Shannon has taken over artist relations, and in that role wrote this month's "for our musicians" newsletter which we send to our musicians to keep them up to date with our progress. I'm told people read this blog to "peek behind the curtain" and see how something like Magnatune is run, so I've pasted the main body of her newsletter below:
In other news, we've been *very* active on the conference and trade show circuit over the last month, and have made lots of great connections in the process. As a new member of the Recording Academy, John attended the NAMM show in late January where he met up with Jerry Marotta (drummer to Peter Gabriel, Indigo Girls, and Magnatune artist Sun Palace) among others. After attending two different public radio related conferences over the last month, Teresa Malango -- who handles all the licensing for Magnatune -- is making some serious inroads with National Public Radio's music and podcasting staff, attending two invite-only conferences (in New York and Texas) in the past few weeks. Meanwhile, I represented Magnatune at the fabulously cool Media That Matters Film Festival, where I saw a short film that prominently featured a great tune by Beat Under Control. It's #12 here if you'd like to watch it: http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/mtm05/, and I also recommend #14, "World on Fire." Couple of other things before we get to John's recent blog entries... Second, we'd like to start making Magnatune business cards available Third, I'm starting to incorporate more press quotes on the artist Finally, starting this Saturday, we're going to try including a |
Yeah, i'm peeking, so thanks for this peek hole :)
Posted by: beza1e1 | February 10, 2006 at 10:18 AM
Hey, I'd like some cards! I play every Friday and Saturday night at Babylon's in Riverside, CA. Lots of opportunity to hand them out, and there are nightclubs going on most nights there after 11pm, all kinds of music, mostly college kids. I'm playing Valentine's, as well.
Posted by: Charlie | February 11, 2006 at 09:29 AM