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This week, I’m going a bit outside the music industry realm for a few quick links that I think can help with achieving your dreams no matter the specific occupation.

Super-ass cool productivity guy, Tim Ferriss wrote a post last year about test-driving your dream job. One of his many, (he’s a world-championship Tango dancer as well as Martial Artist) was the one in the post: Monkey Trainer. And he’s got the videos to prove it. One of my own, was a little less daring, but fun none-the-less when I hooked up with one of the best pastry chefs in Minneapolis, Minnesota to try my hand as a chef. Check out Tim’s post, I’m sure you’ll find it funny, if not enlightening.

Zen Habits’, Leo Babauta is another guy that I follow in the productivity, life-mapping realm. His guest poster, Collis Ta’eed, co-founder of AudioJungle and FlashDen wrote a great post this week entitled: “How to Get a Lot Done - 7 Tips to Achieve More”. Read it and put your entertainment career plan into action.

Lifehacker, is one of my favorite blogs, hands down. This week, Lifehacker pointed to SarahRae’s post from Chicago’s Apartment Therapy about how to clear dvd clutter from your house. What a gem. Apply the same techniques to your music collection and you’ll find you’ll be much more sane in the morning, and much more organized as you pursue the important things in life!

Have a brilliant weekend, enjoy it if you’re already in it, and hope you had a great time if you’re already out of it! Cheers, Doc

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For this week’s link round-up, we’re gonna’ hit music stories, but also look at a few other relevant things I thought were worth sharing that could help readers interested in other types of peripheral entertainment industry careers in film and television for example. So, here we go:

For some reason Billy Bragg has been popping up on my radar a lot lately, first as the songwriter/performer for a good number of tracks on the recent film, “Momma’s Boy, and then again this morning I was pleasantly surprised to read about his comments regarding the changing landscape of radio which tied in nicely to yesterday’s article about its supposed demise. You can read more about Billy’s comments on Canada.com’s The Gazette. I found his mention of how people find out about him rather interesting, particularly since the only reason I knew it was his voice behind some of the tracks on “Momma’s Boy” was because of an old habit of reading the credits in films!

I guess the planets must have aligned in unique fashion yesterday, as my Friday stroll over to Glenn People’s Coolfer just now, revealed that, he too, thought it was a good idea to write about radio yesterday as well. Sweet. You can read more about his somewhat similar take on radio at the always relevant, Coolfer.com

Now for some film and TV stuff!

Speaking of watching film credits, if you have an interest in sound and recording, you might want to consider a career as an ADR (Additional Dialog Recorder). One of my favorite ADR guys is the much more famous than me; academy award winning: Doc Kane. Same name, different guys, and my name was given to me many moons ago by a colleague of mine at M&M Mars. . .don’t know how he got his, do you?

If you’re at all interested in becoming a film scorer, than take a look-see at Lukas Kendell’s advice on how to break into the film scoring industry. His advice is rather timeless, so enjoy it and get movin’!

Lastly, two quick links:

If you’re a radio news junkie, or information junkie in general, you’ve got to take a look at Stitcher.com A buddy of mine in the San Francisco radio world tipped me off to its awesomeness this week, so I’ve been checking it out to see what its about. They’re in Beta release at the moment, but you can still sign up and create your own stations right now in literally about 5 seconds. You’ll see my interview with the Stitcher.com folks next week, but for now, there’s the exclusive breaking news if you will about this great new service that will blow your tiny little head off! Stay tuned.

Lastly, I stumbled upon an interesting promotion today from Academic Superstore, where you can

Have a brilliant weekend, enjoy it if you’re already in it, and hope you had a great time if you’re already out of it! Cheers, Doc

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This week’s music business link round-up features a few new blogs and one you’re probably quite familiar with, I’m sure. So without further adieu, here are some of what I thought were great reads from around the blogosphere this week:

Fellow music-crazed writer, Heather McDonald over at musicians.about.com wrote a bevy of posts this week about a number of topics that might be of interest to you, including: the first part in a series about Long Lost Record labels, this year’s In The City music expo/conference/jam in the UK that offers a good excuse to hop on a plane and visit Europe this fall, and an interesting story covering feedback from users of Sonicbids.

A bit of interesting news about a company named Music Video Games, or MvG, that will address the growing notion of delivering some forms of music for sale on and in video games. I’m not sure what in the heck this is really going to be as of yet, but it caught my eye enough for me to bookmark it.

Rap & Hip Hop blogger/author/speaker Terrance Dean’s blog has not only one, but two informative posts on breaking into the music business on the hip-hop side of things that can be applied to any portion of the business you wish, really. Terrance, a former MTC staffer, has also written a memoir entitled “Hiding in Hip Hop”, that discusses among other things, what Newsweek magazine calls the “rap industry’s persistent “down-low” culture. He doesn’t name names, but it’s a fascinating peek inside hip-hop’s last taboo.”

And finally this week, The Infinite Dial, brought to us by Edison Media Research, brings us a quick look at one woman who has fought her way up the music industry ladder alongside all the men that most think occupy the halls of record labels across the world. My recollection was that there were many, many women of power walking those halls along side us, and Tayla Johnson, Music Director / Internship Coordinator, at Washington D.C.s WPGC 95.5 FM, illustrates this nicely in a little “ditty” about her recent recognition as one of the Infinite Dial’s 30 under 30 honorees.

Have a brilliant weekend, enjoy it if you’re already in it, and hope you had a great time if you’re already out of it! Cheers, Doc

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Time for a link round-up of sorts. I’m going to aim to do this once a week, to help introduce everyone to some of the other cool articles out there on the web. Some people are quite prolific in their writing, and always saying great things you can learn from, so you’ll no doubt see some of the same names and sites repeated as time goes by - but that’s the nature of writing and writing well. You should get to know these folks as they’ll help you stay on top of your game throughout your entertainment career.

Here are a few posts that I really liked this week:

David Hooper has some great things to say about the power of just a “wee bit” extra effort for musicians and other folks interested in the music business at his Music Marketing [dot] com Blog.

Dave Kusek, VP at Berklee College of Music shares some interesting tidbits regarding the power of guitar games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, in his post at The Future of Music. One reason why posts like this are important to read as you plan your music career is because he’s citing numbers and trends. Both good to know in an interview situation or over a cold beer at a meet and greet or schmooze-fest music business conference.

Huge news blip about one of the major music distributors, closing its doors. As we know cd sales have not been good, and this is news you gotta’ be on top of. . .”know it” or “blow it”. Read this quick ditty about Handlemen shutting down it’s music distribution wing.

One of my fellow bloggers over at the newly-launched UrbanMusicBiz.com did a link roundup of his own this week that includes a news capsule of noteworthy urban music happenings. Let’s support this new blog as it guns out of the hatch this week!

And finally, a somewhat lighthearted look at the music business with a cool-ass re-make video of Outkast’s “Hey Ya!”, and a look at the silly-money numbers from Motley Crue’s sales on Xbox. Check out David Usher’s cool story on his very own Cloudid.

Have a brilliant weekend, enjoy it if you’re already in it, and hope you had a great time if you’re already out of it! Cheers, Doc

If you like the blog, you’ll love our email newsletter even more. Subscribe to the Music Business Page Blog by Email today, and get your complimentary “Music Business Boot Camp” series, the introductory chapters of my Music Business Guidebook, and our 50+ page BOOK: “Tips, Tactics and other for-sure methods for getting your music career off the ground” each delivered free to your email box instantly as a courtesy just for signing up today. Please note: ONY email subscribers will receive these extra gifts. RSS subscribers will still receive updates about the blog, email recipients will receive the extra benefits mentioned above. If it was us, we’d subscribe to both!