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…
Getty Images Buys Pump Audio
It’s a $42 million price tag for Pump Audio, the little independent music rights clearing house that could. I remember that, when they first launched, Pump Audio looked dangerously like one of the song sharks we often write about here.…
Back from travel + illness… posting resumes today.
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I Like All Types of Music
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.
How to Get the Right Manager
I’m just back from vacation, which is why posting’s been light. While I catch up, check out this excellent advice from Bobby Borg…
Nashville: Fox’s Other Music Business Television Series
While a whole lot of hype is building around The Search for the Next Great American Band, a report from the Fox upfront casts some light on another project that will be interesting to musicians. Nashville is from the same…
Farewell Little Brother’s — Another Live Music Venue Closing
I was talking with a musician the other day about why it’s so hard to find places to play lately. We’re in another real estate surge nationwide, which means that all the cheap spaces and run-down buildings that are great…
Fabulous but Unsigned
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…
America’s Hot Musician Suing to Stop Idol Spinoff. Maybe.
How many ways can you possibly pitch a talent competition to a television executive? According to the producers of America’s Hot Musician, a series airing on the Oxygen Network this spring, FremantleMedia and 19Entertainment are just copying the idea they…
Search for the Next Great American Band: Most Bizarre Elimination Challenge?
American Idol’s producers have already told us how they’re going to spending the fall looking for “The Next Great American Band.” What they didn’t tell us was just how bizarre this contest is shaping up to be. According to this…
NYT Profiles Jonathan Coulton and other Musicians Earning “Reasonable Living”
The New York Times Magazine looks at the various ways that musicians connect with fans in order to make a living. Although the carrot of super-stardom still dangles (the article mentions that Justin and Beyonce are creatures of and for…
The Search for the Next Great American Band
19 Entertainment wants us to stay glued to our screens all summer as they search for the Next Great American Band. Looks like the Idol format, but with bands instead of solo performers. The biggest questions I have right now……