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Simon Rowe Named Director of Brubeck Institute
Today, University of the Pacific President Pamela A. Eibeck announced the appointment of Simon B. Rowe, DMA, as the next director of the Brubeck Institute. An established jazz pianist, Rowe is currently associate professor of music at Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he leads the Music Industry Program, teaches on the jazz studies faculty, and leads ...
What Touring Musicians Really Care About...
What do artists really care about when it comes to venues? As part of our broader strategic partnership, Digital Music News teamed up with ReverbNation to ask musicians that very question. And, we found that things like money, reputation, and capacity fall far below attributes like venue quality and relationships with the owners or promoters. Take ...
The Skinny on Promotional Packages and Booking Agents
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. ...
Executive Changes: Orchard, Blue Note, Sony, RIAA
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 ...
RIAA Chief Mitch Bainwol Officially Hits the Exit Door...
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, ...
10 Tips to Advance Your Music Business Career
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 ...
Herbie Hancock Named United Nations Goodwill Ambassador
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 ...
Taking Note: Artist Employment Projections
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, ...
The Talent Myth
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 ...
The Many Hats of a Musician
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 ...
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