Just got back from Thanksgiving break – and from not being online for eight days, which is probably the longest I have been offline in a long time. So that’s why I was gone….. and now I am working on catching up! Another post in a few minutes
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27 11 2007Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: vacation
Categories : life
websites and press releases
12 11 2007One of the things that I love about being an independent musician is that I get to run our musical life, so to speak – it’s of course also one of the most challenging things about it. That’s also why I am taking Berklee classes. And during these few weeks there are a lot of things that I have to work on for class that are incredibly timely for work as well: we’re redesigning our website (and hiring someone to do the actual design work), we’re issuing several major press releases for big events in the coming six weeks, and we’re working on a functional database. Not to mention podcasts, blogs, and social networking sites. What makes the classes absolutely amazing is that I can immediately put what I am learning into practice – I just sent out a press release that I wrote in class last week to all major Richmond media outlets. We’ll see if it works…..
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Tags: media, web 2.0
Categories : berklee, independent music, Music Business
boston
12 11 2007Tomorrow I am heading to Boston, to see friends and for a day of meetings at Berklee. I am looking forward to it – I’ll get to meet people I have been working with for years but have never met in person. My books are going with me – I am leaving on another trip on Saturday and am trying to get my assignments for this week and next week done by Saturday night….. not sure if I will succeed
but I am definitely giving it a shot.
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Tags: berklee, online learning
Categories : berklee
paul potts
7 11 2007I was spending a little time on YouTube tonight, and found the video of Paul Potts’ first performance on Simon Cowell’s “Britain’s Got Talent” this past summer. If you know who Paul Potts is, you know just about how much my jaw dropped – and if you don’t, your jaw is about to. Watch below. This is a phone salesman from Wales with no professional experience up till this competition.
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Tags: amazing music
Categories : artists
ouch
6 11 2007A study revealed today that most people who downloaded Radiohead’s new album upon its digital release paid nothing for it. Ouch. To be honest, I had not expected that. Read the full article here.
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Tags: music news
Categories : Music Business
radiohead revisited
2 11 2007Radiohead just announced that they signed a record deal with British indie label XL Recordings for the physical distribution of their new project. Click here to read the full article.
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eva
2 11 2007Today, November 2, is the 11th anniversary of Eva Cassidy’s way-too-early death. I, like many others, did not get to know her music until years after she passed away – the very first I heard her was during a scene in the first season of TV’s “Smallville” – where the producers paired her version of “Time after time” with the funeral of a character’s dad. I did not even catch it on network TV, but rather on DVD a few years later, and I immediately knew I wanted to find out who that amazing voice belonged to.Record labels never quite knew what to do with Eva (her style was deemed “too eclectic”, and she was a singer but not a songwriter), but I don’t know anyone who has heard her voice and has not in some way been touched by it. According to those who knew her, she never had any idea of how good she really was. I wish I had gotten to know her and hear her while she was still alive.And for those of you who have not heard Eva till today – two YouTube clips – one of the Smallville scene that first introduced me to her music, and her version of Somewhere over the rainbow (Live at Blues Alley).
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Tags: amazing music
Categories : artists, life