Michael J Media Group

12/03/2025

Sharing some holiday music from our clients. Enjoy “Echos of Evergreen”. 🎄

12/01/2025

Hi everyone.....we have come to that part of the year again--the holiday season. The other day, I was explaining to someone I had just met what I do for a living. The response is almost universally the same--"wow, that sounds like a cool gig!" And my reply is always the same--"yes, yes it is." And it's true--I've been doing this for 23 years now and still love it. I feel lucky and blessed.

So thanks to folks like you that are either fans of the artists and record labels we represent, members of the media who cover those acts, or colleagues in the industry that I work with every day or maybe just every once in a while. You all keep me and Michael J. Media going, and I will always appreciate that.

So I hope you have a great holiday season. Remember to be kind to others, stay safe, and enjoy every moment you can during the next month or so. Thanks for reading and listening, and happy holidays!--Mike @ MJM

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11/03/2025

New Newsletter up on our website! Here is a sneak peek:

Hey everyone, hope you're having a good start to your November. I can't believe I just typed out that it's November. Didn't I just write something about New Year's resolutions?

Anyway, I am dealing with a computer virus on my laptop, so I'm currently writing this from my son's laptop while mine gets basically wiped out and rebooted. Be careful what you click on, folks; especially when you are working very early in the morning, just a few sips of coffee in. Ugg.
I've also written about my sports fandom here, so I hope you'll indulge me with another sports take. The World Series this year was the most exciting one I've seen in a very long time. The two teams were very evenly matched, had some of the game's biggest stars, went 7 games; and despite the fact that I was pulling hard for the Blue Jays, the mighty freaking Dodgers found a way to flip the script and pull it out in 11 innings on Saturday.

But watching that game made me consider something. Is there any aspect of sports other than a title-clinching game where a fan, player, coach, or anyone affiliated with a team can go from the highest high to the lowest low and back to the highest high and back to the lowest low again--sometimes in the span of a minute? It was gut-wrenching for me just watching the fans in Toronto. The stakes were as high as it gets and every pitch, every swing, every catch and every decision was critical in real time.

As excruciating as that is, I do remember the Mets and Giants doing this to me several times in my life. So I've been there, and the process of watching the action--while technically awesome and exciting--is a test of faith and emotional endurance that always makes me wonder why I do this to myself. I guess all I can say is that through ups and downs, I just love being a diehard fan and everything that goes along with that.

Well, except for the mood swings of mine that my poor wife has to endure. Sorry, babe!

Anyway, I hope you all have a great month and a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for listening, and here is what we have on tap this month.......

11/03/2025

Nice to see in

https://www.spin.com/2025/10/cowboy-junkies-ride-unplugged-again/

11/03/2025

Catch this cool YouTube show featuromg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQS_LO10ZA4&list=PLx8NBomfmLsXU3m0UfoKL_daJ8CABJflQ&index=1

10/28/2025

Take a listen this this amazing podcast. This episode features current and former MJM. clients! David Wilcox Music & .thorn

Enjoy!

Episode 51 | David Wilcox, Max Gomez, Ross Thorn, Garrett Hendricks, and Jared Dustin Griffin | Prairie Public

https://news.prairiepublic.org/podcast/the-great-american-folk-show/2025-10-25/episode-51-david-wilcox-max-gomez-ross-thorn-garrett-hendricks-and-jared-dustin-griffin

10/10/2025

Tune in today!
Our client is featured on NPR’s — don’t miss their incredible performance!

📸: Cassidy Roark/Mountain Stage

10/07/2025

October Newsletter!

I'm thoroughly grateful this month. Not only was the Mike Farley Band reunion show fantastic, fun, and fulfilling; but we are talking about making it at least an annual thing.

And then, two weeks later we went to Scotland for 11 days with my wife's band--Gin, Chocolate & Bottle Rockets, put on by a company called Scottish Folk Tours. The band, an excellent all-female folk/pop/Americana outfit, performed a few times during the trip in which each member brought a spouse or family member, and 20 of their biggest fans to take part in the experience.

The tour folks also booked some local performers to share some traditional Scottish folk music that included lots of vocal harmonies--and stellar musicians who played guitar, mandolin, harp, different types of horns including a soprano saxophone, and a mesmerizing type of "drone" box that resembled both a tea box and an accordion. We even had great weather for much of the trip, which we found out is not the norm.
One of our tour guides, Gail, was a music lover who created Spotify playlists for our bus rides through beautiful countryside--music that was a good representation of Scottish traditional and modern folk; folk/pop, and folk/rock. She even indulged me personally by playing a former client of mine from Scotland, Dean Owens; as well as a song from Jim Kerr and Simple Minds.

The photos above are from the trip, and to show you what a beautiful country Scotland is. It was an amazing month or so and has me recharged and ready to share the latest music, tour dates, and news for the artists we represent. Have a great month!--MJF

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09/02/2025

SEPT. 2025 NEWSLETTER!

So, this is a big week for me personally. 25 years ago, the Mike Farley Band recorded and released our first album as a band (I released two solo albums before this), halfaworldaway. We were starting to make some noise in Northeast Ohio and won Best Rock Band in the Cleveland Free Times two straight years. We opened for The Pretenders, Huey Lewis & The News, Dave Matthews Band, and Better than Ezra, among others. We played just about every festival in Cleveland and Akron between 1999 and 2002. We were in rotation on local radio and our song "Can't Be Your Man" is still spun on WSTB in Streetsboro, Ohio.

This coming Saturday, Sept. 6, MFB will turn back the clock to play a 25-year anniversary/reunion show at Brothers Lounge in Cleveland. I like to say I'm semi-retired from making and playing music and singing--I can't hit some of the high notes I used to hit with ease, but that's okay. I also often say that you can always go back, and this is an instance of just that. I'm looking so forward to seeing friends and fans and familiar faces; being on stage with my musical brothers Jeff, Jeff and Joe; and having my own wife and son there (Jen and I met at the release party for that show in July of 2000, and our 18-year-old son Jonathan is so excited about seeing us live as the last time we did this, in 2010, he was not quite three years old.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that while life tends to whizz by, it's important to forge your own way and return to your roots when the time and timing are right, and to minimize life's regrets. These ideas have also been recurring with the lyrics on some of the albums we are promoting, including recent ones from David Wilcox, Ron Sowell, and Ross Thorn (see our website for more info!)

As always, we appreciate and thank you for listening, and have a great month!.--MJF
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08/14/2025

An awesome interview with from

https://www.wncw.org/show/new-tunes-at-two/2025-08-11/thursday-8-14-david-wilcox-the-way-i-tell-the-story

08/04/2025

Sierra Ferrell at Lolla. Did you catch it?

On July 31, 2025, Lollapalooza's lineup featured sets from Tyler, The Creator, Gracie Abrams, Sierra Ferrell, and more.

08/04/2025

Our latest newsletter is up on our site, michaeljmedia.com

I'm gonna keep this brief since it's summertime, and many of you are planning an early Friday getaway; what you plan to do over the weekend; or you have a vacation coming up. I've often said once we hit the 4th of July, we snap our fingers and it's Labor Day. Well, we're in mid-finger-snap right now, so best to enjoy this summer to the fullest. And to the dismay of fans of the other 29 MLB teams, Let's Go Mets!

Thanks for listening, and have a great month!.--MJF