sweet Page six spread in the November 08 Issue of JMag?

We were very excited in the office today when our complimentary copy of the magazine came in and we found our ad underneath the contents on Page 6!  Nice, big, colourful, pretty AND helpful?

Sounds like a sweet deal to us!

Musicadium is very proud to welcome Tim to the team as the newly-created Promotions and Development Manager.

Tim has joined us to expand the brand of Musicadium to all new audiences the world over.

Tim moved to Brisbane from Rockhampton, QLD, 6 months ago with his partner, Sara.

Tim started his music career by the way of Education.  As in, he was an IT teacher who decided that music was calling him.  He began booking bands into O’Dowd’s Irish Pub in Rockhampton and soon enough was booking gigs with some of Australia’s best bands, such as I Killed the Prom Queen, Dead Letter Circus, British India, Ash Grunwald and Dukes of Windsor.

After some time, he was selected to head up the Rockhampton chapter of the A-Venue project, an Arts Queensland funded project, created to upskill and inform regional original musicians about the wider music industry.  Tim first heard about Musicadium through his association with Q-Music and Deb Suckling.

Feel free to drop him an email to say hello!

Tim is into Dead Letter Circus, Birds of Tokyo, The Paper and The Plane and The Getaway Plan.

Musicadium Artists Here Come the Birds (who took out the UncharTED competition this year, to play at Splendour in the Grass) were featured on the front page of MySpace yesterday, touting them as the artists to watch!

Well done, guys!  We love Here Come the Birds here in the office and their single, Bravery and Defeat gets a spin all the time.

Buy their music at ITunes

Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/herecomethebirds.

The Musicadium office has been abuzz lately after some great signings. We put out the recent Chopper Read vs Bukk City record and we’re about to release the new record from Suzee Fenech (Jeff Fenech’s wife).

Out west we are happy to have on board Rick Steele - the patriarch of the Steele music family - who is releasing his record with Musicadium. The Australian blues and country rock legend has been in the industry for 40 years, played more than 8000 gigs and at a shade over 60 doesn’t look like slowing down. His new album features Katy Steele, Luke Steele and Paul Kelly and is an absolute cracker.

We can’t wait to release the entire Love To Sing catalogue! We’ve been working with Love to Sing Founder Linda Adamson to put the Love To Sing music on iTunes.

Love to Sing is a hugely popular concept in New Zealand - with nine platinum sales awards, eight gold sales awards and (with Love to Sing Volume 1) was the top selling video in New Zealand for eight weeks.

Musicadium is proud to announce its support for the annual Q Song Awards.

Dedicated to finding Queensland’s best songwriters, the Q Song Awards received almost 1600 entries in 2007!

Musicadium is sponsoring one of this year’s new categories -The Musicadium New/Experimental Music Category.

At Musicadium, we are a key link in the chain for emerging musicians. Musicadium’s distribution model allows independent artists to prosper without needing a record label. For $39 you can get your album distributed worldwide. Just a few short years ago, that kind of thing was unheard of. Now it is possible and Musicadium is getting behind Q Song as a way of showing our support for Queensland’s independent artists.

Winners of this year’s Q Song get a chance to share in the $25,000 in cash and prizes on offer.

Entries opened March 20 and the deadline for entries is May 2, 2008. The Winners will be announced at the Q Song Awards Ceremony on August 12, 2008 at The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley.

Entry forms are available online from www.qmusic.com.au/qsong. Online entries will be accepted through www.sonicbids.com/2008qsongawards.

Musicadium is very happy to introduce our newest team member: the lovely Sarah.

With a background in Music and Media, a diploma of music performance at the Southbank Institute of TAFE in Brisbane and management experience with the National Institute of Youth Performing Arts Australia, Sarah is a perfect fit.

As Musicadium’s Artist Relations Manager, Sarah will be the first point of call for our growing artist and label roster. When you call, email, myspace or knock down our door you’ll see Sarah’s smiling face.

When you need uploads rushed through, have queries about your myspace or want to know if iTunes will make you single of the week - yep, you guessed it - Sarah will be there too.

Welcome to Musicadium Sarah!