Musicadium Blog

Talented songsmiths take notice! The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) has extended its submission deadline until December 1, 2008. ISC will continue to take online, mail-in, and MySpace entries until this date. All entries must be postmarked or uploaded online on or before December 1, 2008. So, if you have not already entered ISC and wish to do so, you still have time to enter.

For more information and an entry form, go to www.songwritingcompetition.com

ISC gives away over $150,000 in cash and prizes to 62 winners in 20 categories. The Overall Grand Prize includes $25,000 (US) in cash - the largest cash Grand Prize of any songwriting competition in the world. ISC is open to all levels of amateur and professional songwriters throughout the world.

The 2008 International Songwriting Competition is judged by the likes of Robert Smith from The Cure, Loretta Lynn, DJ Tiesto, Tom Waits and Chaka Khan.

It’s no secret that the Musicadium team thinks the Hungry Kids of Hungary are the best thing since sliced bread. Well better than sliced bread really - more in line with hats that simultaneously feed you beer and iphones. It seems as though the rest of Australia is catching up as their track, ‘Set it Right’ has been added to full time rotation on triplej. Check out their self-titled EP on and see what the fuss is about!

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.

Do You Love Music?

Musicadium artist John Meyer is this week’s artist who put his hand up to be reviewed!  John’s latest blog is about Everett True’s review of his CD and how totally unconstructive the review was.  His track “Silver Bullets” is the track to be reviewed!

John’s EP Launch is on at The Powerhouse Nov 9 for his CD, “Silver Bullets don’t work on Vampires”. Send us an email if you’d like your song featured next time!

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Are you an Australian Unsigned artist producing original music?

One of the Musicadium family discovered this during the week!  Red Jezebell would like to offer unsigned Australian Artists the opportunity to have their music exposed to a massive national market.

You send Red Jezebell a message of interest, they check out an artist’s music and if the big boss digs it they will use it for their hold music.

If an artist’s music is chosen they will be agreeing to Red Jezebell using it royalty free in exchange for exposure to a massive national market. They aim to have several tracks and also to change them every few months to give as many artists a chance to be heard.

Contact:

info@redjezebell.com
or myspace.com/redjezebell

In the Navy, we will sail the seven seas! In the Navy…

Navy Song Battle

Create a New theme song for the Royal Australian Navy, for the chance to win studio time with a top industry producer and airplay in a Navy Brand Campaign.

“Navy want a theme song, but they also want a team song. A new and exciting modern anthem for radio, for TV, but also for its people. Can your music inspire and uplift? Can you capture the excitement?”

Interested?  Go to http://www.myspace.com/navysongbattle.

Friday 24 October, 2008.

Leadership is now the strongest marketing strategy

Yelling with gusto used to be the best way to advertise your wares. There was plenty of media and if you had plenty of money, you were set.

Today, of course, yelling doesn’t work so well.

What works is leading. Leading a (relatively) small group of people. Taking them somewhere they’d like to go. Connecting them to one another.

I say relatively because there are few products that need everyone in order to succeed. A tiny sliver of the market is enough. It’s enough if the tribe you lead knows about you and cares about you and wants to follow you. It’s enough if your leadership changes things, galvanizes the audience and puts the status quo under stress. And it’s enough if the leadership you provide makes a difference.

Go down the list of online success stories. The big winners are organizations that give tribes of people a platform to connect.

It’s so tempting to believe that we are merely broadcasters, putting together a play list and hurtling it out to the rest of the world. Louder is better. But we’re not. Now we’re leaders.

People want to connect. They want you to do the connecting.

-Seth Godin

This week we’re asking you to rate “Dark Back Garden” by Silver Sircus. This is a limited edition EP featuring one single long-form spoken word & sound-scape piece. The Cover Art features artwork by photographer Sean Young.

Get commenting and let us know what you think!

Our office was abuzz today as we got wind (thanks Michaela!) that Sophie Monk was in the vicinity of our office!

Tim and Sarah meet Sophie Monk!

Sarah, Marnie and I (Tim) grabbed the SM2 office’s camera and giggled our way down to Nat-Sui shoe store, where Sophie was browsing.

Sophie was lovely and kindly let us grab a photo with her.  We told her about what we do at Musicadium and how we heard she was in the vicinity. Hopefully she didn’t think we were too crazy!

Sophie was a member of girl-group Bardot and has now branched out into movies and television, appearing in movies such as Click and Sex and Death 101 and TV shows such as Entourage.

Just another Friday in the office for the Musicadium team!