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2009 News Highlights

August 2009
Vancouver's Virgin Radio (95.3 FM) 
chose "Everything You Are" 
as their featured song of the week 
- part of their ongoing Best of BC Spotlight.
http://vancouver.virginradio.ca/ 

March 2009
Songwriter Universe Magazine
Always You
made Top 5!
http://songwriteruniverse.com/contestwinner68-123.htm


February 2009
Mike Pinder's 'Songwars' Competition
Always You
and
Sticks & Stones
placed in Top 10
Bare & Broken
placed in Semi-Finalists
http://www.songwars.net/Contest.html


January 2009
Everything You Are 
and
Bare & Broken
added to the INDIE 104 ~ iRadioLA rotation.
http://indie104.com/indie104/index.htm



2007 - 2008 News
    
December 2007
Teamed up with Vancouver producer Ryan Stewart at WineCellar Music Studies
(producer of Canadian Idol’s Carly Rae Jepsen, Nanaimo’s Myc Sharratt) to record a self-titled debut six-song EP.
EP distributed through CDBaby.com, iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, and Payplay among others.
    
EP chosen by CBC for distribution to all CBC regional music libraries.
     
Stones Throw Tour - Summer 2008
North American tour with stops in
Atlanta, New York, Boston, Chicago,
Winnipeg, Kelowna, Vancouver, Duncan, and Nanaimo.
    
Notable tour venues:
Eddie’s Attic and Smithe’s Olde Bar in Atlanta
(following in the footsteps of John Mayer, Gnarls Barkley, Hootie and the Blowfish)
Uncommon Ground in Chicago
(venue for David Gray, Jeff Buckley)

December 2008
Dave's single
Everything You Are
chosen as 'Song of the Day' by
online radio station: FM102X
http://www.fm102x.com/


September 2008 
Returned to Vancouver to work on 
new material for his next record and
started working with Frontside Promotions 
in an intern role to learn the business of music and promotions
http://www.frontside.ca


Mike Pinder's SONGWARS

Mike Pinder was one of the founding members of The Moody Blues in early 1960's. The Mike Pinder’s SONGWARS songwriters contest is a quarterly competition to nurture songwriters with the help from the pros. Each entry will receive a critique by one of our industry professionals. Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd place winners. There will also be an annual overall grand-prize winner selected from the four quarterly grand-prize winners. Song finalists and winners will be showcased on the website.

http://www.songwars.net/Contest.html

Songwriter Universe

The Top Five Songs each month will be reviewed by Dale Kawashima, Head of SongwriterUniverse and currently Executive Director at HoriPro Entertainment Group, an internationally-known music publishing company (with offices in Los Angeles, Nashville and Tokyo). HoriPro publishes the catalogs of KISS, REO Speedwagon, Marilyn Manson, Sophie B. Hawkins, the Byrds, Jerry Reed, plus many country hits. The Top Five Songs will be reviewed for consideration by HoriPro. Notably, three previous contest winners (Chloe Leighton, Matt Palmer and Sarah Lewis) have signed music publishing contracts with HoriPro as a result of being discovered in the contest.

FM102X

It's about the music. The FM102x Song of the Day podcast is a Daily Discovery of the best in new music from independent artists delivered Mon-Fri. Featuring recordings and unreleased songs from independent musicians that you should be hearing alongside more well-known artists.

http://www.fm102x.com/

Indie104 - iRADIO LA

Indie104 - iRADIO LA, voted as the first "Internet Radio Station Of The Year" by New Music Weekly Magazine, is the world's first and most popular Independent Radio station, playing 100% original music by unsigned bands 24/7/365. Since 1998, iRADIO LA has broken the sound barriers with stellar programming that quenches the world's thirst for great new music, one wave after another. Indie104 ~ iRADIO LA is an online streaming station available on the web and on cell phones.



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