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Tuesday, 2 August 2016

SMC announces NEW affiliate: ARTISTMAX & presents VIP Music Scholarship Program to 2016 Artists of the Year Winners!

by CA Marshall

We've been sitting on this little gem since our first email correspondence with the amazing team at ArtistMax out of Los Angeles, California and we've gotten the green light: after several months of correspondence, we are proud to announce that Starlight Music Chronicles is an OFFICIAL Media Ambassador for the prestigious ArtistMax music workshop program.

Here's the buzz on the ArtistMax scholarship program as per their website:

'ArtistMax is a 3-day intense artist development workshop designed by industry professionals to teach a new generation the current music business and to discover tomorrow’s superstars. Presented by GRAMMY Award winning engineer, producer and author Ken Caillat, (Fleetwood Mac) and initially held at the World Famous Village Studios in Los Angeles, "ArtistMax gives developing artists access to the training, knowledge and coaching necessary to maximize their careers." ArtistMax offers a real life chance to train with the top music professionals of today - panelists include recording studio engineers, producers, vocal coaches, image consultants, make up artists, social media experts, touring managers and artist managers. ArtistMax events have included appearances and panel discussions by a number of noted artists and producers, including GRAMMY award winning artist and songwriter Colbie Caillat, John Rzeznik, and Christina Perri.'

Here's where this announcement gets real interesting.....in partnering with ArtistMax as an Ambassador, we are able to also proudly announce that we were offered TWO VIP Scholarships to present to our winning Artists of the Year: (IAM)WARFACE and Olivia Penalva! Congratulations!

Here's what the VIP Scholarship will include:

· One on One Vocal Coaching

· Official Artistmax Songwriting and Collaboration Course

· Publishing, Contracts and Artist Management

· Branding, Social Media and the "Pitch"

· Recording Vocals in the Studio

· Production Tools and Arrangement

· Individual Songwriting Breakout Sessions

· Stage Performance and Movement

· Makeup, Image and Style

· Featured Grammy Award Winning Producer/Engineer

For more information on the ArtistMax program, please refer to the social media links below or click on the video! We have added this amazing program to our roster of growing elite organizations on our website www.starlightmusicchronicles.com

ArtistMax Social Media Links (Click to View):

Website
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram

Monday, 13 June 2016

SMC Enters Season I 2015-2016 Artist of the Year Competition June 20, 2016 | The Scoop

by CA Marshall

It has been one full year since we first began our Artist of the Month (AOM) competitions and we have to say, it's been an amazing journey with some of the worlds finest Independent Artists. In just one week, the voting polls will open up for our Artist of the Year competition which will include all 11 AOM winners from August 2015 until June 2016. So here's the scoop on how it will all go down:

On June 20th, there will be TWO polls that will open up for unlimited Fan Voting. This means that Family, Friends, and Fans of the Artists competing can vote an unlimited amount of times per day every day (10 days total) for their fave. So why two polls? It has become increasingly apparent that there are two age groups that have applied for the AOM competitions over the course of the last year. We felt it would be easiest to break up the win into a 'TEEN' and 'ADULT' competition not only to tailor the competition to see if there is continued/enough interest in going into a second season for a simultaneous Teen and Adult monthly competition for 2016-2017, but we also recognise that many of the youth are just beginning their music careers and may feel they are at a disadvantage to their adult peers who may have been involved in the Music Industry for a longer period of time.

Here's who will be competing in the Adult (18+) Artist of the Year Poll:
(IAM)WARFACE
SHAY ESPOSITO
NOHC
THE ROXY SUICIDE
MALAYA
RYAN INGLIS
AFTER THE CALM

Our TEEN (17 and under) Artist of the Year Competitors Poll will include:
OLIVIA ROSE
KAYLIN
ABIGAIL BELCHER
OLIVIA PENALVA

The Voting Poll Platforms will be created on Two Separate Pages on the Starlight Music Chronicles Site which will make for easy sharing for both group competitors and their social media platforms. However, the Facebook Online Event will incorporate all Artists in the running so as to keep information we will be blasting focused in one spot for all of the Family, Friends, and Fans cheering these amazing Artists on. Both Voting Poll platforms will launch at 12:01am MST in North America on June 20th, 2016 and run until 11:59pm MST in North America on June 30th, 2016. We will give our Judges a 7 day grace period for their decision and our Winners will be officially announced on July 10th, 2016 on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages. Interviews and Official Pages will be set up on our website by July 15th 2016.

To Register as a Voter/Spectator of the frequent Information/Social Media blasts and to stay afloat of the day to day (and minute to minute) event details, we fully encourage everyone to click 'Attending' in the event itself (click here to be directed). Don't worry, you don't actually have to show up to the 'event', it's for info purposes only so that you can make an educated choice as to who you feel deserves to be our TEEN and ADULT Artists of the Year.

The winner in each category will have the opportunity to be spotlighted throughout July 2016-June 2017 on ALL Social Media, Website, and Magazine platforms which includes Radio Interviews on SMC Radio with Host Ty Anderson (aka: Ty The Voice Guy) and updates on the Artists progress seasonally/or as news comes up for them. (example: new music releases, events, video releases, etc). This is a value worth thousands of dollars and which not only holds a dollar value, but bragging rights as being the very FIRST Starlight Music Chronicles Artists of the Year!

We wish all Artists the best of luck!

Please keep in mind that this is a 50% FAN VOTED and 50% Judges panel Voting Monthly Competition. Our five judges are as follows: Mike Lang, Randy Wayne Belt, Walter Hargrave, and Michael McKenna as well as Editor for SMC, Candice Marshall. These votes will count for the remaining 50% of the final votes and be also considered for the winning Artist of the Year spot. ALL judges have experience in radio, contests, music journalism, magazine publication as well as song writing and production on the indie scene. Detailed Contest Rules will be posted on June 15th for all Participants and will include specifics of the Do's and Don'ts for our Event.

Friday, 9 October 2015

SMC | Artist of the Month MAYHEM!

by CA Marshall | Editor
Starlight Music Chronicles

I am writing this now because it's about to get nuts. REAL nuts in the next couple weeks for all of us at Starlight Music Chronicles. We have our very first inaugural issue Magazine launching in a few short weeks, Photo Shoots, Branding, Interviews, (editing) and THEN...............there's our Artist of the Month Competition which has been growing at break neck speed within the Indie Music Industry as one of the most creative and fun Music Competitions going on Facebook.Best part? NO ONE has to leave their homes to attend! It's all by the click of a button from your computer, laptop, phone or other electronic device: anywhere you can connect to facebook and the Starlight Music Chronicles Page (https://www.facebook.com/starlightmusicchronicles) you can get to the EVENTS section of the page and scroll through each month, past, present, and future (we are always open for submissions at least a month and a half in advance - see above poster for the December 2015 Artist Submissions) (click here to enter) 80% of our monthly global views are coming through facebook via this forum. Exciting! Not just for Starlight Music Chronicles, but for the Artists being Promoted!

Even today, there are two submissions waiting in cue for the December 2015 Competition! What began as a 'trial' has turned into a phenomenal response from Industry Peers and Musicians from all over the globe. And this is not just a casual statement either because each month, we are checking the stats and we are easily surpassing the previous whole month's visits globally in one WEEK! This is occurring more and more as the competition keeps moving forward and shows no signs of slowing down.

Each Artist that has won the competition so far have been very pleased to be cast as 'Starlight Music Chronicles Artist of the Month Alumni', a 'Class' (for lack of better words) of Indie Artists that are attending a (Music-School of Rock?) event of sorts where at the end of the year, all 12 winners will compete for the Starlight Music Chronicles Artist of the YEAR! This will include YEAR-LONG free promotion for the winning artist which can showcase new music, branding, etc. Considering that we get thousands of views per day globally to the website, this is a great addition to artists wanting promotion on what is becoming one of the Best Music Entertainment websites for Indie & Signed Artists.

So far, we have Olivia Rose (August 2015 Winner), IAMWARFACE (September 2015 Winner), and Shay Esposito (October 2015 Winner) who have been featured for a month long promo spot for FREE on our site simply by participating in the Competition. (see this months promo spot) Aside from a few glitches here are there (facebook can be a ton of fun to try to get these tech things fixed in a timely manner *sarcasm*!), things have been running pretty smoothly. In addition to being featured for a month long spot on our website, we also include the Artists in our quarterly Magazine (launching later this month) with any new updates and progress that they have made since their win.

But what is the point of these kinds of competitions? For Starlight Music Chronicles, first and foremost, it's the chance for Indie Artists to be showcased in a small forum (Only 10 Bands/Artists MAX are allowed per month) which allows the fans to digest what they are all about. We post the bands' Biography, Music, Achievements as well as allow the Artists themselves to post banners and info about themselves which ups the ante for the Competition. *Reference the September 2015 Artist of the Month Competition to see what we are talking about here. The Posters and even FAN videos that were submitted on the page was brilliant, encouraged, and interactive.

Another reason for hosting these competitions is for SMC to garner exactly what music the fans want to hear more of or read more about on our site. We have an 'Our Faves' page on the website as well as Spotlight features (www.starlightmusicchroniclesspotlight.com) on featured artists and The Chronicles (www.starlightmusicchronicles.blogspot.ca) where there are many featured Artists on Video as well as Song reviews, Announcements, Behind-the-scenes features, and much, much, more based on the genre and type of Artists our SMC fans want to hear more of.

What we know so far is that many Indie Artists have been reaching out to us via this Monthly Competition for various reasons, some not even related to the competition (some want photo shoots, branding, etc). It's safe to say that since opening the SMC Artist of the Month Event, we could easily sum up the Competition has amalgamated the Starlight Music Chronicles website (and all social media outlets for that matter) as a sweet combo of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets The Wizard of Oz with a side twist of Rocky Horror Picture show. Yeah, and maybe a little of Alice in Wonderland and The Nightmare Before Christmas in there too for good measure!

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Editor's Note: It always excites me (like Christmas, one of my favorite times of the year!) when I go to click the 'Submit Now' and launch button for the monthly Voting Poll to OPEN on the event. Something about that 'OPEN' sign that suggests freedom and joy and It isn't much longer after I hit 'Refresh' and the fan votes are off and running....and then the likes.....and then the comments.....(see above photo).

The few snags we have run across are really minor.......other Artists trying to post their fan pages or art on the event wall but it is strictly prohibited as the artists took the time to submit to us all of the requirements PRIOR to the poll launch. Usually when this happens, we encourage all artists that wish to have their music promoted to contact myself at editor@starlightmusicchronicles.com and I will be happy to discuss the event and the requirements. There have been some pretty wild comments on the content in these events as well but that is one thing I AM grateful for with facebook: they block those comments and delete them for us. We try to keep the competitions as clean and fun as possible because at the end of the day all we are trying to do is offer Indie Artists the support that is severely lacking in the Industry.

We look forward to the next 9 months of competition and talks are already in the work of having an annual festival or 'showcase' of these artists so stay tuned for more information on that when we go to launch the Artist of the Year Competition next July 2016!