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How to Handle Yourself in a Media Interview
You've spent months planning, researching, distributing, networking, and pitching your latest record, and it's finally landed you your first batch of media interviews. Congratulations! But wait! Before you sit back and relax, you need to prepare. Being prepared for an interview is not about media manipulation or being someone or something you're not. It's about communicating ...
The Transmedia Resurrection of Stick Against Stone
This summer, the surviving members of Stick Against Stone will play some gigs together for the first time in close to 30 years. In addition to these shows, a documentary about the band's history and its deceased frontman, Get It All Out, will be released. The writings and poetry of their frontman, John Creighton, has been ...
Behind the Blogs: Wayward Musician
Welcome to version 2.0 of our series Behind the Blogs, in which we interview the bloggers and thinkers who are following the music business changes that affect us all. Mike Venti is careful about his choice of words. The man behind Wayward Musician understands that there is a very big difference between a hobbyist musician and ...
NARM Convention 2011 Preview: So You Think You Don't Need a Label, Huh?
Next week, our friends at NARM are holding their annual Music Business Convention out in Los Angeles. The Convention, which runs from May 9-13 at the Regency Hyatt and features a murderer's row of guest speakers and panelists, is an unmissable opportunity for people at almost every level of the industry food chain. Though the convention ...
Rethink Music Recap: From Board Rooms to Ballrooms, Missing Connections
In some ways, music industry conferences are all the same. Over the course of several keynotes, panel discussions, and presentations, a gallery of experts, industry veterans, and insiders discuss topics related to sales, licensing, touring, and copyrights while subtly selling themselves. At the inaugural Rethink Music, a large portion of the audience seemed to hunger for ...
The Benefits of Booking and Organizing Your Own Shows
Many times as an emerging musician you want something—and maybe even feel like you even need it: “I NEED to play Mercury Lounge to get on The Bowery's radar and let people know my band is important!" You are likely going to spend a lot of time stressing and agonizing until venues come calling. But what ...
Behind the Blogs - musiciancoaching.com
If you've ever gone looking for advice and actionable information for independent musicians, then odds are you've come across Rick Goetz's blog, Musician Coaching. In a musician advice and industry insights landscape that is growing more crowded by the month, Musician Coaching is a cut above, featuring a level of access and insight in his interviews ...
Rethink Music Preview: Ralph Jaccodine on the Future of Artist Management
[Editor's Note: Next week, we're going to be covering Rethink Music up in Boston. To get you in the mood, we thought we'd reach out to a couple panel moderators and get some advice/information out of them. This second and final piece is a Q&A with artist manager Ralph Jaccodine] For all the upheaval that the ...
Rethink Music Preview: The Orchard's Richard Gottehrer on What Independent Musicians Can Expect from Record Labels
[Editor's Note: Next week, we're going to be covering Rethink Music up in Boston. To get you in the mood, we thought we'd reach out to a couple panel moderators and get some advice/information out of them. This is the first of two pieces] Richard Gottehrer knows the music business inside and out. Over the course ...
The Ingredients in a Successful Press Release
In an age of direct to fan marketing, social networking and google searches, is the traditional press release relevant today? In a word, yes. Even though the public relations industry has changed, the press release still plays an important role in the publicity process. However, the elements of a successful press release have definitely ...
