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#18 TERRANOVACAIN – An Odd Place To Be #46 TERRANOVACAIN – Put It In My Mind |
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#38 BABBLE – The Divine Discontent |
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#59 BEAULIEU PORCH – Navy Blue |
As Always you can find ALL these songs on the 24 hour stream that is the NBTMusicRadio
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Tamika Kaspar Signs Exclusive Record Deal with US Label Musik and Film.
Two Time Award Winner for “Country Male Artist of the Year for the states of SC and NC David Cooler! Check out the video spotlight of our great Country artist here: http://youtu.be/qnUioUwdS8Y. You’ll laugh, howl, kick your feet and slap your thighs to this fantastic Country artist! Visit www.DavidCoolerMusic.com for more music and booking information.
Our promotions program has been a great success! Just look what Musik and Radio Promotions is doing for our artists! The below station count includes syndicated stations and networks. This includes FM, AM, College and Internet airplay around the world
Adrianna Freeman, has charted in Europe’s top 100! She is nearing the 11,000 station mark!
7 Horses “You know I’m Gonna Miss You” in the Americana and adult contemporary genre is up to 541 stations.
Rock group Rone Kaos (Australia) are up to 438 station mark! That’s almost double from last week!
Freddie Stone formerly of Sly and the Family Stone is out to Christian stations around the world 372 to be exact!
Blues artist RB Stone is up to 521 stations!
Country artists Hangin with Stogie have broken the 1000 station mark!
Singer/Songwriter KC Hurt in his second week of promotion has exceeded 356 stations all over the world.
Jazz Legend Dave Appell & Friends with 359 radio stations!
Blue grass award winning Fiddler Tim Smith is at 653 stations!
Sam McClain – is playing on 367 stations.
JJ Crowne – Up to 676 stations worldwide!
Stephen Foster and Howler with 2200 radio stations!
World renowned Gwyn Ashton with at 367 stations.
UK Artist Amy Sinha with 347 stations!
Australian Pop Star Nicole Taylor playing 1280 stations!
Spearmint Fur with 331 stations.
Country Christmas single by Christina Reese with 426 stations.
Southern Rock group Cletus Romp with 363 stations.
Alternative Rock band The Carnival Kids playing on 321 stations.
Rock group Push with 376 stations.
The 26th November 2012 sees the release of the new CD from Never A Hero titled Bleed Between The Lies.
Alteria Motives Ezine got a hold of the new album, so what did we think? Read on and you will see.
Read Between The Lines is a short track to start the album off. It starts with elements of an 8-bit game then goes full into the metal mayhem we know of as Never A Hero. If this is the start then I cannot wait for the rest of it? Burning Skies is the next offering, electronic sounds mixed with very catchy guitar riffs. The bass is amazing and the drums thundering in parts. The vocals are brutal and melodic at the same time. The mix of electronic and metal in one is perfect. Roses Are Dead hits you with hints of amazing British metal, this really is well thought out music. This is nothing short of perfect and a delight on your ears. This is proving to be the album that may define Never A Hero. Usually on an album you may find a couple of really amazing tracks but I must say everything I have heard so far is epic. The Call is yet another track that there are elements fused together to make that distinctive Never A Hero sound. The Call starts mellow then goes into full on heavy metal while carrying the melodic riffs and vocals. All the way through this album so far you can hear the hard work Never A Hero have put in, but also they are really showing the quality musicians that they are. I review a lot of albums, yes you find good and bad albums. But Bleed Between The Lies is neither good nor bad, it surpasses good. This album is a metal masterpiece which shows the sheer raw talent that Never A Hero has. Pianos and what is becoming quite a signature for Never A Hero, that stunning guitar work. Screams Of Silence is a track that will leave your head moving in time and also amazed at how good the track is. I am often asked what is my favourite track on an album is and for this album I cannot honestly say. Every track is a well-crafted metal masterpiece to which I am mightily impressed with.
OK so stop doing this now, you cannot possibly get better can you? Um yes, Days Of Patience is just perfect. It plays with your ear drums. Days Of Patience is a lighter track and vocally and musically is just nothing non than perfect. I LOVE THIS ALBUM. Mellow with a LOAD of meaning that you can truly feel in the music. This is amazing, it really takes accomplished
musicians to create something this beautiful and moving but that is exactly what Never A Hero are. Vogue has a more urban metal feel to it in the vocals, but yet at the same it’s that catchy melodic brutal Never A Hero sound. Between is between the rest of the album and marks half way on this journey into a perfect world that has been created so far. It again is very calm and so beautiful. Untouchable seems to rewind a bit of Between which then goes into a serene piano piece, then you get blasted into brutality before you know it. I notice the amazing drum work here as well as the guitars. In some aspects the vocals are a little cheeky. Teeming with so many acoustic elements thrown into the metal boiling pot. The female accompanying vocals Untouchable are both provocative and soft, they really provide the perfect accompaniment to Phrixus on this track. Dreamcatcher is another track with the female vocals as a backing on this track. Again this is a very well thought track. There is no other way to describe the sound on this album as Never a
Hero, there is nothing like it I have ever heard. Every track I am amazed but yet not surprised how good the tracks are.
Hollow starts with a great electronic start which breaks into sheers perfection personified in guitars, bass, drums, synths and vocals.
Sunbeam is really another one of those tracks that hits your ears and also your heart. The words have meaning and the music is genius. Stalked, OK this is really not fair now. How many times can I say amazing and perfect before you start to get bored, but there is nothing else I can say as that is what this album. Every track is perfect in quality, I know now why Never A Hero were so excited about this album as it is sheer amazing.
Bleed Between The Lies is the title track and the crescendo of Never A Hero’s new album and it really does leave you wanting more. What a stunning album this has been, oh my god. I don’t believe that I have ever used amazing, perfect, melodic and brutal so many times in a review EVER. If this album was a piece of art, which it is, it would hang in the Louvre alongside the Mona Lisa and live on long after the band are gone. I have never heard an album like this and neither will you. It’s one of those albums that you will never be able to put down and it will remain your favourite album forever. It has so many aspects to it from really well played guitars, thundering drums which keep the perfect beat, amazing bass tones, electronic and acoustic pieces that fit in certain songs and the vocals that could only be sung by Phrixus and no one else. I have never heard a band that is so well together. Never A Hero are a perfect fit. THIS ALBUM IS A MUST BUY.
All details of this truly spectacular album can be found on Never A Hero’s website
http://www.neverahero.net/
Watch the official video for Burning Skies on YouTube here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usHvuhwim_Y
You can also see the exclusive video interview that Never A Hero did for Alteria Motives Ezine
here
Written by Phlis
PUSH Signs with Musik And Film Records and Releases Their Debut Single
Musik And Film Records is excited to announce the signing of PUSH to Music And Films stable of international recording artist. PUSH’s first release is “ALL TORE UP”, a classic start for a great modern band.
PUSH is lead by world renowned frontman, J. Jaye Steele, formerly of Head East, Sweet Savage and Steele, with Tommy
Yates, formerly of Bullet Boys on bass/vocals, Mark Chang, formerly of Tattooed Love Child on guitar/vocals and session
great Jeff Miles on drums/vocals.
Formed in late 2010, PUSH has already shared their music with hundreds of thousands of fans thanks to recent concert
appearances with Cheap Trick, Skid Row, Quiet Riot, Great White, Eddie Money, Gin Blossoms, Tonic, Foghat, Blue Oyster
Cult, Eve 6, Fabulous Thunderbirds, .38 Special, Meatloaf and many more all within two years.
PUSH and Musik And Film Records https://musikandfilm.com have two more singles ready for release in early January and
mid February, and are just coming out of sessions with new tracks recorded, so get used to these guys, they are here to
stay!
Nicole Taylor, with almost 2000 fans and nearly 7000 views is causing quite the stir on Reverbnation. Working with Musik Radio Promotions she has hit the 500 station mark including syndications! Nicole also utilizes our Media Specialites Promotions campaign to get her noticed and to gain fan following and increase record sales! Congratulations Nicole! The team at Musik and Film are delighted with your success and look forward to achieving so much more in the future! Follow Nicole Taylor at: Facebook or Twitter or Reverbnation!
(UPDATE: May 17, 2013: Although, Adrianna left Musik and Film Records to head to Nashville, Musik Radio Promotions successfully brought ‘Either You Do or You Don’t’ to airplay on 100,000 + stations across the world with major aiplay in Europe. Singles off the CD have shown up on various charts such as Roots and Cashbox, and consistently made the top 5.)
PONTE VEDRA, FL, September 16, 2012
Country Music PR News
Musik and Film Inc, is proud to announce the exclusive signing of Adrianna Freeman to Musik and Film Records and Musik Radio Promotions.
“Stephen I just want to thank you and Rhonda-I have worked for 11 years, playing second fiddle to everyone else. Being looked over and passed over for other artists. It feels so good to be with people who believe in me and my music. For so long I felt like it was just me, my family, a notebook , and some songs. I have been promised so many things by so many people in the music industry that I thought I would never be able to trust anyone else in this business again. BUT- I trust you and Ms. Rhonda! I am so thankful that God lead my family to you, I really can’t thank you guys enough for helping to renew my faith in this business once again. With God’s help- I am starting to really believe that we can go all the way!!!!” – Adrianna Freeman
Adrianna Freeman is a Country singer. Reared in the South on a plantation property passed down through her family’s three generations of farmers. Adrianna began sharing her song when she was just a little girl. All dolled up in her yellow dress, with matching ribbons in her hair and her best Sunday shoes she would sing on the back of her daddy’s flatbed truck at the local farmers markets where the family sold their latest crops. Her Grandfather and her father planted the love of Country music in her heart before she was born
As a teen, Adrianna worked overseas with the missionary organization Teen Mania. It was there that she realized the healing and joy her voice could bring to others. Inspired and determined she set out to make music in the big world of Nashville. The realities of the music industry are a harsh reckoning to even the most seasoned and accomplished professional.
With the tenacity and drive that only a true country heart can propel, Adrianna’s song would not be caged. After endless rejections, a first victory came through, winning the attention of Teddy Gentry of the super-group “ALABAMA”. In 2007, Teddy generously offered his talents as producer to Adrianna’s project. In May of 2009, Adrianna was hand-picked by Mr. Gentry to be one of twelve artists for his “Teddy Gentry’s Best New Nashville”, a project sponsored by Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores. However following this break, her career stalled.
Finally in the summer of 2012, Adrianna met with Stephen Wrench, President of Musik and Film. Stephen was blown away by Adrianna’s voice. He recalls, “It gave me chills. Adrianna brought to my attention that there has never been a black female country artist. I seriously questioned why? Country music is country music. it only matters that when a listener hears your music does it move them? Adrianna has moved me and I know she will move anyone who hears her.”
Her Debut album, Either You Do or You Don’t has been released through Musik and Film Records. The single, “Will Not Be Your Tennessee” was released to radio by Musik and Film’s radio promotion division, Musik Radio Promotions and is gaining traction fast! “Adrianna has received a great deal of attention from radio; especially in the UK, Europe and Australia.
Adrianna Freeman’s music speaks for itself. Her music makes it easy for Musik and Film to try and break her as the first female African American Country artist. With her soft Southern lilt, clear crystalline tone and sunny sweet delivery, Adrianna Freeman stands on the edge of the gilded cage, the door is open and she’s ready to fly!
Adrianna reflected that, “Ten and a half years ago my family and I embarked on a journey that has transcended across three generations. Before I was even thought of, my grandfather, Walter Freeman, dreamed about becoming a Country Music singer, and he passed his dream down to my father, Ed Freeman. My father passed the dream down to me, and I have been dreaming ever since.”
It’s time for Adrianna’s dream to come true!
Musik Radio Promotions is a major radio promotions company, 250,000 +stations with syndication+ – 95% FM radio in 180 countries , which is available to Indie artists and labels. Many artists have charted and being played all over the world by the BBC and many other affiliates
Tim Smith Biography
Tim Smith was born on May 29th, 1955 in Havre de Grace, Maryland. In 1968 the family moved to Sparta, North Carolina. Tim has been playing and learning fiddle tunes since age 7. From ages 9 to 13 he studied classical music and played in the school orchestras in the state of Maryland. All the while, he continued his study and passion for fiddling, playing music with family and friends. His Father played good rhythm guitar and would accompany him on the fiddle tunes during the early years. His Mom and Dad were always encouraging and supportive of all his musical explorations.
Tim has a rich musical heritage of fiddling. His Grandfather Kilby Reeves, of Sparta, NC, was an Appalachian style fiddler, reminiscent of the late fiddler Tommy Jarrell. Uncles Tom and Bert Reeves, both Bluegrass fiddlers, have also been a great source of encouragement and mentors. Kilby Reeves was an early Galax, VA fiddlers convention champion, sought after square dance fiddler and has been credited with teaching the legendary fiddler Art Wooten, who was also from Sparta, NC, to play the fiddle.
After relocating to Sparta, Tim was sought after to play shows, dances, churches and fiddle contests. He played locally with several fine musicians, to name a few, such as Fred Roupe, Bill Joines, The Country Five (a country band featuring Roger Evans and the Wyatt brothers—James, Joe and Jackie).
Shortly following his graduation from Alleghany High School in 1973, Tim won Lester Flatt’s fiddle contest in Pinnacle, NC. The first place prize was a guest appearance with Lester Flatt and The Nashville Grass on The Grand Ole Opry and that he did, in early 1974. That great honor led Tim to a professional career in the music business. Since then, Tim has been awarded various prestigious fiddle prizes including “The North Carolina State Championship” 1st place fiddle prize in 1976, 1st place fiddle prize at the world famous “Galax Fiddlers Convention” in 1977, and “The World Championship” fiddle prize at the internationally renowned “Union Grove Fiddlers Convention” in 1978, to name a few.
Tim has performed and recorded with many notable musicians through the years. From 1979 to 1982, he performed and recorded with the “Bluegrass Cardinals”. Tim performed, as a Bluegrass Boy, with “Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys”. He has performed with Lester Flatt and The Nashville Grass, Jim and Jesse and The Virginia Boys, The Country Gentlemen, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Roy Acuff, Del McCoury, Tony Rice, Country Gazette, David Holt and many others.
Currently, there are six, “Tim Smith” CD releases; “1978 World Champion Fiddler”, “Favorite Pastimes”, “Straight From The Heart”, “Plain and Simple”, “The Lonesome Blueridge” and the latest 2012 release, “Fiddler Tim Smith & Friends,” on the TRS Records label. Tim lives in Kernersville, NC with his wife, Anita. They have two children, Melissa and Andrew.
