You may have seen the name Xylos swirling around in the blogosphere of Brooklyn indie music these last few years. The five-piece synth-pop band has been playing the circuit since 2008, cultivating their own brand of dancey-electro indie rock that’s much easier-on-the-ears than a lot of the noisier synth bands Read more...
In the media world, production music is a vital component of sound-for-picture. These sonic libraries – which can range from specialized boutiques to all-encompassing collections numbering in the thousands – provide music supervisors, music editors, producers, and other media pros with a ready-to-go availability that composers and licensed artist tracks Read more...
LOWER MANHATTAN: Engine Room Recordings’ A Tribute to Pinkerton has officially been released – and some of the featured artists from the album will be performing together tonight (9/19) at Bowery Electric in NYC.
Canon Logic, Aunt Martha, Heypenny, and backwords will each play a regular set plus the Read more...
So you’re working your ass off on your band, your songs, your productions, your blog, your app (fill in the blank with that amazing thing you do). You know you’re not fooling yourself. You’ve really got skills. Yet, it still feels like you’re just not connecting with the world. Why? Read more...
CHELSEA: As with all creative professionals, the modern-day songwriter has to be a multi-hyphenate skill machine. You don’t have to have all the skills mastered, exactly – songwriting, production, arranging, engineering and business – but it sure doesn’t hurt.
“When you’re submitting on the level of a major, they want Read more...
