With a recent article in the La Times, Star Wars has gone political. George Lucas has attended a Capital Hill meeting for Democrats. "Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas joined House Democratic leaders at a town hall meeting on Capitol Hill to roll out an "innovation agenda" that aims to ...

An Introduction for Musicians For many of today's musicians, working as a private music tutor has many benefits over working within an educational establishment. Firstly, you are a lot freer to choose where, when, and depending on how well you teach, WHO your students are. This will als ...

In this article I'll explain how to make your guitar squeal with Pinch Harmonics. A lot of guitarists have trouble learning how to do these, but it's really a simple technique. I'm going to touch on all types of harmonics in an effort to explain how Pinch Harmonics work when your playin ...

Studio policies will make music studios run well. For example, the policy state that if students didnt pay tuition fee at first lesson of the month, they must pay late fee. Then students will generally pay on time. Another policy, if students miss lesson without any notification, lesson ...

The Shawshank Redemption is consistently voted as one of the best movies of all time. Originally a story in a Stephen King book, the Different Seasons, known as Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, the story was adapted and the movie created.The movie was directed and the screenpl ...

As a former William Morris agent, booking some of the biggest stars in country music, and as a session singer singing many commercials like Fox TV, UPN ID spots, OCharleys and many others, I am well acquainted with the jingle market, the ups and downs, and the difficulty of entering the ...

More, more, more for less, less, less is what the networks are saying about reality television because the popularity has staying power that is here forever. There will always be a new reality show coming out, with new ideas coming from every aspect of life and there are even television ...

Id imagine its pretty likely that you have heard plenty about the Apple iPod in the media. If youve got kids then they probably wanted one for Christmas and if you work in marketing or the music business then you have probably already had an iPod for years. Since its release in 2001 the ...

If you follow trends, you can tell that the Voice Over Casting business is turning to online sources. At the very least, it is becoming the most economical way for new talent to break into the market and get heard. Many of these talents venture into the market with home made everything; ...

Im on a mission. To convert. To convert guitar players and aspiring guitar players to open-D. Its the tuning so important to guitar in the last number of decades, but too often, overlooked by the mainstream. Standard tuning has a stranglehold on the business of learning guitar. The rea ...

My 15-year-old nephew asked me, How and where to practice and develop one of the working skills during school time My first thought, at that moment, was College radio station. At 16, I joined my college radio station and began my job as an editor for an online music program. From that ...

I get asked a lot about press kits. People want to know how to present them, what's in them, etc. I have been asked over and over again to write articles on the subject, so here you are: a brief crash course on press kits. Your press kit is your calling card. It will introduce you and y ...

Il Divo is not a band, its an addiction! Il Divo is a new dawn of innovative music. Il Divo didnt travel a long way, just in few years it soared high and emerged as a top ranked band in several countries. Il Divo originally started gathering in 2001 with the idea to remake popular new an ...

Competition is heating up among the satellite television service providers and the cable companies, with Dish Network exceeding 12 million subscribers and growing. This is exciting news as digital satellite programming holds the advantage with 100 percent digitalized high definition sign ...

Alfonzo Blackwell is an incredible force in the internet radio industry. He has begun this year in classic style that is surely a stunning and rare commodity. Mr. Blackwell has forged ahead of the pack in the internet radio-smooth jazz/chill and classic soul and R&B formats to deliver st ...

Any songwriter knows that a song will not make it without having well-written music and perfectly crafted lyrics. But the interaction between music and lyrics in a song poses two questions. The first is which is more important and the second is which should be written first. Nevertheless ...

For over three decades, Aerosmith have been one of rock's most revered and popular bands, crafting classic songs full of raw guitar runs and intensely energetic vocals. The band first reached fame in the 1970s with a string of hits including "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion" and "Walk This Way ...

Netflix is the best place to get all of the hottest new releases all year round. Who doesn't love snuggling up on the couch with a bowl of buttery popcorn and a great movie I know I do and with a Netflix membership I can do that any day of the week. Right now there are all kinds of hot n ...

Up until a few years ago, making music meant a massive investment in time and money. Those days are fortunately gone now, you can use your computer to record and edit your vocals or instruments, and burn a CD of your work afterwards, ready to be played on your CD player. In order to mak ...

Love it or hate it every February the Oscar fever hits the media and you can rarely turn on the television or open the newspaper without hearing a mention of an actor, director or movie which is up for nomination. Australia of course has its own award ceremony in the form of the Austra ...