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Acts emerge from Web's music wellsprings to succeed


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POSTED: Friday, December 19, 2008

Two up-and-coming folk-pop singer-songwriters will fill out what's becoming a more attractive concert bill featuring John Vesely, aka Secondhand Serenade.

Like Vesely, thanks to MySpace pages, Joshua Radin and Meiko have built their fan bases through the Internet.

Added exposure has come via other media. A friend of Radin's gave a demo featuring his very first composition, “;Winter,”; to a TV producer, who promptly used it to score a scene of the sitcom “;Scrubs”; in early 2004. Other Hollywood types found his music just as evocative, and soon, various Radin songs were being heard in other TV shows, as well as movies and ads.

Radin's latest album is the sophomore release “;Simple Times.”;

Meiko's (pronounced “;mee-koh”;) songs have been featured on episodes of “;Grey's Anatomy.”; “;Boys With Girlfriends,”; as well as two early favorites, “;Reasons to Love You”; and “;Hawaii,”; are on her re-released self-titled debut.

Born and raised in the small town of Roberta, Ga., and currently residing in Los Angeles, Meiko originally self-released her album in September 2007 on her Lucky Ear Music label.

Since charting well on iTunes and being a featured artist at L.A.'s Hotel Cafe, Meiko was picked up by Universal Music about a year later to help launch the MySpace Records boutique label.