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Myth Of The Record Fairy – Record Labels And Indie Artists

July 24, 2012
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Musik and Film and its associated labels Cinderella, Out of the Box, and Musik and Film Records have been proactive in changing with the times in the world of music. We have the best distribution obtainable on the planet through Sony and Universal. We have developed our own radio software for digital delivery to thousands of radio stations all over the world. We have our own in house publicist with a proven 30-year track record. We can get your music heard. But it is now up to the Indie artist to bear those costs associated with publicity and promotion. Industry experts agree:

MediaShift’s Jason Feinberg writes, “The bank is broken, and until investing in an artist’s career is proven to be a profitable endeavor, it will be difficult for any artist to find a benefactor to fund the labor necessary to push an artist beyond their sphere of friends and into a larger network.”

Steve Guttenberg of CNET says, “The big labels are signing fewer and fewer new bands, and I’m predicting that by 2012 they’ll exist just to license their back catalogs. There will just be a smattering of small to midsize Indie labels; established artists will roll their own and self-promote their music.”

All About Jazz’s B.J. Jansen poetically states, “We all realize that the traditional record label model is as obsolete as a typewriter.”

Whether we like it or not, the days of a record label offering to pay for an Indie artist’s development and promotion are over, but please don’t take our word for it, we have done our research – we encourage you – the artist- to do yours as well.

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Musik and Film Announces Launch of Musik Radio Promotions with its Own Radio Delivery Web Platform

July 23, 2012
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Musik Radio Promotions now offers it own proprietary radio delivery web platform, delivering high quality, radio-ready files directly to DJs & PD and giving the artist full airplay reporting instantly.

So you’ve recorded a hit song. Now what? Give five copies to all your friends?

Radio promotion used to be complex. Radio promoters had certain genres and geographical regions they worked within. These promoters over the years developed relationships with the DJ’s and Program Directors. They neatly packaged the artist’s music and mailed copies to the radio stations. Generally the promoters had approximately 200 stations in any genre with which they dealt.

Promotion was costly. If artists wanted world exposure they had to hire numerous promoters who each dealt with a specific region. The cost of reaching the radio stations within the world was staggering.

The digital age has changed all that. It has also changed the delivery method of delivering the artist’s music to radio stations. Most radio stations now accept digital delivery of Digital Press Kits (DPK’s) . DPK’s include the artist’s promo picture along with a bio, links, and tracks.

There are several digital delivery radio promotional services out there. One major digital deliverer of music sends out groups of twenty artists to send one digital blast to radio. Others are “pay to play.”

Musik and Film promotions decided there has to be a better way. We looked at all the available delivery services in the world. Every one of them utilized their own radio lists for mass delivery. We were determined to discover how to utilize today’s technology and deliver the same personalization of music and artist delivery to world radio as in days past.

Musik and Film’s Web Designer, Seth Fuller, started working on Musik and Film’s own software delivery system. Our team at Musik and Film, including Stephen Wrench, President, and Terry Nails, A&R, started assembling their old radio contacts from their days on tour. We also started making radio calls and developing new contacts around the globe in every genre of music.

We are very proud of our new personalized radio delivery. Musik Radio Promotions now has a radio database of 12,500 radio stations and growing.

The best part – the artist is in control. The artist picks their own market and knows what they are getting. We furnish the station list and the artist can target by station genres, regions, or the entire world. We are using new technology but utilizing the personalization with same day statistics reporting, graphics, single-song personalized promotions, and there are no multiple-artist “E-blasts.”

You want what we all want: a hit song and downloads for sales. The only way to get that is through FM, AM, and internet radio plays. The only way to get that in any volume is via massive promotion. That used to be very expensive and simply unavailable to most people. No more.

So you’ve recorded a hit song – Now what? That answer just became a whole lot clearer with the personalized radio promotion plans available at Musik Radio Promotions.

We accept only the best talent, so to audition for your own personalized radio promotions plan, please visit : https://musikandfilm.com/get-promoted

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Musik and Film Supports Muzart World Foundation With World Wide Distribution and Promotions of Platinum Library of Music

July 14, 2012
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Los Angeles, CA — (SBWIRE) — 07/02/2012 — Muzart and its founder, Pat Melfi, have signed a deal with Musik and Film and President, Stephen Wrench, to exclusively represent the Platinum Library of music in a series of compilations. The Alliance Between Muzart And Musik And Film Will Enable The Platinum Library Of Legendary Music To Be Heard World Wide In Support Of Music Education As It Will Fund Music And Art Legacy In Public School Programs.

Pat Melfi is known in the music industry as a five-time promoter of the year and the former VP to MCA Records. Forming a partnership with Ken Kragen, Ted Fujimoto, Brandon Frank, and Ellis Paillet, allowed for the development of Muzart World Foundation, a public charity, that will fund Music and Art Programs. The foundation purchased a large catalog of music called the Platinum Library.

This catalog includes over 900 Top Ten Billboard charting hit songs that represent a chronology of what has made American music what it is today – legends in all genres of music such as: Bill Haley, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Alice Cooper, John Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Atalnta Rhythm Section, Count Basie, Beau Brummels, Tony Bennett, George Bonds, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Glen Campbell, Carter Family, Nat King King Cole, Bing Crosby, Merle Haggard. These are just a few of the hundreds of artists within the 5,405 tracks. Rhonda Wrench, VP, Musik and Film, says, “there will eventually be thousands of compilations.”

Rhonda and Stephen Wrench are both former educators who understand that students who have arts-rich experiences in school do better across the board than those who do not. Rhonda says, “we have a passion to make a difference in some way and see this as a great opportunity to do so.”

Muzart World Foundation has many plans that will enhance learning in schools and prepare students to be successful, fulfilled and productive citizens. Their plans include embedding world class music and creative arts curricula in many schools in need of these programs without the extra tax burden or federal funding. This will create the opportunity for children to experience the magical moments of creativity and expression while enhancing the level of higher learning in other subjects such as math and science.

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something in support of a child and the future of music and art education. Together we are empowered to make the difference – especially when it comes to our children and their future. There are no excuses – its our responsibility.

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Musik And Film Signs Hangin With Stogie

July 14, 2012
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When Christina Reese started ‘Hangin with Stogie,’ at her very young age of ten years old she probably had no idea she would set the stage for what would become a music sensation. Adding other young talent to her quick rising sound with talented teens Megan Green and Kylie Westerbeck.

Their rising popularity would carry them doing interviews, magazines, tours, and concerts creating a name that not only would highlight their amazing, pure, and high energy sound but also create a new very refreshing mix of country and pop with a twist of rock designing their new generational sound that would become in high demand.

Though this amazing trio have been compared to Taylor Swift, Dixie Chicks, Band Perry, Lady Antebellum Spain, and The Wreckers, you can be certain their sound is original yet contagious. Their down to earth personalities are innocent yet talented and well beyond their years as grounded, focused, outgoing southern young ladies who are out to bring quality music to audiences everywhere – a refreshing change to other genres of over popularized music.

These young ladies carry with them a great vocal sound with very impressive instrumental talent for youth of their age creating the flavor that appeals to all age groups. A sound that leaves audiences everywhere tapping their feet, clapping their hands, not to mention singing along.

Already experiencing the rush of opening major shows for notable artist such as Pat Benatar, an accomplishment well worth the recognition of these southern belles. These new-to-the-stage entertainers are not just vocalists; they master their instruments adding to the excitement of seeing a live performance.

Their stage presence is fresh, new, and professional placing them on top with those names already recognizable in the industry.

In celebration of the International CD Release event party scheduled July 12, at the ‘Old Silk Mill.’ The show will start at 7PM and run till 8PM. Doors will open at 6:30 and will be ‘FREE The CD’ entitled “Summer All Year Long” with their single ‘It Ain’t Me Babe.’

Attending the concert CD release in support of this amazing celebration will be Stephen Wrench, President, and Rhonda Wrench, Vice President, of Musik and Film. Hangin with Stogie, signed to exclusive worldwide record deal with Musik and Film and promotions with Musik Radio Promotions. An extensive radio campaign will proceed following the release of “Summer All Year Long.”

Stephen, known for his contributions to the music industry, working for labels such as RCA and artists such as Loverboy, Survivor, Missing Persons, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and other great names in music. Stephen comments, “These girls may be young but don’t underestimate them. They are extremely talented musicians, songwriters, and vocalists and can hold their own with any artist in the world today.”

For more, visit www.hanginwithstogie.com

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Musik and Film’s The Skys Reviewed By Classic Rock Society Magazine

May 4, 2012
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A quick glance at the credits for this Lithuanian band’s fourth album, and you immediately sit up and take notice. Recorded partly at Liscornbe Park studios here in the UK it was produced by John Young who also provides backing vocals and additional keyboards and engineered by Steve Rispin. In addition, the guest list includes Dave Kilminster and Anne Marie Helder, and the drummer for the whole session is Martin Beedle of Cutting Crew. Recorded in the late spring of 2010 it has taken a while to surface, but it was well worth the wait. There is strong Pink Floyd/Roger Waters vibe right through the album, and Kilrninster’s work on the up-beat title track is right at home. The Waters-like vocals with strong female backing make “Is This The Way” and “When The Western Wind Blows” sound as though they could have come from one of the great man’s solo albums. While the comparison is unavoidable there is enough of The Skys themselves in this record to make it original. If you are a fan of the swirling keyboards and big emotional sounding guitar solos you will not go wrong with this. The only question left unanswered is why has it taken 15years and four albums for me to hear of The Skys.

 

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Musik and Film’s George Cahill Reviewed By Skope Magazine

May 4, 2012
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George Cahill has been rocking the Philly scene for awhile and is now celebrating his latest release, “Relevant”. It is 9 tracks of brutal honesty accompanied by some tight instrumentation to drive his point home.

Cahill does a nice rendition of Bob Seger’s, “Still the Same”. He has a unique portrayal of the song and makes it his own with a conversational style to his singing; it is kind of like hanging in a coffee shop as he tells you about his day. Then serenades us all with, “This Land is Your Land”, with the sweetest harmonies and most lonesome harmonica I have ever heard.

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David Cooler’s New Single “Country To The Bone”

April 12, 2012
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Have you ever skinny dipped in a cow trough? One can’t stop grinning through David Cooler’s “Country To The Bone”! Enjoy!

David Cooler writes, “My music spans several genres and my ‘stories’ churn out a soulful southern rock music mix which has a country, R&B and bluesy style. My music is a form of self-expression and communication, not style. It flows from within.”

“I would have to say that my family has been my biggest influence or inspiration, particularly my mother. For anyone that really knows me, it would not surprise them much. This is because I am not unlike many other country boys who are themselves because of where they came from — I am a self proclaimed ‘mama’s boy’. Yep that’s right, I admitted it and with no reservation!”

To find out more about David Cooler’s music please visit http://www.davidcoolermusic.com/

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