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Newsletter Contents
Updates & Info
 Finally...A Newsletter!
Monthly Give-A-Way News
Music News
A Halfway House Christmas on VH1
Bar/Girl Songs?
Pitching More To Independent Labels
Memo To Music Industry...
Song Needs
Who's Playing - Where & When!
Film News
The Spin Cycle: The "Best Of 2005"
Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund
SXSW Overview
The Numbers Website
Jessie's Dream Snake - Update
Merchandise - Advertisements
Books
T-Shirts
Film Software Resources
Updates & Info
Finally...A Newsletter!
At last! Our newsletter is finally out! We apologize to all of you who have been waiting since January. We have been real busy with the business side of things and felt that should take priority. That is where the money comes from!
As you will read below, we have both February and March give-a-ways this month. We are making up for not publishing a February newsletter. Just click on the link in the Monthly Give-A-Way News section below to get started.
We hope to get our April newsletter out by April 3, 2006! Wish us luck!
Monthly Give-A-Way News
Rick Fowler was the January Give-a-way winner! Rick won the four (4) free Cinemark movie passes. Rick is now eligible for the drawing for the demo studio package that will take place later this year.
The February give-a-way prize is a choice of our t-shirts. The lucky winner will get to choose from one of our four available t-shirts (Bramsar Records, Durgon Style Music, Play Any Key Music or Spin Cycle Films).
The deadline is March 31, 2006 and only one entry per person (one for February & one for March).
Submit your give-a-way entry here!
Music News
A Halfway House Christmas on VH1
Scenes from A Halfway House Christmas featuring the song, Morning Has Come, written by Matt Lundgren and Dan Attlerud aired on VH1's "100 Greatest Teen Stars".
Robert Romanus (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Young And The Restless, Will & Grace) who plays Daryl was featured in this VH1 episode. He is ranked number 96 on the "100 Greatest Teen Star" list.
Unfortunately Morning Has Come was not performed during the episode.
Morning Has Come, performed by the Allhelgona Motet Choir, is the first song off the Tiny Angels - Songs Of Christmas Joy CD to be licensed.
If you haven't heard Morning Has Come, please visit our Song Catalog or the Tiny Angels - Songs Of Christmas Joy CD page.
Bar/Girl Songs?
Trace Adkins' Honky Tonk Badonkadonk, Brooks & Dunn's Play Something Country, Toby Keith's As Good As I Once Was and Neil McCoy's Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On are just some of the bar/girl songs making it to the top of the country music and video charts.
What are bar/girl songs you ask? When you watch their video's, they're singing in a bar and have a lot of girls dancing around!
Do you have a bar/girl song? If so, we'd like to hear. Please mark your package with "Bar/Girl Songs."
Pitching More To Independent Labels
As you will see on our Independent Label Song Needs page, we are really pushing the indie label. We are pitching to some of the more established indie labels with artist that have a following.
It's time for us to change gears a bit and focus on quality indie artist that have potential to make sales. This will give us an edge when dealing with the major labels. Our goal is to get cuts that will generate royaties.
Memo To Music Industry: Fans Say Cut Your Prices, Make Better Music
Poll reveals music fans don't illegally download but think CDs are too pricey
Associated Press
David Bauder
Music executives love to blame illegal downloading for their industry's woes. But, based on the results of a new nationwide poll, they might want to look in the mirror.
Song Needs
We have added 23 new songs to our Independent Label Song Needs page. As we stated above, we are pushing the indie route more aggressively. Our Major Label Song Needs listing is still current. These artist are still working on their next release. We will post any new major label song needs as they become available.
We are looking for more songs with female vocals. Our indie label song needs page is heavy on female songs.
We are looking to increase our song submissions and sign at least three to four songs a month. Please visit our Song Catalog and listened to the current songs.
Who's Playing - Where & When!
Send us your concerts, open mics and other performance info and we'll post them in our next issue.
Dan Schafer
Place: John A's
Date: Every Mon. - Wed. (Ongoing)
Time: 7:00 pm till 10:30pm
Address: 2421 Music Valley Drive, Nashville, TN 37214 (across from Guesthouse)
Phone: (615) 885-1540
Click here to send your event details. Please include venue, date and time of your performance.
Film News
The Spin Cycle "Best Of 2005"
Screen Door Film is proud to have presented the Best of 2005 on Friday
, Feb 3rd and Saturday, Feb 4th 2006. The Spin Cycle was one of 12 short films selected. The Best of 2005 showcases the finest in short films screened throughout 2005. The lineup included 12 award winning films that played at film festivals all over the world, including 6 films from Austin directors.
Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund
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Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund is an annual grant awarded to emerging film and video artists in the state of Texas. Funded through revenues from benefit film premieres and private and corporate donations, the TFPF is our effort to redress the loss of public funds for filmmakers. Since 1996 the Austin Film Society has awarded $550,000 to over 190 film and video projects.
Awards are provided to artists whose work shows promise, skill, and creativity. In August, an independent panel of highly esteemed professionals from the national film community convene in Austin to review applications and administer awards. Award announcements are posted on our website at the conclusion of the panel session and grant disbursements are made in early September.
SXSW 2006
It's South By Southwest (SXSW) time again and we will be right in the middle of it. We'll be checking out the new films and bands.
We are watching the following films closely as we either worked on them, some crew members worked with us, or we just know cast and crew.
The Cassidy Kids
Fall To Grace
Gretchen
Jumping Off Bridges
The King
Slam Planet
South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) 2006, in its twentieth year, will take place March 15 - 19, 2006. The SXSW Film Conference and SXSW Interactive Festival, both in their thirteenth year, will take place March 10 - 14, 2006 with the Film Festival running from March 10 - 18, 2006.
The Numbers Website
The Numbers website is an awesome website to get box office numbers and other in depth information on movies.
Details on The Numbers site:
The Numbers was officially launched on October 17th, 1997 as a free resource for industry professionals and fans to track business information on movies. Since its humble early beginnings, with just 300 tracked movies, the site has grown to become the largest freely available database of movie industry information on the web. Nearly 10,000 movies and about 500,000 separate pieces of information are now stored in the database, and The Numbers continues its commitment to making this data available to the widest possible audience.
Merchandise & Advertisements
T-shirts that do not appear in our on-line store are available. We will have them displayed with prices, colors and sizes in the next few weeks. If the item you are interested in is not currently in our on-line store, please send us an e-mail with your request to orderinfo@playanykey.com.
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