New York – New Music Seminar today announced this year’s Artist on the Verge “Class of 2014” – a list of 100 trailblazing acts, with the opportunity to perform as part of this year’s event, June 8-10 in New York City. The organizers call AOV the place to experience tomorrow’s superstars before they break. (See
Day two of this annual schmoozefest continued with well-conceived panels but BestNewBands.com couldn’t help but wonder why the organizers filled the vast, vast majority of speaking roles with 30-45-year-old White men. The lack of diversity was shocking in a Season One of Mad Men sort of way and “The Independent Label Movement” panel on Tuesday
Year Six of the second iteration of the New Music Seminar brought an essential mix of industry sluggers and wannabees to the New Yorker Hotel amidst a heavy downpour as attendees filled the garment district’s notoriously lousy restaurants (White Castle, anyone?) during breaks. But the real action was inside the three ballrooms as the organizers
The 2013 New Music Seminar opens in New York Sunday night and runs through Tuesday, the fifth year since the conference was resurrected in 2009, after its original 16-year run ended in 1995. As with its original incarnation, the event exists to “discuss and debate challenges in the music business” and foster ways to grow
Last week we presented part one of our interview up-and-comer Malaysian singer Yuna. Here’s part two of our conversation with the emerging singer/songwriter. What are the differences between American and Malaysian crowds? I guess it’s the way they perceive things? For example, the things they listen to in a song or what aspect of a
I first met Seattle-based artist Kris Orlowski at the New Music Seminar back in February. We bonded instantly over the perilous state of the music industry and a shared affinity for sarcasm, and when I later visited his website I was amazed to find that I liked his music as much as the actual man
At the New Music Seminar this week, I heard the words “revolution” and “redefine” countless times. Everyone from the founder Tom Silverman of Tommy Boy Records to CEO of Pandora Joe Kennedy agreed that the old way of doing business is dead, and that the music industry was “rising from the ashes” with a wealth
The New Music Seminar, which BestNewBands.com will be attending next week, announced their list of the Top 100 Artists on the Verge this week, and there are a lot of familiar names on it. Here’s some of how NMS chooses bands for the list: The NMS Artist on the Verge Top 100 is compiled based