Josiah Leming

Here is a random YouTube lessons about songwriting. Listening to other people give tips on songwriting or talk about their songwriting process might give you some new ideas you want to try! Subscribe ( : ( : thanks for all the love! Hey guys this is an interview matt shot a week or so ago for internet media, it’s on songwriting, and it’s got a new song in the background called “the rush” hope you guys like it ( : Produced by Matthew Taylor Ruggieri | www.mediacollective.tv Tweet This Post...Read Full Story

American Idol is not pleased that not quite everyone has found a reason to be ticked off at the show.  If you aren’t irked that your contestant didn’t win, aren’t getting overly bored wondering what the hell Paula Abdul is still doing on the show, didn’t get kicked off yourself, or… well, the list goes on forever actually, then you have a new potential outlet.     Josiah Leming barely got his EP out, and I barely finished telling you to give his songs a listen , when American Idol sent...Read Full Story

Just two days after he released his album-teasing EP, Josiah Leming is already facing record company drama as the entertainment company behind American Idol threatened to pursue legal action if he releases his debut album through Reprise Records. Even though Leming was booted from the show before the show narrowed its cast to 24 contestants, AI’s 19 Entertainment claims that each singer signed into a contract that gave 19 exclusive rights of refusal for management, merchandising and recording...Read Full Story

Remember the adorable Josiah Leming who was probably the most heavily featured early AMERICAN IDOL contestant to ultimately be left out of the Top 24?  He of the heartbreaking backstory of living in his car after dropping out of high school to pursue his musical dream?  Well, after getting dissed by the AI machine, the 19-year-old was quickly snatched up by Warner Brothers, making him the first idol contestant outside of the Top 24 to get a record deal, as well as being only one of the four...Read Full Story

Last week, former American Idol wannabe Josiah Leming announced that his album debut would be released on Warner Brothers’ Reprise Records label in January 2009. Now it turns out that American Idol folks are threatening to sue the singer. While Josiah Leming didn’t make American Idol’s top 24, but as a contestant, he did have to sign a contract that promises to record only with Idol’s preferred label, Sony/BMG. The contract also gives American Idol producer Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment...Read Full Story