I’ve been in Beijing for the last month doing music projects, having meetings, and researching opening my music company Pro Soul Alliance in China. Now i’m in Hong Kong with my wife Felisha for a while before going back to Beijing. It’s been an incredible experience, and I’ve learned more than ever before about China, […]
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“All my students are really interested in hearing is how right they are and how good they are, the same mentality that basically forces Harvard to give out B’s to people that don’t deserve them out of the fear that they’ll go to other schools that will give them B’s and those schools will make
Branford Marsalis on the state of musicians Read More »
I’ve had no problem getting work as a music producer, even in a recession. I’m working on 6 albums and keep getting calls for more, but then I’m cheap as far as many music producers go with my experience. Most of my clients hire me because I also compose and engineer in my own studio,
Is professionally produced music important anymore? Read More »
I’ve been so busy lately that it’s been very hard to blog, not only because of the time issue, but because I have so much to blog about it’s hard to know what to choose… Right now I’m in Beijing working on 3 different music projects and doing some other music business meetings. As I’m
Producer as artist manager Read More »
I went to see the new James Bond movie Quantum Of Solace the other day with low expectations. I know the new movies are about Bond’s early days, but the modernized Bond has lost all the things that made Bond unique in the action adventure genre, and now it’s become just another Mission Impossible, Die
The new James Bond movie theme Read More »
I’m back from an amazing and productive trip to Beijing where I got to meet and work with some fantastic new artists as well as the immensely talented Elika Mahony. I blogged all about it on the new Pro Soul site, where I will be posting a lot of my music business entries from now
China trip and the launch of Pro Soul Alliance Read More »
I’ve been hinting at a big venture I’ve been involved in and working hard on with my partner Roshena Huang for some time now, even though haven’t said much lately, but i’m ready to start talking more about it. It’s the relaunch of my record label, Pro Soul as a totally reinvented company… more on
Where is the music industry going? Read More »
From Soundscan stats released at the yearly NARM conference: – 80,000 Records were released in total in 2008 – 80 percent of them sold less than 100 copies each. – Most sales were from only 1000 titles – Only 10 percent of hit records represent actually purchased music And regarding copyright according to Andrew Dubber:
Shocking music industry facts they prefer you don’t know: Read More »
I’ve just finished producing a fantastic new cover song for Heather Doré’s Pop music debut. I’ll tell you more about it soon when she launches it. She is a 21st century artist, so she is releasing her music, as it is completed, from her website, and you don’t have to wait, you can get it
The problem with digitally distributing cover songs Read More »
Last year I blogged about how the music industry is changing along with a lot of others… Recently, A very detailed 18 page report has been published by renowned technology and market research company, Forrester. I don’t have access to the entire article, as that would be expensive, but here is the essence of it:
The end of the music industry as we know it Read More »