Wednesday May 16, 2012
Music business internships can happen at any time, but summer is definitely peak season. Getting this kind of work experience in the music industry is invaluable, not only for the things you'll learn, but also for the connections you'll make that could turn into job leads some day. Of course, all of those benefits are contingent on the fact that you blow them away with your work during your internship. Simple things like being late and blabbing to your friends about company business can derail your internship in a big way. Before you show up for your first day of work experience, commit these six tips for impressing at your music internship to memory.
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Monday May 14, 2012
Which music career is right for you? Now, I know what you're going to say. "I don't care what job I do - I just really want to work in music." I know, I get that, and that's a good attitude to take when it comes to getting your first big break. However, there are good reasons for getting a little more specific with your music business goals. For one, no employer wants to hear that you're not focused and committed to a particular job or sector of the biz - they want you to be excited about the job on the table and interested in growing in THAT field. Plus, I promise you, much as you think doing anything music related would be sunshine and roses, it's not - you'll eventually find that, like anything else, there are things you like to do and are good at and things that make you wish you'd listened to your parents and gone to law school.
With that in mind, browse these music industry profiles to see which jobs feel like they could be the right fit for you.
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Friday May 11, 2012
Many of my delightful College of Charleston students will be graduating on Saturday, and that means many of them are facing job interviews, music business style. Music business job interviews aren't so different from interviews for jobs in other fields, but people tend to worry about how to approach them. Is there a different dress code? Should the resume be different? Just what are employers looking for anyway? If you're stressing about an interview for a job in the music industry, relax and check out this advice:
Monday May 7, 2012
What do you do when someone in your band is not exactly making life easy for the rest of you? Band relationships break down for all kinds of reasons, from personal disputes to musical differences to commitment disparities, but no matter what the reason, getting someone to leave the band is never an easy thing. In some cases, letting someone go from your band is personally difficulty. After all, most band relationships are rooted in friendship. Depending on the stage of your career, asking someone to leave the band can be professionally problematic. Your fans may not like it, your contract may forbid it, and so on.
If you think someone in your band simply has to go, find out how to make the process a little less painful and as fair as possible to everyone:
