TAXI TV
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Episodes
October 28, 2025 âą 96 mins
Mondayâs episode of TAXI TV should be amazing! Robin Frederick is going to join us, and sheâs going to tell us what her Top 10 Songwriting Hacks are.
Robinâs book, Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting, is a best-seller, and weâve never heard anything but raves, so even Iâm excited to hear what her âhacksâ are. If youâre new to our email list or TAXI TV, you really donât miss this episode.
Youâll find out why the ballroom at our confere...
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October 14, 2025 âą 95 mins
We always love having Ronan on TAXI TV, so weâre excited to have him join us on todayâs show (4 pm Pacific time) to teach us some tricks of the trade about production and mixing variables that can make your tracks more âsynch-able.â Weâll discuss how to approach reverbs, panning, EQ, arrangement, mastering, etc., to make sure your track fits the style/genre, era, and overall sound the music supervisor or music library is asking for...
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October 7, 2025 âą 101 mins
If youâve ever been frustrated that your sync career is taking off as quickly as youâd like, you really donât want to miss todayâs live episode of TAXI TV (4 pm Pacific time) on YouTube!
Iâll be joined by one of TAXIâs most successful members, Matt Vander Boegh, and Iâve asked him to distill all the things heâs done to become so successful down to the 5 most important.
Mattâs music can be heard every hour of the day all over the...
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September 30, 2025 âą 92 mins
Get your questions ready for TAXIâs Head Screener, Craig Pilo, because heâs going to join us on this weekâs TAXI TV! Heâs always a popular guest and has a great deal of knowledge to share about the sync industry in general, as well as insight relating to TAXIâs screeners, the screening process, common mistakes, and great tips for getting more of your music forwarded to the industry people who are searching for it!
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September 16, 2025 âą 91 mins
It's time to hear some great music from TAXI's members â songs and instrumentals, alike! Our Top 10 episodes are viewer favorites, so please join us today at 4 pm (PDT) for the LIVE show and you'll have a shot at winning a copy of Dean Krippaehne's latest must-have book, Cue Tips!
If you want to get your music on TV, this book is indispensable! And you'll have a shot at winning a FREE copy if you're in the chat room for this episo...
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September 10, 2025 âą 103 mins
Are you frustrated that you havenât âmade itâ yet? No forwards from TAXI? No music libraries contacting you after TAXI forwards your music? No placements resulting from the music youâve signed with music libraries or sync companies?
Weâre going to dive into some reasons why those things may not have happened for you yet on todayâs episode, and what you can do about it.
This episode was inspired by dozensâmaybe hundreds of comment...
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August 26, 2025 âą 93 mins
Have you ever wondered what the answers to these questions are?
"How many submissions does it take until I start getting forwards from TAXI?"
"How many forwards from TAXI does it take until I start to get deals and offers?"
"How long after TAXI forwards my music does it take until I hear from the client?"
"How long after I sign with the music library will it take for placements to happen?"
"How long will it take to get paid afte...
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August 19, 2025 âą 99 mins
âMichael, Iâve learned so much from the A&R Hot Seat episodes on TAXI TV! Can you please do them more often? My music has improved quite a bit because itâs much easier to be objective when deciding what works and what doesnât about somebody elseâs music rather than my own." â Timothy Reardon
Weâve been hearing the same thing from other viewers for years!
With that in mind, on this weekâs TAXI TV, weâll be making A&R decisions to ...
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August 12, 2025 âą 99 mins
Long-time TAXI member, Keith LuBrant, has had more than 105,000 sync placements on more than 1,711 TV shows, on more than 283 TV networks, worldwide.
He has a family, a full-time job, a mortgage, and all of the typical responsibilities you probably have. So, how has he accomplished what virtually every person reading this would like to do?
Youâll have your chance to ask him that and every other question you can think of during t...
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August 5, 2025 âą 103 mins
Iâve got most of the main panels sorted out for this yearâs conference, the TAXI Road Rally. But I need your opinion before I start calling to invite and confirm the panelists. Do you like the topics? Do you have other ideas? Is there consensus?
As always, I want to get your opinions before I lock things down.
Win a FREE Copy of Dean Krippaehneâs latest book,
Cue Tips! â 50 songwriting, composing, and music production hacks to ...
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July 29, 2025 âą 96 mins
âSo, Michael? Exactly what are the complaints you get from music library executives, if theyâre not about the music?â
I was going to do a TAXI TV episode and enumerate the complaints myself until I spent 47 minutes on the phone this past Sunday with a very wise music library CEO.
He was frustrated⊠actually, you might even say, exasperated. He told me about his âpain points,â and they sounded nearly identical to what we hear fro...
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July 22, 2025 âą 100 mins
Iâm excited to have Rob Chiarelli join us for this weekâs episode! Heâs a huge fan-favorite on TAXI TV, and at our FREE (for TAXI members) annual conference, TAXIâs Road Rally (November 6th-9th, this year).
Robâs down-to-earth advice covers a wide range of topics, including production, engineering, mixing, music licensing, and general career advice, which is always relatable because he comes from your world. Heâs a multi-instrumen...
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July 15, 2025 âą 90 mins
I was doing some research yesterday, and I stumbled on something thatâs been staring me in the face for decades. Itâs a âformulaâ that TAXIâs most successful members use. Especially, the members who want to earn income with sync placements.
Conversely, when I researched TAXIâs least successful members, I discovered that virtually none of them used the same formula. Why wouldnât they, when it obviously works?!
Frustrated?
Are you...
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July 8, 2025 âą 93 mins
It's been a while since we've done an "Ask Michael Anything" on TAXI TV, so that's exactly what we're going to do on today's show! Ask me anything about TAXI, engineering & production (from the mics and wires aspect), or the music licensing business, and I'll do my best to give straightforward and helpful answers.
Want to know what production music libraries are looking for?
I can tell you!
Want to know why Hollywood studios won...
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June 24, 2025 âą 87 mins
For many songwriters, birthing a great lyric can be agonizingly slow and painful. Yep, sort of like childbirth! Well, any mom would tell you that itâs not even close, but you get my point; It can be daunting, slow, and yes, even painful to write a great lyric. But it doesnât have to be!
If youâve ever had writerâs block or find that it takes so long to craft a great lyric, you miss opportunities for TV and film placements because ...
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June 17, 2025 âą 103 mins
True Swans are a duo who are becoming quite successful using TAXI to launch their career. Michelle Lindley and Todd Dunnigan live more than 600 miles from each other, yet their collaboration has been nothing short of remarkable!
If youâd like to know how and why long-distance collaborations can work and what the 4 keys to success Todd and Michelle have uncovered, then donât miss this fascinating interview.
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June 10, 2025 âą 99 mins
I thought you needed tens of thousands (or more) followers to pull off a successful crowdfunding campaign to raise money for your music. I was wrong, you donât!
Frankly, I knew very little about crowdfunding to raise money for music (or any other type of project). When Kevin McNoldy was doing his excellent TAXI TV episode about music mastering a few weeks ago, he mentioned that he knew quite a bit about it.
He wasnât kidding!!! A...
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June 3, 2025 âą 96 mins
If you think that making great music is the key to making more money in sync licensing, youâre half wrong!
If you donât have great (and appropriate) titles for your music, nobody will know how great it is because they wonât find it, hear it, or license it.
Shocked? Donât be! Thereâs not a single music supervisor or TV editor side who wouldnât back me up on that.
I couldnât find great information about creating titles that get ...
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May 20, 2025 âą 65 mins
TAXI member, Jim Thacker, is experiencing what manyâif not mostâother musicians hope to accomplish. His music is being heard all over the world, and heâs landing some really nice sync placements on an ever-increasing basis. Some of them are in brand-name TV commercials!
But things werenât always going the way Jim wanted them to! Is the same true for you?
Are you frustrated, disappointed, or just plain fed up with your music caree...
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May 13, 2025 âą 96 mins
A year ago, Spotify decided they werenât going to pay royalties on tracks that streamed less than 1,000 times. Instead, those royalties would go to other artists proportionately to their streaming totals.
Our friend Tony van Veen, CEO of Disc Makers, recently calculated that in 2024 alone, this resulted in $47 million in independent artist royalties being diverted to (mostly) the majors! He went public with this data, Spotify act...
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