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U.S. Pledges to Speed up Visa Process for Artists
U.S. Pledges To Speed Up Visa Process For Artists By Ben Sisario Addressing years of complaints about slow and inconsistent processing of visa applications for foreign performing artists, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services told arts groups this week that it was making an effort to speed up and improve its visa operations. In ...
Don't Go for the Masses, Go Direct-to-Fan
Major labels are mass marketing power giants; it's what they do. Before the advent of the social web, they were the only way to reach the masses. Due to their influence on commercial radio stations, big-box retail outlets, and television, much of this remains to be true. If an artist wants the general public to become ...
Google Hires Top Industry Attorney to Jump Start New Music Service
Google has hired well known music attorney Elizabeth Moody to negotiate with record labels, music publishers and other rights holders for a planned Google Music service. Sources close to recent negotiations with the label groups concerning similar music streaming services say that each of the four major labels are voicing different concerns making uniform--and profitable--deals difficult. ...
5 Reasons That You Still Might Want to Sign to a Record Label
Yesterday's guest post 5 Reasons Not To Sign A Record Deal drew some passionate comments both in support of and against the value that record labels bring to artists. In my classes at Berklee I find the same polarized sentiments: either “record labels are evil thieves" or “I want be be a big star and record ...
5 Reason Not to Sign a Record Deal
This guest post comes from the folks at likeZEBRA, a new site offering artists a growing suite of direct to fan promotion and sales tools. 1. Competition for Attention--Music artists are already forced to compete for the attention and interest of fans; they shouldn't have to compete for that attention within their own ...
The Complete Guide to Eating Healthily on the Road, Part Two
Earlier today, Amy Klein offered up part one of her tips for eating healthily when you're on tour. Below, you'll find part two. Make It a Picnic Touring means nothing if not going stir crazy during long drives. Because of the sheer contrast it provides to the daily routine, the act of eating outside instantly ...
The Complete Guide to Eating Healthily on the Road, Part One
Touring musicians have their nightly highs, in which the energy of the crowd, the power of the music, and the spine-tingling force of self-expression combine, creating sensations of vitality so visceral that some musicians only feel truly “alive" when they are performing. But there are also the daily lows--long periods of driving, flat, empty stretches of ...
Al Jarreau Hospitalized, Listed in Critical Condition
Jarreau collapsed during a concert on Thursday night in Barcelonnette, France There are only two recording artists in the history of the music industry to have been awarded with Grammys in three separate musical categories. One is the late “King of Pop," Michael Jackson, and the other is Al Jarreau, who has been honored in the ...
Does the Record Industry Ignore Baby Boomers?
More specifically, can they afford to? On a national touring level, it's easy to see that most of the acts out there, making rounds, aren't targeted towards today's youth, as much as they are adults. While teens listen to the groups and may go, the legacy acts and their dominance has more to do with the ...
Music Industry Snobbery: The Inferiority of Issues
Bruce and I run a fairly niche publication and sometimes it's interesting to compare the conversations that we are having with that of the mainstream media. There's a story on CNN that begs the question, “Is the death of the CD looming?“ It's not that it isn't a great, relevant question. It's that it just isn't ...
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