The New Creative Economy

millenials

From Createbiz – Online Business School for the New Creative Economy.  We are redefining the nature of “work” and no other group is more out front in their thinking than creative professionals.  Designers, artists, writers, film makers, videoographers, web developers, fashion designers, musicians, and the emerging market of “makers” are redefining work-life balance and what […]

Meet me in Montreal at ADISQ on Thursday

ADISQ

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.

The Geography Of Indie Music

Map by MPI's Zara Matheson

The Atlantic published this awesome map, which plots the geographical origins of indie bands who played at SXSW last week.  The data is not perfect in the sense that it does not include unofficial showcases but it puts Austin in the lead, trailed by New York and Los Angeles.  Nashville and London just about tie […]

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 […]

The Interdependency of Music and Technology

Music Tech

The music business has been utterly transformed by technology. New music apps such as Pandora, Spotify, Soundcloud, Shazam and Songza among hundreds of others are driving new music revenue and employment opportunities for technically oriented musicians. Olivia Leonardi over at Online Computer Science Degree has written an article about the intersection of music and software development […]

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

futuresound

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 […]

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