How can you not love the pure chutzpah of this lounge lizard plugging Taco Bell’s four kinds of steak? ___________________________________________________ Mike Bielenberg is a professional musician and co-founder of http://www.musicrevolution.com, a production music marketplace where media producers and business owners can license high-quality, affordable music from a online community of musicians.

Performance royalties organizations (or “PROs”) serve an important role to the music world:  They ensure that when a piece of music composed by one of their members is performed in public, that member gets paid. “Public” is defined in this case as a gathering of people beyond just family and friends. It’s a tough job. […]

Love is in the air! A search on MusicRevolution for royalty-free “Valentine” tracks gave me 37 results. Here’s my favorite: “More Than She’ll Ever Know” by Stuart Moore Music. If you haven’t closed the deal by the time the trombone comes in at approximately 2:00 Stuart Moore himself will travel from Sacramento to give you […]

In December, a US federal judge ruled that the direct performance license deals created between DMX, a large provider of background to thousands of businesses, and major music publishers such as Warner/Chapel and EMI Publishing, did not constitute a breach in contract with BMI, the performing rights society that represents many of the songwriters who’s […]

Once you are several hours into the process of creating a royalty-free production music track, it’s often difficult to see the forest for the trees. What’s the quickest and easiest way to see the forest? Here’s a great tool: Create an extra audio track within the starter template you use for most of your music. […]

We provide music comps to Tongal members who submit videos to contests. Tongal contests are normally sponsored by companies that pay out prize money for the best submissions (for details, visit www.tongal.com). It’s also important, for the sake of understanding this article, to know what the term User Generated Content means. People who view internet […]

Here’s another terrific TV commercial soundtrack. Incredibly well-produced electronica: Mike Bielenberg www.musicrevolution.com

The jingle at the end of this Campells Soup spot is very catchy. Although I couldn’t find any agency or music house info. Mike Bielenberg www.musicrevolution.com

I am absolutely pumped about this! Here’s our official press release: (Trumbull, CT – January 11, 2011) – MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com), an innovative online marketplace for production music, today announced that its production music library now exceeds 10,000 tracks of royalty-free music. “With over 10,000 tracks of high-quality royalty-free production music online, our community of professional […]

Location: Kingston, London, UK Member since: December 14, 2010 Tracks in portfolio: 11 (click here to hear all tracks) Tracks We Like: “Butterflies” “Psychodelia” The Interview 1. High profile projects or clients you have worked for? At the moment I am working with a film student at the New York Film Academy in Hollywood, on […]