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This week myself, Berklee student, Justin Travis and Heather McDonald your About.com Musicians guide tackle music for free, a bit of Trent Reznor, hobby-musicians vs. career-musicians, and getting the most out of your a career in music, and the new Universal Music video channel.

Check out the latest and greatest music news from MusicBizWeekly: http://ow.ly/31lm

Here are a few of the issues we covered in this week’s MusicBizWeekly podcast.

iTunes tiered pricing
QTrax relaunching
Universal Music and YouTube laucnhing a music video site
Jeff Price from Tunecore’s iTunes promotion tricks

Cheers!
Doc

Go-getter, and future music industry super-star Justin Travis, a student at Berklee, About.com Musician’s Guide, Heather McDonald, and myself have put together a weekly podcast about what’s happening in the music business, entitled Music Biz Weekly. It’ll be an ongoing dialog about various events happening in the music business. . .that we hope will serve to not only keep you posted on what’s going on so when you’re being interviewed for your internship, or first gig as a recording engineer, promotions person or brand ambassador, you’ll know what you’re talking about!

Listen to the podcast here:

http://ow.ly/2wIg

This week we talked about these stories:

• SeeqPod Files for Bankruptcy
• Online Listening Replacing Music Acquisition
• FREE!: The Kind of Music Nobody Wants To Own
• Why Interruption is a Crappy Music Business Model

So, we’ve just uploaded the first podcast. . .you can download it to your iPod as well. Here’s the link: http://ow.ly/2wIg

Enjoy! We look forward to your comments and suggestions!

Cheers,
D

Hi everyone, I know it’s been a wee bit quiet around here, but we’re in the middle of processing a re-design for the site and since we’re going to be doing a number of things differently on the site, I wanted to hold off on rolling out the new content. We have a number of exciting things planned. . some interviews on deck, and a lot of interesting stories about people who have made it in the music business. We’re working on stories related to recording engineering (which we see a lot of interest in) as well as stories focusing on women who have kicked some royal butt in the music business as well. I’ve noticed there are a lot of female readers on the site (go girls!), so we’re going to be tailoring a bit to each of you as the year progresses.

Of course, that’s not to say we’re not going to be covering jobs and interests for the guys in my crowd. . .after all, I know that world a little bit better, myself. . .but we are going to mix it up a bit in a way that’ll be interesting for everyone coming to the page.

Also, I really want your ideas for what sort of things we can include here. It takes a lot of time to write good content regularly, and I’d like to know what it is you would like to hear. So, if you’re not keen on placing comments on the post. . .then hit me up via email at doc@musicbusinesspage.com
Do you want me to do more video posts?

Audio interviews you can download to your iPod?

Music Book reviews?

Music Business Internship listings?

All comments are welcome. . .and get as crazy as you want! If you want me to interview rock stars, let me know. . .if you want me to write more about music business programs at the college level or recording engineering majors at the community college level, then please let me know that as well.

So, let me know at doc@musicbusinesspage.com or send me notes on twitter at: www.twitter.com/musicbizjobs

I look forward to hearing from each of you soon!

Thanks,
Doc

Hi everyone, just popping in today with a quick video that’ll start your mind racing with all sorts of approaches you can use to snag your first radio job this week. No kidding, watch the vid and get movin’!

Here are the links mentioned in this video:

Clear Channel’s station search tool. Good if you know the call letters, otherwise, not so good!

Wikipedia list of seemingly every Clear Channel Station by state

Knock ‘em dead, and I’ll see you at the meet and greet!

Cheers,
Doc

Hi all,

A quick little message to let everyone know that I have re-launched MusicIndustryJobs.com. Previously it had only one page of music business job and internship listings that required quite a bit of searching on your part. To reduce the workload a bit, I’ve broken down all the job postings into a few different categories that cover music jobs in film, touring, band management, record labels, music gigs, etc. I’ve also created search categories and done the preliminary job searching for you for every state in the US, and am currently working on expanding the search listings to Europe and Asia as well. We also have a separate internship category as well.

You can apply to most jobs directly from the site. . .usually there is a link, or an email address to send a resume.

It’s a pretty sweet tool that I hope you’ll mention to any of your friends who are interested in an entertainment career. We’ve also got an RSS feed with the daily “featured job” as well.

Good luck, and Happy Hunting!

Cheers,
Doc

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A little off topic today, but I wanted to share a few links with everyone regarding the important election we’re facing this year. As most of my reading audience is in college or getting ready to go to university, I thought these few links might help courtesy of Lifehacker. They’re all non-partisan and should serve to help you if you’re undecided, or think you might be leaning a certain way, but aren’t sure as to why, or even if you’re correct. I particularly liked Select Smart’s “Compare the Candidates” link.

It’s interesting to note that even in tight-knit families political persuasions can run deep on completely different issues, so because your parents, brothers and sisters might believe in one way of looking at things, you may have a completely different viewpoint. My brother and I, whom I thought leaned the same way, were way different in the results this week when testing ourselves against the issues using Glass Booth. I suggest you give it a shot to see if the candidate your planning on voting for believes in what you do AFTER the election. Have fun, and please VOTE!

Not sure where you will be voting come November 4th? Try Google’s handy-dandy polling place map finder. Just enter in your zip code and you’ll be off and running. I would recommend calling the suggested place to make sure you don’t end up running around in circles though, when I typed in my address it pulled up a location that I probably could vote in, but didn’t I voted early and did so at my local library. Google’s tool suggests another place and several others didn’t know where I should vote. So, I’m recommending Google because of it’s ease of use and the fact that at least they gave me a location I could call. If that doesn’t work, you’re local board of election office will certainly do the trick.

Good luck!

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If you’re the creative type, you might want to take a look at this opportunity to pal around with Russell Simmons and participate in Global Entrepreneurship Week USA. I’m the regional director for Chicago and thought I would share this with each of you. Aside from the cool-ness factor of this contest, there is also a 5K prize. Not a bad deal at all. Good luck! Doc

CALLING ALL FILMMAKERS,
MUSIC ARTISTS
AND FASHION DESIGNERS!

Global Entrepreneurship Week USA is sponsoring a creative entrepreneurship competition
to find the next big names in film, music, and fashion. Win $5,000 and the opportunity
of a lifetime to be the next entrepreneurial star in the Race to BE.!

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Frequent readers might have caught on that I really dig Tim Ferriss’ ideas on productivity, and what he refers to as “lifestyle design”. In fact, he’s even got a running spot on my blogroll. His book, “The 4-Hour Workweek”, has been on the bestseller list forever and it has been published in 39 different languages at last count. It is a must-read if you’re serious about achieving your dreams.

His own blog post today was a great primer about his philosophy, and it comes complete with a video of him and Derek Sivers of CDBaby chatting about themes in the book as they related to life and specifically, the music industry, music marketing, selling your cds and booking gigs. It runs about an hour and 20 minutes. . put your speakers on and do a few other things if you don’t have the time to sit and listen to the whole thing.

There are some great pointers in there about cool things Trent Reznor did when starting out in his music career as well as a great tip from Derek Sivers about some of the best ways to get a good booking agent and publicist that are well worth your attention if you’re a musician.

These guys were speaking at the San Fran Music Tech Summit, something that no doubt cost several hundred dollars at least to attend. . .quite possibly upwards of a grand. . .so listen away, and learn from a few pros about how to launch your entertainment career into the stratosphere.

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Here is the link to YouTube. Damn these folks that aren’t allowing embeds! Argggh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUgB0hNf0bs

I couldn’t agree more.
Thanks for the forward, Mike!!

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