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The Skinny on Promotional Packages and Booking Agents
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MusicianWages.com
OK, you're ready to get out there and perform. You have the skills, you have a promotional kit and you can visualize yourself working five nights a week and making pretty good bread. Your plan is to network with other musicians at jam night and find out who's gigging where and how much they're getting paid. You then cold-call club owners, hotels, event planners and drop off or e-mail your promotional material. They never call you back. You cringe as ...
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Executive Changes: Orchard, Blue Note, Sony, RIAA
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HypeBot
The Orchard has named Peter McCarthy SVP of Marketing. McCarthy was formerly of Random House. Producer and musician Don Was has been named Chief Creative Officer of EMI's Blue Note Records label. The RIAA has named Cary Sherman its Chairman & CEO, effective September 1st as Mitch Bainwol exits. Sherman has served as RIAA President since 2001. Read Bainwol's farewell letter to the music industry here. MORE: New Sony head Doug Morris makes his moves: Edgar Berger has been named ...
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RIAA Chief Mitch Bainwol Officially Hits the Exit Door...
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Digital Music News
The majors probably can't afford a replacement. But that's their problem: on Monday, RIAA president Mitch Bainwol officially stepped down, the end of a period marked by massive industry declines, relatively little Congressional traction, modest ISP concessions, questionable legal crusades—oh, and a wildly-inflated salary. The new home for Bainwol will be the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, whichrepresents the Big Three American automakers, Toyota, and most other major manufacturers. These guys have more money, more political firepower, and a far better ...
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10 Tips to Advance Your Music Business Career
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HypeBot
No matter where you are in your career, it's important to look back at the basics. It allows you to think like a beginner again; back to when you could visualize the most possibilities. The following ten tips, taken from a NARIP event in San Francisco, will help move forward your career in the music business—however far along you may be. 1. Have a Plan Write it down—on a piece of paper. Studies have shown that physically writing things down not ...
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Herbie Hancock Named United Nations Goodwill Ambassador
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Muse Media
World Renowned Jazz Legend And Music Icon Herbie Hancock To Be Named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova will designate American jazz musician Herbie Hancock as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on July 22nd. Recognizing Herbie Hancock's “dedication to the promotion of peace through dialogue, culture and the arts," the Director-General has asked the celebrated jazz musician “to contribute to UNESCO's efforts to promote mutual understanding among cultures, with a particular emphasis ...
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Taking Note: Artist Employment Projections
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Michael Ricci
By Sunil Iyengar, NEA Director of Research & Analysis This summer, the National Endowment for the Arts is piloting its 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). The SPPA underwent major surgery this year, in the wake of a November 2010 meeting with arts organizations, study methodologists, and social science researchers. At the meeting, participants proposed strategic changes to the questionnaire. Indeed, the goal of the meeting was to find ways to make the survey more relevant to ...
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The Talent Myth
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MusicianWages.com
Robert recently asked a very insightful question in the forum. Essentially, he wonders what effect talent has on getting work as a musician in the real world. For our purposes here, let's define talent as a mix of natural aptitude, exhaustive training and years of practice that, when looked at objectively, distinguishes a musician as an expert. Let's pretend that talent is a commodity that is easily quantifiable and that some musicians have more and some musicians have less. (Even ...
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The Many Hats of a Musician
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HypeBot
Ever feel like you never have enough time to juggle the many hats of a musician trying to make it? Well, on Music Think Tank, Rich Gordon does not have a miraculous answer, but he would like to reach out to other musicians and get some input. How do you manage the different hats of a musician including a day job? “Just because you're an artist, it doesn't make you exempt from having living costs, a social life, a family ...
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