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Christmas Album benefitting Little Kids Rock

Season’s Greetings Everyone, We’re back again this Holiday Season hoping to make our industry aware of this great organization, Little Kids Rock™. Little Kids Rock™ provides free music lessons and instruments to underserved public school kids around the country. In the last three years, through the purchase of our CD by our peers in the broadcast industry, we have been able to put 100+ brand new acoustic guitars into the […]

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SAM’s Journey to the Far East!

We’re very proud of our international work for networks like Al Jazeera (Qatar), Alhurra (Middle East), India TV, GSP Sports (Romania), TRK (Norway), TRT1 (Turkey) … it’s a pretty long list! A decade ago, we delivered music via FedEx – now we can FTP our latest mixes instantaneously. But in either case, we’re usually tracking and mixing in our Texas studio while our clients are a VERY long way away. […]

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Fender Strat Giveaway

Name That News Package – Guitar Giveaway!

UPDATE: And The Winner Is … Hey, you. Wanna win a guitar? We’ve got two chances for you to win! Straight from Stephen’s collection – a 15 year old, slightly abused 2000 Fender Artist Series Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster could be all yours. To enter, just listen to the demo of our latest news music package, then leave a comment below suggesting a name for the package (serious suggestions only, […]

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Int'l Strange Music Day

International Strange Music Day

It’s that time of year, and International Strange Music Day is once again upon us — can you believe it’s already been a year?? Okay, okay … none of us have actually ever heard of this holiday, but when it came across the calendar, I just had to have a little fun with it. So what actually qualifies as “strange music”? Well that, of course, depends on your definition of […]

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Tom Petty Fender

“Guitar Legends” Giveaway – TAB 2015

We’re excited to announce our guitar giveaway for Texas Association of Broadcasters 2015: A Road Worn Fender Stratocaster signed by Tom Petty! The Tom Petty six-string will be part of our “Guitar Legends” exhibit on display at the Stephen Arnold Music kiosk throughout TAB2015. Joining Petty’s axe will be a signed B.B. King “Lucille” Gibson, an exact replica of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Fender Stratocaster, and a historic 1927 Gibson L-1 […]

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PromaxBDA & Station Summit 2015 – That’s a wrap!

Well, that’s another pair of Promax conferences wrapped up and in the vault (no, not that Vault). It was great getting to see everyone in Los Angeles and Las Vegas this year! Normally, we’d be congratulating our two guitar winners, but this year we think Stephen may’ve been affected by that 115º Vegas summer heat, because he decided to give away six (6!) extra guitars in Vegas! So first off, […]

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Promax 2015 Guitar Giveaway

“Guitar Legends” Giveaway – Promax Station Summit 2015

We’re excited to announce our annual guitar giveaway for Promax Station Summit: Straight from Stephen’s collection, a Gibson Les Paul signed by the late jazz guitarist and electronics inventor Les Paul! The autographed Gibson Les Paul six-string will be part of our “Guitar Legends” exhibit on display at the Stephen Arnold Music kiosk throughout Station Summit at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Joining the Les Paul will be a signed […]

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Promax 2015 Tom Petty GG

“Guitar Legends” Giveaway – Promax 2015

We’re excited to announce our annual guitar giveaway for PromaxBDA 2015: Straight from Stephen’s collection, an American Standard Fender Stratocaster signed by Tom Petty! The Tom Petty six-string will be part of our “Guitar Legends” exhibit on display at the Stephen Arnold Music kiosk throughout PromaxBDA. Joining Petty’s axe will be a signed B.B. King “Lucille” Gibson, an exact replica of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Fender Stratocaster, and a historic 1927 […]

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Favorite Album Covers

A Lost (Cover) Art

A generation ago, the music listening experience was just that: an experience. Having returned from the record store, the eager listener – usually in the company of like-minded friends – would peel the shrinkwrap from the rather large cardboard sleeve and remove the inner, thinner paper sleeve to reveal the all-important vinyl record that awaited inside. After placing the fragile disc carefully on the turntable, the stylus would be lowered […]

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