Philadelphia Event Alert: Grammy Awards 101 at Gershman Y, 4/12/11

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Could your next album qualify for a Grammy? If you’re in the Philadelphia region, my home chapter of NARAS is sponsoring a free “Grammy Awards 101″ session for performers, producers, and music managers to learn everything about submitting your recordings for Grammy consideration. NARAS VP Bill Freimuth will be in town to walk you through [...]

British gospel artists prepare to take on the USA

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In Grow Your Band’s Audience, I wrote about the subtle differences between the US and the UK markets for independent musicians. In a nutshell: US audiences crave familiarity. It’s hard to break in to the music business, but you can do very well once you gain momentum. UK audiences love new sounds and new acts. [...]

04/22/10 – Music Management for the Rest of Us Q&A Call – Online – Conference Call

03/25/10 – More Gigs Now Q&A Call

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

01/28/10 – Music Management for the Rest of Us Q&A Call

Music at SXSW is just the afterparty for tech bloggers on their way out of Austin.

It’s tough enough to be a record executive these days. Your budget’s shrinking, your staff keep leaving to join tech startups, and you keep having to figure out which one of your interns is the one who’s leaking your biggest acts rough mixes to BitTorrent. At least you always had SXSW to look forward to, [...]

“Falling Slowly” Wins Best Original Song Oscar

Remarkable acceptance speeches from Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova:

Music Nation: Cringing and Backlash?

It’s always interesting to see music business posts on places like TechCrunch, since tech writers approach so many things with a community-oriented, “Web 2.0″ perspective. The issue with Music Nation isn’t that it’s necessarily a ripoff, or that anyone there is being disingenuous. Marshall Kirkpatrick from TechCrunch expects to see “cringing and backlash” from the [...]