This week, it's a complete "Rock Update" with music expert, author and VH1/MTV Senior Vice President, Bill Flanagan. At VH1 he created the series Storytellers, Legends and Behind the Music. He also co-created the prime time specials called The Beatles . His books include Written in My Soul, a collection of conversations with songwriters, and U2 At the End of the World. His latest book, A&R is now in paperback, and is a must read for anyone who wants to know what's really going on behind the scenes.
In addition this week, Mark Kemp, who has been writing about music since the mid 1980's. He is a former editorial executive for MTV Networks and former music editor of Rolling Stone magazine. He's now the Entertainment Editor of the Charlotte Observer.
Also this week, the "Godmother of the Music Industry" offers hard-hitting advice to musicians in her book, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos.
San Francisco, CA --Twenty-year music business veteran Nadine Condon has been instrumental in the success of some of today's hottest acts, with 14 gold and platinum records from artists like Smash Mouth, Stroke 9, and Melissa Etheridge. She has now folded her wisdom into an essential guide for musicians ready to raise the bar of their own success.
Published by Backbeat Books, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos: The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success shows career-minded musicians everything they need to know, from marketing and promotion concerns like creating a press kit, developing sure-fire marketing strategies, producing and promoting shows, and making eye-catching web sites, to fundamental tricks of the trade, like creating a standout song; finding a producer, manager, agent, or lawyer; packaging a CD; and understanding options to major label contracts.
Also this week, award winning investigative reporter Jim Marrs, who is best known for his first book, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, the book that Oliver Stone's film JFK was partially based on. His book Alien Agenda has become the best-selling book on UFOs of all time. Topics under discussion include those mysterious new images from the Mars Rover of something baffled scientists are calling "clumps". And, the just released news that an asteroid almost hit Earth last month. Scientists were actually three hours away from calling President Bush to address the nation. This was a close one!
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