I’ll just say it. Music Xray is hands down, far-and-away, no contest the best early stage song and talent discovery platform for music industry professionals. It’s not even close. If you are an industry professionals genuinely seeking to discover new, high-potential songs and talent and you aren’t using Music Xray to help you do it, [...]
That’s right. I don’t think you should spend any more than it absolutely takes to achieve your goals (land the sort of deals you’re pursing). The shorter we can make the path and the more we can reduce costs, the more invaluable Music Xray will be to our community of musicians. Ultimately, we care most [...]
I’m very excited that today we (Music Xray) have launched a new feature. The feature itself is just a small change to how Music Xray has always worked but it changes the game for musicians and songwriters everywhere because it provides you feedback as you execute your submission strategy. It’s like a GPS system to [...]
You can download the A&R Position Paper by clicking here. You can watch the video transcript of it by clicking the video below. I look forward to your comments and feedback at the bottom of the page.
Music Xray provides a series of tools to industry professionals to help them identify high potential songs and acts. Each tool works a bit differently and highlights different types of success potential. Today, we thought we’d tell you about one of them… Collective A&R Statistics You probably didn’t know that every time an industry professional [...]
What if you could be a fly on the wall in an A&R office? What if you could be a fly on the wall in hundreds of A&R offices and hear which songs repeatedly get passed over after a few bars or see which songs tend to grab the attention of music professionals? That’d be [...]
I had lunch with Jeff Blue a few weeks ago and we talked about how he helps independent artists launch their careers. He doesn’t do it for free. But it’s affordable and he delivers. His client roster were no-namers pre-Jeff and are household names today. Blue has launched the careers of artists from Linkin Park [...]
Music Xray has been getting a little buzz recently. Given that I’m the public face of the company and that I’m the one out there doing a lot of the evangelizing, I get personified with the company. That’s my job and it humanizes a business organization which by its definition is just a legal entity. [...]
There are three things musicians can do online to advance their careers. 1. Get deals 2. Get fans 3. Get better Music Xray is focussed on helping you get deals and providing you access to people who can help you get better. But getting fans? We think a lot about the challenge but Music Xray [...]
This week, the Music Xray community is going to hear me talking a lot about BandMix – and for good reason. The idea behind BandMix is pretty simple – like all good ideas. It’s classified ads for musicians – but on steroids. Need a new drummer? Put up an ad and all the drummers in [...]
