Now Playing Band Needs Your Opinion on Their Album Cover

Our Band, NOW PLAYING Can’t Agree On Our CD Cover.
Enter the “DECIDE OUR FATE” Contest to Help Pick the Cover
and... You’ll get a free download and be entered to win album credits for your participation!

Contest Runs: May 16 through June 30, 2011

The Now Playing band just finished our debut album and we need your help deciding which cover art to use!

We like to think of our sound as being a mash-up of The Stones, Arctic Monkeys and Weezer with a retro groove ala The Beatles and we want to portray that in the cover art.

To vote for your favorite cover, go here and fill in your info. Once that’s done, we’ll immediately respond by emailing you your free download of our favorite track on the record “She Belongs To Me”. Those who choose the cover that wins, will be entered into a drawing and if your name is chosen, you’ll get credit on the CD as the “Album Cover Consultant”

Did you know the only way to become a member of the Grammy Organization and have the ability to vote for Grammy winners is by documenting six creative or technical album credits? And you can earn one right here!
Check out the whole album before it's released

GRAMMY NOMINATED NADIA ALI, FOLLOWS UP WITH OWN NEW iiO ALBUM “EXIT 110

Fast forward to 2011, “The brand new and highly anticipated studio album, aptly titled "Exit 110", was assembled by DJ/producer/songwriter Markus Moser, and features again, Nadia Ali on vocals. The success of iiO is undeniable. Their massive hits have inspired dozens of smash remix singles by DJ/producers such as Armin Van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk, Starkillers and many, many more. This together with an ongoing momentum of steady airplay and demand for an incredible 10 years, it was clear that comeback was in order; and finally that time has come: enter "Exit 110".

Seductive and smooth, Nadia Ali took the world by storm with her sexy voice on her last CD 'Rapture' as one half of the duo iiO (prounounced Exit 110). Ruling dance floors since 2001, with a string of dance hits to her credit, Nadia Ali while part of iiO has given us unforgettable songs with "Rapture" "At The End" and "Kiss You" and a #1 US Billboard Dance Chart hit with "Is It Love" in 2006.

As of a few minutes ago, I just read that the album has charted at iTunes in the top 200 and is in the top 10 beatport pop/dance charts...

Singles & Album are available at:

Amazon Link to CD

iTunes link to download

ii0 can also be found at:

twitter.com/iio

facebook.com/iio

youtube.com/iio

itunes ping

FREE RADIO STATION APP FOR ANDROID, iPHONE & iPAD FROM WHOTUNE

FREE Whotune App for iPad brings you the best in Unsigned music from around the globe. Like the website, Whotune.com the app lets you discover new artists, listen to songs, watch videos, vote for your favourites and influence the Whotune Top 20 in realtime.

You can search for specific artist or by Genre. Want new Hip Hop artists, Rock, Pop, Latin? Find thousands of the best unsigned artists in the world at your fingertips. If you can’t decide what to search for, let Whotune’s unsigned artist radio station bring you the latest and greatest unsigned artists to your attention 24/7. Featuring a huge selection of different styles and artist interviews, you can also cast your vote for your favourite right there on the radio player. Who knows, you could be helping create tomorrow’s stars today! Discovering new unsigned talent has never been so easy or convenient.

Get the app by clicking these links for either your iPhone, iPad or Android

INDEPENDENT ARTISTS AND BANDS – GET WHOTUNE APP, MAY LEAD TO AIRPLAY!

Have you drempt about hearing your own tracks on the radio, or having your video voted one of the Top 20 on a global site? Well now its no longer a pipedream with the FREE Whotune App! Get the app by clicking these links for either your iPhone or iPad.

Then (and again its FREE) go to Whotune.com and build your band profile, upload your music and its possible you’ll get played on the Whotune online radio station, and if you have a video, you may find it reach Top 20 status; all while checking out some of the best music anywhere.

Best of all, you can sell your other tracks on Whotune.com, for no monthly fee, no set-up fee and you get to keep 85% of all your sales (beats the other sites’ costs by a landslide).

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