MY 2012 TIMELINE...

Check out my "best of 2012" .... 

JANUARY 2012

• "Play With My Mind" (new video)

• "Here To Stay" (new song/video)

MARCH 2012

THE MUSEBOAT RADIO LAUNCH! THE BEST RADIO FOR ALL INDIE ARTISTS OF ALL MUSIC GENRES! My song "Aloha My Love" entered ANDY'S MBMC TOP 25 CHART at # 25 and reached its highest chart position at # 4! It's been in the chart since the very beginning and closes the year 2012 at # 10!!! 

SINCERELY, I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL OF YOU, ESP. TO ANDY, MARY, TJ, JOEL, JOHN COWAN, BOBBY & JESS AND ALL THE GREAT PEOPLE I'VE MET ON MUSEBOAT RADIO CHAT!!! YOU ARE MY 2nd FAMILY!!!

museboat.wix.com/multimedia

APRIL 2012

• "Dirty Tricks" (new song finished/video)

• "Not Enough" (new video)

- a great video by my friend Crystal! THANK YOU SO MUCH, IT'S BEAUTIFUL!!!

JUNE 2012

• "I'm Your Loneliness" (new song/video)

• "Live In The Room: Demos, Covers & Raw Recordings" (acoustic collection, 18 tracks)

- free download on demand

JULY 2012

• "Shiny For You" (new version/new summer holiday video)

AUGUST 2012

• "Starx Goes Pop!" (new collection, 13 tracks + 9 earlier songs and demos)

• I am a # 3 featured artist of the day at www.famefactor.co.uk 

SEPTEMBER 2012

• My official site is born

sites.google.com/site/marekstarxofficial

• "Merci My Love (Goodbye)" (new song)

OCTOBER 2012

• "Merci My Love (Goodbye)" (new video)

• "I Will Carry You Home" with Joel A. Heslop from Mr SpooN (new collab/version/new video)

I am really glad you decided to play on this one, Joel! THANK YOU!!!

The song reached 100 plays in 5 days after I uploaded it to my ReverbNation!!! 

\m/ Yeah! \m/

NOVEMBER 2012

• I am a # 1 featured artist of the day at www.famefactor.co.uk!!!

• "Dying Swan" by Mary King and I&SON with me on vocals (new song)

Dear Mary and Andy, you two are ones of the most amazing people I've ever met. I am very proud I could be a part of your song. I am honoured! THANK YOU!!!

DECEMBER 2012

• "Perfect Day" - Lou Reed fan cover (new video)

• setting a New Myspace profile

new.myspace.com/marekstarx

• "On Christmas Eve" (new Xmas song/video/Xmas EP)

- free download of two Xmas tunes

https://soundcloud.com/marek-starx/sets/on-christmas-eve

• I've become a part of the roster of KBMPublish - Promotion run by a great artist and supporter KIMMY B SHADE from Germany

http://www.facebook.com/KBMPMusicPromo

http://kimmybshade.bandcamp.com/

MOST PLAYED SONGS ON MY PAGES (ALL TIME):

ReverbNation> NIGHT SO LONG, 348 plays

SoundCloud> I WILL CARRY YOU HOME WITH JOEL A. HESLOP FROM MR SPOON, 93 plays  (plus 27 plays of acoustic version) and 207 plays on ReverbNation since the end of October make this song SIMPLY MY BEST SONG OF 2012!!!!!!! \m/ 

MySpace> AGAIN AND AGAIN, 317 plays

YouTube> I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY, 1493 plays

WHAT ARE MY PLANS FOR 2013?

New song with I&SON

Duet with Illy

New songs with Joel Heslop + EP

New song-collection called "Synchronic City"

...and anything that happens...

It means music, music and more music!

SINCERELY, I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL OF YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR BEING MY FRIENDS, FANS AND SUPPORTERS, IT MEANS VERY VERY VERY MUCH TO ME.

LET ME WISH YOU ALL THE VERY BEST FOR THE UPCOMING NEW YEAR 2013, MUCH HEALTH, JOY AND HAPPINESS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES!

THANK YOU!!!

Marek. :)

NEW SONG WITH JOEL A. HESLOP FROM MR SPOON

Hello, everybody!

I'd like to let you know that a new version of my song "I WILL CARRY YOU HOME" is uploaded to all of my social sites. It's a collaboration with a great musician JOEL AMEN HESLOP from a Welsh indie rock band MR SPOON. Joel was the one who suggested we collaborated and he liked "I Will Carry You Home". So we decided to record it together. He did 12 string guitar and I did piano & harmonica sound, as well as a little wah-wah effect at the end of the song. And HERE's the result of our collab, hope you enjoy it!

Sincerely, I want to thank Joel and all of his friends and fans who clicked the link and supported us by listening to our song. As well as I THANK YOU my friends and fans!!!

Joel A. Heslop

Check out Joel & his band MR SPOON at:

facebook.com/mrspoonmusik

reverbnation.com/noopsrm

youtube.com/noopsm

twitter.com/m_r__s_p_o_o_n

myspace.com/noopsrm

The new MR SPOON album is called "THE TEMPLE AT THE CENTRE OF TIME"

featuring great songs like "Greed", "Shadow", "Burnt Out" or "Room 19":

\m/\m/

Music. makes sense

Hello, everyone!

I'd like to thank everybody for your support! It is just unbelievable, amazing... I can't even express the way I feel. Your support means a lot to me. There are several new songs on the way. I'm still finding my own way, my own style... The new song will be a collaboration with great Joel Amen Heslop from the band called Mr Spoon (from Wales, UK). The more I try, the more more I realise all the things I need to improve. But I have to say that I love this self-evolution! I like learning new things! When everything's finished, I will let you know about it!
Keep in touch and THANKS!
Enjoy the weekend!

PS: Btw, I created my new site with complete info, news, music information, videos and downloads for you. Feel free to check it out!
Marek. :)

WHY DOES STARX GO POP?! :)

     Hello to anybody who's reading this.
     I haven't been blogging for quite a long time. These days I put together "a few" songs from years 2008-2012 and collected my album called "STARX GOES POP!". It describes my era of moving on with my music to more serious level, so to say. However, it is still no real album at all. I picked 13 songs that described that era the best:

1. Aloha My Love
2. Not Enough
3. I Will Carry You Home
4. Lunatic World
5. Shiny For You
6. Begging For More
7. I Didn't Mean To Make You Cry
8. Play With My Mind
9. Fly With Me
10. Night So Long
11. Natural
12. Pieces To Pieces
13. Our Song

     I do think that if I was really supposed to pick 13 songs for a real album, it'd be those 13 songs. So I made several pics for this non-existing album, and added other 9 tracks as "bonus tracks", mostly my first versions, or songs which were very different to those 13 songs. But they simply have to be part of that era. All of my songs are like my little babies. An idea of creating this online album came out of the blue to me. I had no idea I was going to do that that day. Though I had this title in my head for years, it sounded very good to me and now I see that my ideas payed off.
     Sometimes I feel like nothing I do with music makes no sense. Writing and playing my new songs is my joy, but recording them is pain for me. I'm looking for better quality and I think I'm becoming much harder to myself. I was also thinking about looking for some band here in my area. I don't think I was born for stage. I don't know what it takes to have a band. After all, I checked several bands... and sadly (for me) all musicians are metal/heavymetal/punk bands. I like pretty much all music genres, but as the title says "Starx Goes Pop!", I want to play real good pop music. I know that pop has been bastardised a lot, production of pop hits is horrible mainly these days. I believe I'm on my way to pop as it used to be years ago. Intelligent lyrics and great melodies. No shit like "baby, baby, baby, let's dance on the dancefloor", etc.
People are getting stupid with such stupid songs. That's why it is harder to find the people who would listen to pop.
     There are so many great musicians out there, anytime I log in to my ReverbNation profile I know I am going to find several of them. Today, I got a very nice message about my music, I hope you don't mind if I share it with you now: "I am such a huge fan of your sound. It is unlike anything I hear anywhere. Anyone who loves big ballads and classical feeling pop/rock is missing something if they don't listen to your music. it is truly blessed."
     I am only blessed if people understand the meaning of what I'm doing. And the cool guy, who is an amazing musician, too, told me everything I'd been trying to reach with my songs with his words. I don't know if I ever get any other message like that. I'm not sure about anything. I love music, it's my only everlasting love. That's the only thing I know for sure. It may sound a bit pathetic, but it's true. On the other hand... about 4 years ago I got a very sincere message from one Slovak artist who later was featured in several tv series and performs in musicals. He sent me his reaction on one of my songs called "I Was Born In 1980"... "your music is good, it is lively, but please, don't sing! It sounds horrible, mainly in this song! Create, write, but find somebody else to sing your songs!" he said. I felt like hitting the hardest rock. It took me few days to get over his message till I realised I was thankful for his opinion. He took me down to earth from my egosphere. So I always appreciate all opinions. People have different thoughts on different things.
I don't consider myself being a singer or musician, nor artist at all. I'm no artist. I'm only trying to do what I love. Better, worse, good, bad... I need to taste it all. And the only thing I know is that I love music. Am I pathetic again? 

     Thank you to everyone who has ever supported me and helped me.
     Marek.

If you still think like you want to listen to my "Starx Goes Pop!" collection, please visit me here. Thank you for even reading this blog, you're so brave! 

Starx Goes Pop! (A-LISTEN-ONLINE ALBUM)

Hello!
It's been some time since I had this idea of creating an 'album' that would be called "Starx Goes Pop!". And the time is now! It expresses a change in my musical direction, going from dance music to more kind of pop/rock stuff. I've collected my best 13 songs (+ 7 more original demos/songs/reworked stuff/Slovak versions) and created a special playlist where you can listen to all the tunes from one link-click below. It will take you straight to my "Starx Goes Pop!" ReverbNation playlist, so make sure you also click "PLAY ALL" up in the right corner of my reverbnation profile. Hope you enjoy! :)
Click this =>>>

STARX GOES POP!

My videos list

ALOHA MY LOVE (LILIK SONG)

AGAIN AND AGAIN

LUNATIC WORLD

PLAY WITH MY MIND

NIGHT SO LONG

I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY

NOT ENOUGH

FLY WITH ME

Turn your Muse on! MUSEBOAT - GREAT FREE RADIO FOR INDIE ARTISTS

Hello, all,

there's a new great radio for indie artists mostly from ReverbNation, called "MuseBoat". You can submit your songs for free and get them on air and promotion as well. 

the link to MuseBoat is 

http://www.wix.com/museboat/multimedia

To submit your music click 

http://www.wix.com/museboat/multimedia#!artists 

Plussss, if you'd like, you can vote for me or other artists of your choice here (MuseBoat Music Chart):

http://www.wix.com/museboat/multimedia#!__chart-votes 

The MuseBoat website has many interesting features, incl. radio, art, video, tv, music chart, artists/links to website, and in near future will launch a free magazine, too. There are also links to MuseBoat social nets and you can find it on ReverbNation as well! I'm sure you'll love it! Check it out!

Thank you!

Marek.