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Cadium Music’s 2025 Year In Review

Cadium Music’s 2025 had plenty of untimely turns, but overall it was still quite productive. The year in review: "Good in Goodbye" Last year’s “Good in Goodbye” by Catch Your Breath, co-written by Curtis Martin and Chris Linck, was more or less limping into '25, but Cadium’s social media marketing campaign in the spring helped to get the song more exposure. The biggest takeaway was that 46 percent of listeners played the track at least 75 percent of the way through - off of a visualizer (no formal video accompanied the track) - which in the Social Media world is a great statistic. [...]

Jan Seedman2025-12-30T22:27:33+00:00December 30th, 2025|Uncategorized, Year End Wrap|0 Comments

The Status on Catch Your Breath’s Best Song, “Good in Goodbye”

[NOTE: this is probably a long read, so if you're looking for immediate gratification, listeners like the song, regardless of the lack of promotion it has received.] A little over a year ago, "Good in Goodbye," the last track on Catch Your Breath’s debut album, Shame On Me, was released. Unfortunately, the song went out into the world with little fanfare. The “why” would require a whole other blog entry, but the point is that even though very little was done to promote the song and even though there was no formal video to accompany the melancholy, downtempo rock track, it is one [...]

Jan Seedman2025-11-03T19:26:00+00:00November 3rd, 2025|Cadium Music Publishing, Catch Your Breath, Songs, Uncategorized|0 Comments

2024 – Cadium Music Publishing’s Year in Review

Cadium Music's 2024 had some interesting highlights and some unexpected turn of events, as well. The Expected and Unexpected Going into the year with multiple releases from Attila was to be expected, but the ebb of releases from Rachel Lorin was not. The New York pop/rocker made some changes to her creative team in the hopes of taking her act to another level. As of this writing, it looks like there will be some results from Lorin's recalibration with at least one song dropping in the first quarter of next year. It wasn't entirely a plateau moment for Lorin, though, as she recorded [...]

Jan Seedman2024-12-20T00:05:21+00:00December 20th, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

The Lack of Song Quality in Today’s Rock Acts

Gene Simmons continues to claim that rock is dead. The ongoing dialogue by Simmons and others on this topic fascinates me, because the lack of song quality in today's rock acts rarely, if ever, enters the conversation in this debate. In an article in Metal Injection by Greg Kennelty, Kennelty takes on Simmons' point of view on the life or death matter, and while I don't believe that fans killed the genre due to streaming, a Simmons opinion, some subscribers to Metal Injection offered their reason for the lack of dominance in the genre. While I respect some of [...]

Jan Seedman2022-08-27T21:31:00+00:00August 27th, 2022|Cadium Music Publishing; Maria Brink; In This Moment; Kevin Churko; Kane Churko, rock, Songs, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Martin Contributes to the New Ookay album, Has Co-Write

Martin contributes to the new Ookay album in more ways than one, which might lead to some fortuitous results.

Jan Seedman2022-04-02T22:00:08+00:00April 2nd, 2022|Cadium Music Publishing, Curtis Martin, Ookay, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Cadium Music’s 2021 Year-End Wrap and What’s Next

Admittedly, this post should have come earlier in the quarter. Instead of a close look at what transpired over the last few months, this piece has morphed into becoming Cadium Music's 2021 Year-End Wrap. The year got off to a fast start with the signing of writer and Rikets frontman, Scott Rose. COVID-19, however, continued to interrupt the creative process and the production of the new Rikets album, which included potential collaborations with Mark Lorenzo, got shelved. Southbound 75 Continue to Rise Southbound 75, continued to build its base in south Florida and finally released Tales from the Black Swamp through Bad Jeu [...]

Jan Seedman2021-12-23T00:49:54+00:00December 23rd, 2021|Cadium Music Publishing, Cisco DeLuna, Michael James, Sinshrift, Southbound 75, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Piel Has a Release Date

After some jockeying around to find a time to put out the record, Piel have a release date and it's December 10. The album is A.K.A. Ma. Piel signed to Birs Recordings earlier this year. The New York label is known for releasing records on 180 gram, high-quality vinyl. In the ensuing days and weeks after the signing announcement, it was assumed by many involved that the release date would easily be scheduled for this year, but with the heavy demand for vinyl, the pressing plant contracted by the label wasn't even sure it would be able to press the records by the [...]

Jan Seedman2021-10-04T05:38:58+00:00October 4th, 2021|Piel, Uncategorized, upcoming release|1 Comment

Alternator Records to Officially Launch After 20 Years

what steps led to Alternator Records to officially launch after 20 years? After observing Michael over the years, it came down to taking advantage of an unusual gap in his almost non-stop mixing schedule to focus on nurturing Alternator.

Jan Seedman2021-08-10T04:22:21+00:00August 6th, 2021|Michael James, Record Company, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Piel Signed to Birs Recordings

About a year ago, I decided to add an A&R/tastemaker service to the Cadium operation. The first act I decided to champion was Los Angeles band, Piel. After a few diversions along the way, I'm happy to say that Piel signed to Birs Recordings. The record, which is actually a six-song EP, has been completed and should be released in the fall. Shortly after announcing the A&R service in June of last year, I wrote about Piel and the hope that the band would release new material in 2020, but that didn't happen. What happened was COVID. Deal Tabled, Then Revived In September [...]

Jan Seedman2021-06-21T18:35:35+00:00June 21st, 2021|A&R, Cadium Music Publishing, Piel, Uncategorized|1 Comment

Vegan Vulcan Music strikes a Deal with Cadium

Client, Michael James, has a few developments happening on his end and among them, an administration deal between his newly minted publishing company, Vegan Vulcan Music and Cadium Music. As Vegan Vulcan Music strikes a deal with Cadium, the belief is that it should lead to more opportunities for VVM's future roster. Publishing and Records James has completed a new album and intends to grow VVM through the various co-writes he has on it. The new album will be called Shelter In Place. Shelter In Place features special guests and showcases some new and developing talent that James selected. The album does not [...]

Jan Seedman2021-06-14T07:31:04+00:00June 14th, 2021|Cadium Music Publishing, Michael James, Music Publishing, Uncategorized|0 Comments