Laura Fedor Heads Into The Studio To Start Work On Super-Secret Project

Nashville Hype! artist Laura Fedor went into the studio this past Saturday with producer Teddy Gentry to begin work on her super-secret project (we’ll be telling you more about this in the coming months).  The session was at the Tracking Room in Nashville and featured the best musicians in town.

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Stormy Montana’s “Someone Like Me” Is Now Available Online And Worldwide

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Country Music Artist Stormy Montana Has Already Broken Sales Records, Now She’s Set To Take Her Music Online

Sep 21, 2009 – NASHVILLE, TN — Country music artist Stormy Montana will release her highly acclaimed and top selling C.D., “Someone Like Me” online and worldwide November 15th, 2009 through i-Tunes, Amazon, LaLa, Rhapsody, Napster, and other online vendors.

“Someone Like Me” has already sold close to 7,000 physical copies since release, a virtually un-heardof feat in todays country music climate.  In fact, had the C.D. been Soundscanned from the beginning, “Someone Like Me”would have remained in the Top 20 Billboard Country Music Chart throughout much of the year.

Featuring 15 top quality songs by hit songwriters such as Dave Pahanish, Casey Kessel, Marcus Hummon, and James Slater; and recorded at Nashville’s finest studios featuring Nashville’s finest musicians, “Someone Like Me” is knee deep in great music that everyone can enjoy.

The release date is a reflection of the Christmas season and the decision to release “Someone Like Me” online for the first time came after much deliberation.  Stormy says, “At first we wanted to keep the C.D. offline completely, believing that the best way to sell ‘Someone Like Me‘ was for me to play shows, shake hands, and meet as many people as possible.  As time moved on we found that the demand for ‘Someone Like Me‘ at the shows was overwhelming, leading us to sell out very quickly.  At the same time, everyday we were getting request for the C.D. from places as far away as Japan and Germany.  We concluded we needed to have ‘Someone Like Me‘ in all the online stores so that the fans who weren’t able to purchase the C.D. at the shows, and those around the world, could.”

About Stormy Montana: At just 16 years old, Stormy Montana has proven to have one of the largest and most dedicated fan bases in all of country music.  She doesn’t attribute this simply to her age, but to the music itself, which is grounded in the best traditions of country music, with an eye towards the more accessible pop country of today’s generation.  Stormy began singing live in bars and honky-tonks at 9 years old and hasn’t stopped since.  Her love of music and performing is evident by the fact her mother never had to push her to sing and perform, it’s simply what she wanted to do.  Teaming with renound vocal coach Teresa Smith, and surrounding herself with a great team of Nashville insiders and music professionals, Stormy set sail on her life’s calling.  The culmination of these early years of hard work can be heard on her new C.D. “Someone Like Me” which has already sold nearly 7,000 physical copies.  For More Information Please Visit: http://www.myspace.com/stormymontana or http://www.stormymontana.com

This is HUGE!! Interscope Records is Coming To Nashville To Find Talent

(ed note:  I am aware that this post has changed several times now.  That’s because Interscope Records asked that it be changed in order to give the legal department time to give approvals for the name and image.  This event has not changed.)

I’ve been talking with some great people over the past couple of days who have a great plan to find talent here in Nashville – and seriously, you better sign up AS FAST AS YOU CAN to guarantee a spot !!

Interscope Records is seeking a male or female singer or singer/songwriter, 18-25, whose influences include; Tom Petty, Ryan Adams, Fleetwood Mac, Keith Urban, Sugarland, 3 Doors Down, Wilco, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, and John Cougar Mellencamp.

Interscope Records A&R staff representatives from Los Angeles will hold auditions on October 6th, 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee at the Hotel Indigo Ballroom (1719 West End Avenue, Nashville TN 37203) beginning at 10am all day until 6pm.

Guarantee your audition! You can schedule a pre-registration private audition by emailing your Myspace link, website, mp3’s and photos to the event coordinator at interscopeaudition@yahoo.com. Hurry, because slots are limited. Those who miss pre-registration can make the open auditions on the 6th at the Hotel Indigo 10am – 6pm.

Auditions are absolutely free and be prepared to sing an original or cover song. If you play an instrument you’re encouraged to bring and play it as long as it’s acoustic.

We’re NOT filming the auditions and this is NOT for a television show. We’re looking for a singer or singer/songwriter with real talent to sign to the label, make an album, promote and take it on the road.

Interscope Records roster includes U2, OneRepublic, No Doubt, Sheryl Crow, Lady Ga Ga, The Police, Black Eyed Peas, All American Rejects, Chris Cornell, Eminem, Dr. Dre and many more generation defining artists.

For the Same Audition information: http://interscopeaudition.com.

Stormy Montana Plays The Nashville Palace Tomorrow!

Our great friend Stormy Montana is playing a set at the Nashville Palace tomorrow (sunday) at around 5:30.  This is a very rare Nashville show for Stormy and a great chance for you to see a soon to be super-star artist.

If you’re not familiar with Stormy, she fantastic.  And her album has sold well over 7,000 physical copies since being released this time last year (and how many major label artist can say that??).  It’s a great album too — so good I gave it the “Album of the Year” award last year.  It’s stellar, she’s stellar.  So come out and see her if you can – you’ll enjoy it.  Promise.

Suzi Oravec’s Performance At The House Of Blues – Suzi Won

Suzi won the Music Mogul competition by a wide margin.  The next step is entering into the studio with either Rodney Jerkins, or a producer of Rodney’s choice, to do a three song demo which can then be shopped to labels – including Atlantic Records.  Thanks everyone for your support of Suzi and her music.  We, as always, wish her well and a great career.  MusicMogul.com

Suzi Oravec Wins First Music Mogul.com Title

Earning a Demo Deal with Darkchild Productions

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ – Music Mogul.com has officially announced that 19 year-old, country-pop singer Suzi Oravec is the first winner of their online music competition where thousands of hopeful recording artists competed to win a demo deal with Darkchild Productions. The competition began in February 2009, when Suzi Oravec submitted her music video to Music Mogul.com that featured her song “Last Minute Miracle” that she wrote and dedicated to her mother who unfortunately died of pancreatic cancer in 2007.

Suzi Oravec has experienced heartache after heartache, while still fighting to get her name and music out to the public. As the hard worker that she is, Suzi graduated high-school one year early with honors with a plan to move with her mother to Nashville, TN to pursue a music career. Before Suzi’s mother passed, she spent every moment by her side and then sadly, but strongly made the move to the country music capital of the world solo, but with all of the inspiration and motivation to succeed behind her.

In August 2009, Music Mogul.com announced that Suzi Oravec was one of the four finalists who would compete in the finals, which took place at the House of Blues in West Hollywood on August 18th. Taking notes from her biggest music inspiration Sheryl Crow, who is a strong female cancer survivor, Suzi Oravec took stage with her guitar in hand and belted out her song “Stop Breathing“, which the crowd, judges of music industry experts and Suzi’s online followers clearly loved!

“Suzi Oravec is the whole package: she has a great voice, a talent for songwriting, and a really outgoing personality,” states Rodney Jerkins, Grammy-winning producer and founder of Darkchild Productions. “She’s exactly the kind of talent that we were hoping to find at Music Mogul.com and we’re looking forward to working with her in the future.”

Now with the Music Mogul.com title under Suzi Oravec’s belt, she is working hard to finalize all of the songs that she’s been working on for years and release a full album. For more information on Suzi Oravec, please visitwww.musicmogul.com/news/finalist-profile-suzi-oravec or www.myspace.com/suzioravec.

Music Mogul, Inc. (www.musicmogul.com) is the first online music world with a new and unique 3D entertainment platform to find the hottest new superstars. This online destination is set to make a mark in social networking with a ground-breaking design and interactive music experience for music fans, undiscovered artists, and celebrity artists alike.

Expect The Unexpected (Hey Labels, Are You Watching?)

I suppose the big news coming out today was the ‘break-up’ of Brooks & Dunn- but I don’t care about that - other than to say that if the Lord was listening to MY prayers, it would’ve been the big fat redneck stick twirler and his bear killing buddy instead – but what do I know, they’re GOO members now.

No, the big news to me is this video:

It’s Taylor Swift and her band ‘pranking’ Keith Urban at a show the other night.  It’s important because the interaction between artists on stage (thanks primarily to Brad what’s his name) has become a common thing.  You simply never know what’s going to happen – or rather, what you’re going to see when you go see a show.

In the past we would’ve read a stupid ‘press release’ about something like this happening – it’d be in the newspaper and the rags, but no one would’ve got to see it for themselves – and strangely, reading something like this happening doesn’t have the same ‘punch’ as actually seeing it happen.   There’s a tremendous value in seeing it for yourself.

Does that video make you MORE or LESS likely to want to attend a Keith Urban show?  MORE or LESS likely to want to see a Taylor Swift show?  Don’t you wonder what’s going to happen at the next show?  And don’t you want to be there when it does?

Until recently, shows have been as scripted as an episode of Nashville Star – but that’s begun to change.  Now shows can take several twist and turns – thereby increasing the entertainment value of the show itself.  Honestly, no one wants to be bored – and nothing is more fun for an audience than feeling like a participant in the show itself.  Just ask Jimmy Buffett fans!

In Nashville it’s hard to get people to pay $5 to see a live show in a club featuring several acts.  But ask those same people to pay $20 to go into a club and dance, and the club will be packed out.  Participation is everything.

And shows that have audience participation in them, even if the audience isn’t ‘actually’ participating, but are just there as witnesses to what’s happening – is where the real value to attending a show is.

Kenny Chesney recently put out a ridiculous rule about taking video at his shows — stupid, stupid, STUPID.  His crew/label could take a lesson from this and see it as a good thing (though I doubt they will).

The more that others see others having fun at a show, the more those others will want to ‘participate’ by going to the shows themselves the next time around.

(please note: The vid above comes from the official Keith Urban youtube – so this may have simply been a label creation – and the guy filming does sound as if he knows it’s coming – but that doesn’t make it less fun for the audience who don’t… and, Keith is on Capitol – and Capitol may get the value of fan created videos – who knows.)

You Can Help Suzi Oravec Get a Record Deal (Seriously!)

Our good friend Suzi Oravec is participating in a contest for the music web site MusicMogal.com. This contest allows artists to submit videos which fans vote on. The top 4 artist after a 3 month period are chosen as Finalist and are flown to L.A. to perform in front of major producers like Rodney Jerkins (Pussy Cat Dolls, Michael Jackson, Beyonce, others).

Music Mogal will video the performance and place it online at the Music Mogal site. Fans will once again have a chance to vote for their favorite artist and the winner, after a 24 hour voting period, will win a 3 song demo produced by Rodney. This demo will then be shopped to Atlantic Records. So the overall winner of the contest could actually land a Major Label record deal.

Suzi is awesome and as we told you, she has a very strong fan base. Thanks to her talent and those fans, Suzi was chosen as one of the top 4, so she will be flown to L.A. to perform at the House of Blues on August 18th, 2009. For the next 24 hours you’ll have a chance to go to the Music Mogal website and vote for Suzi!

She recently posted new Song “Please Stay” to her Myspace page, www.myspace.com/suzioravec , to give listeners a preview of her upcoming debut album release.

Help Suzi live her dreams! *Start Voting on August 19th for Suzi Oravec! Only 24 hours to Vote!*