MusicMatters partners with values-led businesses, social change organizations and the music industry to produce targeted, socially responsible, and entertainment-based brand events and marketing initiatives. In each instance, we provide consumers with unique, memorable brand experiences that inspire action. We do this through:
• Marketing, Social & Environmental Campaigns
• Music-Based Marketing
• Event Marketing
• Sampling
• Mobile Marketing
• College Promotions
• Coalition Building & Strategic Alliances
• Event Production

We understand our name raises the question "Why the music in MusicMatters?" Well, our heritage stems from creating innovative and effective campaigns merging music, marketing and activism. These campaigns have helped numerous businesses achieve both marketing value… and a significant return on their social change agenda. So, when asked "Does music really matter?", we always answer with a resounding "YES!"

Below is a list of partners that we have collaborated with through the years:

Pop Culture

  • 10,000 Maniacs
  • American Indian Dance
  • Amy Grant
  • Arlo Guthrie
  • Babes in Toyland
  • Billy Bragg
  • Blondie
  • BoDeans
  • Bonnie Raitt
  • Boogie Down Productions
  • Boyz II Men
  • Branford Marsalis
  • Brownstone
  • Bruce Cockburn
  • Bruce Hornsby
  • Collective Soul
  • Dave Matthews Band
  • David Byrne
  • Dick Clark
  • Dan Fogelberg
  • Don Henley
  • Everclear
  • Fabulous Thunderbirds
  • Fishbone
  • Flipp
  • Gigolo Aunts
  • Gloria Gaynor
  • Golden Smog
  • Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Indigo Girls
  • JJ Cale
  • Jackie Bird
  • Jackson Browne
  • Jungle Brother
  • James Taylor
  • Jesus Jones
  • Joan Baez
  • Joan Osborne
  • John Trudell
  • Kathy Mattea
  • KC & the Sunshine Band
  • k.d. lang
  • Kenny Loggins
  • Kool & the Gang
  • KRS-One
  • La Mafia
  • Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories
  • Los Lobos
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Matthew Sweet
  • Maxi Priest
  • Melissa Etheridge
  • Michael Stipe
  • Michelle Shocked
  • Midnight Oil
  • Mike Scott
  • Nanci Griffith
  • Natalie Merchant
  • NRBQ
  • Oasis
  • P.M. Dawn
  • Paul McCartney
  • Pearl Jam
  • Peter Buck
  • Queen Latifah
  • R.E.M.
  • Robyn Hitchcock
  • Roseanne Cash
  • Sawyer Brown
  • Shawn Colvin
  • Sophie B. Hawkins
  • Soul Asylum
  • Steve Miller Band
  • The B-52's
  • The Kinks
  • The Last Poets
  • The Mavericks
  • The Meat Puppets
  • The Motels featuring
  • Martha Davis
  • The Robert Cray Band
  • The Temptations
  • The Violent Femmes
  • The Wallflowers
  • They Might Be Giants
  • Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • Village People
  • Willie Nelson
  • Youssou N'Dour
  • Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers

Activism

  • Action Awareness
  • American Oceans Campaign
  • American Rivers
  • Biodiversity Northwest
  • Bullitt Foundation
  • Business for Social Responsibility
  • Campus Greens
  • Clean Air Cool Planet
  • Climate Network
  • Climate Solutions
  • Coalition for Environmentally 
  • Responsible Economies
  • Colorado University Environmental Center
  • Council on Economic Priorities
  • Defenders of Wildlife
  • Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
  • Earth Share of Washington
  • Environmental Action Group
  • Environmental Affairs Council
  • Environmental Consciousness Outreach
  • Environmental Defense
  • Environmental Media Association
  • Environmental Student Organization
  • Ford Foundation
  • Free the Planet!
  • Friends of the Earth
  • Greenhouse Network
  • Greenpeace Hawaii Institute for Human Rights
  • Hewlett Foundation
  • Investors Circle, New Profit Inc.
  • League of Conservation Voters
  • LightHawk
  • National Audubon Society
  • National Environmental Trust
  • National Parks Conservation Association
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • NativeEnergy
  • Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Organic Trade Association
  • People for Puget Sound
  • Physicians for Social Responsibility
  • Public Interest Research Group
  • Rockefeller Foundation
  • Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Rutgers Green Party
  • Save Our Environment Coalition
  • Sierra Club
  • Sierra Student Coalition
  • Social Venture Network
  • Social Venture Partners
  • Society for Natural Resources Conservation
  • State PIRGs Student Environmental Action
  • Coalition
  • Students for Environmental Concerns
  • Students for Environmental Studies
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • The Ocean Conservancy
  • The Sustainable Living Project
  • The Wilderness Society
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • University of Kentucky Green Thumb
  • Washington Toxics Coalition
  • World Wildlife Fund

Marketing

  • Annie's Homegrown
  • Aveda
  • Ben & Jerry's
  • Cascadian Farm
  • Clif Bar
  • Dave Matthews Band
  • EnviroKidz Cereal
  • Fantastic Foods
  • Green Mountain Energy
  • Kettle Foods
  • MAGIC International
  • Muir Glen
  • Native Energy
  • Nature's Path
  • New Leaf Paper
  • Odwalla
  • Organic Exchange
  • Organic Valley Family of Farms
  • SaveOurEnvironment.org
  • Seventh Generation
  • Social Venture Network
  • Stonyfield Farm
  • SweatX
  • TrueMajority
  • Utne Magazine
  • Working Assets

 

CONTACT US

4208 Park Glen Road
Minneapolis, MN 55416-4758

Phone: 952-426-7800
Fax: 952-426-7849
Email:
info@musicmatters.net

LINKS

Social Venture

Business for Social Responsibility
www.bsr.org

Social Venture Network
www.svn.org

New Profit, Inc.
www.newprofit.org

Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
sensiblepriorities.org

Environmental

Environmental Media Association (EMA)
www.ema-online.org

Earth Day Network
www.earthday.net

Environmental Defense
www.environmentaldefense.org

National Resources Defense Fund
www.nrdc.org

Public Interest Research Group
www.pirg.org

THE ORGANIC & NATURAL EXPERIENCE

The Organic and Natural Experience (ONE) is an innovative joint marketing campaign designed to promote the benefits of living an organic and natural lifestyle and taking social action for the environment.

Since 2004, ONE has been traveling around the nation to introduce consumers to the country’s leading high-quality organic and natural brands. The program helps companies meet their business goals and encourage consumers to make organic and natural products a part of their lifestyle.

Learn more about the ONE campaign by visiting www.organicandnaturalexperience.com