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You May Have Already Noticed ReverbNations Slick New Look. After Months Of Testing With Thousands Of
You may have already noticed ReverbNation’s slick new look. After months of testing with thousands of ReverbNation Artists, we’ve tweaked, changed and improved the site to reflect all the great feedback we got. You’ll see updates to your profile pages as well as the general experience for anyone browsing ReverbNation. It’s live right now for all users, so please go check out the new ReverbNation. During this beta period you’ll still be able to swap back to the ‘old ReverbNation’— but why would you want to? Read below for the highlights.
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On Monday night, Seventh and T streets NW will fill the familiar bustle of concertgoers queueing up for a show. They'll field through a glamorous marble lobby, perhaps pause at a long, illuminated bar and wait excitedly for the velvet curtains to part on a perfomance by breakout Washington rapper Wale. But it won't be lost on anyone what they're also here for: to see the Howard Theatre, once the nucleus of Washington's Black Broadway, shine again.
It took only three decades.
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As of this morning, Spotify's Facebook Timeline now includes over a thousand years of music, which you can listen to at your leisure, assuming you have the time. Scroll back to the year 1001 A.D. for "Organum Experiments" as reproduced by "singing ladies and nuns." It's not bad, actually; I thought we didn't start busting out jams like that until at least the 13th century.
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If your aim as an artist is to purely chase a record deal as a means to succeeding in this business, I will tell you right now that you are doomed for failure. You can throw all the trumped up statistics around that you want, but fundamentally your chances of actually landing a record deal are extremely slim. Furthermore, your chances of actually making money directly from that deal are pretty much zero.
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It’s one of the top 10 questions I’m asked: ASCAP, BMI or SESAC? Which one should I Join? Here’s a rock ‘n’ roll answer: How about none of them. At least not right away. All of these competing Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) spend a great deal of their members’ money selling “belonging” as if there is an immediate benefit to membership, like collecting money that they have been holding for you. But experience indicates that you’d be better off waiting to sign with any of them. Wonder why? Here’s the truth about PRO’s in this three part series taken from Moses Avalon’s latest book, 100 Answers to 50 Questions on the Music Business.
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