All Team Smile and Nod songs, collaborations with Piero Peluche, and Kara Square's solo music are available for you to license for your commercial project.  This includes films, TV shows, TV and radio advertising, video games, webisodes, websites, live events, remixes, and more.  The license fee changes based on your budget and intended use.

 

Many of our songs are available on YouLicense (Team Smile and Nod / Kara Square / Piero Peluche) to make it easy and quick for you to get the song that you need.  Most of the songs also have an instrumental version available.  We are always open to creating instrumental versions or work-for-hire tracks to fit your specific needs.  You can also negotiate a licensing fee directly with Kara Square if you prefer.  Please contact her here:  kara[at]thinkrootrecords[dot]com

 

We license all of our music as CC-BY-NC-SA.  If your project is non-commercial, you already have permission to use the track!  Attribution is mandatory for this type of use.  Here's a wonderful article on TuneTrack that explains how to attribute.

 

Happy Release Day!

I am extremely excited to share that Love Songs for Everyone but Especially Uke is now available EVERYWHERE!  But where oh where is everywhere?  Bandcamp (Directly from me!), iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, Spotify, and so on and so on... I've been working on this album since February of 2012.  It's a thrilling thing to see album released to the world!

Love Songs For Everyone But Especially Uke is full of heartfelt folk pop ukulele love songs that express the importance and universal nature of love.  It comes with a ukulele song booklet (when you order the CD directly from me on Bandcamp), so you can play along!  The cover art was designed by TheDICE and the logo was designed by Joel Frijters from Sound Advantage (thank you guys!!).

 

Please join me and share the album with your friends on Twitter and Facebook and all those other social networky places.

Thank you for your support.  I really hope you love this album!

Take care and cause ruckus,

Kara Square (1/2 of TSAN)

 

 

Thank you to Borys Kozielski of My Pocket Player Podcast for playing "Just Drive" on episode #342. We appreciate the support!  Check it out, folks!

Hello my friends!  This morning I excitedly pressed a little button that unleashed the digital pre-release of my solo project Love Songs For Everyone But Especially Uke.  Everyone who pre-ordered the album has been sent an email with the full album download.  Whooooo!  It's out there now!  Eeeeee...

Thank you so, so, so much to everyone who has supported me with this project.  To me, support comes in gobs of forms.  Here are 11 things you can do to support this album release:

1. Buying the album.

2. Listening to the album.

3. Liking, Following, and Subscribing to me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.

4. Sharing the album on FB, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.

5. Commenting on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.

6. Remixing and Sharing Album Songs.

7. Playing the songs on podcasts and radio shows.

8. Licensing tracks for your projects (videos, ads, movies, web films, etc.).

9. Joining my TuneTrack Green Room.

10. Joining the email list (No more than 2 updates per month and I'd never, ever sell your address.  Ever.)

11. Sending a kind message of encouragement to me!  kara[at]mindmapthat[dot]com

All of these things make a huge difference.  They help spread my music like a little seed... And you know what?  I'm finally at a pivotal point where my music is reaching more and more ears.  My ultimate dream is to make a living through music.  I've been working towards this goal seriously for over five years.  I've had the incredible fortune of my partner, Katie, supporting me through this entire time (emotionally, financially, and so much more).  And I just want to say 'thank you.'  Thank you to Katie.  Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way.  I'm not at the point where I can quit my part-time day job yet, but things are progressing.  Everything you can do to keep this momentum going is enormously helpful.  Thank you.

Now that the pre-release is unleashed, EVERYONE can stream the album for free.  If you like it, please buy it.  If you don't like it quite that much, but find it share-worthy, please share it.  I hope I get the opportunity to craft you a Valentine with my own two uke-playin' hands!  They're quite fun to make!  :D  

Take care and cause ruckus,

Kara Square (1/2 of Team Smile and Nod)

 

A big thank you to Borys Kozielski of My Pocket Player Podcast for including "Dust from the Stars" and Kara Square's "Start Each Day With Love" on episode #341.