The “Arts” always come out in full bloom at year’s end. We all have our favorite, iconic holiday book/film/play/TV show, maybe even a favorite toy, and last but not least, favorite Christmas song or carol. Since I was a kid, some of those iconic holiday classics have been replaced — a change made ever more apparent as the father of three young ones (although only one still young enough to […]
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To say the least, it’s an honor to be associated with the “best in the business”, or “pound for pound the world’s best”. In a roundabout way, that’s what’s happening this week here at the studio. This Saturday night on PPV, boxing’s pound for pound best, Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao fights Juan Manual Marquez. This will be their third confrontation, the first ending in a draw and the second in a […]
Read More »While it may still feel like winter in much of the country, in case you didn’t know it, baseball’s spring training is right now in full swing. Helping catch baseball fever among American League champion Texas Rangers‘ fans is a brand new promo for our client KTVT CBS 11/TXA 21, featuring a track from The Vault called “Believe,” written by multiple Grammy nominated songwriter Greg Barnhill and produced by Stephen […]
Read More »This is a prelude to our upcoming book – “A Story Of Six Strings,” which chronicles the history of Stephen Arnold Music through Stephen’s guitars, all of which were photographed on location throughout the western United States. Stephen: “I had always wanted a Fender Strat but never could afford one. The ‘69 strat was especially iconic, because that was the year Fender changed to a larger headstock and a U-shaped […]
Read More »RTDNA’s prestigious Edward R. Murrow Awards dinner was as good an excuse as any for our own Michael Finnegan and Noelle Alanis to don their best fancy duds and head to NYC’s Grand Hyatt to rub elbows with the media elite. In attendance were such heavy-hitters as NBC’s Brian Williams and Ann Curry, CBS’ Harry Smith, CNN’s John Roberts and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Tamron Hall. Stephen Arnold Music proudly […]
Read More »A few good friends of mine are burgeoning film directors in Cape Town, South Africa. I met them in Cairo and later worked with them on the music for Dorotea Vucic’s “Wamkelekile: Welcome Home,” an Oscar nominated short-film from the Western Cape. They recently sent me this, a music video for the South African band “Hot Water.” Claude and Daniel Morcos, “the Morcos Brothers” as they have been coined, directed […]
Read More »All of us, by which I mean all people in general, are artists of sorts – we strive to become better at the things we love, whether that be songwriting or parenthood (or both), and we do so with such conviction that we are able to shake off the ever-present naysayers, those agents of cynicism who always manage to be standing on the street corner when we stumble by, whispering […]
Read More »I love music, so working for a music company is a great thing. But for the blog, I wanted to dig deep and explore the reasons why I love music. After some brief thought, I came up with a simple answer- I love it because it makes me feel good. Still, I wanted to learn more about how music affects us and why, so I hit up the all-powerful google. […]
Read More »It is a rare experience in Texas to be beset by snow. For most Texans, snow is a phrase reserved for describing that blurred and fuzzy effect on one’s TV screen that gets in the way of watching reruns of “Dallas.” But in fact, on occasion, snow does fall from the skies above Texas. We Texans, whether transplanted or true-born, are always happy about this phenomenon for a number of […]
Read More »SAM’s Xmas dinner was a great one this year. It always comes with a price, though – in order to be included in this exclusive feast of wine and lobster, you must bring a White Elephant gift. I thought long and hard about what to bring, and frankly it stressed me out a bit. I started to think through what I had – a spare picture frame, photo-shop skills, a […]
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