TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH AT THE PARK WEST IN CHICAGO
Chicago- Following rave reviews for New York City conference on July 21st, The New Music Seminar comes to Chicago for the first time ever on Tuesday, October 6th at the legendary Park West. The New Music Seminar was established in 1980 and grew into one of the world's largest music business conferences.
Now, after 15 years, it is back as a crucial one day event for artists, managers and music labels of for every kind of music. Aspiring and emerging musicians, singers, bands, Rappers and members of the indie music community will be able to benefit by acquiring beneficial skills and making connections through networking opportunities. The new platform structure is contemporary and visionary with Movements (panels), Conductors (conductors) and Players (panelists) as components.
From the co-founder and Director of the original New Music Seminar, comes a symphony of new thinking for the next generation of the music industry, targeted at disenfranchised artists disheartened by the state of the industry and desperate for change.
"I have been asked many times over the last 15 years to bring back the New Music Seminar," says NMS co-founder Tom Silverman, "but it wasn't until the end of 2008 that I could finally see the new business begin to emerge. The trends are clear now and the future can finally be foretold.
The music business has changed beyond recognition. The old record business is over. For record companies it's a bleak picture. But it puts thousands of artists in the strongest position they have ever been to create their own success."
On Tuesday, October 6th in Chicago, the reincarnated New Music Seminar will announce a new dawn of the music business. Offering practical, straightforward, cutting edge solutions for artists trying to make it in these challenging times, NMS promises to give artists the knowledge and tools to step into tomorrow's music business today.
The conference will kick off with Keynote address by, Michael Spiegelman, Head of Yahoo! Music.
"Yahoo! Is excited about the opportunities now available to artists to market, distribute and promote their music," says Spiegeman. "I look forward to joining the New Music Seminar in helping artists to make sense of new tools to be successful in the music business."
The keynote will be followed by four Movements:
• 1st Movement: Welcome to the Music Business; everything you know is wrong.
Redefining Success. 1000 True Fans and the Fan Relationship Pyramid.
• 2nd Movement: Expose Yourself: Marketing for the next music business; MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are not enough.
• 3rd Movement: The Creative Process and radical Differentiation; Supercharge your music
to rise above the noise floor and achieve success
• 4th Movement: The Live Show and Tour; How to Cut through the Glut and reach the Magic 300
New Seminar Chicago conductors and players include:
Conductors
• Tom Silverman – NMS Co-Founder
• Paul Resnikoff – Founder & Editor/Digital Music News
• Steve 'Silk' Hurley – Owner/S&S Records
• KB – Director of Community/Ourstage.com
• Dave Lory – Chairman & CEO/Worldwide Entertainment Group
Players
• Emily White – Co-Founder/Whitesmith Entertainment
• David Hazan – Chief Marketing Officer/The Bizmo (USA)
• Lou Plaia – Co-Founder &VP Music Industry Relations/Reverbnation.com
• Martin Heath – Chief Executive/Lizard King Records
• Bryan Calhoun – VP, New Media & External Affairs/Sound Exchange
• Dean Raissen – Founder/Raise Up Music
• Ariel Hyatt – Founder/Ariel Publicity-Cyber PR
• Greg Estes – VP Marketing & Client Services/Mozes
• Amy Phillips – News Editor/Pitchfork
• Martin Atkins – Author Tour:Smart/Invisible Records
• David Cooper – Founder/Foxman Direct to Fan
• Tom Windish – President/The Windish Agency
• Joe Carsello – Talent Buyer/Metro
• Martin Folkman – Founder/Musician's Atlas & Independent Music Awards
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Check out what the industry is saying about the return of the New Music Seminar
"The New Music Seminar returned for a New York University hosted engagement to assert itself as "the place to be" for networking and debate on the future of the music industry".
Hip Hop Weekly
"It was an honor to be part of NMS….The connections and networking were through the roof"
Mickey Factz (Rapper, Artist)
"Congratulations on a terrific event! The "symphony" was superb! Each Movement {panel} was right on and to- the- point informative as was the entire day."
Linda Lorence-Critelli , VP Writer Publisher Relations, SESAC
"If you work with music at any level and want to attend one event that will make a difference in growing your art and business then NMS is it. What was the most important conference in music has returned and it is more crucial than ever. The right mix of crucial business, punk rock DIY instructions and art. The NMS allows you to work smarter so you can rock harder.
Mark Josephson, co-founder original New Music Seminar
"the event guidebook is stuffed with great information: contacts, standardized forms, and lots of tips."
Digital Music News
The New Music Seminar's first visit to Chicago and the Midwest climaxes a very powerful weekend with co-partner Global Mixx Music Retreat that is Friday, October 2nd through Sunday, October 4th, 2009. Gmixx is a series of resourceful and empowering events, which range from exclusive artist showcases, DJ listening sessions, music seminars and a host of events at various Chicago nightlife venues. www.gobalmixxmusic.com
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For more information on registration and NMS, please visit www.newmusicseminar.biz
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Michael Spiegelman
Michael Spiegelman is the head of Yahoo! Music, where he runs one of the most visited Music websites in the world and a leading source of music videos and Internet radio. While at Yahoo! Music, Michael has been responsible for leading the Re-launch of the music.yahoo.com site, adding concert information, music blogs and video playlisting. He served as a leading member of the team that designed and launched the Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscription service. He loves techno, house, breakbeats and is constantly on the lookout for great new sounds. Spiegelman will share his vision for Yahoo! Music and the new ways in which artists can utilize the tools they have, and other online companies, have available to promote and market their careers.
New Music Seminar
On a hot 1980 summer day, 220 people met at a New York City rehearsal studio to discuss and debate the problems in the music business. It heralded the birth of the New Music Seminar, bringing new ideas, new talent and new connections to the industry, along with the introduction of Hip-Hop, new wave, house, and many other new forms of music. During its 15-year run, the first NMS became the world's biggest and most influential music business gathering attracting over 8000 people from 3 countries. The seminar has since spawned almost every important music event worldwide, including SXSW, Winter Music Conference, In The City and Canadian Music Week.
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