A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

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A2IM will be messaging our members’ 1st round nominees for official GRAMMY nomination to our full contact database but in order to include yours we need for you to: 

The first-round ballot of all artists, albums, and singles that have made the 1st round for consideration as a final nomination has been mailed to all voting members of The Recording Academy.  If your submission(s) has been selected for the first round GRAMMY nomination ballot, and you are a voting member of The Recording Academy, you will be able to locate your nomination on the paper ballot or by logging onto www.grammy365.org.

We are creating a list of our members’ nominees and circulating this list to our full contact list late this week. To have your 1st round nominees included in our messaging please send Sheryl Cohen a list of your 55th Annual GRAMMY 1st round nominations from the distributed first-round ballots.

We need you to send to us the following info filled out into the spreadsheet attached HERE (include info for all columns on the spreadsheet):

*Part (enter 1 for general field or enter 2 for all other fields):
*Field Number (29 in total, there no field numbers for general categories):
*Field Title (ie. General, Pop, Dance, Rock, etc.):
*Category Number (80 in total):
*Category Title (ie. Record of the Year, Best Alternative Music Album, etc.):
*Artist:
*Album / Song Title:
*Label Name:

PLEASE NOTE: WE CAN ONLY INCLUDE FIRST ROUND NOMINEES FOR PROJECTS OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY A2IM LABEL MEMBERS.

All relevant info is available on the official voting ballot distributed to all voting members of The Recording Academy.

If you have any questions on the above, please don’t hesitate to contact Sheryl Cohen at 212 999 6113 ext. 3.

IMPORTANT:  If the information is not submitted in the above format using the spreadsheet, your nominees will not be included in our members list that we’ll be distributing to our contacts.  We’ll be sending our comprehensive list in a quick turnaround to get into the hands of as many Recording Academy voters as possible.

If you are a voting member please hold your ballots and tell your friends to hold theirs until we send out our list so you can support and vote for your fellow A2IM members.

Good luck and remember, VOTE INDEPENDENT!

Posted in Chapters, Events by A2IM

Join your peers in the Nashville music community for some drinks and networking!

Nashville Bar Takeover

When:  Monday, October 15 from 5p to 8p.

Where:  Dan McGuiness, 1538 Demonbreun Street, Nashville (MAP)

This event is open to all in the independent music community – invite friends – but for the purposes of providing a head count to the bar we ask that you RSVP HERE if you plan to attend.

Posted in Members Only, News by A2IM

We have so many videos to share from Indie Week 2012 that they would just not fit on one post. Below is a continuation of the video series including Rich Bengloff’s A2IM State of the Union Address and Victoria Espinel’s Keynote Address.

The videos are password protected for A2IM members only. Should you need assistance resetting your password or logging in, please contact Sheryl (sheryl@a2im.org)

Posted in Members Only, News by A2IM

We have so many videos to share from Indie Week 2012 that they would just not fit on one post. Below is a continuation of the panels presented on Day 2 including the Digital Case Studies Panel and excerpts 1 thru 6 of the Annual Meeting.

The videos are password protected for A2IM members only. Should you need assistance resetting your password or logging in, please contact Sheryl (sheryl@a2im.org)

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A2IM’s Indie Week 2012, which was held in NYC from June 19-21, was a huge success. Over 600 members were in attendance across the three days of events making this the largest gathering in A2IM history. In attendance were delegations from AIM in the UK and China as well as delegates from over 10 other countries around the world and our A2IM members from all across the United States. All the panels are available to watch now and other highlights, which include Rich Bengloff’s State of the Union address and the Obama Administration’s “IP Czar” Victoria Espinel’s Keynote address at the A2IM annual member meeting will be on the website later this week and highlighted in next week’s RoundUp Newsletter

Indie Week 2012 was capped off by the Inaugural A2IM Libera Awards. The Libbies, hosted by John Ross Bowie (Big Bang Theory), were held at Le Poisson Rouge on June 21, 2012. In attendance was a veritable who’s who of the Independent Music Community. A2IM extends a warm THANK YOU to the A2IM Awards Committee for a fantastic event.

Below is a compilation of the press which Indie Week 2012 has received as well as pictures and videos of the panel presentations and annual meeting.

A2IM extends a BIG thanks to our member volunteers (Jeff Kent/Sound Performance, Anna Siegel/7digital, Stacy Karp/A to Z Media, Kyle Olesen/OEM, Jim Logrando/Redeye Distribution, Andrew Keyes/Robot of the Century, Judith Govey, Lara Baker, James Farrelly/AIM, Christina Zafiris, Louis Joachim and Tara Frank) who gave of their time to make Indie Week 2012 run smoothly.

The A2IM staff offer a heartfelt “THANKS!” to our Indie Week 2012 sponsors:

Billboard.Biz (recap of Day One)

Billboard.Biz (recap of Day Two)

Obama Administration’s “IP CZAR”, Victoria Espinel: Indie Week 2012’s Keynote Speaker

Victoria Espinel’s Keynote Address Transcribed

Below are the videos of the panel discussion and annual meeting. Please note, the videos are password protected for A2IM members only. Please contact Sheryl Cohen if you have any difficulties logging in. (sheryl@a2im.org)

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Thanks to everyone who came out last night to Sweet & Vicious for A2IM’s April 2012 Bar Takeover.  The venue was packed with faces new and old. A great time was had by all.

An enormous thanks to our NYC Chapter Co-Chairs, Lori Hon of Gray V and Stephanie Jo Klein of Tunesat for planning this event!!