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Last month OurStage launched one of its first premium channels in celebration of New Music Seminar heading to Los Angeles. The groundbreaking music industry seminar will be making its first west coast appearance after successful events in New York and Chicago on February 2nd. The NMS founders Tom Silverman, and renowned manager and touring expert, Dave Lory, wanted to make this edition of the seminar extra special by inviting pop, rock and urban artists to compete for several exposure opportunities with some of the industry’s most connected leaders. Eight artists were narrowed down from hundreds in New Music Seminar’s Artists on the Verge New Winter Artist Search to have an A&R package sent to top US labels. Of those eight, three were selected to be flown out to LA to attend New Music Seminar and compete for a career-making grand prize package worth over $25,000 in gear and consultation services from NMS partners.

Find out who the finalists and runners up are after the jump…

After rave reviews in New York City in July and the smash success of its second event in Chicago in October, The New Music Seminar (NMS) heads to The Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on February 2nd immediately following the Grammy Awards. The New Music Seminar is the must attend one‐day creative networking and educational event for artists, managers, agents and music labels of every genre seeking to understand how to “rise above the noise floor” in a shifting musical landscape.

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The New Music Seminar announces the final program for the Chicago NMS Symphony. This one-day educational and networking event for Artists, Managers, music labels, and others in the music business,  will reveal the secrets of the emerging new music business; its new paradigm and new opportunities,  as well as tools and examples of how to achieve success in the new era.

The New Music Seminar, which for 15 years was the #1 music conference in the world, will again be the number one place for networking and building business partnerships that will become the foundations of the new music business. The NMS will provide delegates with opportunities to meet with the leaders of the new music business, get the advice, information and tools to do it themselves.

The New Music Seminar has replaced the old “panels and moderators” approach with a Symphony of ideas in four Movements. Each Movement will have a Conductor and four or more Players. The following is the full listing.

Keynote Address: Michael Spiegelman-Head of Yahoo! Music

1^st MOVEMENT

WELCOME TO THE NEW MUSIC BUSINESS: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG

Setting your targets to the new definition of winning.  The Story of 1000 true fans. Fan Relationship Management and an introduction to the new science of The Fan Pyramid and how to maximize revenues from your different types of fans.

Conductor:  Tom Silverman-Tommy Boy/NMS

Players:

Emily White – Whitesmith Entertainment

David Hazan – The Bizmo

Lou Plaia – ReverbNation

Martin Heath – Lizard King Records, UK

2^nd Movement

Expose Yourself! Marketing for the next music business; MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are not enough.

Radio and Video are no longer the gateway to success for most developing artists.  Breakthroughs happen on line, at shows, occasionally at press and college radio and specialty shows. But they happen slowly over a longer period of time.  How do you get enough exposure to escape from the cursed swamp of obscurity?

Conductors:  Paul Resnikoff – Digital Music News

Players:

Brian Calhoun – Soundexchange and Music Business Toolbox

Dean Raissen – Raise Up Music and Booker, Viper Room, Los Angeles

Ariel Hyatt – Ariel Publicity and Cyber PR

Corey Denis – Reapandsow

Greg Estes – Mozes

3^rd MOVEMENT

THE CREATIVE PROCESS AND RADICAL DIFFERENTIATION

The creative quartet and how to stand out in songwriting, production, image and the live show.

Conductors: Steve “Silk” Hurley – S & S Records

KB, OurStage.com

Players:

Bad Boy Bill – Artist

Amy Phillips – Pitchfork

Howard Greynolds – Overcoat Management, The Swell Season

Plus surprise guests

4^th Movement

YOUR LIVE SHOW AND TOUR:
SIMPLE STEPS TO CUT THROUGH THE GLUT and REACH THE MAGIC 300 TICKET MARK

Conductor:

Dave Lory – Chairman/CEO, Worldwide Entertainment Group Inc.

Players:

Martin Atkins – Author, Tour:Smart & CEO Invisible Records

Tom Windish – The Windish Agency

David Cooper – Founder, Foxman/Direct to Fan

Joe Carsello – Talent Buyer, The Metro

Martin Folkman – Musician’s Atlas/Independent Music Awards

In between the Movements, delegates will network and visit the NMS Partners in attendance who are supplying complimentary promotional and marketing tools to the delegates and other useful items to assist them with their careers.

The NMS After Party Schmoozathon at Park West begins at 8pm. This private event will include artist performances by the stars of the New Music Business DIY movement.

On Monday night, October 5^th, the New Music Seminar will hold their opening night reception where registered delegates can schmooze with the Conductors, Players and other heavyweights attending the Seminar the following day and make new contacts to promote your career.

For more information on The New Music Seminar, you can go to www.NewMusicSeminar.biz. To receive a 10% discount, enter NMSCHICAGO24986 through “Google Checkout” on the registration tab.

After July’s highly successful turn out in New York City, Tom Silverman and Dave Lory are taking their influential New Music Seminar to Chicago’s Park West Theater on October 6th. In New York, droves of music industry professionals gathered to listen to words of wisdom from keynote speaker Courtney Holt, President of MySpace Music. For the Chicago seminar, President of Yahoo! Music, Michael Spiegelman, is slated to deliver the keynote:

Michael Spiegelman is the head of Yahoo! Music, where he runs one of the most visited Music Web sites 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.

Prior to joining Yahoo! Music in 2003, Michael was a co-founder of Web Paradox, a web design and development company in San Diego, CA. While there, he was responsible for business development, strategy, client relations and project management. His clients included Verizon, AT&T, Nextel and the US Navy.

Michael was a Senior Strategy Consultant at iXL, a leading Internet consulting and development company, where he provided strategic consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and startups.

Michael has also worked at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, where he advised public and private sector clients on business process re-engineering, change management, organizational redesign and technology development.

Michael is a graduate of Pomona College and currently lives in Los Angeles. He loves techno, house, breakbeats and is constantly on the lookout for great new sounds.

This one day seminar is chock full of important information for anyone involved in this rapidly evolving industry. Save money by registering before September 4th at the early rate of $99.00. For registration and more information on the event itself visit www.newmusicseminar.biz

The New Music Seminar (NMS) is proclaiming that the old industry is over and the revolution is on. Between advancements in technology and an ailing economy virtually every aspect of the music business has altered in the last five years. But what does that mean for the independent artist?

It’s good news for any artist who has been waiting for that major label record deal to land in their lap. The end all be all used to be getting signed. It was an end goal shared by hundreds and thousands of bands, however a reality for a select few. Advancements in technology has made everything easier for working musicians; making music, booking shows, distributing music, sending press kits, connecting with fans and selling merch have all been enhanced with the advent of the Internet. However, as technology continues to grow and services to “help” indie artists increase it can become overwhelming.

The NMS is taking place on July 3rd in NYC to be the beacon for artists. Tommy Boy Entertainment’s founder Tom Silverman and Worldwide Entertainment Group, Inc’s CEO Dave Lory are taking their combined 60 years of music industry experience and sharing it with 800 lucky attendees. It’s not the traditional format in which the experts talk at you and give insights that are irrelevant for where you are now in your career. Silverman and Lory are leading a revolution to empower artists to take control of their careers by sharing their insights into breaking artists and connecting attendees with current players in the music business.

Panels have been replaced with “movements”. The movements are designed to share knowledge and make connections in an accessible, non-intimidating format. The advice is hands on and is designed to educate working musicians whose talent is primed for the next level. The next level is the new business model’s standard for success- as defined by the ability to sell 10,000 copies of a release and sell out 300 capacity rooms in multiple markets.

Silverman and Lory have designed a “How To” conference that walks artists through an education into the state of the industry in four movements. Topics and “players” include the following:

WELCOME TO THE NEW MUSIC BUSINESS: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG- Ian Rogers (Top Spin), Mathieu Drouin (Crystal Math Management), Mark Ghunheim (Wiredset), Jeff Price (Tunecore) and Tim Westergren (Pandora).

For a complete list of movements and players go HERE.

To learn more about the NMS and how to register go HERE.