:: A & R, Labels, Getting Signed, Record Deals and people that can help with info and resources on this...

We were looking at some of this stuff of late and think it would be good to share these links and the information therein in order to find out what people think and if they have any good input or critique of the articles...

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:: A&R
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Artist+and+Repertoire+(music+industry)
Definitions

:: A & R by Wikipedia
'In the music industry, Artists and Repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label company that is responsible for scouting and artist development....' Read more at the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26R

:: Major labels: some of your friends are already this f*cked!
The problem with music by Steve Albini
excerpted from Baffler No. 5 read it all at the link
http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/problemwithmusic.html
The downside of getting signed by a major label and not paying attention to the small print...

:: Record Deals
'A recording contract (also commonly called a record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote....' read more at the link
http://www.bulaka.co.uk/
Good sections on
- Pitfalls
- Labels as Brands
- Industry consolidation
- The resurgence of independent labels
- The emergence of net & digital labels
- the major question is, should we all be doing it ourselves?

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:: Eek Help!?
Can these people help? Can anyone else!?

- 'The Musicians' Union represents over thirty thousand musicians working in all sectors of the music business...' Read more at the site...
http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/

- MCPS-PRS Alliance
'The MCPS-PRS Allianceis the home of the world's best songwriters, composers and music publishers. We represent the world's music - that's 10 million pieces of music - and enable businesses and individuals to access all the music they need for use in their business, product or project in the most effective way...' Read more at the site...
http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/
'But can they collect your localised royalties if your music is broadcast outside of the UK!?...

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:: Scottish footnote

:: NEMIS
'NEMIS was established in 1999 as a music network for Scottish artists, labels, music businesses, media, recording studios, venues, radio, creatives and professional services within the industry in order to bring together those with a strong interest in the promotion and development of new music in Scotland ...' they say. Note that the words 'musicians and artists' don't appear in that intro, but its still had a lot of info and contacts on the website, though it seems to be made up of more of rss feeds these days and the mailing lists are good for more networking and contacts...
http://www.nemis.org/
http://www.myspace.com/nemis05
:: Check out and join the NEMIS GIG Announcement and Networking Board
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nemisgigs/
:: To join the Nemis mailing list
list-request@nemis.org
Send administrative queries to list-request@nemis.org

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If anyone has strong views, good info or links on any of these topics please post them and continue the thread...

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