LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The new song from country duo Scott Joss and Doug Colosio is “Darlin’,” a deeply-felt ballad that celebrates many aspects of love. Released by Golosio Publishing (golosio.com), “Darlin’” is quietly exciting in a very peaceful and intimate style. “If ever a song could be said to wear its heart on its sleeve, this is the one,” says John Scott G, a partner in Golosio Publishing. “The lyrics are very down-to-earth but they pack an emotional wallop. Best of all, there is a special feeling to the song that can only be called timeless.”

Emphasizing that timeless quality is the music video for “Darlin’” which features contemplative photographs from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. “The photos are of parents and grandparents of Golosio employees,” G states,” and this makes the video and the song a kind of love letter to our families.”

The video, produced by the FookMovie collective, is available on YouTube, Veoh, Blip, and the Joss/Colosio page on Beta Records: betarecords.com/scott.joss.and.doug.colosio .

About Doug Colosio:

Keyboard player and songwriter Doug Colosio has performed with Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Charlie Pride, Jewel, and many others. He’s been seen on Letterman, Leno, Austin City Limits, and in concert with some of the most important figures in today’s music. His recording, “American Piano,” is part of the Sony Sound Series.

About Scott Joss:

Songwriter, guitarist, fiddler, mandolin player, and singer, Scott Joss moved from winning the California State Men’s Fiddle Champion three consecutive years to playing with Dwight Yoakam, Pete Anderson, Tiny Moore, Roy Nichols, Dusty Wakeman, and his fiddle teacher, Jana Jae (of Buck Owens fame).

Joss and Colosio are currently members of Merle Haggard’s band, The Strangers. Together with John Scott G, all are partners in Golosio Publishing.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Communications expert John Scott G (recording artist The G-Man) leads a collective of artists, musicians and videographers known as FookMovie (www.fookmovie.com) in the creation of wildly colorful music videos. Since opening in April, the company has completed 30 productions. “FookMovie was developed as a division of Golosio Publishing with the goal of creating more attention for songs in our catalogue,” states G, “but we have just accepted our first assignment for an artist outside of our musical family, so we’re way ahead of schedule in terms of the company’s expansion.”

All videos are posted on the company Web site in QuickTime but with links to the videos located on such social networking sites as YouTube and Veoh. In addition, FookMovie videos also appear on Blip and BetaRecords. “The adults-only videos are on Veoh because they have a category for 18+ content,” G notes, “and they are on our site with warnings about the content.

Notable productions include videos for “Bright Sun at Midnight” (Jonny Harmonic), “Keyboard Flavor Monkey” (The G-Man), “Evolution Destiny” (James Sotelo), and “Electrivicious Party Doll” (Country-Fried Funk).

About John Scott G

Scott is owner of G-Man Marketing in Los Angeles, where he consults on advertising, marketing, and sonic branding. G-Man Marketing has produced broadcast advertising for Verizon Wireless, Goodrich, The Auto Club, DIRECTV, Micron, Legoland, General Dynamics NASSCO and many others. Scott writes about marketing for the Advertising Industry Newswire(TM).

A member of The Recording Academy (www.grammy.com) and on the Board of Directors of NARIP, The G-Man has 8 albums on iTunes. He and NLG are the principal directors at FookMovie(TM), with video contributions from a wide variety of painters, filmmakers, and light artists.

Learn more online: www.fookmovie.com.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — With a mixture of rock, trance, ambient and classical music, composer Scott G (recording artist The G-Man) creates a near-psychedelic journey on “Burning Man Soundscapes.” The 14 instrumental tracks are all influenced by the Burning Man social experiment held annually on the Playa in the Nevada desert. Song titles like “Serpent in a Pin Stripe Suit,” “Lovemaking Montage” and “Industrial Dark & Magic” hint at the psychedelic atmosphere of the album.

Like the orchestral music by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), composer Scott G is hoping listeners to the “Burning Man Soundscapes” tracks achieve a state of synesthesia, where senses become blended and there is a euphoric reaction to the pure sonics and beats.

“Scriabin wanted to create a musical work that would be so all-encompassing that at its conclusion the world would dissolve in bliss,” G stated. “While I would also enjoy seeing that, I am setting my sights on inducing bliss in individual listeners. Or at least making them move their hips,” G added.

“Burning Man Soundscapes” is available on iTunes along with all other albums by The G-Man.

Five videos have been made to songs from the album. The collective called FookMovie created videos to “Uniquetown, USA,” “Tribalism Tones,” “Keyboard Flavor Monkey,” “The Bolero Challenge,” and “Industrial Dark and Magic.”

Images from these fast-paced and sometimes surrealistic productions include radically altered photos of the artist, keyboards and guitars underwater, a monkey playing musical instruments, and the artist strobe-morphing into a gorilla. “Viewers can go ape with them,” states NLG, a director at FookMovie.

About Scott G (The G-Man)
You have heard Scott G’s music whether you know it or not. His compositions are utilized in commercials, played in clubs, and are featured on Internet and college radio. His G-Man Music company manages Golosio Publishing and the Songs and Soundtracks music licensing firm.

More information about the album and artist:
www.burningmansoundscapes.com .

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — When Scott G began to mix The G-Man’s new album, “Audio Takes a Stand” produced by Songs and Soundtracks, he was shocked to see that an unseen entity had completed it for him. “I started to assign levels to the separate tracks of bass, drums, keyboards and guitars — the process known as mixing — but it had already been done,” G states. “It’s my studio, my computers, and I’m the only one with the password, so the gear has a mind of its own or the spirit of the little boy on the cover of the album did the mixing for me.”

Not only were volume levels and sonic frequencies established for each song, the amount of each instrument in the left and right channels was also set. “The ghost created a nice stereo mix,” G says.

Each of the 12 songs on “Audio Takes a Stand” (www.audiotakesastand.com) is a multi-layered instrumental that uses a combination of rock, dance and ambient sounds to create subliminal reactions from listeners. Described as “sonic applications of hypnotic euphoria,” the album is the culmination of a 3-album journey that began with “Crazed + Dazed” and continued with “Burning Man Soundscapes.”

Songs range from the Pink Floyd-influenced “Angels Behind Your Eyes,” to the Zappaesque “Then Comes the Strange.”

There are videos for 4 of the album’s songs by the FookMovie production company: “Free Nude Photos,” “Beep Logic,” “Dreams on the March,” and “Go West on East Avenue.” To view the “Beep Logic” video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjLu9Q8hwE

“Audio Takes a Stand” and other albums by The G-Man are available on iTunes.

About Scott G (The G-Man)
If you listen to the radio, watch television, or dance in a club, you have heard Scott G’s music. His G-Man Music company runs Golosio Publishing and the Songs and Soundtracks licensing firm.

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REVIEW: New Jersey based Phoenix Block’s new CD “Chemtrails” nicely combines ’80s flavored world alt-rock with modern rock and sits nicely in various places if you happen to like artists as varied as U2, Bon Jovi and Remy Zero. Once I got past the hand addressed envelope with the phony “you requested it” note on front (um, when did I do that, folks at MLC PR firm?), and the hype-sheet included that provided the usual mini-bios of the band mates, I popped in the CD and spun it up to play in iTunes on my Windows XP based PC.

My initial thoughts listening to track 1, “Can’t Divide Us,” was a pleasant reminiscence of the kind of music I loved during the ‘80s. The first track had a flavor of U2 and many of the euro-alternative rock bands. Lead vocals by Andrew Jaffe were competent and a nice up pitch in the chorus.

The second song and title track was a little weaker, and had a nice bridge and chorus, but the vocal performance during the verse was a tad over-dramatic for the material. All of the playing and choice of instruments, and mix sound great. The talking fade out sounded better to me than the verse performance, but this is subjective as with most music. Funny thing, I never really heard the phrase “Chemtrail” in there, so you’re not getting beaten over the head with that as you might be on a Rush song (think “Superconductor”). This is one of those songs I’d likely enjoy more on repeat listening. Coincidentally, alt-star Beck has a single of the same name out, right now, and this is likely going to cause either some confusion and/or help Phoenix Block’s general awareness when folks do music searches online.

“On My Mind,” is a radio-friendly song, that I enjoyed, and the overall performance and melody are very pleasant. Bit more of a ballad. I can easily see this showing up in an episode of the Smallville TV show, which isn’t a bad thing. This communicates more to those who might like modern alt rock ala Three Doors Down.

Wow. “Future Calling” has a great synthy, rock intro, telephone vocal effect verses, pop chorus, and fits nicely into that space between 80s and modern alt-rock. All of the songs remind me a little of many bands I like, including some of the Aussie alt-rockers from the ’80s including Icehouse. There is a remix version of this song, which should do well on the dance floor, but it’s not on this disc (it’s available in the iTunes store).

In general, the flavor of the songs remind me of bands I like, such as U2, Icehouse, Remy Zero, and even a little bit of Five for Fighting and echoes of Bon Jovi. Flavors include echoing guitar, rock beat with lots of tom percussion work in the right places, and nice atmospheric bridges, pleasant backing vocals, great lead vocal work with only a couple of spots I would have had redone (as the “tortured” performance on certain lines is only slightly overdone; a subjective opinion).

A couple of spots I thought they had Jon Bon Jovi sitting in (“They’re Coming”), which isn’t a bad thing as he does the same thing (band co-founders Jaffe and Schoeffler grew up in New Jersey, as did Bon Jovi).

Lyrics are generally good, without any stand out poetry or too clever turns of phrase, but certainly decent construction of hooks and feeling to fit the melodies. Nothing was trite enough to make me grimace (unlike about a dozen or more CDs I have here on my desk right now), which is a testament to their collective experience playing live on the College circuit and in New York clubs. Song writers who learn their craft playing live generally are better able to gauge audience response to songs, than closet artists, and understand it’s often about tone and feeling with modern music. Bands like U2 often are able to rise above that and do both poetry and feeling. Phoenix Block isn’t in that league (yet), but this is definitely a band to watch, and if they break big will have a great future.

Overall, a really nice effort and a pleasant discovery amongst the giant pile of “listen to me please” packages we get here every month. About six tracks in I began to really enjoy this. Tony Catania did a very competent job in the production, mix, and engineering. The album was mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, NYC.

“Chemtrails” is the Music Industry Newswire™ “Album of the Month” for July 2008.

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Summary:
Band: Phoenix Block; Tony Catania, Steve Schoeffler, Andrew Jaffe, Darrell Nutt
Album: Chemtrails; CD 2008, 4 pp insert, jewel case, no bar code
Label: Hard Six Records LTD
Style: Alternative
Tracks: 13, total 51:01 min.
CD Recognized by iTunes: Yes
Digital: Available on iTunes: Yes, iTunes Plus $9.99; track most popular on iTunes “Future Calling.” Single download, “They’re Coming” available on Amazon.com.
Website: www.PhoenixBlock.com
YouTube Video (Future Calling): www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6e2fOvajg
Music Industry Newswire™ “Album of the Month” for July 2008.

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