Tim Ferriss interview

One of the best things any movie, book, or music can do is permanently change you. Tim Ferriss’ #1 bestselling book, The 4-Hour Workweek, changed my life. Whether you are a musician, entrepreneur, employee, or all three, everyone has too much stuff you have to do, and not enough time for the stuff you want to do [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 05:31:19
Blog: Derek Sivers...

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Book Notes - Janis Ian ("Society's Child: My Autobiography")

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books ... with either the artist or her music. As I listened to the two-disc greatest hits collection, Best ... is instead a juicily entertaining look at an unusual life in show business." In her own words, here [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 17:22:21
Blog: largehearted boy: a mus...

Colin Johnson’s Nectar

Seattle /// James Yakovich Colin Johnson has been upping the ante on Seattle’s music scene, which is pretty hard to do. Flying bands and DJ’s into Seattle for one night, he is helping to keep Seattle as one of the best cities for music. Never satisfied or tired he keeps looking and booking acts that are going [more...]

Date: 2008-08-01 01:11:06
Blog: Renegade Magazine...

Which Book About Clear Channel Should You Believe? [Clear Channel: Best Company Ever]

thissymbolmeansquality.jpg Two books presuming to tell the story of media conglomerate Clear Channel have hit the shelves around the same time ... to publish Mr. Bunzel's book. Ruina Judd, Bright Sky's publisher, declines to discuss the business ... with me. Warner Music? Village Voice Media? I'm totally [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 19:30:00
Blog: Idolator, All About the...

Face the Music: It’s Time To Fix Licensing

I was talking to an executive at a major label the other day ... s what both are best known for. At any rate, neither is profitable. RealNetworks’ music business lost ... s currently trading for a little less than the cash it has on its books. Ad-Supported Music [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 16:22:51
Blog: GigaOM...

Goodbye Amazon, Hello Cambridge: Powered by Local Firms, Borders’ Online Store Is the New Face of E-Commerce

e-commerce, Web 2.0, IT Gregory T. Huang wrote: I love Borders ... our fair share of books and music online from Amazon, because it’s easy and convenient. Well ... the latest books and enjoying a nice cup of coffee. (The original Borders chai was the best, but it’s hard [more...]

Date: 2008-06-02 10:59:29
Blog: Business, Life Sciences...

The Best Way To Find A Music Publisher And Get Signed

There are many web articles and chapters in songwriting business books that have one thing in common when it comes to instruction on how and where to pitch your songs to get a music publishing deal; they say once you have your song demos ready, start making contacts and send copies of your demos out to music publishers by making sure [more...]

Date: 2008-08-05 20:08:59
Blog: SongwriterAdvisor.com ...

QuickBooks Coupons

From: Cooper Pellaton To: Chris Pirillo Subject: quickbooks hello chris again i have a question i am going to buy quick books the business ... s the Best Way to Interview Someone? Who are Today’s Hot Swedish Music Artists? The Bad AntiSpyware [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 01:40:02
Blog: Chris Pirillo...

Second Objective by Mark Frost - Book Review

Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival, held in a city park in the middle of East Hartford, CT, deserves serious attention from bluegrass fans ... cooled off, and the music just kept on comin'. This festival features some of the very best bands [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 10:51:16
Blog: Ted Lehmann's Bluegrass...

Know the Industry–Music Blog Site

Give you the best Music Some artists and musicians are dying for recording contracts but do they really know how the music industry works? ... t be afraid to ask tough questions. You will have to deal with managers, booking agents, publishers [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 10:12:12
Blog: music blog › music blog...

Hotel rooms going quick!

It's only 90 days until the Netroots descends upon Austin for Netroots Nation 2008 ... and just blocks away from some of the best barbecue joints, live music venues, and watering holes ... because the official convention hotel—the Austin Hilton—is 64% percent booked for peak nights [more...]

Date: 2008-04-18 17:31:03
Blog: Netroots Nation...

AOL CityBest misplaces brain, accidentally replaces with feces, rates SF venues all wrong

AOL’s City’s Best rates the San Francisco live music venues like this: ... atrocious Design Concourse–shame on Another Planet and Livenation for continuing to book bands ... on stage is standing behind one). I wouldn’t bring up the booking, but since they site it as good [more...]

Date: 2008-08-02 18:21:13
Blog: ipickmynose: an SF-cent...

Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Ken Follett other best-sellers headed toward public libraries—-via Penguin-OverDrive connection

OverDrive news release, slightly edited… Public libraries can now lend download audiobooks and eBooks by best-selling authors such as ... s e-warehouse, supplementing OverDrive’s collection of more than 150,000 eBook, audiobook, music ... English-Language trade book publishers in the world, and now public libraries can add digital books [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 14:41:28
Blog: TeleRead: Bring the E-B...

Benefits of aficionado-programmed fests

The best thing about the Chicago Jazz Festival is that it's curated by an independent committee of people (mostly from the Jazz Institute of Chicago) who really love music, rather than being overly influenced by promoters, booking agents ... of Betty Carter's '80s and early '90s bands.  Alto [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 19:32:28
Blog: Jazz Beyond Jazz ...

Pan Macmillan had already experimented with shedding DRM—one of the best ways to use ePub to tear down the Tower of eBabel, ... Bezos started a DRM-free e-book store for interested publishers—just like his blessedly DRMless music store? For now, here’s what Gary Gibson, author of Stealing Light, included in a three-books [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 14:46:47
Blog: TeleRead: Bring the E-B...

Shorties

The 2008 Lollapalooza music downloads page has been updated with mp3 downloads of the Explosions in the Sky and Wilco sets, ... in the music business keeping me from maturing? EduChoices.org lists 50 of the best websites for writers ... as well as a video download of the Wilco performance. Decatur, Georgia's Wordsmith's Books [more...]

Date: 2008-08-05 13:59:22
Blog: largehearted boy: a mus...

*** Denver Post Underground Music Showcase *** DPUMS *** Aug 1st & Aug 2nd *** South Broadway (SoBo) ... was a DIY festival from booking bands to playing outside with no permits in broad daylight ... anybody, all was well. The best part of the festival is that all proceeds go to the local bands where [more...]

Date: 2008-08-05 07:14:57
Blog: Cause=Time...

Best of Manchester Awards at Urbis

The shortlist for this year’s celebration of all things Manchester was announced last week, and it contains some familiar and (for me at least) not-so-familiar names: Music: Richard Cheetham, who runs the successful High Voltage bands night and monthly fanzine, and is also the booking manager for Night & Day Cafe Duncan Sime, aka Red [more...]

Date: 2008-08-05 11:05:20
Blog: Mancubist: Life is good...

TUAW Best of the Week

Filed under: Features, TUAW Business, Weekend Review TUAW Logo ... that might be -- some may people enjoy 10-15 minute music downloads). Delicious Library 2.0 is now shipping Delicious Library is the definitive way of storing your actual collections of books [more...]

Date: 2008-06-01 14:39:03
Blog: The Unofficial Apple We...

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