We’re doing things a little differently this month, folks! In celebration of my first monthly Live Show Broadcast, I’m releasing this month’s “Song For You” early as a FREE download.
The final video and story origination will come next week, complete with handmade artwork and animation from my friend and fellow artist Cory Basil [check out the cover photo for a sampling of what’s to come].
Enjoy the download, and come back this evening for a Live performance or this song and many more, right over here.
The Men of Mancember have been busy at work preparing the Manliest Holiday show of 2011… or probably ever.
Catch up with us for the next for weeks at http://mancember.info
[and grab some free music to boot]
I’ve been using Jango’s awesome Internet Radio system for a while now, and they’ve done a great job helping independent artists find their audience.
Recently, my Holiday song “Angels We Have Heard On High” made their cut for the official Jango Holiday Radio station… Woot!
But you don’t have to go all the way over there to listen. Download it for FREE here.
… coming up next… video from this past week’s House Shows!
(Photo by allthatimprobableblue
A question was brought to my attention after a chat with a friend, and I’m not sure I have an answer… So of course, I’ll turn to you. It went something like this:
Friend: Spotify and Rdio both seem to either limit your amount of free music or play ads. I guess I’ll have to switch back and forth between them.
Me: Or you could just pay for one?
Friend: We pay after we know it’s good. We listen for free. Isn’t that the new standard?
Paul Shearer and Michael Shoup talk about making the record, and play a previously unreleased song!
For those of you who missed out on Monday, I decided to broadcast 14hrs of my life LIVE on the internet to kick off my “Week of Sharing” where I’m giving away all of my music for FREE. From guest performers to tutorials on how to build an artist website and more, it was a great broadcast.
Above is the session I did with my Producer, Paul Shearer, talking about how we put together “Learning How To Live” and playing some new tunes acoustically. Skip to about 20 min in to hear the songs, or just check out the full chat.
More highlights from Monday to come soon [as soon as I edit through 14 hours!!!]
~ michael
I met up with Annie from “You Sing, I Write” not too long ago to talk music and everything under the sun. She was nice enough to hold the interview until now to help promote my week of sharing! It’s a great article, so thanks so much Annie! Read away, and if you haven’t yet, make sure to get your FREE DOWNLOAD this week.
OMI: Interview with Michael Shoup
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The interview I recently did with Outing The Music Industry is now available as a Podcast on iTunes, absolutely FREE!
There was a lot of great discussion in this for new or indie artists. For example:
Plus, there are 4 of my songs played as well! Grab it at the link above, and come on back with questions.
For more info about this program, check out my orignal post back here.
~ michael
Music has been in my life since I can remember. I can hear my Grandmother singing “In the Pines” from when I was a kid. I remember my Mother and Father rocking me to sleep with “Sweet Baby James.” Every show tune you can think of reminds me of my Sister… yes, every one.. and she’ll sing them for you. I’ve been blessed with some of my greatest memories by the sounds of The Beatles, Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley, Radiohead and Everything that came out of the 90’s… yes, even that song.
With all of these blessings, it’s a wonder why I’ve taken this long to finally, fully communicate to people in the way that I best know how, and for that, I apologize to you, world. You dropped me into a wonderful supportive family and group of friends. You put me through music school that gave, and took away, and gave back again the tools I needed to be here. And you kept at me for the last few years while I took the time to write, reflect, and grow into the man you knew I could be. Let’s just call that last part “figuring it out.”
So here we are. You, reader, and Me, writer. And this is where it all begins. I want to invite you to my experiment. This one I call Living… and on this blog, and the music that comes through here, we get to explore what that means.
We’ll start here. Dying To Live.
My mother calls me Michael. My friends call me Shoup. A Songwriter, Storyteller, Pixel Manipulator, and Entropic Strategist, I make music and tools for others like myself.
—”Welcome to America, where being obese is genetic but being gay is a choice.”
Via: @mikeread (Taken with instagram)
More antiquated carts. (Taken with Instagram at WNRN)
One day these too will be remembered as the ‘good old’ days.
She tells herself this is the last time
Like a hundred times before
She builds a house and hides it inside
But it keeps knocking down the door
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”I listened to it FINALLY! And it’s really good! I’m just so happy that this actually happened, so thank you Michael Shoup!
It really means a lot to...
