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UNDER COVERS 7: SPOOKY DOOM AND GLOOM SONGS!

posted: October 31, 2009

From the love-laden crooning ballads of Valentine’s Day to the boldly dogmatic odes of patriotism celebrating the 4th of July, all holidays carry their own audible flair. Yet despite an enormous volume of songs amassed…
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FRIDAY FLOW: "PLASTIC WORLD" BY DOUJAH RAZE

posted: October 30, 2009

Every Friday on the OurStage blog, I’ll be featuring a great example of flow and lyricism on a hip hop song pulled from the OurStage ranks. I’ll get the artist’s thoughts on the track, as…
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CATTLE CALL

posted: October 30, 2009

The term maverick gets thrown a lot these days, but only a fraction of the people who use it truly earn the title. The word dates back to Samuel A. Maverick, an American pioneer who…
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COUNTRY CATCH: CRAIG MORITZ

posted: October 29, 2009

What could be better than Tim McGraw style with Toby Keith looks? Pair these star qualities with a fun, down home country sound, and you have Canadian-born Craig Moritz, who’s been pumping out hits since…
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BACKTRACKING FORWARD: WFMU RECORD FAIR

posted: October 29, 2009

White label disc jockey promos. Withdrawn 45 picture sleeves pressed in Sweden. Mint Lexingtons with a deep groove, flat edge and RVG in the run off. While this terminology is alien to the general population,…
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HOW TO GET DISTRIBUTION

posted: October 28, 2009

You spent months recording your CD, mixing and mastering it, deciding on artwork and sending it off to production. And there it sits, with 4,999 of its friends, piled in boxes on your apartment floor…
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