Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The New Music Seminar 2014


Having attended 5 music conferences in the last 18 months I might have sufficient authority to make a couple of broad statements about The New Music Seminar 2014.  Due, I expect, to its location in midtown Manhattan, the seminar was able to attract the upper echelon of the music industry better than any other conference I have attended recently.  I spoke, shook hands and handed my music to Jason Flom (CEO of Lava and ex-CEO of Atlantic and Capitol Records,)  Avery Lipman (co-founder of Republic Records,)  Craig Kallman (CEO of Atlantic Records,) and the list goes on and on and on.  It could well have been the best 2 days I have spent at any such function.  With a ticket price of $400 any of the 100 or so artists that were present must have found it was money well spent particularly if you were willing to do the reach-out ahead of time and the subsequent follow-up.  I could literally fill this page up dropping the names of the people I met but suffice to say if you are if you are an artist that has music more or less finished and geared towards the US pop or pop-ish market, make sure you get tickets when next year’s seminar rolls around :)