I just went through some weird stuff with my performing rights organization that I thought I’d share just in case you’re a musician in a similar boat wanting to give your music away for non-commercial uses but expecting commercial users to pay the fees one would expect them to pay any other songwriter.
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I've got a new track in Masters of Song Fu #4 Round 1 @ Quick Stop Entertainment - Vote early, Vote Often! (Just Kidding)
Well, it’s that time again; time to vote for another set of challengers in Quick Stop Entertainment’s Masters of Song Fu songwriting challenge. Here’s my track:
I Will Always Look up to You – Download
Vote for your favourite tracks in Masters of Song Fu #4 Round 1
(Voting closes 11:59pm EST on Sunday, May 31st, 2009.)
| Tags » | afghanistan, always, beat, big, challenge, coffee, entertainment, fu, inanimate, lebowski, look, masters, object, quick, rug-rat, song, songwriter, songwriting, stick, stop, table, wall-to-wall, will, you |
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Life’s been crazy busy, so without further ado, here’s last week’s video demo a few days after the fact. I finished it & posted it on time, I just didn’t have a chance to blog it.
This one’s highly influenced by my son’s recent obsession with superheroes. He discovered Batman a few months ago and it was a life altering experience to say the least. So, in the interests of being able to communicate with my own flesh & blood I’ve taken it upon myself to learn far way more comic book trivia than one would ever need to know.
Needless to say, there was a song in there.
| Tags » | batman, comic, comics, daily, diana, fantastic, four, geeks, green, guitar, hollywood, in, invisible, john, jon, justice, lantern, lasso, love, music, musician, plane, pricess, ring, rogue, show, singer, songwriter, songwriting, stewart, superhero, superheroes, themyscira, thing, truth, woman, wonder, youtube |
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That’s right, I’ve decided to broadcast myself. So here’s the deal …
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Well, I got a nice surprise on MySpace the other day. I thought I recognized the name Tim Halperin in my friend requests, so I clicked through only to realize 1) I must’ve been thinking of somebody else, and 2) this kid makes some pretty decent tunes!
He’s a piano playing songwriter dude, sort of like Ben Folds, who’s a personal god to me, so I’m curious to see where this guy’s going to go from here. He’s presently unsigned, but I think it’s just a matter of time.
I only wish I could work in a Toronto angle to the story so I could feature him on blogTO & spread the word further, but alas, he is a Texan, so that’d be a bit of a stretch. Someone give this boy some money and send him on tour.
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Hi, I'm Steve Chatterton, a singer/songwriter of a collection of tunes about superheroes, fireflies, communicable diseases and such.
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