Mike McCready

Recently Music Xray added Peer to Peer tracking for artists within the Worldwide Mentions module. Open a Music Xray and toggle through the graphs using the dots above the graph headers. Yesterday we launched a new feature in the Share module which will help artists make their Music Xrays more viral and easier to promote. Sometimes [...]

Long time music industry vet David Sherbow is on Music Xray and providing coaching, development and critiquing services to artists for a little as $10. More and more music industry professionals are signing up to get music dropboxes.

In a follow up to my previous post of just a couple hours ago, I need to call attention to Charles Foskett, the British record producer who has produced both Sir Paul McCartney as well as Ringo Starr among so many others. He’s reviewing and critiquing songs by ANYONE who wants to submit them to [...]

If you’ve been in the music industry for long you probably get asked all the time to listen to new music, provide career advice, critique songs, make introductions and promote artists within the industry to your network of colleagues and contacts; a network that has taken you years of hard work to build. As you know, [...]

“Her tears are like diamonds on the floor and her diamonds bring me down” – Rob Thomas (Her Diamonds) Tomorrow (Wednesday April 22nd) is the official release date of three time Grammy-award winning artist Rob Thomas’ new single called Her Diamonds. It’s the first single from his upcoming album entitled Cradlesong which hits retail stores [...]

Click here to read Part I “It’s not show friends. It’s show business. ” – Bob Sugar (Jay Moore): Jerry McGuire (1996) What will happen to the major labels? The labels were only ever going to survive as long as they remained the powerful gatekeepers between the artists and a mass audience. To the artists, they are like [...]

“In the race to adopt new technologies, the music industry historically has finished just ahead of the Amish.” – Stan Cornyn, former Warner Music Group executive What is happening to the music industry? In short, the traditional music industry has been beaten, battered and completely transformed by a perfect storm of new technologies. It actually started with [...]

I am really digging this song today. Just heard it and am hooked. Check out this guy’s whole portfolio. Musicxray.id=1180; Musicxray.height = 5000; Musicxray.bgcolor = “none”; Musicxray.showmenu = “true”;

Godhead has just released the video to their single entitled “Hero”. Check it out below. Powerful song. Musicxray.id=681; Musicxray.height = 5000; Musicxray.bgcolor = “none”;

I think the chorus of this song is particularly powerful. Great harmonies and some dissonance really drives it. Leave your comments in the comments module of the Xray (bottom module). Musicxray.id=270; Musicxray.height = 5000; Musicxray.bgcolor = “none”;