Mike McCready

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 [...]

There are those who disagree, but I think Spotify has a real shot at winning the music game in both the US and Europe – if not beyond. It makes almost all the music in the world available to you on-demand, 24×7. That’s just going to beat any cloud service that requires you to pay [...]

If you haven’t been following the evolution of the traditional music business, there’s a lot to catch up on but let me give you the quick overview:

Layers is seeking an experienced executive to serve as our company’s Chief Product Officer.
The job’s responsibilities’ will include interfacing with PR companies, marketing staff, US company investors and US clients, defining the marketing and monetization strategy for the US market, and leading its execution.

If you have an account of any type on Music Xray, you have an affiliate code. Log in, go to your account settings and you will see your affiliate code on the right side of the page. As per the image below, mine is: 55f8e620e868012c5dc81231390a1e12 Music Xray will award $300 (plus your earnings) to the [...]

Musicians can no longer expect to create a great product and to then be discovered by happenstance. They cannot expect industry professionals to give their time away for free to listen to and evaluate their music when there are 13 million unsigned artists out there requesting their time and attention.

While there is no one formulaic way to success, we’re starting to see an increasing number of success stories emerge on Music Xray and I’d like to share the stories of two artist and how they each got it done differently.

It’s an attention economy and Music Xray is willing to pay you a few cents for yours if you’ll kindly click the mouse a couple times to provide your opinion of a song or an artist.

Many emerging artists are too young to remember the days when labels, publishers and the like would not even accept unsolicited material. In my day, you’d send your demo tape or CD to a label and most likely you’d never know if it even arrived, let alone get any acknowledgement that your music had been listened to.

Getting guaranteed feedback from top A&R executives, program directors, music supervisors and more is a watershed for musicians and song owners and I am proud that Music Xray is again the first to make something like this a reality.

You pay $200 and Kyra Larock will organize a 30 minute face to face meeting for you with an A&R representative of your choice from any of the following labels: Jive (Sony), Capitol (EMI) or Universal or Bad Boy. I mean, seriously, if you’re serious about your career and you think you have what it takes, why wouldn’t you leap at this opportunity?