02/25/10 – Grow Your Band\\\’s Audience Q&A Call

February 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Top Ten MTV Specialty Shows

February 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

By the late 1980s, MTV’s programmers weren’t content with scattershot ratings, so they experimented with original series and specialty programming blocks. Today, MTV’s harshest critics blast Jersey Shore and The Hills as having nothing to do with rock and roll, but each one of these groundbreaking series dealt with similar complaints: #10: The State In [...]

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Announcing the Music Management Boot Camp

February 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Over the past few months, I’ve seen a huge surge of interest in my third book, Music Management for the Rest of Us. It could be that a bunch of folks are thinking about pursuing music industry careers, in the wake of crazy layoffs all over the United States. But it’s also likely that more [...]

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of an Audience

February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

It seems like the music journalism community has decided that this is the week they can finally pile on Taylor Swift. In the past 36 hours, I’ve read headlines about her “career-ending” Grammy performance, bloggers and columnists have called for her to hand back the statues (not just the one that broke) or retire altogether [...]

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2010 Grammy Awards Recap

February 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Everyone I know has a newfound respect for P!nk. Apparently, she’s been doing the wire act from last night’s Grammy Awards as an encore in her live set for some time now. That it was the standout moment in the telecast says a lot about what the music business has to do to attract and [...]

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