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Every month, our A&R Team makes a list of 10 of their favorite TAXI Member songs and/or instrumentals that they've heard lately. We call them the "Top 10," but don't let that mislead you into thinking they're THE 10 best songs or instrumentals out of ALL the music our members make. Really, it's more like a list of, "Hey, these are really cool and you should check them out." And you should! 0:00 - Intro 2:55 - "Focus" by Halle Abadi 7:55 - "Help Myself" by Ani 16:25 - "Stomp Rock Anthem" by Anthony Kneeshaw 24:22 - "Back Down" by As The Structure Fails 29:39 - "New You" by Basic Elements 38:33 - "Rise and Fall" by Derek Handy 48:09 - "Heartbreak Machine" by Erinn Alissa 53:29 - "The Devil's in the Whiskey" by John Weber 1:01:41 - "All in Favor" by Rasmus Boegelund 1:07:56 - "Girls!" by Luiza Lale

On today's episode, TAXI's Head Music Screener - Craig Pilo - joins us in answering all of your Music Business questions! He is an industry pro, an accomplished performer, and has all the insight you could ask for.

On today's episode, TAXI CEO Michael Laskow answered your Music Biz questions! He provided great info to help you learn the business side of the Music Business!

Do you get ticked-off when you see something like this in some of TAXI’s Industry Listings? IMPORTANT NOTE: This Company offers an Exclusive deal, and has a strong preference for signing material from songwriters who have worked for libraries and licensing companies in the past and understand how standard deals work. If you don't have that experience and you don't know the drill on typical deals, they politely ask that you don't submit to this request. Or this... IMPORTANT NOTE: This Library offers an Exclusive deal, and has a strong preference for signing material from songwriters who have worked for libraries and licensing companies in the past and understand how standard deals work. Or this... IMPORTANT NOTE: This company has specifically asked that you only send unreleased Songs that aren't already commercially available. If you've already released them on Spotify, Apple Music, etc., or if they’re already published or administered by CD Baby Pro, TuneCore, etc., please do not submit them. TAXI CEO M

On this episode of TAXI TV, TAXI CEO Michael Laskow goes over the Top 10 Myths of Creating Music for Film/TV Music Licensing!

On this episode of TAXI TV, TAXI CEO Michael Laskow plays member-submitted love songs and our A&R team's Top 10 song picks for the month of February! Take a listen to see if your Love Song was played!

Want to write better songs? On this episode of TAXI TV, Robin Frederick reviews viewers' songs and gives useful tips and suggestions on how to improve them! There's a reason Robin Frederick – leading songwriting expert and author of the best-selling books Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting and Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV – speaks to standing-room-only audiences at the TAXI Road Rally every year, her insights and advice on how to make your song even better are nothing short of amazing! Check out Robin's website here: https://robinfrederick.com/ Get Robin's Books here: “Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting” by Robin Frederick https://amzn.to/3iwNrfw “Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV” by Robin Frederick https://amzn.to/3xbU6jq "Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting" EBOOK Level 1: https://amzn.to/3at8s6n "Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting" EBOOK Level 2: https://amzn.to/37jVhT9 "Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting" EBOOK Level 3: https://amzn.to/2NcIc7m As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases from the

TAXI turned 30 years old on January 15th, so we celebrated by doing a retrospective with some great stories and some trivia questions with great prizes like a free consult with Robin Frederick, TAXI swag, and a one-hour consult with TAXI's head screener, Craig Pilo! Get your very on TAXI T-shirt, Hoodie, and Mug here: https://taxi-swag-central.myshopify.com/

Member Eric Copeland posted a YouTube review of TAXI, then posted a follow-up video about whether he was going to renew his membership or not. Our fearless CEO thought some critical information was missing and reached out to Eric and suggested a public duel, like Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Or maybe a jousting match!

Every month, our A&R Team makes a list of 10 of their favorite TAXI Member songs or instrumentals that they've heard lately. We call them the "Top 10," but don't let that mislead you into thinking they're THE 10 best songs or instrumentals out of ALL the music our members make. Really, it's more like a list of, "Hey, these are really cool and you should check them out." And you should! Check out the member's pages to hear their music below! "Lil' Bruh" by Lew Sid: https://bit.ly/3HSxb1R "Lighthouse" by Andrew Anka: https://bit.ly/3qivSU8 "Weekend Warrior" by Kit Benz: https://bit.ly/3HRciUI "Setting Sail" by Emma Johnson: https://bit.ly/3nh2XOa "Banger" by G. Scott Russell: https://bit.ly/3qgcirx "Ooh Baby Baby" by Priscilla G: https://bit.ly/3f9KG0S "Activate Dance Sequence 101" by Vikas Pawa: https://bit.ly/336kEsV "Nip It With A Bud" by Matthew Soileau: https://bit.ly/3qe4vKM "Watch Me Now" by River J: https://bit.ly/33bZnhn

Watch this Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bkKneFkZxUA Have you already made your New Year's resolutions as to how you're going to be successful with your music career in 2022? Stop lying to yourself and join me today for some actionable steps you can take that will actually work! Bite off what you can actually chew, and just maybe you won't need to make any resolutions for your music next year!! Find your realistic steps along the path of musical success on today's show. Don't miss this one!! Here are the links to the books Michael talked about during the show: Robin Frederick: Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting: https://amzn.to/3dnydGX Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV: https://amzn.to/3jYaiPZ Dean Krippaehne: Demystifying the Genre: https://amzn.to/3bdCAC3 Demystifying the Cue: https://amzn.to/3u6zisF Steve Barden: Writing Production Music for TV: The Road to Success: https://amzn.to/3sfgWnV Steven Pressfield: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles: amz

We got so many Christmas/Holiday song submissions for last week's show (over 300 of them!!) that we've decided to listen to more of them this week! And, not to be all "Scrooge"-like, but a TON of them submitted for last week's show were not the Piano/Vocal or Guitar/Vocal versions we asked for! We couldn't consider those, as they would not have been on a level playing field with submissions from people who DID follow instructions ;-) Speaking of not following instructions: A gazillion of the submissions for last week were also not downloadable, as we had requested. Those were also not considered. We just don't have the time to email or call a couple hundred people to ask them to re-submit. And finally, there were actually people who got upset with us for not playing their songs. We got more than 300 hundred submissions, and we can only play about 20 during the show. If we played all 300, that would be about 20 hours of music we've have to play. As much as we all love TAXI TV, a 20-hour show would be a very

We're getting in the holiday spirit on this week's episode of TAXI TV with a listening party of viewer-submitted Christmas songs! But, there's a catch! You can only submit piano/vocal or guitar/vocal songs. Here's how to submit your songs... Want a chance to get your Christmas/Holiday song played on the show? Email a link to where we can download it to taxitv@taxi.com by 12 pm Pacific time on Monday, December 20th!

Our viewers love to tune up their ears by hearing submissions for a hot request from TAXI, then casting their votes to see if they line up with what our A&R team decided. One of our regular viewers summed it up nicely when she emailed, "Judging songs on TAXI TV helps me judge my own music more objectively. I create better music because of these episodes, please do more of them!" Join us for the fun, the education, and the community spirit in the live chat room during this week's episode of TAXI TV! Here's the request we sent out! UPLIFTING SINGER/SONGWRITER SONGS with Male or Female Vocals are needed by an A-List Film/TV Music Publishing Company that typically gets really nice, HIGH-END placements! These guys are thought of as being "a cut above." This Company is looking for Mid-to-Up-Tempo Songs in the general stylistic ballpark of the following references: "Missing Piece" by Vance Joy "Bridges" by Johnnyswim "Home" by Phillip Phillips "This Is Our Time" by WILD Quoting the Company: "We're looking

Many of TAXI's most successful members attribute at least a portion of their success to how carefully they read our Industry Listings. Very few people know how much craft goes into writing the Listings. The goals are: 1)To give each and every one of our members the highest probability of making a great submission. 2) Giving the A&R team members accurate and bountiful information to use when they do their job. 3) To ensure that the people and companies who trust TAXI to find them great music sign it or license it. For the first time ever, we're going to reveal the entire process — some might call it TAXI's "Secret Sauce" — that goes into writing each Industry Listing you read. TAXI's Briagha Abrahamson will be my guest on the show, and she'll join me in walking you through the entire process of how the initial request for music becomes a road map for making your best submissions. Want an edge? Here it comes!

Every month, our A&R Team makes a list of 10 of their favorite TAXI Member songs or instrumentals that they've heard lately. We call them the "Top 10," but don't let that mislead you into thinking they're THE 10 best songs or instrumentals out of ALL the music our members make. Really, it's more like a list of, "Hey, these are really cool and you should check them out." And you should! Please join me on this week's episode of TAXI TV as we listen together!

Here's your chance to ask me something I might have missed in the chat during a recent episode! Throw anything at me, and I'll do my best to give you a great answer. Ask me about anything – from TAXI-specific questions, to engineering or production questions, to music business questions, to music industry business etiquette queries, to questions about TAXI's screening/A&R process, to film/TV music questions (songs and instrumentals), to TAXI Road Rally questions, to just about anything else you can think of! There’s no reasonable question that I won’t answer – even at the risk of embarrassing myself!

Not sure if your song's lyrics are universal? Why not consult an expert? I've invited everyone's favorite songwriting coach, Robin Frederick, to join me on this week's episode of TAXI TV to review your song's lyrics and give you the answer! “Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting” by Robin Frederick https://amzn.to/3iwNrfw “Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV” by Robin Frederick https://amzn.to/3xbU6jq

Recently, we ran a listing asking for Country Songs for a compilation that we're sending out to a bunch of our favorite Music Libraries, Music Supervisors, Ad Agencies, and Independent Film Makers. Tune in to this week's TAXI TV to hear some of the Songs that made it onto that list. Curious about how good a song needs to be to make it onto a TAXI Compilation, and why it landed on there? Join us as we play them and talk about what made us choose them!

There are 7.6 billion people on the planet Earth, but only a small handful of private citizens have ever been to space — the final frontier ;-) A TAXI member is joining that tiny handful of “regular” citizens who’ve been fortunate enough to travel to space. He launches on Tuesday, October 12th, and I want you to meet him before his flight! Chris Boshuizen is a musician, just like you. He’s a “regular” guy, who just happens to be going to space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard. Chris and I became friends several years ago. I know his “story,” and I want him to share it with you. You’ll be fascinated and inspired. Chris is shining example of what happens when passion and persistence come together. Many of you have probably met Chris (aka Dr. Chrispy) at past Road Rallies, so this will be especially exciting for you. How many of us can say we know somebody who’s been to space? And how many of us have friends who get to ham it up aboard the “Vomit Comet” during pre-flight, Zero G training?!