Showcasing Music – Beyond the Playlist with Viinyl 2.0

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Why do most music players look like spreadsheets? Discovering music on your own requires that you listen to a song for a period of time to see if you like it. Sure, if one of your friends tells you about a track you may “discover” it through them, but you will also spend some time […]

Meet me in Montreal at ADISQ on Thursday

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Please join me at the ADISQ conference in Montreal this week.  I will be doing the afternoon keynote and speaking on “Go to Market Strategies for Musicians”, describing what is working in today’s environment and suggestions for the future. Here is the conference program.

Create the Future of Music. Learn online with Dave Kusek.

Dave Kusek Presentation

Berkleemusic’s online classes start next week. Learn about music, the future and your part in it. Study with Berklee faculty from anywhere in the world. Improve your skills and become part of an online community of like-minded musicians. Learn to navigate the emerging digital music business, and gain effective techniques in publishing, marketing, management, touring, music supervision, […]

Become a Better Musician – Study Online This Winter

Music Industry

Berkleemusic’s online classes start next week. Learn about music, the future and your part in it. Study with Berklee faculty from anywhere in the world. Improve your skills and become part of an online community of like-minded musicians. Learn to navigate the emerging digital music business, and gain effective techniques in publishing, marketing, management, touring, music […]

The Future of Music for Urban Millenials

Here is a presentation developed for clothing manufacturer Carhartt as they try and capitalize on the popularity of their products with the youth market. Interesting trends and stats posted by students from Parsons The New School for Design.  ”By identifying the forces at play in the world of music and the behaviors that are driving those […]

Deadmau5 talks EDM at Billboard Futuresound

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EDM is really just short for “Event Driven Marketing”. At last week’s Billboard  Futuresound conference in San Francisco, Deadmau5 aka “Joel Zimmerman” gave a candid interview which you can listen to here.  He talked freely about his career, the current EDM scene and where things are heading.

Yep, on the road again. Join me Thursday and Friday at Billboard Futuresound

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I will be judging a startup competition at Billboard’s FutureSound conference this Thursday and Friday. Sign up here and use this code SPCOL12 for a discount! bit.ly/WvqcRg. These are the five finalists that will be competing. http://www.getmixxd.com http://www.playground.fm http://swarm.fm http://www.tixie.com http://www.tunezy.com This looks like it could be a pretty exciting conference with keynote speakers including VC […]

Join me this Friday at Babson Entrepreneurship Forum

Babson Forum Distrupting Music

I will be moderating a discussion this Friday at Babson’s Entrepreneurship Forum on Distruption in the Music Industry. This year’s 11th annual forum is following a theme of Celebrating Entrepreneurs of All Kinds. From an acclaimed singer/songwriter and a young man fighting gang violence through his non-profit organization to a designer/entrepreneur whose shoes are worn […]

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