Lauren Frost  just released her 1st CD, “ Words for the Birds “,  on August 25, 2008.  Lauren is a Chicago singer/songwriter that I’ve followed for a couple years now. Her style is a little difficult to pin point, but if you like jazz, folk, pop, softer rock, or just good female singers, I think you’ll find something to like.

She and her friend Matt Scutt wrote the songs together, and gathered some of Chicago’s finest musicians to record her album. The band is known as Blue Lou, and if you hurry you may be able to catch them at a local club. She also plays what she calls her Acoustic gigs with fellow guitar player, Matt Scutt and Ashton Likes.

You can preview her music on her MySpace at  www.myspace.com/laurenfrost
Or, you can go directly to her new blog  http://laurenfrost.blogspot.com/ and buy the CD.  You will be able to hear a few snippets of her music there, too.

I realize I’ve dedicated a post to plugging one musician, but I have a special interest in Lauren. Be that as it may, I welcome any of you to send me links to your websites, videos, and blogs so that I can hear your music and promote your music, too.

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This article is an excerpt from an e-book by Derek Sivers called “How to Call Attention to Your Music”. Derek founded CDBaby, and recently started a website & blog to help musicians at sivers.org. Do Not Miss It!

Brian Eno (my favorite theorist) says the best thing you can do is to bring people to the point where they start searching.

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The 2008 USA Songwriting Competition deadline has been extended to June 30, 2008.

Win компютри втора употреба$50,000 cash or cool gear from Sony, Ibanez Guitars,
D’Addario Strings, Peavey, Audio-Technica and more.

Also, have your winning songs played on radio!

Enter in Pop, Rock/Alt, Folk, R&B, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Instrumental, etc. Since 1995, USA Songwriting Competition has been honoring
songwriters from all over the world. This is open to all,
regardless of nationality, or country of origin. Past winners have
gotten recording contracts, getting their songs on film,
TV as well as getting cuts with major artists.

This is NOT American Idol!  This is the professional songwriting competition that offers winners the clout it takes to really make it.

For you, this might just be the contest that opens the right doors - allowing you to make the right connections and get your songs heard!

The entry form can be found at:
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Promoting

You may already have a MySpace page, but have you heard of Squidoo?

Squidoo is a fantastic place to build an online presence for your music.
It’s a lot like a blog because you can allow guests to leave comments,
create Surveys, and even EARN YOU MONEY if visitors click on various ads
or buy anything you might feature - like MUSIC!

Watch this short video to get a better idea of how you may utilize it to promote yourself or your band.  Although the video is geared toward more traditional business ventures, just think in terms of your BUSINESS - your music.

You’re going to hear Bob Jenkins - who has developed a couple courses to teach you exactly how to get your “Lens” up and running and structured in a way that’s optimized for the search engines. That way, you begin getting visitors much quicker.

Click Here To Learn Secrets To Squidoo

Bob The Teacher has helped over 13,000 people get started with Squidoo, many of whom put into action his lessons correctly, continued to work on their lenses, and saw great results.

Recently, Bob held a live, virtual workshop with about 40 people who learned how to use Squidoo from Step 1. He taught them via an online webinar, using his screen and his professional teaching skills to deliver an awesome workshop. (I wish I could have been there, too!)The good news for you and me is he recorded all 8 sessions of the workshop, and he’s just released them for you and me to learn from. It’s Squidoo Secrets 2.0, and it’s impressed me so much I had to put a link here:

==> SquidooSecrets 2.0

Bob offers three courses of study, and the first one (the Apprentice) is FREE (a word we all love to hear) so you can test out if Bob delivers like so many others say he does. I know this will help you, but you can take it or leave it. I do highly recommend that you investigate Squidoo though, as another weapon in your music promotion arsenal.

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Yes, Colbie Caillat is hugely successful now. But listen to her explain how much MySpace meant to her success.  Do not underestimate it’s promotional power!

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