Music Industry News

Artist Recording Collective News Update

Source: Two for the Show Media
July 20, 2010

DR. RONNELL L. BRIGHT--The Artists Recording Collective (ARC) is pleased to officially announce that Dr. Ronnell L. Bright has joined our artist roster. In a telephone conversation with ARC, Dr. Bright and his wife Dianna, stated that material ranging from unreleased musical recordings, as well as audio and video interviews will be released...."Jazz is about the truth. It's about creating and playing music from your center, so that what comes out is really you."--Ronnell Bright

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How to Sound Check, Part One

Source: We All Make Music
July 19, 2010

One of the single greatest indicators of a band's degree of experience, expertise, and general savoir-faire is the manner in which it conducts sound checks. So for those of you looking to take a simple step towards professionalism, or for anyone who prefers eating, sleeping, showering, and hitting on that cute bartender to playing quarter notes to an empty room while feedback swirls around you like a class three tornado, I offer these five bullet points on how to perform ...

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Jazz Venue Chronicles: Monday Nights in Silver Spring

Source: The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
July 19, 2010

Continuing our investigation of folks who are endeavoring to present jazz in non-traditional ways and non-traditional venues (ala Search and Restore), our series of conversations with what has become a seemingly rare breed over the last 40 years -- African Americans who present jazz on their stages--this installment is our chat with emerging young vocalist Chad Carter and his father Ted Carter, who are successfully carving out a Monday Night jazz series at Vicino's, an Italian restaurant in Silver Spring, ...

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The Anatomy of a Live Nation Concert Ticket

Source: We All Make Music
July 17, 2010

Digital Music News has posted on its site a breakdown of where all that money spent on a LiveNation concert ticket actually goes.

Turns out most of it goes to the talent. Of the average $55.65 price tag for concert tickets for Live Nation shows in North America, $34-47 dollars goes to the artist. That's an average of 74%. For international shows, both the ticket prices (average price $54.30) and talent cut (average of 55%) go down a little.

Take ...

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Pledge Music Offers a Free Data Capture Widget

Source: HypeBot
July 17, 2010

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30 Tips for the Typical Musician

Source: HypeBot
July 17, 2010

There are two new posts up over at Music Think Tank.  One is from Jon Ostrow titled Reality TV Killed The Rockstar. But Is That So Bad; it is on the role of transparency in careers of artists.  The other, by Mike Venti of the Wayward Musician blog; he gives 30 tips for the typical musician. Here just are a few: Practice one hour a day. However, feel free to skip practice if there is something more interesting going on.  ...

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RIAA CEO Extremly Well Paid

Source: We All Make Music
July 16, 2010

Lawyers aren't the only people the RIAA is throwing money at.

CEO Mitch Bainwol receives a $1.91 million in annual salary, with “other compensation" from the RIAA and “related organizations" offering another $123,000.

Over $2 million is a pretty astounding sum to take in when you're presiding over an organization that doesn't exactly qualify as a great success.

Even more infuriating, Bainwol was making about $1.5 million in 2006. That means that after 3 years of collecting copyright infringement claims ...

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Greg Rollett: Outsource These 5 Things Now and Focus on Your Music

Source: HypeBot
July 16, 2010

So many musicians that read our site or go through some of our training go back to the same problems.

They are musicians, not marketers or internet superstars.  This post is not meant to be an argument for the musician / businessman, but rather for those that want to get some things off their plate. We have been experimenting with outsourcing firms, VA's and local workers (college students/super fans) to see what we can dish off a ...

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