Leaving Record Labels Behind
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Leaving Record Labels Behind
BusinessWeek – Oct 29, 2007
He or she generally serves as point person to a band’s label and to other arenas in which a band does business such as tour booking and T-shirt sales. Transitioning to label-like functions is “something managers have been talking about for a long time” says Brian Long of Yes Know Management which reps disco punks VHS R BETA. Long who founded electronic music label Astralwerks calls such a move “the natural evolution of what a manager already does. ” In these dispirited times label executives concede that the guy closest to the band could have the upper hand. “It’s a logical place to go” says one. f course the grunt work of manufacturing and distribution remains onerous. CD sales are down but big-deal artists still need to press several hundred thousand.
… Sleep Frontman Promises New LPs – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Oct 29, 2007
“We’ve got two weeks of shows coming up so we get to play together again” Moreno said of Team Sleep’s upcoming mostly West Coast run which kicks off November 29 in Sacramento California and runs through December 16 in San Francisco with former From First to Last frontman Sonny Moore Strata and Monster in the Machine in tow. “We’re going to put out the first of the EPs to coincide with the tour and we’ll probably make the music available for download on a new Web site we’re setting up. So what is the new material sounding like? “It’s mostly electronic stuff” Chino explained. “We’ve been working on it the last few years and we’ll continue to write over the next couple of years while I’m doing Deftones stuff. And in 2010 hopefully we’ll be able to release a full record. It’s a big long drawn-out plan but it works. For the recording of Team Sleep’s eponymous debut Moreno took time off from… “I’m not looking to make a bunch of money from this. It’s not like anything that I think is pop-oriented that all of a sudden is going to turn into something gigantic. It’s the music I like and a lot of people who enjoy music like ours will love to hear it. I just want to share it with them it’s as simple as that. And it’s also a promotional tool for us. We make our living from playing shows and being out there touring. We don’t make it from record sales so the EPs are an advertisement for our show.
The Electroacoustic Juke Joint
Synthtopia – Oct 29, 2007
Delta State University is a regional university with approximately 4400 students. It is located in Cleveland MS and serves as an educational and cultural center of the Mississippi Delta. The Delta Music Institute housed within the College of Arts and Sciences is an independent center of recording arts and music industry studies offering a concentration of courses related to the B. in Music degree and the B. in Interdisciplinary Studies degree.
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