At yesterday’s PromaxBDA Network Sound Off, Fox network execs selected our score to launch their new drama series “Ride Along,” (from the producers of The Shield), which breaks during SUPER BOWL XLV. How cool is that! Yesterday’s session featured us against three other top music houses on stage competing for this high profile assignment. Thanks to the Fox judges Brian Dollenmayer, SVP, On-Air Promotion and Creative Marketing, Matt Fife, VP-Creative […]
Read More »UPDATE: Registration is closed. The drawing will be held shortly. UPDATE: We’ve received so much interest in this giveaway, we’ve decided to extend the registration period until 2:00PM CDT Wednesday, June 30th. The drawing will be held shortly thereafter. Thanks to everyone for registering, and good luck! It’s that time of the year again. Time to head off to PROMAX/BDA 2010. And guess what? We’re giving away four spiffy new […]
Read More »The Vault by Stephen Arnold Music continues to add top tier talent to it’s Artist Collection. The most recent artist being nine-time Grammy Award winning jazz singer/pianist Diana Krall. Check out “Sunshine Express”
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 […]
Read More »Football is the biggest show in town in New Orleans – their team is #1 this year and there’s a tremendous amount of local pride that comes with that. The New Orleans Saints are having a banner year, closing the NFL regular season with a 13-3 record and a first-round bye. The local affiliate WVUE FOX 8 News asked us to put a sonic stamp on the performance. There may […]
Read More »Two years ago this January, I started working at Stephen Arnold Music, and my how that time has flown. I say this in the generic sense, the way one sighs and shakes his heads at the fast changing world, but also with something specific in mind: Exactly three years ago, I was in the middle of what I consider to be the best year of my life. That’s a big […]
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