UNSIGNED ARTIST – Sell your music at WHOTUNE.COM!

Let’s face it, when you are an independent doing your own marketing and publicity, you can send your customers anywhere you please, so why just go along with the crowd and send them to iTunes when you can make MORE than double the royalties at Whotune.com?

Unlike the largest download site who takes 37% to 40% of our band’s royalites for the sale of each download, and unlike other sites that charge my band a monthly, up-front or bandwidth storage fee, Whotune.com, a leading Indie Artist store requires no up-front fees, no monthly fees, no storage fees and takes only 15% of royalties for download sales; leaving our Band 85%!

Plus, they have lots of other features. They have competitions where you play live on their JamCam to other members who vote on winners for various prizes like equipment, marketing campaigns for your band, appearances and other stuff.

The biggest thrill for me was to hear one of our songs on their Indie artist radio station. Once I started listening to Whotune Radio, I became an immediate fan. Man, there’s some great music on this site!

Register for Free at Whotune.com

Top 10 Grammy Nominated CD’s For 2011

What do Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto, Kirk Whalum & Danilo Perez have in common? They all have albums nominated for 2011 Grammies! Picking off my list of the Top 10 Grammy Nominated CD’s; these artists are my hands down winning picks.

Danilo Perez for Best Jazz Instrumental album “Providencia”, Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto for Best Pop Instrumental Album “Take Your Pick” and Kirk Whalum for the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance nomination for “Everything is Everything: The Music of Donny Hathaway” as well as his nomination for Best Gospel Performance (and Song) from his album “Gospel According to Jazz-Chapter 3”.

The other nominees on the list hold their own in their categories as well, such as: John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension “To The One”, Herbie Hancock “The Imagine Project”, The Black Keys “Brothers”, Buddy Guy “Living Proof”, Fred Hammond “Love Unstoppable” and last but not least Robert Plant “Band of Joy”.

Get more details on each of these these Top 10 Grammy Nominated releases on my list on ThisNext.com

You can check out my monthly recommendations as well at:
TaylorSpearsRecommends.blogspot.com

UNSIGNED ARTIST – WHOTUNE.COM PAYS DOUBLE THE AVERAGE IN ROYALTIES

Whotune.com the leading Worldwide, much-talked-about “Unsigned Artist Digital Store and Much More” is again leading the way, today announcing FREE Sales accounts for Indie Artists.

This move eliminates the previously required up-front fee to add digital downloads for sale worldwide on Whotune.com. Many other sites charge an up-front fee, monthly fees and/or bandwidth storage fees in addition to taking 30-50% of sales. Whotune.com charges NO up-front fee and takes only 15% of your sales - the Artist retains 85% of the sales dollars which is more than DOUBLE what the largest download site pays.
Whotune.com also puts the decision making power BACK in the hands of the Artists - you select the price you want to charge for your Singles and/or Albums.

Whotune.com is fast becoming the number 1 destination for Unsigned Artists online, with its suite of promotional tools, Live Cam Performances, Unsigned Only Radio Station, Collaboration Tools, Videos, Charts, Featured Artists, Contests, Instant Messaging, Wall to Wall & Private Messaging and many more cutting edge features.

Savvy Indie Artists see the advantage of a Whotune.com sales account and start directing their fans to Whotune to purchase their songs. After all, why give away more than you have to? When you’re an Unsigned Artist every dollar counts!

Check out more by registering for FREE at Whotune.com

Perfect Holiday Gift – Band From TV “Hoggin’ All The Covers Unleashed!” CD with bonus DVD.

- Just in time for the Holidays! My Favorite actors rocking out to my favorite songs -


Be completely entertained this holiday season while helping out various charities with the Band From TV’s new CD (+ Bonus DVD) “Hoggin’ All The Covers Unleashed!”. Hugh Laurie (HOUSE), James Denton (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES), Greg Grunberg (HEROES), Bonnie Somerville (THE UGLY TRUTH), Bob Guiney (THE BACHELOR) and friends, belt out great classic rock songs EVERYONE knows and loves! Recorded live, this CD is over 60 minutes full of fun energy and memories for the whole family. Get the party goin’!

Songs on the CD include: Goodnight Irene, Viva Las Vegas, Piece of My Heart, You Really Got Me, Will It Go Round in Circles, Feelin Alright, Pink Cadillac, Lean On Me, Hard to Handle, The Letter, Papa Loved Mama, Mustang Sally and Shake Your Tail Feather.

The bonus DVD includes a live performance of “You Really Got Me”, Band Interviews and 7 Screensavers and/or Wallpapers.

Of the monies Band From TV members receive from sales, they donate 100% to each of their designated charities as follows: Hugh Laurie to Save the Children, James Denton to The Conservation Fund, Greg Grunberg to both The Epilepsy Foundation and TalkAboutIt.org, Bob Guiney to both The Art of Elysium and Children’s Hospital LA and Bonnie Somerville to Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP).

The CD with bonus DVD is available at your Local Record Store and online at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble.com
Best Buy

Visit the official Band From TV website at: www.BandFromTV.org

The Star-studded group “Band From TV” impresses me, a non-believer!

All of a sudden, I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about the musical group “Band From TV”. When I first heard about this celebrity-stocked amalgam, I found the concept a little hard to believe. The roster alone seemed too star-studded to fathom. How many times have we seen actors attempting to bridge the gap between film and music? And how many times have they failed?

I looked up the album on amazon.com and the band picture popped up. I quickly recognized Hugh Laurie from tv’s HOUSE and was immediately intrigued. After all, he is already an accomplished piano player. James Denton from DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and Greg Grunberg from HEROES were a couple of other easily recognizable faces, and as it turns out, the majority of the group were actually musicians prior to their success of their acting careers. Now I was curious. I gave their audio clips a listen and I must say I was quite impressed! The musicality and the vocals were awesome! Even the mix, for being live was extremely well-done. I even stumbled upon a short, acoustic session of theirs on Sirius radio and just wow! They sounded even better in a more intimate environment. This group, for all its glitz and glamour, does posses serious talent! From what I hear, the band is now expanding and I’m excited to hear how their sound progresses with these new additions. Check out their stuff and I guarantee you will not be disappointed.

Check them out at their website : www.BandFromTV.org
-Joshua Tywater – Just a lover of music

Check out Boston’s freshest Hip Hop act Laz and Cat with their new single Swagger Dance

Laz and Cat, self-proclaimed Hip-Hop Dynamic-Duo, from Boston are releasing their third single off their debut album – TRICITY VOL. 1, entitled “SWAGGER DANCE,” a bass-booming, vibration-moving, dirty-south inspired hip-hop song that encourages people to make your own dance move no matter how crazy or ridiculous it may be. You can listen to and download “Swagger Dance” here: bit.ly/SwaggerDance.
Laz and Cat are “two minds” from different lifestyles who have come together to make “one sound” in current Hip-Hop styles with a mild fusion in Pop & R&B styles. You can describe this duo as exciting, entertaining, engaging, and a “production force” able to produce music & film all in-house.
If you like New Boyz’ Jerk and Cali Swag District’s Teach Me How to Dougie, listen to Laz and Cat’s new single “SWAGGER DANCE”. You can copy the Jerk or the do the Dougie, but if you got your own swagger you can make your own dance.
"This song (Swagger Dance) is definitely a different, energetic, and fresh concept that Laz & I put together in the studio, and personally I think will catch on like wildfire once people hear it" says Cat. "If you got yourself a little Swag, meaning confidence, that innate quality that makes you a very special person, and you can do whatever dance you can do fluently, and you put a little swag on it, then you got yourself a dance."
Swagger Dance is off of Laz & Cat's debut album, "Tricity Vol. 1" which is available on iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Rhapsody, Napster, Sprint & Verizon VCAST, among many other online retail websites worldwide. You can learn more about Laz & Cat by visiting their website at http://music.triceptus.com, or their Myspace page at www.myspace.com/lazuruscatipus.

Check out the new sound of the Jane Smith Band for fans who like John Mayer, Train or the Dave Matthews Band

As a fan of adult contemporary and alternative rock, I found some amazing artists in the Jane Smith Band out of England. They play a blend of beautifully crafted songs in a classic vein. Their new single, See the Truth, just came out on September 20, 2010 and is available for download. Take a listen to it and see what you think: http://bit.ly/JaneSmithonWhoTune.

If you like John Mayer, Bryan Adams, Train, Dave Matthews Band, or Coldplay, you’ll love the Jane Smith Band. The Singer, Nick Barclay, has a unique voice that some have compared to the great singers Steve Marriot and Paul Carrack. But Nick says that making a connection with the audience is all that matters.

The band was formed by singer songwriter Nick Barclay, Kev Willison and Paul Bowman and joined by Kevin Powell on bass, Nathan Ariss on keyboards, and more recently Ronnie Douglas on guitar. Their songs are mature, thoughtful, and inspiring and when I have a bad day they really lift me up. The band writes about personal life moments and reflects upon normal every day people’s lives in a positive way. They find it is important to send the message that one can overcome difficult times and look forward to the future with hope.

You can listen to their debut single, See the Truth, on WhoTune.com: http://bit.ly/JaneSmithonWhoTune.