PUBLISHING COMPANY NAME FINALISTS – First, I just wanna say that we had a great time playing last night with some really fantastic bands at the Big Noise on the Westside concert in Grand Rapids. Special thanks to those who came out to see us. It was fun to play again. Also, I just want to thank you guys for sending us your list of possible publishing company names. We ended up with a list of 34 names and out of those, we will be submitting the following names to BMI: Holy Howes of Rock Publishing Co. I’m Not Your Brother I’m Brother Howe Publishing Co. Some Howe Publishing Co. Howe Do They Do It? Publishing Co. Howe Publishing Co. And here’s my honorable mention for funniest: Howe Do U Like C.R.A.P. (Country, Rock And Punk) Tom, you crack me up! Anyway, I’ll get the form submitted and we’ll let you know who the winner is.
NEWS – SHOW COMING UP We have a show coming up in a couple of weeks in Grand Rapids. It will be the last show we play for awhile so we can work on recording the new album (more to follow on that below). It’s all ages, in the afternoon, there’s a bunch of bands playing and it should be real cool. I believe it is a fund raiser also. It’s SAT OCT 18th starting at 4pm (not sure what time we’ll be playing). See the flyer below or click on the link at the bottom of the page. PUBLISHING CO NAME CONTEST I need your help on something. I am starting a music publishing company for Brother Howe and I need a name. But not just any name. Music publishing company names need to be fairly unique because there can’t be another one with the same (or even similar) name in the whole wide world. If your song gets played on the radio in Timbuktu, the royalties get paid to the publishing company and the songwriter, so if there is another publishing company with a similar name, they could get your money. To give you an idea, one of my favorite music publishing names is the company that publishes Soundgarden’s music, which is You Make Me Sick I Make Music Publishing Co. So I would like to come up with something using Howe. I have to submit five names to BMI and they will pick the one to use. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far: Howe Publishing Co. (real original I know) Howe Ya Doin’ Publishing So I would love your ideas, the more creative the better. If one of the companies chosen is yours, I’ll come up with some sort of cool prize for you, like a free cd or t-shirt, iTunes gift card, backstage passes, free trip to Las Vegas to see us play, I don’t know… NEW ALBUM Just to give you a little more of an update, we are working on recording our next album and I’m really excited about it. Hopefully I’ll be putting some rough mixes together for you guys to listen to in the next month or so and get your feedback. Alrighty then, I hope you have a great day.
