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NEWS

The final season of Cougar Town (now onTBS) has some very cool songs from IFMP artists -- "THIS TIME AROUND" from the band 'Worth Taking', "MINUTES" from Evan Olson and "END OF THE WORLD" by Red Velvet Ray Gun.

 

January 8th's episode of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS is a great one for BEAT CHAMBER artist KORIANA. Her song "BREATHE" is featured and you'll also hear her song "LOVELY LULLABY", along with instrumental versions of her songs "ANYTHING FOR YOU" and "BRIGHTER".

 

How much fun is this? Writer Terry Munday landed a placement with his song "SUPER SURFER" on the MTV series "SLEDNECKS" which airS on Christmas Day 12/25/14. There will be snow.

 

SHAMELESS is back...the new 2015 season kicks off with several placements for IFMP artists: BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD's "Evil Baby", ZOMBIE GARDEN CLUB's "Graduation Day" & "Razor Woman", WILL REILEY'S "Drive" and JOHN J HARVEY'S "Dirty Face".

 


 

SON OF A GUN: SEAN PATRICK MCGRAW has landed another one of his terrific Country songs on SONS OF ANARCHY. You can hear "HARD WAY TO MAKE AN EASY LIVING" on 11/11/14.

 

A new series about addiction and athletes from Direct TV, LOCKER ROOM ADDICTION, is using  "DOWN A DARK ROAD" written by BEAT CHAMBER's  JONATHAN MERKEL.


 

New from Bravo, 'GIRLFRIENDS' GUIDE TO DIVORCE' will air this December with an IFMP song in the second episode.  Another great placement for "YOU'RE LOSIN IT" by SUICIDE CELEBRITY (writers Bill Brandt, Wally Brandt & Keith Volpone)
LIAR, LIAR..."PANTS ON FIRE", a new TV movie  on DISNEY XD - for the male skewed tween and teen audience, has a cool Indie rock cue kicking off the film called "MELTDOWN", composed by IFMP's CONOR KEARNS.

 

Country artist SEAN PATRICK MC GRAW has scored another placement, this time in the second episode of Season 3 of the ABC hit series NASHVILLE.  The song is "IF YOU'RE THAT GIRL (I'M THAT GUY)" -- congrats to Sean's co writers, Dale Oliver and Serg Salinas.

 

WE KISS AND TELL...Indy film "NAOMI AND ELI'S NO KISS LIST" is using the PETER ROBERTS' song "LET ME TASTE YOUR HONEY" for this upcoming romantic comedy.

 

SPRING 2015 -- Dolph Lundgren stars in the action thriller film SKIN TRADE, being  released in Spring '15.  "UNZIP ME" by BELLE REV is used in the movie.  Writers are Jessie Schoen and Edgard Jaude.
MORE LOVE from HALLMARK...We 3 Kings song "THRU MY ARMS" will be heard on their upcoming TV movie, "A NOVEL ROMANCE".

 

LOVING THAT LIFETIME CHANNEL ...Audrey Martells sings AVALANCHE, cowritten with Edgard Jaude for TV film "RUN FOR YOUR LIFE" coming soon on Lifetime.
TOUCHDOWN...the composing team of EDDIE GREY & KEVIN COMDEN just learned that their song "GAME TIME" (which was used as the logo for Direct TV's Celebrity Beach Ball) will be the main title for new series "FANTASY FOOTBALL".


Several placements coming up on BKB Unfiltered (Big Knockout Boxing) for Audience Network(Direct TV. Congrats to writers Scooter Pietsch (Family Tragedy),  The Presidentz (What We Bout), and to Eddie Gray and Dario Forzato (Light Is On and Remember Us).

 

JUSTIFIED REDUX: IFMP artist ADRIAN NILES got his third placement on the FX hit series JUSTIFIED with his terrific song "SAME ROAD" this past April. Way to roll!

 

LOVE IS IN THE AIR...when you're watching HALLMARK MOVIES, that is.  Their upcoming TV movie "WHEN SPARKS FLY" features the sweet song "SHINE" by CURIOUS on June 28th. Congrats to writers Rinat Arinos, Daniel Brecher and Sean Hurwitz on this placement.

 

LOVE IS IN THE AIR AGAIN -- this time it's in Canada. Canadian network UP has a love story for TV  called "MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN". This one features a song by Johnny Douglas, sung by Samantha Newark, called "GOODBYE, GOOD FRIEND".

 

NEW ARTISTS PLACEMENTS ON Y&R:  Lots of wonderful new IFMP artists have had songs recently on  The Young & The Restless including: Beechy Colclough (Hold Onto Your Love, Real Time, Hard To Forget),  Will Reiley (Dreams), Lovers and Poets (The Things We Do For Love), Joel Evans (Boogie With My Baby), Audrey Martells & Edgard Jaude (Beautiful), Erika Fatale (Liquid) and Project Dirty (Strobe Hearts).


It's Da Bomb -- Canadian TV series BOMB GIRLS was canceled, but the fans loved it so much, that the producers made a 2 hour Movie of the Week that will air this spring....you'll get to hear, fresh from the Jackie Saunders Orchestra, featuring Huck Andrews singing, "If We Should Ever Meet Again". Thanks to the Morrison Catalog for this great, authentic vintage song.


Simply Shameless -- Two great songs on the 2/23/14 episode of Showtimes' hit series SHAMELESS.  Hat's off to Joel Evans, whose song "Probably The Sunny Day" was featured along with "Shotgun Pistol Grip" by The Ghost Wolves.


So Glad To Be Single-- VHI's "SINGLE LADIES" has added another IFMP song to one of their episodes...this time by the talented Ms Larissa Ness...the episode is in March of '14 and is called "One Way(Pass On the Drama)".



And So Hot -- Excited to announce that the song "Hottie Boys" is in the soundtrack for the Indy Film "CAVEMEN" released by Lakeshore Entertainment. Congrats to We3Kings who got those Cavemen dancing!


IT'S GAME TIME!  -- DIRECT TV's  'CELEBRITY BEACH BOWL', taking place in NYC, airs on Saturday,  February 1st.  You'll be hearing the shows' new theme music "GAME TIME" written by Kevin Comden and Eddie Grey.


REAL WORLD EX-PLOSION -- Watch MTV's "Real World Explosion" on Wednesday, January 29th to hear THE GHOST WOLVES perform "ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK" from their album, "Man, Woman, Beast".  This is one great Austin band!

CATCHING UP WITH  THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS -- 2014 is already off to a great start with more IFMP songs being used on the long running CBS Daytime Drama...on Monday, January 27th you'll be able to hear SHELLEE COLEY from Houston Town singing "BROKEN KISS" from her album "Where It Began" and you'll also hear more of "WAIT" from BROKEN FENCES, which is part of a storyline happening on the show.  From KEATON SIMONS you'll hear music from "CURRENTLY" and "TO ME" and if you watched last week, you heard "FANTASY" by AL-X, END OF THE EARTH from LARRY MAY, FEEL from STEPHANIE DAY & BRIAN HITT and EASY TO LOVE by ORBIT MONKEY.

 



HOW SUPER IS THIS?  Rapper SKY has another song, this one is called "LIKE MY STYLE" on ABC's comedy hit 'SUPER FUN NIGHT'  -- a great placement as the End Title of the episode, which airs Wednesday, January 22nd.  Peter Roberts and Sky Holsey do it again!

Y & R SO FAR --    CBS long running Daytime Drama "The Young & The Restless" has kicked ofF 2014 with a heap of great placements, including UK's SAM HYMAN's song "IN MY HEART", STEPHANIE DAY'S "CALIFORNIA", AL-X's "FANTASY" and BROKEN FENCES haunting song "WAIT" which is being used as a storyline song over several episodes.

 



How Fun Is This? -- ABC's SUPER FUN NIGHT, starring Rebel Wilson, has two songs from IFMP's  female rapper, SKY --"SO FLY" and "PUT YOUR THUMBS UP" on the show's episode that airs 1/8/14.  The songs are co written by Sky Holsey & Peter Roberts.



SOA redux-- two new songs on the FX hit series SONS OF ANARCHY Tues, December 10th -- congrats to Christopher Pennington who wrote "LITTLE RED CAR CAR" and to Edgard Jaude and Adam Michaels for "ANTS IN THE PANTS".

As the year comes to an end...We've had a fabulous 2013 with songs on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS (CBS). Over the next few weeks you'll hear JOHNNY DOUGLAS' (WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS, CALIFORNIA and CALIFORNIA GIRL), SHAY WATSON'S "DECK THE HALLS", DARIN HENZES' "THE FIRST NOEL", KEATON SIMONS' "WAIT",  "DIRTIER DANCING" from ALEXY MUSIC and two lovely solo piano versions of "SILENT NIGHT" and  "HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING" by composer SHARON FARBER.



So much drama -- A new internet drama "BEACON HILL" will premier soon and the Main Title song is "BLACK SNOW" written by EVAN OLSON and performed by AM rOdeO.


Poison On Your Lips -- VH1 reality series, "SINGLE LADIES" new season features a terrific song called "LOVE IS TOXIC" written by SHAY WATSON and BILL DI LUIGI, performed by OLIVIA DUNKLE & SHAY WATSON.

Big Tips, Texas cont'd -- Some great new songs on this fun MTV reality series... GIRLS NIGHT OUT performed by JEN ARMSTRONG (written by Jen Armstrong, Michael Behm & Tero Potila), BANG BANG BANG peformed by JACQUI SANDELL (written by Larry May, Hugh Colocott and Jimmy Santis), DEFINITION OF COOL peformed by CLARA LOFARO (written by Clara Lofaro, Craig Wilson and Dave Cerullo), SO LONG performed by CALLANN LANE (written by Shay Watson & Phil Baquie), ME 4 YOU performed by JESSIE & JOHNNY (written by Johnny Douglas and Jessica Friedman ), "UNSTOPPABLE" performed by KARMA VALET (written by Gary Earl and James Wrench ) and "ACT LIKE WE'RE SIXTEEN" performed by LAUREN WRIGHT (written by Lauren Wright & Stuart Eaves).

 


Nashville, ya'll! -- Wed PM 10/2 You can hear "Fast Talkin' Lover' from Whiskey Falls on the ABC Hit drama, NASHVILLE.



Sons of Anarchy -- Dwayne Russell has an great cue coming up on SOA in episode 609 of this hit series. Listen for his sultry "Mind Chiller" in November.



Ya'll watching? MTV has a new reality series that premieres October 9th...BIG TIPS TEXAS-- and two IFMP artists have music on the 6th episode...Congrats to TWIRL for their song "Get Up and Dance" and to Girls Love Shoes for their song "Flaunt".



Fall TV Season is Here -- New comedy "TROPHY WIFE" is using a great world instrumental from James Pegg called "Jungle Vibe" on the show Tuesday, October 1st.



Holidays are Around the Corner -- and once again "Isn't Christmas Time A Wonderful Thing?" will be used on another Hallmark Holiday movie, A CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT. Congrats to Joel Evans and Lisa Aschmann, the writers.



And just in time for Halloween -- Sony TV has a reworking of LIZZIE BORDEN on Oct. 13th, starring Christina Ricci. Congrats to Keith and Michael LuBrant for their song "Dangerous Mind" being used in the MOW. At least these family members get along....



Fabulous Fall -- Sunday, September 1st -- Keaton Simons scores again with his song "LIFT ME UP" on the CBS hit series "UNFORGETTABLE". His songs are truly unforgettable...check him out!



New season of SONS OF ANARCHY -- Biker fans can enjoy the music of Lorin Rowan this fall...his song "CHILLI SAUCE 2" will be in an episode this September.



There's a talk show coming to new network PIVOT TV called "RAISING McCAIN" featuring Meghan McCain..show premiers in Sept '13..up coming songs so far include "PARANOIA" by Chris Carpenter & Rodney Lawson along with "I WANT A BEAUTIFUL DAY" by Leah Andreone and Kevin Fisher and "NEW WORK ORDER" by Orbit Monkey.



More Songs on ABC Family's "The Vineyard" -- You can hear these artists on this fun Docu-Drama set on Martha's Vineyard...COME BACK AROUND(Joe Cameron), BAD GIRL (Nadia Fay & Jay Condiotti), WHEREVER YOU GO (Amos Carlen & Merle Newell), FEEL & WHEN IT'S RAINING (Stephanie Day), INTO THE SUN & BOOMERANG (Reddi), FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN (Bickenhall/Bethany Rubin), OH MY MY (Katt Rockell), OXYGEN (Stephanie Schneiderman), GUYS AND GIRLS CAN'T BE FRIENDS (Eddie Grey), DON'T PUSH ME AWAY (Joseph Pfeifer) and IT'S LIKE SUMMER (FM Nate).

Coming up in the Season Premiere of ABC Family's "THE VINEYARD",
you'll hear a song by Australian band 'THE JEFFERSON' called
"NO SURPRISE"...July 24th--save the date!

Also in the first episode, you'll hear "Come Back Around" by Joe Cameron. Episode 2 features "Bad Girl" by Girls Love Shoes and in Episode 3, "Wherever You Go" from Amos Carlen & Merle Newell

More to come...


City Girl Style...IFMP has had several songs on the new STYLE CHANNEL reality series: "CITY GIRL DIARIES"...on upcoming episodes you'll hear: TASTE THE BEAT performed by SARAH MATHER, RED HOT performed by NIOSHIMA WILSON, LUCKY ONE performed by FM NATE, AIN'T NO RUSH and HOT performed by CRISTELLE and NEED YOU DEEP performed by iPILOT.

 




New BRAVO series, "EAT DRINK LOVE", which premiers 8/11/13 will have many songs from the IFMP catalog including: SAMANTHA NEWARKS' "SOMETHING GOOD & HANDS ON ME" (by Sam & David Polich), "HIT THE TOP", performed by ALEESHA & "HOT" performed by CRISTELLE (both written by Johnny Elkins & Peter Roberts), "LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL" by Twirl (Neal Busby & Hugette Arsenault) , STEPHANIE DAY'S "WHEN ITS RAINING" (Stephanie & Brian Hitt), FM Nates "GIMME SOMETHING" & Nikko Lowe's "LADIES FIRST" (from We3Kings), GUCCI GIRL performed by Clara Lofaro (written by Clara & David Cerullo), and ABOVE ENVY's "SUPERSITIOUS" (writers Louis Yoelin & Matt Radosevich).



The new season of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS kicked off on June 12th with BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD's song "MERCY MAN", written by JOHNNY DOUGLAS. In episode #3 the show used the band's song "EVIL, BABY".




When December rolls around again, be sure to watch the Hallmark TV Movie "WINDOW WONDERLAND" so you can hear Joel Evans'& Lisa Aschmann's "ISN'T CHRISTMAS TIME A WONDERFUL THING".



MTV has a new series called "THE ALECTRIX" which premiered June 4th...in upcoming episodes you'll hear VIP, performed by AUDREY MARTELLS (written by Audrey & Edgard Jaude); "I LIKE BOYS"by ANGELHEAD (written by Johnny Douglas & Kristen Rogers) and "INDESTRUCTIBLE" by NOISE FROM TOYS (written by Cathleen Flynn and HEART guitarist, Craig Bartock).



We were very honored to have a song from the IFMP catalog to have been used on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS' Tribute to the late actress JEANNE COOPER. Special thanks to Joel Evans and Bryon Walls for the use of their song "THAT'S WHEN I'LL STOP LOVING YOU". Actor MICHAEL DAMIAN has returned to the long running Daytime Drama and has recorded a version of this song with his own fabulous vocals, which will be heard in an upcoming episode.



Seduction, anyone? Stephanie Schneiderman's song "DANGEROUS FRUIT" will be tempting someone in a Canadian Indy feature, "NO CLUE", coming our way soon.



Austin Indie Band "THE GHOST WOLVES" had two placements on the Oxygen Networks "BEST INK" series..."GONNA LIVE" & "BABY FANG THANG".


 

Hot, Hot, Hot! The new comedy feature film "CAVEMEN" will feature its male cast dancing to the song 'HOTTIE BOYS', written and performed by We3Kings.


Hey DeGrassi fans-- ALEXY MUSIC has a song on the long running Nick series called "Keep Calm" -- watch the show on March 22nd and check 'em out!



NBC TV series "DO NO HARM" found a home for BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD's "Ache of Love"...yet another placement for the prolific Johnny Douglas -- which also includes the band's song "FUZZ FACE" on CTV series "The Listener" recently.



Have you caught "BOMB GIRLS" yet? Coming up in season 3, you can hear the authentic 40's music by the MORRIE MORRISON ORCHESTRA -- "Down & Up Hambro".



Get your Ghouls on: Indy feature "LOVE IN THE TIME OF MONSTERS" has a cool dance track in it called "Take On The World"...congrats to Rinat Arinos, Jon Ernst & David Brecher along with another of their songs "Let's Go" by their artist, Miss V.



Coming up on OXYGEN Channel, 6 songs on the new reality series "CITY GIRL DIARIES"... songs include "Taste The Beat" by Sarah Maher, "Lucky One" by FM Nate, "Ain't No Rush" & "Hot" by Cristelle, "Red Hot" by Nio Wilson and "Need You Deep" by iPILOT.



December 2012 -- The CW's new hit series "Beauty & The Beast" will feature artist STEPHANIE DAY's lovely song "FEEL" on Thursday, 12/12/12. Congrats to Stephanie and her co writer, Brian Hitt.



Also in December -- MTV's "UNDEREMPLOYED" showcases the sexy BELLE REV song "UNZIP ME" on the 18th. Vocals by JESSIE SCHOEN; co written by Jessie & EDGARD JAUDE.


 

Speaking of Edgard Jaude, he and cowriter Rafael Torres have 6 cues on episodes of then new reality series that's a spin off of "Bad Girls Club", called "LOVE GAMES" now on the Oxygen Channel.


It wouldn't be December without some Holiday placements...a private compilation went out this month featuring these songs arranged and performed by IFMP artists:

The Holly and the Ivy (Steve Glotzer),

Little Town (Dwayne Russell),

O Come All Ye (Dwayne Russell),

What Child Is This (Celtic) Dwayne Russell),

God Rest Ye (Lasswell/Fawn),

Wexford Carol (Cathleen Flynn),

Ode to Joy w/ Guitar (Fawn),

Greensleeves (Steve Glotzer),

Jesu Joy of Man (Steve Glotzer)



PLAYING FOR KEEPS: This NuImage/Millennium Film, starring Gerard Butler & Jessica Beil, is their holiday release..opening nation wide on December 7th -- featuring the song "TOBACCO ROAD" by Johnny Douglas, sung by Hailey & Johnny.



REMAKE MAY DAY:  LIFETIME has remade "STEEL MAGNOLIAS" this time starring Queen Latifah -- airing on October 7th. You'll hear two IFMP artists:  BLUE DANUBE's "SATIN OCEAN" written by Peter Roberts & Johnny Elkins and "BEAT WITHIN MY HEART" sung by AUDREY MARTELLS; written by Edgard Jaude & Audrey Martells.



MORE GOOD STUFF FOR KEATON SIMONS:  KEATON HAS SONGS IN TWO EPISODES OF THE FX SERIES "SONS OF ANARCHY"...MAMA SONG ON SEPTEMBER 25TH AND GRIM REAPER ON OCTOBER 2ND.



SCAREY STUFF:  January of 2013 - Nu Image/Millennium Films is releasing LEATHERFACE 3D (AKA THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D) which will feature a fun Country song, "I THOUGHT I WAS A STUD",  by CAREY MOORE and MARTY BUCHANNAN...gonna have to rent this one and watch in broad daylight.



CALI NEWS:  Our first placement on the hit Showtime series "CALIFORNICATION" coming up...SUICIDE CELEBRITY'S
very Stone's like song "YOU'RE LOSIN' IT".



NOT SO ROUGH:  The season finale of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS included two IFMP songs: "WAIT" by the duo"BROKEN FENCES" and "ACHE OF LOVE" by "BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD".  Even less rough:  The next season will feature DEADBEAT DARLING's "LOADED GAME OF CHANCE" as well as " YOU'RE LOSIN' IT" by SUICIDE CELEBRITY.



Y&R had some fun this past summer with IFMP songs -- Only July 4th, they played Michael Sullivan's "Just One Kiss", Shannon Hurley's "Slow Down" and Johnny Douglas'  "Summertime Song". On July 30th, it was Orbit Monkey's turn again with "Always Been In Love".



MORE BAD GIRLS:  Sept 10th on Bad Girls Club, "HOT" performed by CRISTELLE (written by Johnny Elkins& Peter Roberts) on Sept 17th -- "SEXY IN LOVE" by AUDREY MARTELLS (co written with Edgard Jaude) along with "BORRACHACHA" by VIEJO AMOR (written by Lawrence Arone & Maite Garcia).



HOLLYWOOD HEIGHTS: While the TEEN NICK Telenovela ends on Oct. 5th, we still have plenty of songs coming up in the final weeks: KEATON SIMONS:  Black & White, High Enough, Read My Mind, Mama Song, Inspiration, Lift Me Up and in the last episode, his touching "Unstoppable"; along with BONNIE DUNE'S "QUIET CONFIDENCE".  Songs also included in the last few weeks are "SCENE OF THE CRIME" (AUDREY MARTELLS & EDGARD JAUDE), "A TASTE OF BEAUTIFUL", sung by
ADAM MICHAELS (written by Edgard Jaude & Adam Greenberg), PJ PACIFICO'S "AS SOON AS I CAN", and"SECRETS AND LIES" by CHRIS CARPENTER", "THINGS YOU FINALLY SAY" by the prolific MICHAEL BEHM.



Family Affair: Keaton Simons' “Mama Song” and “Grim Reaper” are featured in an upcoming Fall Season on the Fox series “SONS OF ANARCHY”.



No Lie — HBO’s TRUE BLOOD used another amazing work of Electronica by Dave Pezzner, called “Fake Blood”, on the episode that aired Sunday, July 29th.  That does not suck. Or does it?



Jane By Design X 3 --  Writer Rinat Arinos had her third cut on the ABC Family hit series Jane By Design, episode #17.  If you missed it, you can watch online to hear the song  she co wrote with Daniel Brecher, “Changing The World".  



How many on HOLLYWOOD HEIGHTS?  The list is fabulous and lengthy...here we go -- the show has featured songs  by the following artists: Keaton Simons, Bonnie Dune, The Parlotones, Chris Carpenter, Cathleen Flynn, Kevin Fisher, Leah Andreone, Larry May, Eddie Grey, Katt Rockell, Audrey Martells, Edgard Jaude, Rinat Arinos, Above Envy, The First Times, Johnny Douglas, Fawn, Sean Ice, Jay Lazaroff, Johnny Elkins, Peter Roberts, Orbit Monkey, Alexy Music, Girls Love Shoes, Twirl, Michael Behm, Shay Watson, Joe Cameron, Gordon Pogoda, Rinat Arinos, Sean Hurwitz, Daniel Brecher, Adam Michaels, Pop Filter, Miss V, Bekuh Boom, Junque, Leah Andreone, Kevin Fisher and there will be more to come...



Visit http://www.ascap.com/Playback/2012/06/faces-places/film-tv/sharon-faber.aspx to read the latest ASCAP article about Composer Sharon Farber's latest score.



LET IT SHINE:  ABC Family's "Jane By Design" featured another song on the episode that aired June 20th, 2012... this time it was "SHINE" performed by "CURIOUS"; co written by Rinat Arinos, Daniel David Brecher and Sean Hurwitz.



HITTING THE HEIGHTS:  Multiple artists are having their songs used on the new Nick@Nite soap opera, HOLLYWOOD HEIGHTS -- some of the songs that have been included are:  
I Need You (written by Kevin Fisher and Rinat Arinos),
Time Bomb (Rinat Arinos, Stefan Litrownik & Jon Ernst),
I'm Stuck With me (Joe Cameron),
Dirtier Dancing (Alexy Music),
She Gets Her Kicks (Johnny Douglas Jr),
Put Your Hands On Me (Samantha Newark & David Polich), Unstoppable;Beautiful Pain (Keaton Simons),
Freeway Like Minds (Eddie Grey),
Devils' Playground (Jay Lazaroff),
Touch Me Slowly (Cathleen Flynn),
Bang,Bang,Bang (Jacquie Sandell & Larry May),
Make Me Crazy (Johnny Elkins & George Alayon)



Also, newsworthy:  MICHAEL BEHM's infectious pop song " LOVE'S LIKE NUMBERS" was used in an episode of "THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS" May, 2012,  as was ORBIT MONKY'S "USED".



EDGARD JAUDE'S  "DA INTRODUCTION" in a recent episode of  "KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS".



NICK @ NITE'S NEW DRAMA "HOLLYWOOD HEIGHTS" FEATURES SEVERAL SONGS FROM THE IFMP CATALOG. IN THE PREMIERE EPISODE THERE ARE 4 SONGS: "ACHE OF LOVE" (BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD - Writer - JOHNNY DOUGLAS JR.), "I WANT A PIECE OF YOU" Performed By LEAH ANDREONE (writers - LEAH ANDREONE/KEVIN FISHER), "IN YOUR FACE" Performed BY JUNQUE (Writers - KEVIN FISHER/LEAH ANDREONE) AND "DON'T HEAR A WORD" TENFOLD PIGEONS - (BEN WISE, writer).

The episode (101) is slated to air on June 18th, 2012.

In episode 103: KEATON SIMON's HAS TWO USES OF HIS BLUSEY INDIE ROCK TUNE "MAMA SONG" ALONG WITH "ABOVE ENVY'S" UPBEAT INDIE POP SONG "FIND A WAY", (writers - LOUIS YOELIN, STEFAN LITROWNIK & SEAN HUWITZ)

This episode is slated to air on 6/20/12.

Episode #104, slated to air on 6/21/12 will feature the UK's JOHN J. HARVEY PERFORMING HIS RAGING ROCK SONG, "BURN", as well as another song by KEATON SIMONS, HIS BEAUTIFUL TUNE, "WITHOUT YOUR SKIN".

Also, in episode #109, the talented JOE CAMERON has a placement with this song "I'M STUCK WITH ME" set to air on June 28th.



COMING UP ON TUESDAY, JUNE 12TH, ABC FAMILY'S "JANE BY DESIGN", WILL FEATURE A TERRIFIC SONG By "CHILD'S PLAY" CALLED "CHANGE" (WRITTEN BY RINAT ARINOS, SEAN HURWITZ & DANIEL DAVID BRECHER).



Congrats to Vince Melamed and George Marinelli -- their southern rock song "RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN" was used on the Lifetime series "ARMY WIVES" Sunday PM April 29th.  You can catch the episode online.



Breakout song!  KEATON SIMONS' "GRIM REAPER" is featured on A&E"s "THE BREAKOUT KINGS" Sun PM April lst.  Written by Keaton and Scott Bruzenak, this song rocks the blues.



More Good Fun with BAD GIRLS CLUB:  Boston's own,  "THE BAY STATE" had their Indie alt song "HAUNTED" on BGC Sunday, March 26th.  Congrats also in order for Canadian band THE PERMS who have two song on the Oxygen reality series coming up:  On Sun PM April 9th the vocal version of their song "MAKE IT THROUGH" has a placement and on Sun April 16th, the vocal version of "LIVE FOR TODAY" by THE PERMS will be on another episode of BGC. Both songs are from their new album "Sophia Nights".



Justified X 4 --  On episode #309, airing Tues PM March 13th, the FX hit series "JUSTIFIED" will feature 4 songs from the IFMP catalog -- two songs by the Adrian Niles Band "Harden To Heal" and "Same Road"; Jeff Dale and the South Woodlawners song "Stumblin'" and Jack Minors' "How Long" delivers some Texas style blues to this amazing series.  Special thanks to Greg Sill and the fabulous folks at Sony TV.



We never get tired of our artists landing placements on the Oxygen reality series "BAD GIRLS CLUB"... coming up soon --  Canadian Band THE PERMS will have their song "LIVE FOR TODAY" featured on the show, along with THE BAY STATES' new song "HAUNTED".



New Year, new shows, new placement for KEATON SIMONS:  Keaton's song, THE MEDICINE, will be heard on the premiere episode of the new Fox series ALCATRAZ, airing Tues, January 24th.  Performed by Keaton and co., written with Scott Bruzenak and Curtis Peoples, this song is what the Doctor ordered.



Good Karma: Tuesday, Jan. 23rd, you can catch BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD's song "KARMA" on ABC Family's "Jane By Design".  



Jersey Shore returns:  Check out Ace Jones' "Mad Mad World" on MTV's Jersey Shores, airing on Thursday, January 19th...this song is also the song being used as the Main Title for "Mob Wives" internationally (not in the US).



8th season of Bad Girls Club kicks off:  Edgard Jaude's "By Nature" airs on Monday, January 23rd on Oxygen.



It was nice to learn that Pat O'Donnell's "Joy & Swing" instrumental was used on The Young & the Restless on December 20th; also on Y&R, a great holiday vocal song by Chuck Sperry "Wonderful Christmas" which aired Dec. 21st.



Sky Highs..."Something Happened Last Night"  written by songwriting team, Joel Evans andJohnny Douglas, will be featured in a scene on ABC's  "Pan Am" January 9, 2012.



"Home Sweet Home" performed by Stacy Wilde and written by Stacy with Dave Beck, will be in the season premiere of the new season of Justified, airing January 17th on FX.



Kim & Kourtney Take New York -- The prolific Edgard Jaude has already landed 6 cues in the E! reality series about two of the many Kardashians -- well done, EJ!



Jane By Design, featuring the TWIRL song "IT GIRL" airs on ABC FAMILY, January 3rd in the season premiere.



A December to remember...THE JEFFERSON had another placement on The Young & The Restless on December 6th, with their song "COME ON AND SHINE".  It was a great year for the band from Aussieland.



Very special thanks to the artists who donated songs for the annual holiday CD for The Childrens' Hospital of San Diego that Jeff Gelderhead creates every year.  Three of our artists have songs on this joyful compilation:  Keaton Simons with his hilarious song "I'm Farpustst for Hanukkah", The Brothers Royale for donating "Just About Midnight" which will be heard on the ABC Family original movie "Desperately Seeking Santa",  and The Reeves Bros. song written by Johnny Elkins and CJ Vanston called "Merry Christmas To The World"...this CD will delight not just the children, but anyone who wants to get into the holiday spirit through the act of giving.  Please contact us if you'd like to donate to this very special project.



FLASHPOINT:  "Broken Fences" (the duo of Morgan Erina and Guy Russo) will have their very beautiful and moving song "WAIT" over the closing montage on this former CBS dramatic series.  The episode called 'Priority of Life' airs on the CV and ION on December 6th and
in the US on December 20th.



KEATON SIMONS hits a double header -- On PRIVATE PRACTICE, Thurs, Nov. 3rd, you can hear the character of Addison, played by Kate Walsh, singing some of Keatons'  beautiful song "IF I HADN'T FORGOTTEN" --  then the actual recording of Keaton singing the song will be played at the end of the episode.  Congrats on the big win, KS!!



Coming up in 2012, JANE BY DESIGN on ABC FAMILY, which will feature "IT GIRL" by TWIRL and "KARMA"from Johnny Douglas' BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD.  Air dates to follow.



More to come in 2012: Cinemax series FEMME FATALES will have three songs from the IFMP catalog in their shows:  '15 MINUTES OF FAME' by Josephine (produced by We3Kings); Dirty Martini's song "EASY KILL" and Monica DaSilva's "GOLD DIGGER".



Get Your Ghost On!  Keith LuBrant's hip hop tribute to trick or treating "HALLOWEEN IN THE HOUSE" will be on the Young & The Restless, this Halloween --  Monday, Oct. 31st.



BLUE MT STATE, Season 3, is using another song from BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD to air this fall. The song is "ALL ABOUT A GIRL", written by Johnny Douglas Jr....who is really on a roll!



How perfect for Halloween-- TENFOLD PIGEONS song (by the amazing Ben Wise) "DON'T HEAR A WORD" will be heard on MTV's 'DEATH VALLEY' Monday night, October 31st. Get your ghoul on!



Thursday, October 6th you can dance to the SEAN ICE song "IRRESISTABLE" on ABC's CHARLIE'S ANGELS....congrats to writers Sean Ewen and Andrew Underberg.



Johnny Douglas new band project "BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD" has been getting the cuts...coming up on ABC Familys' 'JANE BY DESIGN' you can hear their song "KARMA"; on Sept 21st, BLUE MT STATE used BATEOTW's 'ACHE OF LOVE' on their season premiere.


More songs on BAD GIRLS CLUB: "TO DA RHYTHM" & "I'M A SEXABITIONIST" by EDGARD JAUDE & AUDREY MARTELLS were used on the hit Oxygen series in September and again on October 10th.




MTV's DEATH VALLEY premieres on Monday PM, August 29th...tune in for ABOVE ENVY's indie rock song "BEAT ME" in this episode...along with your basic vampires, werewolves and zombies that you always knew were living in the valley, lowering property values.




Keeping Up with Those Kardashians!

Edgard Jaude is co-writer on 5 songs being used on upcoming episodes of the current Season Six "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" on E!. He co-wrote "You Can Get It" "My Peep Show" and "She Should Have Seen It Coming" with the talented Ms Audrey Martells who performs those songs. Edgard's side project, "ER INC" also has 2 songs in upcoming episodes, co-written with Rafael Torres ("Hot Jam" and "Say It Loud") along with his solo work "2 Da Rhythm", "By Nature", "Violation Code", "Love Tender" and "Exchange".

Kudos to all 3 of these extraordinary IFMP artists.




The new season of Bad Girls Club has kicked in and our own 'bad girl', Audrey Martells, has songs in three episodes. Her songs, co written with the prolific Mr.Edgard Jaude, will be in episodes on 8/8/11 and on 9/5/11 ("She Should Have Seen It Coming") and then ("I'm A Sexhibitionist") on 9/12/11.



FANGS ALOT to the fabulous music supers on True Blood -- two more songs on the incredible hit HBO series. On Sunday PM, July 31, you'll hear Bill Edwards' song "WHAT'D I DO?" (whatever it was I'm sure he's very sorry...) and on Sunday night August 7th, Steve McComb hits another homer on TB with "Come See Me." Good times.



Touchdown!  Johnny Douglas' Alt Rock song  "BURN" will be featured on NECESSARY ROUGHNESS  (USA Network) this coming Wednesday, August 3rd.



Who's Lucky?  The Pieces song "HAPPY WHEN I'M WITH YOU" is in the recently released Feature Film "LUCKY" starring Colin Hanks.  Congrats to songwriters Johnny Elkins and Jody Whitesides.



"MAD, MAD WORLD"-- performed by Ace Jones, and written by We 3 Kings -- Bill Brandt, Walter Brandt and Keith Volpone -- has been chosen to the be the Theme Song for the VH1 reality series "MOB WIVES" for International distribution of Season One. and we couldn't be happier for them!

LISTEN NOW!

 



KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS:  Not so easy to do, but Audrey Martells and Edgard  Jaude sure made their mark on the new season's opener, June 12th, with 3 of their songs:  "I'm A Sexabitionist", "Playa Like You" and "Press Rewind".

 



One for the gals...The SHOWTIME hit series "The Big C" will be using Miss Lowe's "LADIES FIRST" on an episode to air this summer.  Get ready to dance in your living rooms...

 



MTV's DEATH VALLEY has chosen a song from band TENFOLD PIGEON, "DON'T HEAR A THING", and that's coming up this summer as well. BEN WISE is the artist behind this song...super talented.

 



Isn't it Romantic?  The Young & The Restless featured Audrey Martells "The Beat In My Heart" this past April.  Congrats to Audrey and co writer Edgard Jaude.

 



HBO's TRUE BLOOD is back and an upcoming episode this July will contain Marty Axelrod's  terrific song "MONTGOMERY MOONLIGHT" performed by The Ohio Sound Machine.

 



Beat Chambers' Jonathan Merkel along with Ryan Tham, penned a song called "Ready For Battle" featuring artist KT SCENE for the new feature film from Sony Stage 6 called "THE KILLING GAME", starring Samuel Jackson and Kellen Lutz.  

 



John J. Harvey's punk anthem "Dirty Face" will be used again on Oxygen's "Bad Girls Club" Monday night, May lst.  Congrats to J.J. for signing with Gloria Soto at The Max Steiner Agency for representation.

 



Coming soon to Lifetime: The pilot for "30 Something Grandmas",  executive produced by Scooter Pietsch with songs by 3 of our writing teams/artists:  Weight of The World by VIENNE,  The One performed by GLENNA GASPARIAN (written by Louis Yoelin, Sean H & Stefan Litrownik) and This Too Shall Pass performed by DAVE COFFIN and written by Crit Harmon & Dave Coffin.

 



Check out MTV's "THE REAL WORLD:LAS VEGAS" this Wed, April 13th 10pm/9C to hear DEADBEAT DARLING's song PICTURE PERFECT WORLD-- amazing vocals by lead singer Joseph King along with his mighty fine players.

 



Check out "It's Scandalous" by Miss Lowe in the the new drama "TRUST", directed by David Schwimmer.  The film is in limited release, getting great reviews.  Hats off once again to the writers, We Three Kings.

 



Thursday, March 10th you can tune into The Young & The Restless to hear Keaton Simons perform a song from his soon to be released new album, due out this Spring.  "Come Back Around" was written by Keaton and Kelly McGrath.

 



Thursday, March 10th you can tune into The Young & The Restless to hear Keaton Simons perform a song from his soon to be released new album, due out this Spring.  "Come Back Around" was written by Keaton and Kelly McGrath.

 



SWEET 17's  "DO YOU WANT IT, BABY"  will be on ABC Family's GREEK airing Monday PM,2/21/11.  How sweet it is!

 



Wed, February 23rd, be sure to catch the FX hit series "Justified" so you can hear Austin's own Lisa Hayes singing her Red Dirt song "FIERCE LOVE". Fierce, indeed.

 



DEADBEAT DARLING continues to shine--Two recent placements include their song "WITHOUT A TRACE" used in a clip from MTV's "I Used To Be Fat" on GOOD MORNING AMERICA (ABC) on 2/18/11 and also their song "PRETTY FACES" in an episode featuring Kobe Bryant of the MTV series WHEN I WAS 17.

 




THAI STICK's song "TIME AND TIME AGAIN" on the final season of the long running WB series, SMALLVILLE airing on the CW.

 



Gotta love that day of love -- The Young & The Restless will be making us all feel more romantic on Feb. 14th by using "All That You Mean To Me" written by Louis Yoelin and Joel Evans' "Something Blue" on the episode d' amour xoxo

 



Deadbeat Darling songs "Picture Perfect World" and "St. Christopher Candles" were used in three episodes of the new VH1 series, My Big Friggin Wedding.  Sweet!

 



If you just happen to be watching both the Miami vs Virginia Tech AND the Maryland vs Georgia Tech Basketball Games on Sunday, January 30th, on FOX SPORTS-- you'll have an ever better time, because THE JEFFERSON's video of their smash song "RUNNING" will be seen during both games.

So right after you grab another brewski, go to itunes and download the song--better yet, get their CD "Safe Return To Earth" and then head on over to SXSW in Austin this March to hear them play live!'

 



Catch TNT's SOUTHLAND to hear KEATON SIMON's blues rock song "GRIM REAPER" on 1/18/11...the Episode is called Distrection, but don't keep this a secret.

 



Film Festival, anyone? "This Is My Life" sung by Randi Soyland & written by Randi & Doug Heffernan, is featured in the documentary "MISS REPRESENTATON", directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsome...the film will be screened this month at the Sundance Film Festival. 

 




Xtremely good news: DEADBEAT DARLING's song "BEDROOM CEILING" will be featured on the new VH1 series "THE X LIFE". Tune in on January 17th. No helmet necessary.

 



December 22nd, this hit Fox series rings in the holidays with THE SMOKIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA version of DECK THE HALLS and THE JOEL EVANS BLUES VERSION of JINGLE BELLS.  Arrangements by Dominick Serpico and Joel Evans.

 



DECEMBER 15th ON MTV -- THE JEFFERSON'S "FINAL CALL" will be featured in tonight's season finale of Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Cutthroat, with an on-screen credit. Let's hear it for the boys from down undah!

 



Here's the latest from THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS for the holiday season:

Tuesday, December 14th Y&R will air Edgard Jaude and Michael Kisur's  arrangement of Jingle Bells "Kool Kat Bells" on the show (they've already heard it in Canada...)

Thurs Dec 16th SILENT NIGHT arranged by Richard Emmet-- Wed, Dec 15th, CHRISTMAS TIME by SCOOTER PIETSCH--

So far, JOHNNY DOUGLAS JRS' "SNOWMAN" was used on the show this Dec.  Also, coming up on their New Year's show 12/30, THE PARLOTONES' "I'M ONLY HUMAN"
and ORBIT MONKEY'S "LET THERE BE LOVE" plus the bands' new song "CMON, CMON" as well.

Coming up on the show on December 21st, you'll hear WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHIRSTMAS, DECK THE HALLS and O TANNENBAUM arranged by STEVE GLOTZER, as well as ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH arranged by CAMERON LASWELL AND FAWN.

 

 



Looks like Bostons' BETWEEN THE SHEETS is adding to the sound of the new E! Entertaiment series "Married To Rock"...plenty of their songs coming up.  The series begins Sun PM November 7th  at 10:30 PM. 

 



DAYGLOW's "DO WHAT DADDY SAYS" will be heard on an upcoming episode of Blue Mt State. Written by Pete Crotty, you can check out this cool girl punk band on their myspace page.

 



Halloween was a real treat with 4 cues on The Young & The Restless--congratulations to Keith LuBrant, Fawn, Johnny Elkins & Peter Roberts whose Halloween songs aired on 10/28 & 10/29.

 



The Young & The Restless also used a song by Michael Kisur, whose voice is a regular occurrance on the long running daytime drama-- this time it was it his beautiful vocals on "Breakdown."

 



Keeping Up With The Kardashians featured Deadbeat Darlings' "Picture Perfect World"..the reality series re-runs regularly on the E! Entertainment network.

 



Artist Cunning's song "Cherry Pie" had two cues on the Spike TV series "Blue Mt. State" which aired Oct. 26th.   Congrats to Michael Casey & We 3 Kings.

 



LOUIS YOELIN's "GEORGIA PEACH PIE" will be heard once more on the episode airing Oct. 4th. On October 8th, Australia's beloved band THE JEFFERSON, has their song "MAYDAY" along with two songs from one of our newest bands-- VIPER CREEK CLUB-- "SOFT SPOTS IN THE DARK" and "DROWNING." 

 



The moving new film, LITTLE RED WAGON, by Director David Anspaugh, about the philanthropic deeds of a 7 year old boy will feature several songs from the IFMP catalog, including Edgard Jaudes' Hip Hop song "Party Up Boyz" as well as arrangements of Public Domain holiday songs..."Deck The Halls" from Steve Glotzer, "Angels We Have Heard on High" by Cameron Laswell and Fawn and "Jingle Bells" arranged by Richard Emmet.

 



Louis Yoelin has a children's song," Curled Up," placed in the upcoming Miranda July film "The Future."  

 



Look for Greg Hanna's Punk Rock song "Can't Be Stopped" on the new season of Blue Mt. State which begins airing on SPIKE TV, Oct. 20th.

 



The Young & The Restless featured another song by the writing team of Johnny Elkins and Joel Evans... "Something Happened" aired on 9/15/10. 

 



They've been snookified! DEADBEAT DARLING  has two songs on a current episode of  MTV's hit reality series "Jersey Shore" -- Portrait of An Era and Without A Trace....from their excellent CD "WEIGHT OF WANDERING"  they'll be re-running the episode several times and that's the situation...

 



South Africa's THE PARLOTONES are kicking off their first  American tour with a bang...their beautiful song "I'LL BE THERE" will be featured on the long running series ONE TREE HILL on September 28th.  

 



Brooklyn's own DEADBEAT DARLING will have their song PORTRAIT OF AN ERA  this Sunday, Aug 29th  on the E! Entertainment network series,  Spin Control. Check out their latest CD, Weight of Wandering...

 



Listen for these songs from BTS on upcoming episodes...Marissa Moves, Cold Feet and December...Boston based band BENEATH THE SHEETS had their song SHE GETS BORED used on the new E! reality series, The Spin Crowd, on Aug. 22nd.  That's a lot of B's!!

 



We loves us some Bad Girls Club--this Tues PM 8/24 you can hear two uses of Dirty Children's "BEAUTIFUL FREAK." Congrats to Nadia Fay and Jay Condiotti.

 



Joel Evans had another lovely placement on The Young & The Restless on 8/18 -- "SO CLOSE TO GETTING CLOSE TO YOU" in the show's new club.

 



Summertime on Y&R --  Bethany Rubins sweet as lemonade song "You Stick To Me" on July 13th.

"Gonna Love You" sizzled on June 15 -- Sung by the super hot Christina S and written by the even hotter duo of Johnny Elkins and Peter Roberts.

If It's Y&R, the you know something dangerous will happen -- "Its Scandalous" by Miss Lowe was used 3 times this summer --June 15, July 5 and July 9... royal congrats again to We 3 Kings who wrote the smash.

Watch 'em all online if you missed them.

 



Big news...okay, maybe just a little overweight -- The new ABC Family series HUGE about a  weight loss camp for teens -- well, those teens will lose some pounds and do a happy dance to the Miss Lowe song "Ladies First." Well done, once again, by those 3 Mad Kings.  Episode airs 8/9/10.

 



Love those Louisiana Vampires -- HBO's TRUE BLOOD featured The Benders' song "MOUNTAIN RADIO"on August 1st.   Congrats to songwriter and singer, Jabe Beyer.

 



The Sugar Bons' delicious song "CAR DANCE" was used in two scenes on the 7/27/10 episode of  PRETTY LITTLE LIARS  on ABC Family.  Songwriters Kevin Fisher and Leah Andreone created this confection...

 



The July 13th episode of The Young and The Restless features the Orbit Monkey song "Let There Be Love"-- great song by Joerg Korhing.

July 9th you can hear Miss Lowe sing "It's Scandalous" on The Young & The Restless...brought to us by the mighty writing and producing team We3Kings.

 



True Blood Times Two...Kevin Fishers' "10 Year High School Reunion" and The Mears Brothers "Blame It On The Fact That I'm A Man" can be heard on this smash hit HBO series Sunday PM, July 11 th.

 



Shut Up Already was heard on a new episode of BURN NOTICE on July 1st...congrats to Craig Bartock and Cathleen Weinrich..

 



Vampire Alert:  This June you can get your True Blood fix and hear great country songs at the same time--on June 13th, tune in to hear Sean Patrick McGraws "A DRINK WITH HANK" and Steve McComb's "NO ONE BUT THE DAWG." Then, the following Sunday, you'll get another chance to hear Steve McComb's "WALK FIRST" which aired in the 2nd season.

 


Make It Or Break It:  ABC Family's hit teen series about gymnastics will feature the song "ROCK STAR" by "Dirty Children" on June 28th.



 

 



Pretty Little Liars: Based on the teen book series, this Warner Bros. show on ABC Family will have two songs by two of our artists on June 15th -- "SWEET 17" with their infectious pop/dance song "SUPABEAT"(from the CD of the same name) and "JOSEPHINE" (produced by We 3 Kings withThe Music Kitchen) doing her upbeat pop tune "AVALANCHE."

 



Rock Wilk put one through the hoop for another episode of Basketball Wives on VHI. His hip hop track " Tongue Tied" will be heard on May 16th.

 



JJ Harvey strikes again with his song, sung by the amazing David Hawkes, "Come Back To Me" for the new Indy feature film, "Wild About Harry" which goes to Cannes this month.



CHRISTMAS IN APRIL:  We just learned that the daytime drama, "As The World Turns," CBS, played songs from our holiday catalog on 12/24/09...24 cues in all.  Congratulations to: Sharon Farber,  Max Di Carlo, Steve Glotzer, Darin Henze, Kenneth Smith, Dominick Serpico, Geoffrey Keezer, Dwayne Russell, Pat O'Donnell, Rain On Me Productions and Richard Emmet.

 



April 28th is the premiere of the new ABC TV mystery drama "Happy Town" and you'll hear Scooter Pietsch's haunting carousel music "Vienna Blood"--mmmwwaaahahaha! Great job as always, Scooter!



Justin's Coming Out--and they'll be dancing to Edgard Jaude's fantastic "Party Up Boyz" on Ugly Betty this Wednesday, April 7th to get that party started!  Tune into ABC for all the fun.

 



The new VH1 series, "Basketball Wives," will feature female rapper "Sky" on its first episode -- with her song "Like My Style" airing April llth.  Then, on episode #2, which airs April 19th you'll hear Christina S singing "Dance My Life Away."

 



April is showering us with great song placements -- On "The Young & The Restless," Joel Evans has 4 songs (6 uses) on two upcoming episodes:  On Friday April 3rd, you can hear his songs "Maybe It's You" and "No Easy Way To Say Goodbye," then on Monday April 5th, you'll get to listen to his songs "I'll Never Be The Same" and "Watercolor Lov.e"  The songs are all being danced to at a Masquerade Ball that's part of the plot...

 



Its "Ladies' Night" on the NBC medical drama "MERCY" Wed March 10 th... The artist: Miss Lowe; "Ladies First Writers: We3Kings...Bill and Walter Brandt and Keith Volpone... Congratulations to all!

 



The Film Independent Spirit Awards will be broadcast on March 5th on the IFC and will featuresongs "Life Design" and "Louder Than Bombs" by The Parlotones. Both songs will be put on a compilation CD that's given to the attendees. Congratulations to Kahn Morbee (who wrote The Parlotones songs) and their band members.

 



Jo C's party dance song "Beat To The Rhythm" is part of the fun at spring break in a new episode coming up on ABC Family's "Greek".  The mighty songwriting team, We3Kings, comprised of Bill & Walter Brandt and Keith Volpone, created this Lady Gaga type number.

 



 You'll hear John J Harvey's "Metal Is Dead" in the Season Finale of Accidentally On Purpose, the hit CBS sitcom, airing Monday, February 22nd.

 



Its a man's world...at least on Men of A Certain Age, it is.  A song by the very unique World group, TUKULEUR, will be heard in an episode of MOACA February 15th on TNT. "Le Swing Du Ghetto" was written and performed by Oumar Sall, William Camara and Christian LaChenal.  

 



Canadian Christopher Pennington has two songs coming up on The Young & The Restless-- Feb 9th, his "Three Ships" will liven up an Irish pub, and a romantic French jazz song called "Quand la Lune Veille" (co written and sung by Danielle Roblechaud)  can be heard on February 15th.

 

Everybody Loves George Kahn:  Jazz Pianist George Kahn will have two uses of his Dave Bruebeck stye song "Wes Coast" on the new Ray Romano series "Men Of A Certain Age". The show will air February 1 on TNT.

 



PLAY ON! The fabulous alt rock band from South Africa, THE PARLOTONES, will be featured on the CBS long running series, "Ghost Whisperer", this coming Friday night, January 15th. You'll hear their song called "Play On"...check the band out at myspace/theparlotones

 

Here's the Holiday schedule for IFMP songs on The Young & Restless after the ones on the 17th:

On Dec. 22 you'll hear Johnny Douglas Jr. singing his original song "Snowman", followed by three of Steve Glotzers' acoustic instrumentals "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", "Oh Come Emmanuel" and "Away in a Manger.

Don't touch that dial because you'll also hear Scooter Pietsch's "Family & Sleigh Bells" along with Fawn and Vince Covello's version of "Angels We Have Heard on High."

On the 23rd of December, the instrumentals include Sharon Farber with "Hark The Herald Angels Sing", "Away in A Manger" and "Deck The Halls" from Steve Glotzer; and Joel Evans brings us a vocal version of "What Child Is This."

We'll get to hear Smokin Jazz versions of "Deck The Halls" and "Joy To The World" from Dominick Serpico again on December 24th, followed by  Steve Glotzer's "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" and "O Come All Ye Faithful".  Same day, Geoffrey Keezer's "Angels Did Swing" will keep you listening and watching the show and at the very end, a beautiful rendition of "Silent Night" arranged by Sharon Farber and sung by Jacob Mitchell.

After you've eaten your figgy pudding and tossed out the boxes, Y&R gives us two more from Scooter Pietsch on the 28th of Dec..."Gift Wrap" and "Snow Surprise."

Rounding out the holiday music on Y&R was Michael Kisur singing his original song "Christmas Dream."

 

Wednesday, December 16th, catch ABC's "EASTWICK" so you can hear "Unscrew You" by the talented, prolific Rachel Loy.  You can find Rachel's music on itunes.

 

'Tis the season and we wish all of you very Happy, Healthy Holidays!

The Young and The Restless have once again chosen some great songs for their holiday episodes from our catalog:

On December 10th, you can hear Dominick Serpico's Smokin' Jazz Orchestra do versions of Deck The Halls and Joy To The World.  

On December 17th, you'll hear Michael Kisur singing a Kool Kat version of Jingle Bells arranged by Michael and Edgard Jaude. Also on that day Steve Glotzer's acoustic version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" will be on the show, along with two songs sung by Jeff Meegan -- "Seasons of Love" and "All I'm Waiting For." Jeff wrote "Seasons of Love" and Brad Hatfield is his co-writer on "All I'm Waiting For."

 

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Not at all unlucky Friday the 13th--at least not for Celebutante, whose song "Superstar" will be featured on the long running hit series MONK on NBC this coming Friday. Another special thanks out to Craig Pettigrew.

 

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Y&R is having a big wedding and 3 songs from IFMP will bring the romance to the ever unfolding events. On November 13th, you'll hear "LET THERE BE LOVE" from Orbit Monkey (written by Joerg Kohring). November 16th, Johnny Douglas' song 'I THINK OF YOU" will add to the show's mood...and last but not at all least, on November 19th, closing the episode is Chris Carpenter's beautiful "ONE AND ONLY."

 

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The Polish Brothers' (The Astronaut Farmer) have licensed "Backporch Bluegrass Rag" for their new film "The Smell of Success" (fna 'Manure').   Crew 22's Tommy Hannum (artist),  Rodney Lawson and John Mattick are the songs writers.  The comedy stars Billy Bob Thornton  and Tea Leoni.

Special thanks to David Powell of The Music Bridge.  The film is slated for a November release.

 

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Congratulations to Above Envy's Louis Yolin, whose instrumental "Georgia Peach Pie" was used in early Oct on "The Young & The Restless."

 

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The ever prolific Edgard Jaude had another placement on ABC Family's "Greek" with his intoxicating club/dance song "Electric Body."

 

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The new season of UGLY BETTY is upon us and the 2nd episode, airing on ABC, Friday night 10/23, will feature Una Cartina and Noctambule by Thomas Foyer (of Painted Coconuts & Intended Immgration)  and Peter Roberts' ambient "Love's Not Waiting".  This just gives us 3 more reasons to watch one of our favorite shows. Many thanks to Craig Pettigrew and John Bissell!!!

 

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It can happen In A New York Minute: CBS hit series, CSI NEW YORK, is using THE DAMN AUTOMATICS song "NEW YORK MINUTE" in their promos to launch their Fall '09 campaign. A Big Apple wahoo to songwriter Jason Weeks and his band!

Check it out on YouTube.

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The second episode of EASTWICK will be hotter than hot with the song "CALI CALIENTE" by Sweet 17 being featured in a scene where those witchy gals will be enjoying some martinis. Catch the show Sept. 30th on ABC.  Congrats to writers Scooter Pietch, Jessica New and Danielle DeAndrea...Sweet 17's  CD, "Supabeat," is terrific.

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How excited are we? Oui! Oui! Oui!  The fabulous song by Thomas Foyer called "Un Plat Qui Plait" will be heard on the Premiere Episode of the new CBS Comedy (starring Jenna Elfman) 'ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE'. Si Bon!  Please watch the show on Monday night September 21st.

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Well, for those of you who couldn't get enough 10 years ago, MELROSE PLACE, is BAAAAACCK and on the CW.  This time around, I get to proudly announce that the song "Flowers in June" by the talented Matt Shapiro will be heard on the show, Tuesday, Sept. 15th. Matt has a really great voice, so please tune in. (I used to page all the Drs in the hospital on the original series...did you hear your name called out?)

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August 18th, the Season Finale of the new TNT series "Hawthorne" (starring Jada Pinkett Smith)  will feature a song by The Queens called "EVERYBODY'S ON THE DANCE FLOOR".  We salute W3Kings writers, William Brandt, Walter Brandt and Keith Volpone for their fine work taking us back to the 80's.

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Michael Kisur's song "WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE TO" was heard again on "The Young and The Restless" August 3rd.  

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On August 4th "Girls Love Shoes" had another placement on the MTV's series "Paris Hilton's My New BFF" with the song "LIVING IN LUXURY".  Adding to the "Girls Love Shoes" placements, their song "FLAUNT" will be heard on the new hit series "10 Things I Hate About You" on ABC Family August 25th.  Kudos to Nadia Fay and Jay Condiotti.

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"Girls Love Shoes" song "FLAUNT" will be heard on the new hit series "10 Things I Hate About You" on ABC Family August 25th.  Kudos to Nadia Fay and Jay Condiotti.

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Country singer/songwriter, Steve McComb, is proud to let ya'll know his song "WALK FIRST" will be featured in an episode of HBO's hit series TRUE BLOOD. Catch the song on July 26th and beware of good looking vampires.

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Here's two things we like about the new ABC Family Series "10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU"-- the episode that airs on July 21st features Nadia Fay's song "Insecurity" and Above Envy's pop anthem "Revolution". Props to both Nadia and Louis Yoelin on these placements!

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Edgard Jaude is two for two this month (July 7 & July 23rd) with hard rock cues on USA's BURN NOTICE in two different episodes. C'est manifique, Edgard.

and...Edgard's hard rock cue "Sacred Mission" can be heard on Burn Notice episode #308, airing on Thursday, July 30th on USA. Rock on, Edgard Jaude!

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If you love Paris Hilton and want to be her best friend forever, then catch Nadia Fay's songs "FLAUNT" and "Come and Get Your Ride", and Celebutante's song "SUPERSTAR" this July on MTV's Paris Hiltons BFF.

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The sun is shining, but Samantha Newark and Johnny Douglas Jr's song "RAINY DAY GIRL" has a placement on ABC Family's "10 Things I Hate About You" on August 4th. If her name sounds familiar, Sam is the voice of "Jem" on the cartoon series "Jem and The Holograms". Props to these two gifted artists!
Natalee Holloway Story IFMP has 4 songs in the Lifetime/Sony TV telefilm THE NATALEE HOLLOWAY STORY which premieres on April 19th. Congratulations to Edgard Jaude for his electronica track "Wherever"; the amazing Dance song in French by Fawn called "I Love Paris", Johnny Elkins and Peter Robert's "Aint No Rush" which is another terrific dance song and the Latin number by Tanga! called Carlitos Ceballos Live.
Kyle XY Hollywood Songs Monday PM  March 1st catch KYLE XY to hear ER Inc.'s "Bounce Day Booty".  Hip Hop Hooray for Edgard Jaude and Raphael Torres and company.

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How to start off the New Year right!:  ABC Hit series, "UGLY BETTY" will feature "Blue Tuesday", an electronica song by Peter Roberts.  The episode will air on January 8th. 

 

 

 

nothing like the holidays muisic Happy Holidays:  Daytime Drama, The Young and the Restless, is featuring holiday music on two episodes, airing 12/22 and 12/30.  These include Darryl Purpose and Mary Sue Twohy's "Gift of the Magi", Fawn and Laswell's arrangement of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" along with six PD instrumentas by acoustic guitar virtuoso, Steve Glotzer.
nothing like the holidays muisic The holidays are going to be hot hot hot when Paco's reggaeton song "Ding Dong" is heard on the new Overture Films Feature "Nothing Like The Holidays" opening December 12th.  The film stars Deborah Messing and John Leguizamo.  The song will also be released on the film's soundtrack along with with some other hotties, including Ricky Martin.
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With their new CD due out this November, its only fitting the The Bacon Brothers have landed a placement on NBC's FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS with their song "STRUNG OUT" from their album, "Getting There". 

The show will air on Direct TV on Nov. 5th and will be seen on NBC in Feb., '09.  Congratulations to Kevin and Michael.

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Ooh Lala...
Check out Les Young and Les Restless on Wed, Oct 1 to hear Fawn singing her electronica ode to l'amour, "French Kiss".

Mixed and produced by Danny James McCarthy-
C'est manifique!

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We salute Steve Bauman and his co writer Nick Nolan, also known as Stretch Nickel, for landing their song "Something More" on Lifetime's hit series, "ARMY WIVES". 

The episode airs on Sunday, September 14th. At ease!

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Everybody Dance Now
Director/Writer/Producer Jeff Fishers' feature film "Killer Movie" includes four fantastic dance/power pop songs from the IFMP catalog.  Hats off to:  Nadia Fay & Jay Condiotti for their  fun, sexy "Kitty"; Louis Yoelins'  Above Envy, high energy song "Revolution"; Johnny Elkins & Peter Roberts feature the talented Ms. Julie Griffen on their penned tune "Boomerang" and those amazing gals(and guy), Danielle De Andrea, Jessica New and Scooter Pietsch from Sweet 17 with "Sweet Sweet Thang".

 

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GREEK SEASON 2
ABC Family's hit series "Greek" begins again on August 26th and the first episode of the season kicks off with "My Bottom", written by Johnny Elkins and Mark Scott McKinney and performed by "Aleesha". This is a featured song with a choreographed dance/lip sync from the "naughty" sorority girls.  The following episode of Greek will have Above Envy's "Shy Girl",  by writer Louis Yoelin, in a party scene.  Louis is doing really well with recent placements on The Young and The Restless and an upcoming feature "Killer Movie."

 

Burn Notice Music Licensing Download Sweet 17 On "Burn Notice"

Asking the musical question "Do You Want It, Baby", the superbeat sounds of Sweet 17 (Jessica New, Danielle DeAndrea and producer Scooter Pietsch) will be heard on the USA Network series "Burn Notice," which is starting its second season.

The episode airs Thurs, July 24th and also features one of our favorite actresses, Ms. Sharon Gless. 


young and the restless music licensing Celebrating the 4th with the Young and The Restless

Two of Louis Yoelins' songs will be featured on this Friday's episode of Y&R: The Word and Suicidal Queen

It's good to be Independent!
Edgard Jaude - Moonlight Music - Imaginary Friends Jaude To Be In Pictures...

Vampire show Moonlight's "Darker Side of Life" producer Edgard Jaude gets a cut on Living Lohan, E! Network's reality show on pop singer Lindsey Lohan's family and their own kind of demons. Jaude also has cuts coming up in Real World Hollywood, and MTV's Making The Band.
Fiasco-Greek-TV-Movie-Music-Licensing More days like these, please: Rapper FIASCO has landed a placement on ABC Family's hit series "Greek" with his song "Days Like These", co-written by producer Eliot Waldhorn of E5 music. The show airs on Monday, May 26th.
bold and the beautiful music licensing More Bold and More Beautiful -- Daytime Drama "The Bold and The Beautiful" has two songs from IFMP coming up this month: "Your Love Makes Me Something More" sung by Emmy winner Michael Kisur and co written by Michael and Patrick O'Donnell, and "Beautiful Day" sung by Caitlin Stansbury and written by Steve Bauman.
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Listen for the dance darlings of Sweet 17 on MTV's REAL WORLD: HOLLYWOOD on April 30th.

Producing skills by Scooter Pietsch; singers are Danielle Gaha and Jessica New.
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Days of Our Lives
On April 22nd, IFMP writer Louis Yoelins' song "Suicidal Queen" will be featured on the long-running daytime drama "Days of Our Lives."

As they say, Louis rocks!

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New Amsterdam News
If you haven't seen the new Fox series "New Amsterdam", it's about a very cool guy who simply can't die... he's looking good at about 400 years old.  Episode #103 featured Edgard Jaude's "ELECTRIC BODY" in a fashion shoot--proving EJ is pretty unstoppable too.
mtv making the band music beth wernick The Hip Hop music of ER Inc. can be heard on multiple episodes of MTV's "Making The Band".  ER Inc is Edgard Jaude, Rafael Torres, Garrett Wesley, Robert Roman and Kevin Davis. If you  missed an episode, they re-run them all week long.
tom berenger music stiletto In your theaters soon:  Look for the Tom Berenger starrer "Stiletto" which will feature Seth Hartman's track "CLIMB" and ER Inc. (Edgard Jaude, Rafael Torres, Garrett Wesley and Kevin Davis) song "BANG BANG."
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The Warner Bros TV series, Witchblade, has gone to DVD with 5 songs from IFMP: Congrats to Edgard Jaude for his song," Deadly Encounter"; Body Soul & Minds' track "Lift Me Up"; Johnny Douglas Jr's "At The Edgewater"; "Precious Time" by Michael Kisur and "Solid State"
from writers Louis Yoelin and Natalie Wilde.
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Santa Says:
Watch The Young and The Restless on December 24th so you can hear the beautiful guitar instrumentals of Jingle Bells and Angels We Have Heard On High by Steve Glotzer.

Then go back to shaking the boxes under the tree.

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Go, Johnny, Go...

Catch the CBS hit series "Ghost Whisperer" Friday night Dec. 17th and you'll hear the alt rock version of "Jingle Bells" sung and arranged by Johnny Douglas Jr. 

If you don't watch, don't be surpised if you find coal in your Uggs.



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Michael Kisur's punk rock rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" made it onto the November 28th
episode of Fox's hit series "Bones". 
Jingle all the way, Mike!

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Even more Bold and more Beautiful...

The Donatella song "Under the Moon" (congrats to Donna Rawlins and Eliot Waldhorn, the songs' writers) along with Edgard Jaudes' "You're So Beautiful" will be featured on the November 19th episode of the long running daytime drama, "The Bold and The Beautiful".  Sweet 17 songs "Get You Into My Arms" and "Body" will also be in this episode...Sweet indeed!

 

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So nice, they've licensed them twice...The Damned Automatics song "Kill Your Radio" and
Sweet 17's "Easy Ridin" will be on DeGrassi: The Next Generation again, in upcoming episodes.
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Sweet 17's songs "Body" & "Get Me Into Your Arms" will be heard on The Bold & The Beautiful on November
16th.   Everybody dance now....
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Edgard Jaude has landed another plum placement, this time on the new CBS drama about Vampires... "MOONLIGHT". You can hear his song "Darker Side of Life" on Friday PM, November 2nd.  The series is produced by Warner Bros.
BACON BROTHERS MUSIC Bacon Brothers
IFMP is pleased to annouce that The Bacon Brothers, Kevin and Michael Bacon will join the roster of artists represented. . The blue-eyed duo is working on their fourth CD and touring in the US.

Michael Bacon is an Emmy Award-Winning composer. He's also had songs recordeed by artists from Jerry Lee Lewis to Perry Como.

Kevin Bacon is best known for his vast acting career which includes roles in movies from the 1984 hit Footloose to his Screen Actor's Guild Nomination for Murder In the First.


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Blonde Ambition meets a Beautiful Day
Songwriter Steve Bauman and his band STRETCH NICKEL can tell their folks they got a song in a Jessica Simpson movie...the film is "Blonde Ambition" a remake of "Working Girl", for Millennium Films.  The song is "BEAUTIFUL DAY"....

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Sweet & Easy
Sweet 17 (formerly Lash) has placed their laid-back dance track Easy Ridin' on an upcoming episode of DeGrassi. Congratulations to Scooter Pietsch and Dannielle Gaha.
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3's a Charm:
The CBS Daytime Drama, The Bold and The Beautiful, has licensed three dance tracks for an episode to air in late
September.  Kudos to Johnny Elkins and Peter Roberts on their song "New Meaning"; to Edgard Jaude for his dance track "Electric Body" and to Mitchell Sigman for his track "Superstar" from his CD, Celebutaunte.
Sharon Farber


Jazz Pianist George Kahn is on a roll...
after receiving standing ovations for his gig Friday evening, August 3rd at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), George just found out that Daytime Soap "The Young and The Restless" is using 6 of his songs in an upcoming episode (one of them twice).  Jazz that!!

http://www.georgekahn.com
Sharon Farber


IFMP Signs Deal with Pop Icons Berlin
IFMP welcomes Berlin, featuring singer Terri Nunn and writers Darren Brown, Mitchell Sigman, Chris Olivas, Lara Peterson and Myke Smith. Terri will also be guest starring in an episode of the new MTV series "KAYA" to air in the late fall.
 

How Sweet It Is...
De Grassi: The Next Generation has licensed "Day Day Oh" by Sweet 17.  Congratulations to Scooter Pietsch and Dannielle Gaha.

Such Stud
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Yeehaw y'all, 'cause Nashville writers, Carey Moore and Marty Buchanan, landed their song "I Thought I Was A Stud (til she got her nails in me)" in the feature film called "JOLENE" based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, for Next Turn Productions.

They Got The Beat
Eliot Waldhorn of E5 Music, as well as writers Dave Pezzner and Bob Hansen, have landed multiple placements on the second season of Court TV's "LA FORENSICS".  We love that about them!

Paco Bell
DeGrassi High has included a rockin' regaetton track from PACO, called "Ding Dong".  Muy bueno to writers Paco and Mikhail Davies.

It's Revenge Kills (and then Kills Name...)
Orange County Indy Band "Its Revenge" has landed a placement on the hit Canadian teen series "DeGrassi" with their song "Kill Your Radio".
Since the placement, It's Revenge has changed their name to The Damn Automatics.

Lash Eyeing Success

Lash has landed in the new ABC Family series "GREEK" with their song "Do You Want It, Baby". The series will start airing this summer. Congrats to writers Scooter Pietsch and Jessica New along with singer, Danielle Gaha.

It's No Wonder To Us!
HBO on Demand has licensed "No Wonder" by ACID HICKS to be used in a short film called HOD:The Watcher.  It will air on June 14th and also on the HBO website.  ACID HICKS has had songs on DE GRASSI: The Next Generation, as well.  Kudos all around to writer/musicians Tim Coulter, Pat Vilichich and Craig Manrique. Visit Acid Hickson MySpace at www.myspace.com/acidhicks.

Cover Girl
SHARON FARBER has received a lot of attention recently for her acclaimed score in the film When Nietzsche Wept, and now she's the first woman composer to grace the the cover of Film Music Magazine.

She was also recently commissioned by The Israel Symphony Orchestra to compose a new orchestral work for their 2007 season.



 

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Jack Viper Strikes
UK rockers "Jack Viper" have two songs coming out in the new horror film "Zombie Wars"...songs are "Spider To The Fly" and "G. F. Y.".  The British foursome has a new video coming out as well.

Ain't love grand?
Valentines' was a little sweeter because "Love Is On Our Side" by Johnny Elkins and Peter Roberts was featured on The Young and The Restless.

Happy Holidays

... IFMP style on NBC's Daytime Drama Passions. Johnny Douglas Jr. has had two songs placed on two episodes of the Emmy winning series Come Home For Christmas and Don't Make This White Christmas Blue. And while the Turkey is defrosting, Wednesday evening, November 22nd, on the new ABC Drama THE NINE, you can hear Tommy Holmes' song Love Can Save Us All. And we are very thankful, indeed.

Triple Play!
This Wed., October 11th, daytime soap The Young and The Restless will feature three country songs from our catalog. The talented songwriters are Fran Lucci (Just To Be Your Girl), Evan Brau and Marty Martin (Jail), and Johnny Douglas, Jr. with Danni O'Neill (You). Kudos to all of them for their great work.

Donatella Strikes Again!
 Yet another placement for the talented singer/songwriter, the Donatella song "DAEYA" (written by Donna Rawlins and Eliot Waldhorn) has been placed in the New Line Feature Film "MR. WOODCOCK", starring Susan Sarandon and Billy Bob Thornton. You can find the song on her CD, Donatella: Under The Moon. 

Party, Si Si!
Kicking off the fall in a big way, "Partido Aqui" by "Pete, Mikey and Mere" will be used (two times in fact) on the Season Premiere of "GIRLFRIENDS"...check your TV Guides for the where and when on Oct. 1st. Kudos out to Meredith Chapman, Peter Hernandez and Mike Turner Jr.

What a FIASCO
FIASCO" has two tracks on two episodes of the N Channel's "DeGrassi: The Next Generation"...in the new season you'll hear 'Chasin' Cheese' on one show and the track 'It Don't Stop' will be a featured song on another. Congrats to Kashan Griffin and Eliot Waldhorn.

Shhh...
Catch NBC's "PASSIONS" on Monday, August 28 to hear ZARA PHILLIPS beautiful song "Secrets" (played twice!). The song is from her new CD "WHEN THE RAIN STOPS".

Yeeehaaa!
Hats off (the cowboy kind) to Marty Axelrod and Cathy Carlson, co- writers of the song Whoop De Doo which will be heard on the CBS daytime Drama The Young & The Restless Thursday, June 29th and again on July 7th..

Imaginary Friends Music Partners On the Front:
a recent episode of the CBS hit military drama "The Unit" featured no less than three IFMP artists: Imaginary Friends (Give in to the Rain written by Stacy Robin), Donna Rawlins (Nobody's Business written by Eliot Anders & Donna Rawlins) & Drawing Down the Moon (Neverending Nights by Jan Kuehnemund, Stacy Robin& Donna Rawlins)!

Wonder Boy
"1 Hit Wonder" By Brad Yoder aired on the ABC Family series "Beautiful People"

Instant Stars
"Tell Me" performed by Donatella written by Seth Hartman & Donna Rawlins is featured on Noggin's TV Series "Instant Star."

:: New Releases!

Stacy Robin's debut solo release "Some Kind of Bird"

Donna Rawlins' first CD with Rosemont Crossing "Almost Live"


OLD NEWS...

The holidays were a little merrier with a track from Steve Bauman "12 Days of Christmas" and an arrangement of by Sharon Farber sung by the incredible Adam Lambert, both on NBC's "PASSIONS", as well as an arrangements she did of "Oh Holy Night" and "Silent Night" for Mercer Mall.

Kicking off '06, FIASCO's song "Its Going On" aired on INSTANT STAR (the DeGrassi High School spinoff). The song was co-written by Eliot Waldhorn and Kashan Griffin.

We're delighted that rapper "Mugsy" and his Producer/co writer Seth Hartman will have a song called "Fossil" on De Grassi: The Next Generation. Also, Missing will be using the song "Good-bye" in Episodes 13 and 14; co written by Seth Hartman and Shy Hart.

Congratulations to ACID HICKS on getting their song "Love Never Fails(To Let Me Down)" on DeGrassi:The Next Generation. The song was also used in the show's promo for that episode.

We also gotta hand it to the incredible songwriting talents of Johnny Douglas, Jr. who has two songs placed on DeGrassi as well: "Boom" and "Blue Skies".

Scooter Pietsch had two blues songs on two episodes of the NBC Soap "Passions" September 14th & 15th...songs were "OK Chest Feel" and "Just Leave". If you're in NYC on October 29th, catch Composer Sharon Farber's piece "ASHKINA." T his piece was premiered last October and was so enthusiastically received that she was invited back to have it performed again at a two day music festival. (see www.universalsacredmusic.org/invitation.html)

Congratulations to Johnny Douglas Jr. on his song "Happy (If you want to be)" on the Lifetime Miniseries "Beach Girls".

The season premiere of "Missing" featured music from "There's An Angel" by Beth Wernick, Meredith Chapman and Seth Hartman.