June 2009
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Music Business Weekly Wrap-Up
In case you missed anything, here are some highlights from this week in music business news and artist advice:
Artists House Music:
Artists House interview w/ Robert Reynolds, manager of The Killers and entertainment attorney http://ow.ly/fQiU
Alternative Venue Performance Opportunity: Six Flags’ “Live & Local” Music Series http://ow.ly/fP3a
Music Business News:
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Alternative Venue Performance Opportunity: Six...
Playing at alternative venues is a tactic overlooked by many new artists, but when the right venues are selected (based on the psychographic profile of an artist’s target audience), its power cannot be overstated. Sure, you may not make any money from ticket sales (depending on the type of performance and on the type of venue), but playing at alternative venues can put you smack dab in front...
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Music Business Weekly Wrap-Up
In case you missed anything, here are some highlights from this week in music business news and artist advice:
Artists House Music:
332 354 people on the Artists House map! Are you? http://bit.ly/qzogx
Terry McBride on Starting Your Career in Artist Management http://ow.ly/f39t
Shout out to @joshcharles, who was on our live chat in April, for his feature in USAToday http://is.gd/150wc
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Artist Report Card
Nick Crocker of http://waycooljnr.com.au wrote a very helpful article that offers DIY musicians a report card of sorts for their marketing and social media strategies. Of course, the numbering/grading system is somewhat trivial, but I think this is a great checklist for musicians to prioritize their activities and make sure you’ve got all your bases covered. Starting with the basics like...
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Music Business Weekly Wrap-Up
In case you missed anything, here are some highlights from this week in music news and artist advice:
Artists House Music
Check out this DIY Activity tracking chart put together by @CLCmusic http://ow.ly/dxKh
No excuses. We’ve got lessons for you now on how to DJ: http://ow.ly/dxFv
Featured Artists: Josh Charles - an indie success story http://ow.ly/djl2 on the Artists House blog
Martin...
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D.I.Y Activity Tracker
Christopher Lars Carlson (@CLCmusic), a student at Berklee, took the initiative to put together a DIY checklist to help you keep track of your ‘interactive duties’ as a social-media savvy indie artist.
Its purpose is to keep track of all your actionable DIY activities: the “business” items you need to keep up in order to build a self-sustaining career.
There is a lot to...
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Featured Artist - Josh Charles: Healing Time
Josh Charles is an independent musician that’s doing it right. He’s making things happen from his home base in New York, and he’s creating ripples within the industry which are having real-world effects. You guys ask for an example of someone who’s doing it - this is your man.
I wanted to share Josh’s story with all of you because 1) it is worth telling in and of...
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Don't Waste Your Energy on Excuses
Andrew Dubber, who writes the great blog New Music Strategies, emphatically proved the power of resourcefulness. For every hundred people talking about doing something, there is maybe one who has the initiative to actually do it. And in the end, that’s the only person that matters, because that person will have something to show for it. While we spend a lot of time talking about the music...
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Music Business Chat w/ Carla Lynne Hall: Wrap-Up
I wanted to share with you all the video we recorded with the lovely Carla Lynne Hall of RockStarLifeLessons.com! Carla was visiting New Orleans and we caught up with her (on multiple occassions actually) to talk about the music business and how to empower DIY artists to create sustainable careers. Carla and John Snyder, founder of Artists House, met up in my kitchen on a Saturday afternoon for an...
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AH Vault: Interview with Jon Vanhala
This is one of our longer videos, so you may need to watch it in segments, but it is incredibly informative and will give you a heightened understanding of how labels generally go about marketing their releases. In the video, Jon Vanhala, former VP of New Media and Strategic Marketing at Verve Music Group (he was still with Verve when this interview was recorded), discusses the role of “New...