Mike McCready

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.

I’m not saying he was being fed answers from off-camera aids but in this morning’s first segment of Meet The Press, Boehner was wearing an ear piece identical to those typically worn by news anchors who use them to take cues and information from the control room regarding breaking news and corrections to any mistakes they might make.

So, once everyone was on board a flight attendant comes on the loudspeaker and announces that sine the flight is empty we should all feel free to sit wherever we want….. (wait for it)….. EXCEPT IN THE ROWS DESIGNATED AS EXTRA LEG ROOM UNLESS WE AGREE TO BE CHARGED $45.

Failure is a necessary step on the path to success. As I once heard it put, good judgement comes from making mistakes. Making mistakes is the result of bad judgement. That’s has also been my experience.

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.

Today, Music Xray has launched a focus group feature that enables anyone to conduct a focus group for their song(s). It provides a way for musicians and industry professionals to know immediately how the market will react to a song, which market demographic is most receptive to the song and if the song has serious hit potential.

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?

As per my last post on this blog, I’ve been playing around with About.me for the past few days, curating my profile and checking out others’ profiles. I think About.me is really interesting. It’s fun to just flick through the featured profiles, and to just stumble upon random ones. It’s like people-watching in an airport [...]

About me is a great tool for creating a splash page about yourself.

In Ord, the locals have a special place in their hearts for the Cetak (pronounced Che-tock) family, who have always run the best local meat-cutting business. In fact, any time a family member of mine goes back to visit, it is expected they will bring back a few packages of cold cuts, steaks and hot dogs from A.J. Cetak’s Meat Market. But this holiday season I become aware that the Cetak’s have gone national with a website and national delivery network that can put this incredible product on your table no matter where you live. If you like your taste buds you have got to place an order. You won’t be disappointed.