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Editorial

House of Nanking, San Francisco, CA [Off Topic]

Off-Topic

Indulge me over the next few days, since I’m catching up from some time on the road and wanting to use this space to document a few of my experiences that have nothing at all to do with the music business.
Back in January, I enjoyed the chance to visit San Francisco for Macworld Expo. A [...]

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Announcing the Open Book Project

Announcements

Just back from vacation, I see a few notes in my box asking if I have any new books coming out.
Yes and no.
If you haven’t visited the site in a while, you might have missed a list of the topics I’m exploring this year. Somewhere in that list, there’s another book brewing, though I [...]

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Upcoming posts for 2008…

Announcements

While it’s been pretty quiet here of late, I’ve been cooking up some new topic streams that I think you’ll find interesting in the new year. Some of the topics I’m kicking around include:

more information about finding/training music managers
what to look for and what to avoid in music business contracts
how to find (or develop) a [...]

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Yes, I know it’s very quiet here this month…

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Extracurricular: Top Ten Careers

Announcements

As our newsletter subscribers have already heard, I’m spending a little time away from spinme.com to work on some new book projects and to write some pieces that have nothing to do with the music business. One of those pieces was featured on the front page at Yahoo! today, which is both flattering and awesome. [...]

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Send Music Business Radio a Jingle!

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Here’s one place where exposure — to the right people — can actually help you. Our friend David Hooper over at Music Business Radio is looking for some new jingles and stingers to punch up the production on the new series of the show. You could have fun with this, and get yourself on the [...]

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Back from travel + illness… posting resumes today.

Announcements

Thanks for the good thoughts and the full inbox, y’all.
jt

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I Like All Types of Music

Announcements

Still catching up from vacation… if you’re in my inbox somewhere, hang tight! In the meantime, an essential classic from The Onion: I Like All Types of Music.

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Fabulous but Unsigned

Editorial

Nekesa Mumbi Moody chronicles a common complaint, especially among high-ranking women in the music business:
If you don’t look better than you sound, the recording industry doesn’t want you.
And it’s true. Armchair quarterbacks are already noting that Melinda Doolittle and LaKisha Jones both got bumped from American Idol because they don’t “look” like a superstar, whatever [...]

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[SPONSOR POST] spinme.com e-books and audios available for $27

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As subscribers to our newsletter learned earlier this afternoon, I’ve heard plenty of comments from newer readers about challenges regarding the price and/or overseas shipping of our music career success books.
Therefore, I’m trying another experiment. I’ve just loaded a bundle of all four of our books in e-book form into our online store. And, to [...]

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