You guys have come a long way so far on your musical journey from the Tyneside flats where Overspill Poets was first conceived and developed between delivering sandwiches to office workers and watching endless re-runs of Auf Wiedersehen Pet with spirited impromptu jams. There are a lot of up & coming bands that can benefit [...]
MTV has given artists a new first step toward having their music reach gamers by launching Rock Band Network. Any artist, signed or unsigned, can submit songs for consideration in the Xbox 360 version of the game (Sony Playstation 3 and Wii to follow). As long as your tunes are of playable quality with lyrics [...]
I’ve got to credit Gloria K. Fiero in her book, The Humanistic Tradition for this indie gem: “Tempermental and defiant, (Beethoven) scorned the patronage system that had weighed heavily upon both Mozart and Haydn, and sold his compositions as an independent artist.”