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December 18, 2012 Kimball Packard, founder of Sound Advice Management, based in Boston and New Orleans, today announced the launch of promotemytour.com. PMT was developed for the independent touring musician or band who find PR firm retainers too expensive for their budgets.
December 18, 2012 Studying music at University level is the ultimate double edged sword. Whilst the prospect of spending three years practising, rehearsing, writing and networking is both exciting and fun, finding employment after graduating is an altogether different prospect.
December 17, 2012 Grammy Award winning and multi-platinum music producer/composer/arranger/songwriter and recording artist Teddy Riley has begun his global talent search for songwriters and producers to come aboard his powerful and far-reaching movement, TR Music Group. His company, a partnership with crooner Keith Sweat, boasts a record label, publishing department and talent agency.
December 17, 2012 Many artists I know tell me that they’d love to be able to do music for a living, to make their band a full-time occupation. Often times, my initial reaction (that I usually keep to myself) is asking, “Really? What would you do?”
Artist Development, Mindsets, Music Business Jobs, Music Business Plan, Music Industry, Music Management, artist, motivation, music business, music marketing | tagged Music Industry, booking agent, business plan, career, job, licensing, live shows, manager, marketing, merchandise, music, music biz December 15, 2012 The United States Library of Congress voted to designate the Vince Guaraldi soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas a national audio treasure, including it among the twenty-five 2011 inductees to the National Recording Registry — America’s sound heritage. Trouble is, the Library did not have a copy of Charlie Brown among its holdings. So I gave them mine.
album | tagged holiday music December 12, 2012 Whenever you go out to buy something be it be clothes, shoes or even musical instruments, some basic principles always hold good. You should never buy anything without comparing the prices. It is always possible that the thing which you want to buy is available at a cheaper rate somewhere else.
music | tagged Musical Instruments December 10, 2012 Imagine collaborating on a musical project 150 years ago, a symphony perhaps, communicating between London and Berlin. This is a fairly sizeable distance by bullet train standards, let alone the most reliable form of long distance communication we have in our little daydream, courier on horseback. So, after six months of sending letters to simply work out how it would all work and the style of the project it would be, undeterred by the difficulties you decide to give it a go. I reckon about six years later would mark the point where you got so bored that you gave up. Or secretly finished it yourself, washed your hands of further annoyance and trained the dog to attack the postman. Maybe it would have been fantastic, maybe.
Music Industry, collaboration, music business | tagged music December 9, 2012 Music computers are often best set up for the specific task of recording and mixing music, that means only installing applications that are strictly used in the audio production process. This is the number one tip because anything else could slow your computer down.
computer music, music computers, music pc December 8, 2012 SISTER HYDE back to the scene, new album titled “On the rails” full of dirty Glam Punk, is recorded in Milwaukee at The Exchange Studios with JACK LETOURNEAU (Jeremy Spencer,Robben Ford, Eric Sardinas…) for PRODUCTION HELM.
December 8, 2012 December 8, 2012 December 8, 2012 December 8, 2012 Starting to mix music is exciting and I wanted to produce a short document that gives some good starting advice. Of course it will be impossible to teach someone how to mix perfectly in such a short time but this guide will point you in the right direction towards important concepts to understand.
December 7, 2012 When did independent musicians settle for waiting in line and following the rules? While it’s important for both organization’s sake and quality’s sake for publications, festivals, radio shows, blogs, record labels, etc to have submission policies, do’s and don’ts, etc, I see a trend of conditioned illusion happening that I’d like to a set of walls placed around otherwise expansive creative musical minds.