The Ultimate Survival Guide for the New Music Industry : A Handbook for Hell

Book Description
From setting up an indie label to shopping songs and gaining airplay and getting signed (or not), these invaluable insights are vividly documented in a detailed, informative guide to creating a career in music.

From the Publisher
PLEASE MAKE CORRECTION: The CD that accompanies this book is NOT an audio CD. The disc is a CD-ROM. The disc is a music industry contact directory. Could you please make this important change. There is NO music on this CD-ROM

From the Inside Flap
"The beauty of this whole thing is that there’s a guy who’s playing a gig tonight in a shitty club with sawdust on the floor who’s going to be the next Dave Matthews Band. Somehow—without radio, without promotion, with a van, a little CD burner and his laptop—he’s going to reach millions of people. We don’t know who that is, but I know he’s out there." —Ron Fair, Producer and President of A&M Records

About the Author
Justin Goldberg is a 15-year veteran of the music industry and has held executive positions with Sony Music, Laundry Room Records, Tonos, Riffage and The Online Music Channel. A well known advocate for independent artists, he has worked with such varied artists as Martin Sexton, Dee Dee Ramone, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, and Willie Nelson. He is currently the CEO of indie911.com and Label Services Network, a leading music resource center for indie labels and artists.


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Ask anyone in or around the music industry today about music or the music business and they will tell you this: Almost everything has changed -- from how artists are signed and marketed to how the companies that sign them function. No matter what your music industry mission is or what style of music you play, you need current inside information to succeed in what many perceive as the most ominous of industries. Industry veteran Justin Goldberg tells musicians, songwriters and budding moguls what they should be doing to succeed. From setting up an indie label to shopping songs and gaining airplay and getting signed (or not), these invaluable insights are meticulously documented in an informative guide to creating a career in music. Includes a CD-ROM (Mac and PC) with hundreds of pages of valuable business forms, recording and publishing-related contracts, and detailed contact information on thousands of record companies and other industry professionals.


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