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As always, Andy Dehnart rounds up the recaps and criticism of last night’s first studio elimination round on American Idol. Now in season six, it’s pretty interesting to see the effect that the show has had on independent musicians.
Many of the show’s critics have trounced it, claiming that the show seems to celebrate everything [...]
Although we still have no confirmation that the American Idol producers are moving forward with their songwriting contest, we now have a report that they’re opening up a summer camp for 12-15 year olds.
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PaidContent.com’s Jimmy Guterman on the GrammyCast: “the record industry is still run by people still trying to sell older music to older people.”
He rightly points out how sales charts in other countries reflect online sales, which is one reason why bands like Snow Patrol are under the radar in the U.S.
And while the [...]
Rob Fields, who once handled PR for the Black Rock Coalition, has just launched a new blog called “Bold as Love,” where he’s exploring the question of “how to bring more black folks to the music.” As Rob points out, it’s not necessarily a “music business” issue — the industry is happy to promote a [...]
The Anderson Switch
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Triple Your Odds of Getting Music Media Coverage
The most powerful question you can ask in the music business.
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CP, you’ve got some very interesting thoughts in the comments that you left in each of my previous posts about BurnLounge. I’m not sure that I need to rehash what I’ve written about here, or here, or here. I might remind you that, until I started getting personal attacks and threats from BurnLounge supporters, I [...]
