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What a wild week in Las Vegas at the PROMAX Station Summit. Great catching up with old friends, meeting some new ones and getting the word out about our brand new “Locals Only” music package and platform. (Check out this article from TV Newscheck.com.)
Oh yea, and we also gave away two very cool guitars: a Martin D-18 acoustic signed by Willie Nelson was taken home by Eric Dahl, Regional Promotion Supervisor at WZTV, WUXP, WNAB, Nashville, TN; while Bob Mackowiak, Marketing Manager at WAVE-TV NBC, Louisville, KY nabbed a Fender Telecast signed by Tom Petty.
Also, Jason Lewis, Creative Services Director at WTAT and WMMP, Charleston, SC, won a 1960’s Fender Road Worn Strat; and Paul Fix, Promotions Manager at WVTV and WCGV, Milwaukee, WI, will stay warm this winter in a one-of-a-kind “Locals Only” letterman jacket.
Check out the pictures below. We’ll post more pics throughout the week on our Facebook page.
The sleek display case of prizes that greeted attendees each day.
The boss personally stringing up the Willie Nelson signed Martin acoustic.
Bob Mackowiak, Marketing Manager at WAVE-TV NBC Louisville, KY with his Tom Petty autographed Telecaster.
(Left to right) Jason Lewis of WTAT, WMMP, Charleston, SC; Paul Fix of WVTV, WCGV, Milwaukee, WI; and Eric Dahl of WZTV, WUXP, WNAB, Nashville, TN, with Stephen Arnold.
First, we’d like to thank everyone for entering our contest. It’s always great to hear such positive feedback.
And now, the drawing:
And the winner is … Chris Beeler from KPTM-TV in Omaha. Congratulations, Chris!
We’ve got a lot of exciting things coming up this spring and summer, so stay tuned. We may just surprise you!
In honor of Mother’s Day we asked the Stephen Arnold Music staff to come up with a few songs about mothers.There’s a lot — even more when you consider songs with ‘mother’ in the lyric (like Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” or Lynyrd Skynyrd “Simple Man”).
Here’s a few we came up with. Got a few ideas too? Jot them below in the comment section.
Pink Floyd: “Mother” (brilliant version with Sinead O’Connor)
Rolling Stones: “Mother Little Helper”
Kate Bush: “Mother Stands For Comfort”
Three Dog Night: ”Mama Told Me Not To Come”
John Lennon: “Mother”
Queen: “Tie Your Mother Down”
Paul Simon: “Mother & Child Reunion”
The Beatles: “Your Mother Should Know”
Listen to Aerial, and leave a comment below for your chance to win a vintage Martin acoustic guitar.
You can check out the actual guitar here (thanks, Stephen):
Drawing to be held on Tuesday, May 17th 2011.
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The 3D Creative Arts Awards Show, the milestone event for the International 3D Society, aired on April 17th on the 3net channel and featured numerous music cues from Stephen Arnold Music, including the introduction, walk-on cues, and special presentations.
With the theme of “Your World in 3D,” the focus of the event gave us a chance to go beyond traditional Hollywood award show sounds. In live event formats like this, we believe the music needs to grab you right away — the cues don’t play for long, but there’s an instant emotional connection.
Winners included Walt Disney’s Tron: Legacy (Live Action Feature), DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Feature), and Pixar’s Day & Night (Short Motion Picture/Narrative). Congrats to all! We were glad to be a part of it, and we’re looking forward to next year already.
Check out this montage of the music we did here…
If you’re like us, we’re going to watch anything with the word “shark” in it, but the show “Shark Men,” which features an extensive toolbox of custom music cues we created for the ten 60-minute episodes, is truly amazing. Each week a team of world-class anglers and scientists take on great white sharks in an unprecedented hands-on research initiative.
Season 2 just started airing. Click below to watch complete episodes or catch it Sundays at 10pm on Nat Geo.
Our good friends at CNN HLN asked us to compose the theme for their newest show “Dr. Drew,” starring everyone’s favorite addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky, best known for “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” and “Sober House” on VH1, as well as the national radio show “Loveline.” The show premieres tonight at 9pm est on HLN.
Given HLN’s sonic brand — which tends to feature a quick, upbeat pace — and Dr. Drew’s popularity with younger audiences, we went with a highly-charged, guitar-oriented theme that felt like a good fit not only for the host and his audience, but for HLN as well.
Let us know what you think. You can check it out here, or on HLN tonight at 9pm.
Remember when SXSW was just a great music festival? We do. But as anyone with a computer knows today the festival is about so much more. Technology, film, comedy, food, social networking, and of course great music — SXSW encompasses all of it and much more.
If you were in Austin last week than you know how fun it was. If you weren’t here a few links to show you what you missed.
Click here and here for some awesome photo galleries with celeb sightings.
Click here for a look at the “The King of Luck,” the Willie Nelson doc directed by Billy Bob Thornton that closed the film conference.
Click here for some old school R&B grooves from Raphael Saadiq.
Finally, this video from UK’s The Guardian takes an offbeat look at SXSW and its geek component. (We love the build your own synthesizer seminar — about 3:00 minutes in).
Good music is a bipartisian issue, at least that’s what our intrepid sales force of Michael Finnegan and Noelle Alanis found out during a recent trip to Nation’s capital.
Check out the pictures…
Noelle with WBAL Creative Services Director Steve Bamonti
Michael (left) with Vault client Kevin McWilliams of the DEA
Michael behind the camera at WBAL
Noelle on her way to a secret meeting with Obama to discuss sensitive national sonic branding issues.
TV commentator Lou Dobbs returned to the airwaves last night on the FOX Business Network (FBN) with his new show “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” Setting the tone was the show’s opening theme that comes from The Vault, the elite library of music maintained by Stephen Arnold Music .
We’ve worked with FBN in the past on a number of sonic branding projects. This time they selected a hard-edged guitar-driven track recorded with live guitar, drums and bass. The rock-flavored track is a perfect fit with FBN’s contemporary sonic brand, which targets a younger demographic than traditional business networks.
Check it out below and let us know what you think.
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