Viva La Vida

Viva La Vida

Spotlight: The Roland Jones Orchestra

The Roland Jones Orchesta (From left to right) Troy Harris, Caleb Humphries, Drew Parrot (the blurry one), Jared McEntire at Crossroads Coffee House (not pictured: Chris Jones and Jacob Wolfe). Photo by Mary Schafer.
I have attempted to sum up the music industry from the start of this blog by referencing websites, talking to a few [...]

Round 1: Hard Copies vs Digital Copies

So I ditched the whole Excel thing and decided to do a cool time-line thing instead. I attached it to the previous post about random things (including summer music festivals). However, this post is the sum of the information I was going to put into a cool Excel graph/chart.
Who likes lines and numbers anyway??? Enjoy [...]

What’s in a Venue?

Happy spring break to everyone! I hope you all had an enjoyable vacation. What, not all of you went on spring break last week? Sorry about that, your’s will come in due time, but for now it’s back to business.
Venues. Breaking into the music scene can be as simple as scoring the right gig at [...]

News of the interesting type

So magazines do album reviews. Most notably Rolling Stone focuses all on music and does reviews as well. But have you ever wondered how they review an album before it comes out to everyone else. I know I always have.
Here is usually how it works. Typically record companies send out demo records for reviewers before [...]

The Beginning

This is the starting point, The Preamble to the Constitution, the warm-up before the big game… well this is not as dramatic or poignant as all those, but this is your introduction to Work in Melody.
This lovely blog will take you on a journey through the business that is behind the music we love, [...]