Artist Branding in the Music Business

Music branding has become more and more popular as a topic amongst not only the hierarchy of the music industry but the average artist and independent companies. Artists are slowly beginning to realise the power of their own name and how they can generate not only another revenue stream, but an even more significant financial return that dwarfs the return from their music career. One of the most significant markers was laid down not in the music industry but in Read More

Review of the Alabama and Friends Music Festival at Sea on the Norwegian Pearl

This was my first music festival at sea. I got to hang out at the mid-ship pool with 2000 new friends and watch Alabama perform on three different occasions. I enjoyed the music of bands I had never heard of but will not forget. My girlfriend and I line danced in the atrium, played bingo with Randy Owen and wore our bell-bottoms on the 70's theme night. The Pearl left Miami on 10/24/13 for a four-day cruise to Nassau, Bahamas, Read More