GM Magazine: Music Connection Weekly Bulletin for December 31, 2014

Weekly Bulletin
December 31, 2014

Published every week since 2006

Our Favorite Signings of 2014!

Every year, Music Connection features a total of 44 signing stories--four stories per month from January to November--and for each year-end issue, senior editor Mark Nardone compiles the MC Staff's favorite ones. So here is our 2014 list of signing stories from music artists of rock, country, hip-hop, indie, pop and much more!

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10 Steps on How to Build Your Band's Identity with a Slogan or Tagline

What do Apple, Ozzy Osbourne, and hundreds of other successful companies and brands all have in common? They all use brand slogans to build their identity, and now, so can you! Slogans provide further information about a brand, communicate an overall philosophy and increase memorability. They can even be used as part of your brand's logo or to market a specific product or service, such as your own concert tour. Cypress Hill branded its Smoke Out Festival with the slogan, "An all-day mind altering event." No confusion there. So let's take a look at 10 useful tips for creating a slogan that can make a strong and lasting impression on your intended audience. Remember that they don't have be grammatically correct, just short and sweet.

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Waves Audio's "Win A Dream Mix" offers a free mix of your song by Grammy-winning mix engineer Manny Marroquin (Sia, Linkin Park, Imagine Dragons, Calvin Harris).

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Free Directory of A&R

Here's our latest list of record label talent scouts, giving you names, phone numbers, web info and roster details of majors and indies who actively seek new artists for their companies. All 2015 updates have been supplied by the listees.

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Music Connection Presents "Networking in the Music Biz" Panel at SXSW

This coming March, at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, TX, Music Connection magazine will present a spirited panel discussion titled "Networking In The Music Business." Moderated by music attorney Glenn Litwak, the panel will feature professionals in A&R, music publishing, music marketing and film/TV, all of whom will give one-of-a-kind insights about how rising artists and music-makers can navigate successfully through the treacherous waters of the music industry.

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The World's First TV Talent Search for an Original Songwriter Continues

Episode two of "Do I Have A Hit Song?," the world's first television talent search, produced and created by Musik and Film, that focuses on songwriters performing their original works, is set to be taped at Mavericks at the Jacksonville Landing on Friday Jan. 9 starting at 7PM. The show will be broadcast on Jan. 20.

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Tips: Are You Being Realistic About Your Talent?

Veteran music industry attorney Glenn T. Litwak has plenty of advice to dish about the right ways and the wrongs ways to handle yourself—the concrete things aspiring recording artists, music producers and songwriters can do to make progress in their careers.

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