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Helping Boost The Indie Music Revolution!

Boston, MA – If you’re riding the wave of the indie music revolution you’re about to get a huge boost. Music career coach Peter Spellman has just released the second edition of Indie Marketing Power: THE Resource Guide for Maximizing Your Music Marketing - a 388-page resource-rich handbook designed to help all music entrepreneurs navigate through the hundreds of marketing and promotional opportunities available today.

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BFM Digital and Mi2N Help Indie Labels Get Noticed

Los Angeles, CA - BFM Digital, a leading digital music aggregator and distributor of independent music, announces that it will be using Mi2N’s PR Gold Service to promote key album releases from BFM’s growing catalog of indie labels and artists.

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The Daily Vault Album Reviews: Random Thoughts (From A Paralyzed Mind)

by Jason Warburg, The Daily Vault

Here we go again. Halfway through the slush pile, tossing ‘em aside like pancakes at a Little League fundraiser, and allofasudden whoooaaa Nellie. Hang on, we got us a keeper.

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Music Publishing For Today’s Market
by Allen Johnston,

MusicDish Network Sponsor

Before the invention of the phonograph, songwriters earned income by relying on music publishers to sell sheet music and piano rolls of their songs. Even as radio and television replaced the piano in the parlor, music publishers continued to play an important role as popular singers continued to rely upon established songwriters to provide their material. (Tin Pan Alley) However, with the advent of R&B (and especially the Motown era) popular recording artists began to write more of their own songs. Since that time, the music publishing industry has taken on a less important role for singers and a much more important role for revenue growth.

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HDNet Concert Series Celebrates Grammy Night

An Exclusive Concert Marathon Of This Year’s Nominees

WHAT: HDNet presents eleven concerts from various 2007 Grammy nominees all day Sunday, February 10 beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET. From Ben Harper, to Foo Fighters, from R. Kelly to Willie Nelson, HDNet will serve up concerts to suite every musical palate.

The marathon also includes concerts from Gwen Stefani, Joe Satriani, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Vince Gill, John Mellencamp and Chris Botti. The entire line up and timing is as follows:

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Okay, y’all…remember that old TV show called “Name That Tune?”

Well, I couldn’t wait a full week to get this one out because, not only is it so important, but it is, in fact, vital and can get you involved *very* quickly in a lawsuit, which could be financially devastating to your career.

Plus, as I would have normally published this article on this coming Friday, I am otherwise headed to Houston this weekend to record my new single titled, “Vampire Love.” :-)

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