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RBC Records Owner: Social Media is Key to Building an Artist's Career
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Brian Shafton, owner of RBC Records, has been deeply involved with both hip hop artist and label marketing and distribution. Both running a label and supporting artist-owned indie labels gives Shafton a full view of not only what it takes to break an artist but to maintain a career. In a recent interview, Shafton repeatedly noted the importance of social media to these acts. Rick Goetz of Musician Coaching spoke with Brian Shafton about his music industry career and unique ...
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Top 5 Tips to up Your Google+ Game
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Who am I kidding? I don't have a Google+ game to up. I'm just trying to maintain enough of a presence to reap some SEO benefits from Google Search. But others seem to be diving in and even apparently having good experiences. Maybe if you knew a few of the 15 “awesome Google+ tricks" Melanie Pinola recently shared you'd be leaving me in the dust too. Here are 5 of them to help up your Google+ game. Melanie Pinola's “15+ ...
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Suzanne Vega on Taking Charge of Her Own Career and Starting Her Own Label
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Suzanne Vega is an industry lifer who experienced the age of major labels before the suits took over and then got dropped after they did. But she went on to start her own label to self-release her albums and remains committed to a long-term career. This week Vega released “Tales From the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles" and she took the time out to give a rich interview about her career and business for a website that didn't even ...
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DIY Voice Acting for Musicians
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By Carrington MacDuffie (@carringtonmacd), an Americana singer/songwriter who also has an extensive career in voice over. Her new album is “Only An Angel“. I came to voice acting through being a singer/songwriter. I was dealing with what they call writer’s block, when some good opportunities for making a living with spoken word presented themselves, so I immersed myself in it. I got involved in local workshops offering mutual critiques, got an agent to represent me for commercial voiceover, and learned ...
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David Tughan JoinszzZing Agency
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Zzzing Agency
Singer David Tughan (UK) has officially joined the ranks of zzZing Agency. David fits the zzZing Agency Bill to the letter. “DAVID TUGHAN DOESN’T SEEM TO BE FOLLOWING IN ANYONE’S FOOTSTEPS. IT’S RARE TO FIND ORIGINALITY OF THAT KIND IN A SINGER..." —The Observer, UK David Tughan was born and raised in Northern Ireland. He moved to London in 1994 to study at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His passion for Jazz began at 13 when he encountered ...
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Musicians: Skipping Time Management is a Major Mistake
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By Dave Kusek, former President of Berkleeonline and digital media consultant. His latest venture, the New Artist Model, is an impressive online course for musicians and others learning to navigate in the new music industry. Today’s indie musician plays the part of the artist, the business professional, and sometimes way more, and as a result, many find themselves juggling entirely too many tasks. Now it’s all well and good that artists today can be 100% in control of their career. The problem comes ...
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IOU Music Launches to Support DIY Musicians Throughout Their Careers
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IOU Music is a new service for artists that launched this week in beta. They're building a platform to support DIY music monetization and marketing. For example musicians can use their accounts to sell music, crowdfund, accept donations and create subscription services with more features on the way. I spoke with Founder and CEO Rob MacArthur about IOU Music and it's clear that the bigger vision is one that goes beyond simply aggregating sales and marketing tools to building a ...
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Want to Live Stream Your Music Concert? Here's an Overview of Options
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One of the most difficult aspects of writing about tech startups is that when a concept makes sense and gets funded, all sorts of other companies will get in the space. That quickly makes things hard to sort out. Over the last couple of years, Hypebot has covered numerous startups that offer ways to live stream videos of concerts. Recently I've been contacted by or come upon newer entrants. Today I'm sharing the full list and hope to start talking ...
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