Results for "Music Industry"

New Music Management & Booking Firm Founded by Music Industry Veteran Scott Foster

June 18, 2010

SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT provides representation for superb jazz artists ADA ROVATTI, ARLEE LEONARD, PATRIZIA SCASCITELLI, and JAMIE BAUM Music industry veteran SCOTT FOSTER has announced the formation of a new artist management organization, SCOTT FOSTER MANAGEMENT, with a unique spotlight on female jazz artists. Scott Foster's many years in the jazz festival business make him ideally ...

Gerald Casale of Devo: "Marketing is Everything."

June 18, 2010

In this interview featured on Marketplace, Gerald Casale, founder of the group Devo, talks about his journey to recording a new album and reentering the music industry with his former group, for the first time in 20 years. This short except from his talk with Kai Ryssdal proved to be the most interesting part:

It's All Tutu Much: McCartney Writing Ballet Music

June 17, 2010

Sorry, Sting, but it sounds like Paul McCartney has just lapped you in the race to be the pop musician with the most classical bona fides. Mr. McCartney, the former Beatle and Wings man whose orchestral works include “Standing Stone" and “Ecce Cor Meum," told BBC News that he has agreed to write the music for ...

10 Engineering Rules Applied to DIY Business

June 16, 2010

Soundation Founder Bil Bryant on Sampling, Studios, and Cloud-Based Music-Making

June 15, 2010

According to sampling pioneer Bil Bryant, one day we will all be able to make whatever kind of music we want inside our computers. Thanks to things like Indaba's Mantis studio and Soundation, a digital music studio which Bryant helped to develop, this is already starting to seem like a reality. But the real reason has ...

The Financial Rise and Fall of RIAA and Major Labels

June 15, 2010

(Update 2) Revenue reports from RIAA member labels and edited notes compiled by Ccomp5950 via Techdirt. Be sure to read @billboardglenn's corrections and clarifications in the comments section. Year: $ In Millions (revenue) 1993: 10046.6 (price of CD players drop) 1994: 12068 1995: 12320.3 1996: 12533.8 1997: 12236.8 1998: 13723.4 (Napster sued ...

How to Get a Job in the Music Industry

June 15, 2010

Kyle Bylin,Editor --(@kbylin) I. The Rise of a Rebel In August 2008, Bruce found me. At the time, I was twenty-year-old college student and an intern at an indie record label in Minneapolis, MN. I had just published my second blog post--ever. My readership was small--which is a polite way of saying that the ...

Pipe Organ Returns to Alice Tully Hall

June 15, 2010

Skepticism stirred when Lincoln Center spirited the pipe organ out of Alice Tully Hall before the building's renovation in 2006, promising its eventual return. The skepticism only grew when the renovated hall reopened in early 2009 with no sign of the organ. But Lincoln Center promised all along, and now it has delivered. The 19-ton instrument, ...

Playing in the Pits

June 15, 2010

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play in the orchestra pit for a West End musical? Christopher Fish, the cellist who plays in Oliver, has been playing in West End shows for nine years. He's played in 6 shows back to back. You'll find his name on the CDs of the cast ...

Tonys Celebrate Commerce, Not Art

June 15, 2010

In Tony Awards voters' eyes, box-office potential and Hollywood celebrity trump quality and innovation. Awards should be aspirational, validating excellence and originality even though each and every one of us knows that commercialism rules the day. But far be it from the ever-insecure Tony's the geeky glee club representative of the major entertainment awards to bite ...