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Get More Fans is a Mindblowingly Complete DIY Guide to the New Music Business
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HypeBot
Jesse Cannon and Todd Thomas's new book, titled “Get More Fans," is more accurately described by the subtitle “The DIY Guide to the New Music Business." At a bit over 600 pages, it's hard to take in as a whole yet so far I cannot find anything I would describe as padding or filler. It's simply an amazingly complete guide to taking charge of your music career in hardcore DIY fashion. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot about getting ...
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Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury By Neal Preston Available April 15, Exclusively On The Ibookstore
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1888 Media
Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury By Neal Preston Now Available for Pre-Order Exclusively on the iBookstore. Digital Book Takes the Medium to New Heights, Offering Never Before Seen Photos, Memorabilia and More. Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury, an innovative illustrated digital book by famed photographer Neal Preston, is available now for pre-order and will be released exclusively on the iBookstore on April 15 for a price of $9.99. The book comes alive with a tap, swipe or pinch and provides ...
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Jazz & Blues Florida April 2013 Magazine Posted
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Jazz & Blues Florida
The April 2013 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at JazzBluesFlorida.com as a new easy-to-read format with a soundtrack from the month’s featured artist. The articles are all previews of local and touring artists with upcoming performances throughout Florida. Along with the ezine, the site offers comprehensive listings of live jazz and blues music in clubs, concerts and festivals across the state. This month’s preview features include: Aaron Lebos, Eddy “The Chief" Clearwater, Hiromi and Gerald ...
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10 Insights from Andrew Dubber's "The 360 Deal" - Connecting with People is Part of the Business
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HypeBot
“The 360 Deal“ is not actually about contracts that seek to involve a label in everything an artist does in order to expand the label's revenue streams. Instead it's a collection growing to include “360 words of wisdom by 360 musicians and music professionals“ with a minimum price of $3.60. More importantly it's full of useful advice and insights from many different perspectives that should be of value to any musician or music industry worker seeking to build a life ...
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Actress, Jazz Singer Cynthia Basinet Reflects On Love In Elle Magazine
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Cynthia "c." Basinet
The actress, crooner Cynthia Basinet, best known for the sultry and playful vocals in her hit “Santa Baby" and heard recently on CBS's “NCIS: Los Angeles" reflects on love in Elle Magazine's February issue. Writer Justine Harman quotes Basinet on, “Unlikely lothario Jack Nicholson". “I saw such a wonderful vunerable person, “ explained the actress-ex. The critically acclaimed singer's debut full length Jazz CD release, “The Standard" can be found on iTunes, Amazon and CD retailers. “The Standard", fifteen years ...
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Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Tells Musicians to Go Crowdfund Themselves
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HypeBot
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Chief Swine Defender (his real title) at BreadPig, just gave the second of three keynote addresses on the first day of SXSW in Austin, Texas. In it, he laid out a well-worn yet important argument: that the Internet needs to stay open in order to realize its potential to help humans by giving informational access and entrepreneurial opportunity to more of them than the pre-digital world ever could. Invoking Amanda ...
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Saxaphone Legend Maceo Parker Releases Autobiography
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Chris M. Slawecki
“Maceo, I want you to blow!” cried James Brown and the name of one the world’s greatest living saxophonists was written into musical history. Maceo Parker recounts his warm and astonishing story in his new autobiography 98% Funky Stuff: My Life in Music (Chicago Review Press, February 2013). Maceo has had an unequaled career playing for hundreds of thousands of adoring fans all over the world and his motto of “2% jazz, 98% funky stuff” has never been more evident ...
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Girls To Get Their Groove On For Second Annual "Hit Like A Girl" Drum Contest Enter Music Publishing, Tom-tom Mag And Major Drum Companies Participate
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif., — Hit Like A Girl 2013, the second annual global contest for female drummers, today announced that the official launch for entries will be February 1. The event is produced by DRUM! Magazine in conjunction with TRX Cymbals and Tom Tom: The Magazine for Female Drummers, with the support of major drum equipment companies Drum Workshop, Pacific Drums and Percussion, Yamaha DTX Drums, Evans Drumheads, Vater Drumsticks, SKB bags and cases, Alfred Publishing, and Drumchannel. Developed to ...
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