Good times. Busy Week. No sleep. Here’s the skinny.

This week-end is the LAST week-end to see the beautifully written and acted “Praying Small” at the NoHo Arts Center. I composed original music for the play and several of my songs are featured throughout.

Matt Von Roderick, a sickeningly talented singing client of mine, is performing at KingKing in Hollywood on August 2nd. I’m helping him out with vocal arrangements. He’s a fantastic singer and trumpet player and he does this polyphonic thing that you’ve really got to hear to believe. This show will be an extravaganza as it is being directed by Kristin Hanggi. Expect some theatrical magic! Also performing on the bill is the lovely Fay Wolf.

I’m close to getting a date for my CD release party in LA at the Hotel Cafe. Stay Tuned! And PLEASE come out for my NYC release party on August 9th at Rockwell Music Hall. Thx! The album is so close to being finished. It’s been an empowering, challenging, exhausting and exhilarating journey. Here’s a promo shot for the album taken by the BRILLIANT Logan Alexander.

There will be an LA reading of the new musical, Touched, written by Ben Dector and Kristin Hanggi, at the end of August. I’m music directing and doing all of the vocal arrangements. The score is POWERFUL! I’ll let you know if the reading is open. It will also be at KingKing.

Giulietta is shooting her music video for “Vertigo” this week-end. It sounds like it’s going to be really fun. Look for it soon on Yahoo’s music front page. Here’s the vid of the crazy reinvented version of “Vertigo” we did in my studio.

The genius of Ellis Miah is that generally his remixes are better than the radio version of the song.  This version will be featured in the upcoming film "Chain Letter".  Yikes, the preview looks creepy!!!! New Yorkers, please pen my CD release performance at Rockwell Music Hall in for Monday night, August 10th at 8pm.  Joining me to blow you away with →

More blogs.  Less chatter.  :) Kyle Kannenberg, who is Production Designer for this year's Open Artist benefit, We Are Golden, has submitted an amazing concept and video to get his own show on Oprah's TV Network.  Check it out and vote for him. VIDEO LINK HERE! Gina Katon, perhaps THE sexiest dancer in LA who has danced for me several times including →

I haven't posted in weeks! The MAJOR excuse I have is that I've been finishing up production for my 3rd full-length CD, Sell-out. I'll spare you the gloriously gory details, but I will tell you that 5 of the tracks are co-produced by the brilliant Ellis Miah & 4 are co-produced by a tremendous artist named Kazzer . →

More time than I would have liked has lapsed between my last posting and this one, but for good reason. The last few weeks have been wall to wall. I saw some great art, had some exciting writing sessions, and went into full production for my next full-length album. That combined with teaching and producing demos for →

It's been a few weeks since my last post and I think I promised that the next one would be the shortest ever.  Let's just say that it was so short that it was invisible to the human eye!  -mostly because I don't think this is going to be a short post...OK, I know it's not going to be.  :P Last →

Last night marked the 1st meeting in 2010 for a benefit concert that my friends and I have been producing for a couple of years now. Bestie and fellow artist, Guy B, and I were chatting on the phone back in 08 about doing a concert together. We thought it make sense for us to find a worthy →

My talented friend Clifford Morts has written a play that's going up next month at the NoHo Arts Center called Praying Small. Clifford is starring in the play and the artistic director of NoHo Arts Center, James Mellon, is directing. Clifford got me hired to do the music for the play & his concept is that there will be music →

Things have gotten busier and I love that.  But I'm definitely committed to doing this once a week.  It's fun, keeps me on track and I hope it inspires a fellow artist every once in a while.  I choose words carefully.  My blog will never be bitchy or negative.  I'm focusing in on the purpose of my blogging. To write about →

I just got back from a fantastic show down the street from my pad at a dive bar called Skinny's in NoHo.  The band I went to see is called Diana Gone Wrong & Diana, the lead singer of the band, is my singing client, songwriting partner and the dearest of friends.  Diana has a rich, powerful voice which far →