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Love, Inspiration, and partnering up with Musik Radio Promotions seems to be the formula to success with our latest musical duo ~ Premium Comfort Shoes

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January 15, 2014

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Band-mates Amos Clarke and his lovely spouse Nikki Hartnett-Clarke are no newcomers to the scene. Both halves of this New Zealand-based duo have toured internationally as members of several successful groups and winning consistent acclaim for their catchy song writing and inventive playing. Now, they’re bringing their talents to bear as the first ever “Indie Power Duo” to create a sound that’s fresh, new and brimming with commercial appeal.

Until you hear the opening bars of their first Premium Comfort Shoes single “All My Love,” you might find it difficult to believe that songs consisting entirely of drums, bass and vocals could generate so much sheer energy and ear-catching fun. Well, get ready to be seduced.

The duo’s new single “All My Love” has been released worldwide and is being promoted by Musik and Film.

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Musik and Film Records Announce Management Division

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January 3, 2014

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Stephen Wrench, President, Musik and Film Records, announces the opening of a management division. Wrench, who has been involved in the music industry in most every capacity and once an executive with RCA records, understands the needs of the indie artist in the industry climate of today.

The Musik and Film Management Division is a platform for serious independent artists to make their mark throughout the world. With 40+ years in the industry, the Musik and Film team has the track record and the contacts to help you record and produce your music, get you worldwide airplay and promotion and tour the world.

A few of the artists the Musik and Film team has worked with include:

Ozzy Osbourne, Missing Persons, Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynryd, (Marilyn Manson)John 5 , Travis Tritt , Ian Ashbury and the Cult , Tommy Tutone , Axl Rose , Slash, Nikki Sixx (motley crue)

Musik and Film acts as a multi-faceted partner to its artists, identifying their creative and conceptual goals and cultivating the artist’s vision and raw talent to make them a viable musical entity.

FULL SERVICE ARTIST MANAGEMENT AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE:

BOOKING AND TOURS
PUBLICITY
RADIO PROMOTION
RADIO TRACKING
CONSULTATION
FULL ACCESS TO OUR RECORDING STUDIOS AND PRODUCERS
A RECORD LABEL WITH WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION
MANAGEMENT OF ALL WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA

TO APPLY: Send the links to current music along with a description of goals.

Contact email: promotions@musikandfilm.com

If accepted, the artist will receive an evaluation and a personalized plan of the steps involved to achieve your goals.

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Great Love a New Song With an Old Message of The Meaning of Christmas

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December 14, 2013

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Great Love is a fresh new song with a message of the meaning of Christmas. Delgado has parterned with Musik and Film Records to deliver that message.

Milton Lopez Delgado, writer and performer of the song, believes it’s important to send a message that Christmas is about celebrating the birth of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It’s a message the singer/songwriter delivers in English and Spanish. And apparently, it’s a message that has resonated around the world as Great Love immediately began receiving airplay with a worldwide campaign by Musik Radio Promotions. It is playing on thousands of stations including some major BBC stations.

Milton was born in East Bronx, New York in one of those ol’ tenement apartments that had fire escapes; there were no elevators, and two bathrooms at the end of each of the five floors which the families had to share. There were telephone party lines; you would have to wait until your neighbor completed talking before you could make or receive a call. The advent of television was just about ready to make its mark. They were a family of 8 and after living in the tenement for a few years, his family moved to a house in the Pelham Bay Park area of the Bronx.

Milton grew up singing and by his twenties was signed to Carton Records as “The Paramounts”. The group recorded, “Trying” B side “Girlfriend” followed by, “I Know You’ll Be My Love” B Side, “Christopher Columbus”, which are now collector items.

Milton still sings with the group to this day, however, he says, ” my heart and soul is in my inspirational songs. Getting the message of Jesus Christ proclaimed using the talent I was blessed with is my main objective.”

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‘Catch A Snowflake’ at 16 on the A/C Charts and 18 on the Rock charts

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November 24, 2013

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Matt Newton recently recorded a new Winter/Holiday song. Catch A Snowflake written and produced by Nashville hit songwriter, Thornton Cline, was released for worldwide promotion recently by Musik and Film’s Radio Promotions and climbed the charts rapidly.

“Wanted to let you know because of your efforts, “Catch a Snowflake” is at no. 16 on the DRT National Adult Contemporary Charts and at no. 18 on the Rock charts. A big thanks to you!”… Thornton Cline

Stephen Wrench, President Musik and Film Records, noted that the song is so well written, meticulously produced and along with an outstanding vocal performance by Matt, the new holiday song was bound to be a hit.

Matt Newton grew up in Washington, Indiana on thirty acres of farmland. At the age of seven his mother noticed that he had good pitch and started teaching him to sing harmony with her at the piano.

Newton has since performed all over the U.S. in various performance venues. Matt had the opportunity in 1996 to perform in Okinawa, Japan at a five star hotel. After living in Okinawa for three months, Matt decided to move to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a recording contract. He was hired at Opryland USA that fall and started performing in various shows at the nationally known theme park, including Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Classics. In 1998, Matt won the coveted role of portraying Phil Everly in Bye Bye Love, The Everly Brothers musical at the famed Ryman Auditorium. This gave him the opportunity to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, open for the Everly Brothers and for Tim McGraw. This soon got the attention of record labels and in 1999, Matt was signed as part of a duo, but the recording contract was short lived.

After a series of setbacks following the recording contract dissolve, Matt had hit a wall with his career.

For the last thirteen years Matt has continued two personas. One as a performer and the other as a woodworker. He performs on the General Jackson Showboat five nights a week and continues to be a session singer in Nashville. His woodworking business Turning Point, has allowed him to work with some incredible clients over the years.In June of this year Matt Newton signed a recording artist contract with award winning ASCAP Nashville company, Clinetel Music known for recordings by Engelbert Humperdinck, Gloria Gaynor, Tammy Trent, Mark Chestnut, Tim Murphy, The Manhattans, Ray Peterson and Billy and Sarah Gaines.

Matt Newton has embarked on a new era with his music and now charting with Catch A Snowflake.

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Australia’s Rock Band Mass Sky Raid

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November 15, 2013

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Musik Radio Promotions just released 2 singles for Mass Sky Raid and they are now on stations all over the world including 3 BBC networks each estimated at 20 million listeners at any one time. “They are an awesome band”!

“We’re really excited to hear the latest reports and we can’t thank you and your team enough for giving us this opportunity”.. Reece, Mass Sky Raid

Modern alt/prog rock band Mass Sky Raid formed on the Gold Coast, Australia in 2011 and quickly made a name for themselves with support slots for Electric Horse, Twelve Foot Ninja and Dead Letter Circus. They soon set their sights set on heading to the studio; the resulting “Courage Under Fire” EP released earlier this year being an impressive debut to say the least, garnering rave reviews from everyone who hears it, including a 4.5 star out of 5 rating from Australia’s heavy duty rock bible Blunt Magazine.

The tracks were recorded at Loose Stones Studios with producer Matt Bartlem and engineer Tyse Lee; with ARIA award-winning producer Forrester Savell (Sing Sing, Melb) and producer J.R. McNeely (Nashville TN, US) taking on mixing duties. The 5 tracks were mastered by Grammy Award winner Tom Coyne (Pink, Adele, Cage The Elephant) at Sterling Sound in New York.

Live, Mass Sky Raid pour their heart and soul into their performances; creating an on-stage experience that sonically translates the emotional impacts and intricacies in their studio recordings. Their songs are exciting and have an easily-accessible sound with universal and relative concepts and hooks; and with the band already preparing to head back into the studio to record their follow-up release, you can expect to hear a lot more from and about Mass Sky Raid…

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David Park’s “Swedish Country” style hits the airwaves with Musik Radio Promotions

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November 13, 2013

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Deep from the Swedish midlands Valleys a new genre of music developed. It´s a unique crossover between Hard Rock and Country. It resembles a meeting of bands like Foo Fighters, Entombed and Lynyrd Skynyrd jamming with artists like Bill Monroe and Flatts n’ Scruggs.

This new genre is called Swedish Country and the pioneer is life long musician David Park.

Parks, signed with Billberg Entertainment, has parterned with Musik Radio Promotions to release his music to worldwide radio airplay.

David originally grown up on a farm in the small village called Djura, outside the hockey town Leksand. The influence of working on the fields, driving tractors from early age and helping out handling the cattle has inspired to come up with titles like David Brown and Hardcore Trucking. The farming chores were alternated with long sessions of Heavy Metal drumming, playing along to Iron Maidens Nick McBrain and Slayers Dave Lombardo.

In his teens, David and his family moved to Japan for a three year stint at the Swedish School on the Japanese country side, where his parents worked as teachers. This quite unusual life experience had a profound effect on developing this special sound and style.
The Japanese town planning forced him to develop his guitar skills, since it´s impossible for a Heavy Metal drummer to practice his double bass drums without seriously challenging his neighbors.

The music on this album has evolved over a long time but kick started when David wanted to develop the Billy Gibbons play style, using finger picks while playing groovy riffs.
At a Magical Meeting with a Deeringer Banjo in a music store the unique crossover sound was about to take shape.

David has been a musician all his life, playing various instruments with different bands such as Drums with Borlänge glam rockers Space Age Baby Jane, guitar with the Racing rock band Jug McKenzie and even his Industry Electro Pop sister Karin Park. However its in this project he is showing his true self fronting the band handling the Banjo and Lead Vocals.

This is a Great band an a mindblowing live act where David is backed up by no others then Dan McKenzie (ex-Mustash), super guitarists Conrad Boqvist and Magnus Josefsson, and by Martin Willhelmsson on upright bass.

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NZ’s pop artist, Renee Therese releases ‘Please Go Home’

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November 5, 2013

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Renee Therese, an adult contemporary pop artist from Palmerston North, New Zealand, recently finished recording a new EP. The release, “Please Go Home” was with the help of the Musik and Film production team team. Musik Radio Promotions has since released to a worldwide radio campaign to 150,000+ stations in 104 countries with the single immediately being picked up by the BBC and many others.

Therese is also making headway on the local front, with Stu Frith of SeaBreezeFM exclaiming, ” Fantastic Local artist looking good that’s for sure… “

Therese is an experienced performer who has been singing in front of an audience for the past 20 years, getting her start at a local Country Music Club at the age of twelve. Since then, Renee has had many great singing opportunities including four television performances on popular New Zealand shows. Her career highlight was singing her original music LIVE on The Good Morning Show (NZ) in 2012. That was until recently, when she began working with Musik and Film Records.

Musik and Film Records believe, ‘Please Go Home’ is the first of many more great songs by Renee Therese.

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Is The Dream of a Major Label Deal Just a Dream?

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October 23, 2013

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Once upon a time an artist could dream they would be the lucky one–that a major record deal would appear under their pillow. They would wake up and go into a studio and record an album with a top-notch producer. Once the album was complete the major label would hire publicists, radio promoters and put them on tour with another major artist. Soon thereafter they would be a star. Nice dream. Unfortunately, that was once upon a time.

Today is a new day. Major labels still exist but on a different level. The days of discovering talent are over. EMI and all its subsidiaries went bankrupt and their catalog was sold for exploitation. There are no more development deals of which we know.. There are no more major record deals for the unknown artists. There are no more free development or PR or radio promotion. There is no one left to pick up the tab but the artist themselves.

Artists around the world can thank the digital age for this shift. Free downloads, free streaming — No more record stores, only a handful here and there. So how can a major label recoup their investment into developing a new artist? They can’t , that’s why those days are over.

Artists need to realize if they are going to make it — it is going to be up to them to hire the studios, the producers, the publicist and the radio promoter. They are going to have to be very savvy and educated on what’s happening in the industry today. They are going to have to work their social media, publicity and radio promotions.

I quote “. Commercial radio airplay remains the number one outlet for discovery” Here are the 12 strategies for success as an indie artist. .http://indieconnect.com/12-strategies-long-term-success-indie-artist/

Again I quote “Treat your career like a business – because it IS! “

As an artist you are the only one who can help you get to where you want to go in your career. So grab hold, educate yourself to the business today. Formulate a solid business plan. Associate yourself wisely and most of all create great music because its what you do best.

For a free consultation to formulate YOUR business plan email us at promotions@musikandfilm.com

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_music http://futureofmusic.org/blog/2013/02/15/can-indie-artist-break-through-glass-ceiling

Stephen Wrench, President, Musik and Film Records

Wrench has been in the music business for over 40 years as singer/songwriter, producer and record label executive for RCA in Nashville. He nows runs a successful indie label and radio promotions company under the Musik and Film label. For more information on Stephen Wrench, go to www.musikandfilm.com/producers

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Chris Weaver, Billboard’s “Artist to watch”, partners with Musik Radio Promotions

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October 17, 2013

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Country artist, Chris Weaver, was recently reviewed by Billboard as “one of ten artists to watch in Nashville”.

Following on this trend, Weaver recently partnered with Musik Radio Promotions for an international radio campaign. ‘Standing in Line’ and ‘Raise the Dead’ are being promoted worldwide. Weaver’s music was quickly picked up by the BBC network, the largest network of radio stations in the world, and many other major radio networks.

Weaver is going beyond expectations as written in a recent review for Music News Nashville, Chuck Dauphin wrote, “Chris Weaver is a star in the making… an out-and-out singer – with a Capital S.

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Indie On The Move – Resource for Indie Artist MAF is proud to support

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September 15, 2013

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New homepage feature – CRUZ: www.indieonthemove.com

“I just wanted to inform all of how great Indie On The Move is. Whether it be booking a tour or discovering local artists, its such a great and resourceful tool. Booking agents, labels, bands, DIY artists, venues and promoters have all the info they need using this website [IOTM].”

Musik Radio Promotions can help you pinpoint an area to book through IOTM. Contact us for details.

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