A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

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The Bandwidth Music | Technology Conference takes place August 19 & 20 at the Bently Reserve in San Francisco. Bandwidth 2010 will feature a series of inclusive, boardroom-sized conversations led by music and digital leaders. That’s right – no large panels. Our intimate sessions will be led by industry leaders — you’ll be sitting at the same table with a group of bonafide music and industry professionals, sharing ideas and moving music forward.

Being part of Bandwidth means receptions, dinner, and two days of exclusive hobnobbing. Speakers include Elektra’s Jac Holzman, A2IM’s own Rich Bengloff, Twitter, Beggars Group, IODA, Interscope Geffen A&M, Cisco, Welk Music Group, The Orchard, Limewire and more….

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SPECIAL RATE FOR A2IM MEMBERS

Registrations Issues? Contact Lisa Kastner at 646-654-4643 or LKastner@billboard.com

Join Billboard and today’s top promoters, agents, managers, venue operators, sponsors, digital music executives, ticketers, merchandising companies and production professionals at the Billboard Touring Conference to:

• Hear how the shifting live entertainment landscape impacts club shows, megatours and everything in between

• Network with key executives in an intimate environment

• Gain ideas from compelling keynote interviews, case studies and panel discussions

• Connect with the best in the business at the Billboard Touring Awards – Honoring the industry’s top artists, venues and professionals of the year

Hear what is working in the live business—and what is not. Access information and ideas that will maximize your business in live entertainment!

Don’t miss your chance to connect with the best in the touring business!

Register with A2IM’s promo code & Save at: www.BillboardTouringConference.com

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SPECIAL RATE FOR A2IM MEMBERS

Registrations Issues? Contact Lisa Kastner at 646-654-4643 or LKastner@billboard.com

REEL MUSIC. REAL OPPORTUNITIES!

Now in its 9th year, this conference offers attendees the unique opportunity to learn from, network and expose their music directly to the best music supervisors, composers, directors, music editors, songwriters and producers in the business.

Top reasons to attend:

- Learn how to get your songs into films, TV, commercials, sports programming, trailers, video games & more

- Get the basics on how to make money from placements in film and tv

- Have one-on-one time with industry experts during “speed networking”

- Hear from the musicians and executives from this year’s Oscar-worthy films and highest-rated TV shows

- Discover how the film/TV music business is developing overseas

Register with A2IM’s promo code & Save at www.filmandtvmusicconference.com

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Register today for Billboard’s Mobile Entertainment Live at CTIA

The Music App Summit taking place October 5, 2010 – San Francisco

Music is behind some of the most popular apps downloaded on today’s smartphones. But which are the best of the best? What new music apps are setting the stage for tomorrow’s successes? What technologies and companies are emerging today that will further revolutionize the market? Mobile Entertainment Live: The Music App Summit is the place to discover all this and MORE.

FEATURING THE FIRST-EVER…Billboard Music App Awards

The only awards solely focused on mobile music applications!

Categories include:

Best Artist-Based App * Best Music Service App * Best Music Engagement App * Best Music Creation App * Best Branded App

Visit the website, click here.

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Our inaugural Licensing Day event, brought to you by A2IM’s Licensing/Publishing Committee, kicked the day off with a full house. The general theme of the day’s presentations were businesses who provide background music to other businesses. Clayton Burton opened up presenting the Eos Music platform. Shawn Moseley followed with a thorough overview of Muzak as a company and as a service. Lori Hon closed with excellent sync opportunities Gray V offers to independent music labels. To engage the crowd, we had the presenters all take the stage once again for a brief Q&A. The education continued with a panel discussion on how to position your organization for synchronization opportunities with panelists from a variety of backgrounds comprised of Paul Morgan of Cherry Lane, Dianne Aronica of Drew’s Entertainment / TUTM, Jeremy Peters of Ghostly, Erik Gilbert of IODA, and Dan Holmes of Rumblefish; moderated by Patrick Sullivan of RightsFlow.

After a quick intermission, we continued with Tech Day focusing on social network juggernauts, MySpace and Facebook. The capacity-filled room looked on as the opener, Lisette Paulson, reviewed statistics and marketing opportunities through MySpace Music’s platform. A2IM’s White Paper on MySpace Music (authored by Dorothy Hui of tinyOGRE) will be released soon, so stay tuned. Following Lisette’s announcements, Dr. Ron Suarez of Loud Feed shared with us his data driven methods behind A2IM’s redesigned public homepage. The event then transitioned into a Facebook panel discussion featuring the best and brightest social media maestros. The panel consisted of Chuck Wilson of iHipHop, Tim Heslin of Primary Wave, Tim Foisset of Razor & Tie, and Dorothy Hui of tinyOGRE with Garrett Shelton of Shelton Mediaworks directing the conversation. If you haven’t read it, A2IM’s Facebook White Paper (written by Tim Foisset of Razor & Tie) was recently released. Check it out. We’d like to thank A2IM’s New Media Committee for inviting our presenters and coordinating this part of the day.

A long day of spectating always calls for a drink or ten. So, thanks to our beverage sponsors (Jana Water, Magic Hat and Palaia Vineyards), our members were treated to an hour-long networking mixer to close out the day. This portion of the event, however, wasn’t recorded. Good times ensued.

A very BIG thank you to EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution and Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp for sponsoring all of Indie Week!

You can view photos taken from Indie Week and video from Licensing Day and Tech Day.

Feedback: For those who attended, we’d greatly appreciate if you’d fill out this two question survey. It will only take a minute. We promise. Thank you.

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The 11th Annual LAMC (Latin Alternative Music Conference) returns to New York City on July 6 – 10, 2010. The LAMC features panels and exhibitions, concerts, parties and art, highlighting the best of alternative music and culture – with a Latino twist. Although we are called the Latin Alternative Music Conference, many if not all of the subjects discussed are universal to the music industry. This five-day event provides networking opportunities with leading promoters, artists, labels, journalists, managers, marketers, retailers and programmers. This year’s panelists include, Michel Vega (William Morris Endeavor), Rich Masio (IODA), Todd Patrick (MtyMx Fest/Todd NYC), Sujan Hong-Raphael (eMusic), Eliot Van Buskirk (Wired Magazine) and many more interesting folks. The conference brings together more than 1,250 attendees and 35,000 concert-goers to our panels, showcases, art exhibits, parties and film events in NYC.

The general discounted admission rate is $99.  Online registration ends June 30th.  Register today!

Video highlights from past LAMC events