The MIMO Interview: We As Human
Hard rock band We As Human broke into the music industry in a way that almost never happens anymore: they were “discovered.” After years of plugging away at their craft and playing their big-sounding...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Blue October
For over a decade and a half, Texas-based alternative rock act Blue October have been steadily building a solid fan base and a reputation for making great music. Their first big foray into the...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Terrace Martin Channels Quincy Jones For 3ChordFold
Sporting a blue Dodgers cap and a home Dodger jersey (Ryu #99), Terrace Martin steps outside the sauna atmosphere of the brightly lit Woodworks Records studio off Manchester Boulevard in the heart of...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Lucy Schwartz Talks about “Timekeeper”
For being a young indie artist, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Lucy Schwartz has certainly made the rounds. At age 23, she’s already had dozens of song placements in film and television (most...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Capital Cities
A couple of years ago, few people had ever heard of electro-pop act Capital Cities. They started off as most indie bands do, with an EP, a single, and a lot of hope. As it turned out, that single,...
View ArticleMuhammida El Muhajir Speaks on ‘Hip Hop: The New World Order’ Documentary
Hip-hop culture was birthed some 40 years ago in the Bronx as economically disadvantaged youth developed breakdancing, emceeing, deejaying and graffiti to express themselves. The culture has spread...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Christina Grimmie
In many ways, 19-year-old pop singer/songwriter Christina Grimmie is a picture of indie artist success. Although unsigned, she’s released an EP and a full-length album, gained a global following,...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Deap Vally
When two women meet in a crochet class and end up forming a heavy music act, that’s a story in itself. But when you listen to the passionate, raw sound that Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards (aka Deap...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Heather Gardner, Vapor Music (Part 1)
With the expansion of cable and satellite into hundreds of channels, the rise of Internet video, and a boon of new films and television shows over the past few years, the demand for song placement and...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Heather Gardner, Vapor Music (Part 2)
Yesterday, we launched a new series of posts under the heading “Indie Musicians, Publishing and Song Placement” with an interview with music supervisor Heather Gardner. Below is the conclusion of that...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Meet SHEL
The “family band” concept is one that can be either very cheesy or very chic. For sisters Sarah, Hannah, Eva and Liza Holbrook—collectively called SHEL, an acronym derived from their first...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Steve King, Imagem Creative Services
Continuing our interview series on “Indie Musicians, Publishing and Song Placement,” Music Is My Oxygen has been talking with a number of music industry professionals to get their best advice on how...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Jessica Cole, Lyric House Publishing
For DIY musicians and songwriters who want to venture into song licensing and placement, but who have little in the way of industry connections, a good music publisher can be a powerful ally. Where...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Introducing Malkovich
Meet Malkovich, a rapping entrepreneur from L.A. who has logged more airline miles than most of us combined. Having returned to the U.S. from a prolonged stint in Namibia and Europe, just last week he...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Shout Out Louds [2013 in Review]
As is our custom, toward the end of the year and the beginning of the next, we like to take a look back at some of the more memorable articles published to MIMO. We begin our review of 2013 with an...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Lissie Talks “Shameless” [2013 In Review]
2013 was a great year for MIMO interviews, from industry representatives to Platinum-selling artists. In this piece from June, Jeff McQ got a chance to ask folk-rocker Lissie a few questions about her...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Blue October [2013 In Review]
One of our best-received MIMO interviews from the past year was the one Jeff McQ did back in August with Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October. On the eve of the band’s new album release Sway, Furstenfeld...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: The Mowgli’s [2013 in Review]
At the time David Tillman turned this piece on The Mowgli’s into MIMO back in April, they were just starting to gain attention with their single “San Francisco,” with a debut full-length record in the...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Lucy Schwartz [2013 in Review]
Continuing to review some of the more memorable pieces from MIMO in 2013…we came across this interview Jeff McQ did with Lucy Scwhartz back in August. She’s had a lot of opportunities as an indie...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Heather Gardner, Vapor Music (Part 1) [2013 In Review]
We conclude our January review of the best posts on MIMO in 2013 with an important series of interviews that should be especially helpful to indie singer-songwriters and composers. In recent years,...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Heather Gardner, Vapor Music (Part 2) [2013 In Review]
Finishing up our month of reviewing key MIMO articles from 2013…here is Part 2 of Jeff McQ’s interview with Heather Gardner, music supervisor for Vapor Music. First published last fall, this was part...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Steve King, Imagem [2013 In Review]
The interview series MIMO conducted with music publishers and supervisors last fall contains crucial information for indie artists who are serious about a career in today’s music market. We are...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Jessica Cole, Lyric House Publishing [2013 In Review]
We conclude our annual review of most notable MIMO posts from the past year with the final installment of our series on Indie Musicians, Publishing and Song Placement, first published last fall. In...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Priscilla Ahn
Since her early days playing open mics around New York City clubs in the mid-2000s, singer-songwriter Priscilla Ahn has become something of a staple in the indie music scene. Her warm, folksy style has...
View ArticleThe MIMO Interview: Jim Attebery, Durango Songwriters Expo
As sort of an appendix to the “Indie Musicians, Publishing and Song Placement” series of interviews we conducted with several industry professionals last fall, we felt it would be a great idea to get a...
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