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Locals Only News Music Package Wins 2012 PromaxBDALocal Award

We are proud to announce our “Locals Only” News Music Package has won a PromaxBDALocal Award in the “Music Package/Post Score or Instrumental Theme with or without Vocals” category. Locals Only is the first user-sourced station/news music branding package. Driven by an entirely new user/client-sourced workflow, Locals Only is an innovative syndicated music package that provides its clients with music branding that constantly evolves and refreshes. Users share a market […]

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It’s time for Station Summit and another Guitar Giveaway!

Wow. We just got done with the PromaxBDA conference in L.A. last week (had a blast), and now we are headed off to Vegas next week for Promax’s Station Summit conference. The 2012 PromaxBDA Station Summit is a four-day critical gathering where networks, station groups, syndicators and local broadcasters discuss, dialogue and debate the issues, trends and emerging business opportunities driving success in local television. We’re looking forward to the […]

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Guitar Giveaway & Book Signing at PromaxBDA 2012

It’s that time of year again – yep, it’s time to head off to one of our favorite creative conferences – PromaxBDA 2012. This years conference will take place from June 12-14th in downtown Los Angeles at L.A. Live. We’re always excited to be part of the show and this year we have a couple of great guitars to giveaway plus a Mary Francis guitar shaped leather purse. Stephen will […]

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Stephen Arnold Book Signing and Little Kids Rock Charity Event at Two Old Hippies in Nashville

Thursday, June 7th, our very own Stephen Arnold will be doing “A Story of Six Strings” book signing event for a good cause! All book proceeds plus 10% of Two Old Hippies sales will support Little Kids Rock, a non-profit dedicated to restoring and revitalizing music education in U.S. public schools. For every book purchase, Little Kids Rock can serve about 3 children with a year’s worth of instrumental music […]

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Stephen Arnold Music and The Vault set up shop at the Texas Production Roundup!

The Grapevine Convention Center just off Historic Grapevine Town Center was host to the Texas Production Roundup on Thursday, presented by the Dallas Producers’ Association Of course we couldn’t miss a chance to meet our local clients and make new friends. Local Film and TV producers and directors were there to see the latest offerings in mobile production, cameras, post-production, and great custom and library music. These days, hyper-local is […]

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RTDNA – Edward R. Murrow Awards

Today the 2012 Edward R. Murrow Awards were announced by RTDNA (The Radio Television Digital News Association). Congratulations from all of us here at Stephen Arnold Music to this years winners. RTDNA (formerly known as RTNDA) has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow’s pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name. Murrow Award […]

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Name That Riff

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.  This guy, Brodie Cumming, might not be playing the Hall, but he’s cornered the internet with almost five million views of his video, “100 Famous Rock Guitar Riffs – one take”, so maybe a new standard has been set. It’s pretty impressive how Brodie strings together a medley of 100 of Rock’s most memorable licks (the ones that have been […]

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Stephen Arnold Releases “A Story of Six Strings”

Beautiful Coffee Table Book Focuses On Award-Winning Composer’s Collection of Rare Guitars DALLAS, TX — “You don’t have to know music to appreciate A Story of Six Strings,” says Dan Rather, legendary journalist, former CBS Evening News anchor, and current anchor and managing editor of HD Net’s Dan Rather Reports. Written by award-winning composer and sonic branding pioneer Stephen Arnold, A Story of Six Strings provides a rare trip down memory lane. “This is a beautiful book,” says Rather. […]

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Adele Behind the Scenes

What do Latvian Festivals, nights out in Manchester and the current Billboard #2 song all have in common? Why, Stephen Arnold Music, of course!! Before being brought in to oversee Stephen Arnold Music’s library – The Vault – I was “lucky” enough to be a gigging Sound Engineer most recently based in London. But before I could spend my days relaxing in my corner office listening to music all day, […]

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Vinyl – It’s not just for breakfast anymore.

The funeral for vinyl records was held thirty years ago, but something of a resurrection is under way and we here at Stephen Arnold Music know why. Nothing sounds like vinyl. An analog recording has a quality, a warmth and expansiveness, that digital just can’t equal. For those of you too young to remember what it’s like to drop a needle on a record, it’s hard to explain how it […]

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