Josh Woodard- Pangaea Entertainment Group- Week 6

Well hey there folks, this post is coming kind of late because I've been trying to think of what to tell you all about. If you have been following my posts you know that my whole office is in London at the moment, our music media and technology confrence MUSEXPO Europe just concluded yesterday, and was a huge success. As for me back in Cali I've been doing stuff to help keep things running smooth while they are gone. Things like getting important stuff in the mail, doing online research, to checking the mail, and making sure things are in order on the home front. Other than that I've been enjoying my opportunity to relax a little bit, it's been a busy six weeks so far, and when the office gets back I'm gonna be excited and ready to jump back into the middle of this fast paced rollercoaster they call the music industry!

Peace
Josh

Veronica Rodriguez, 93X Week 6

Well, I pretty much feel at home with the guys at 93X by now. I have done either super tedious Best Buy commercials or no commercials at all. Last week there were no commercials for me to do and Patrick had to do something online so I chilled with Rudy while he was on the air for a little bit. Its funny, because there is a segment on the show where we play email requests but they aren't always real email requests so we just make up a name and a city and say they wanted to hear the song we play. Anyway, I'm usually the one that gets to come up with some obscure name for him to use so this time he used my 10 year old brother's name so when my brother heard it on the radio Sunday night, he was so excited. He went to school the next day and told all of his friends. All in all, it has been a great experience and since its never the same around there, I expect the remainder of the semester to be just as cool

Antonio Rosario - Week 6 - North Star Media

Hello world,

I am two days late in writing this blog, and my excuse is work.
I hope that works for you. :-)

So 2 weeks ago, I realized the work-load I had at North Star was okay, but it wasn't enough to really keep me stimulated, so I asked for more work. A lot more work. And a lot more work is what I got.

Besides trying to track down a ghost record company for over due royalties, I am now involved in designing a "landing page" for the band Noises 10, to promote their song being on the show Army Wives. My administration internship has now officially taken an interesting turn, as I am now doing web design for North Star Media.

This week, a huge project is under-way to track all of the quarterly source files for certain catalogues we own from 2004 til now. I didn't take my lunch today, instead, I took a brief half hour break to research current trends.

I suggest all other interns (or anyone who wants to get involved in the music industry) to block out a few minutes daily and check out the following sites:

http://www.billboard.biz
one of the leading sources of new in the music industry

http://www.artistshousemusic.org
wonderful resource for musicians and music business people

http://www.imeem.com
good site with some pretty tasty playlists

http://www.trendhunter.com
updated every 5 minutes with trends in every category

ASCAP also has a daily news feed that just started yesterday. They send you about 10-15 links to some good articles daily to your inbox. It's been a good resource so far.

Once again, I apologize for the tardiness of this blog entry. Days have been flying off the calendar and I can't believe it's Holloween this Friday.

Aaron Chesling-UMGD

Another day another, well since this is an unpaid internship, I guess I wouldn't get that dollar but the perks of the internship definitely outweigh what I would make as an intern. I have opportunities to obtain promotional albums, these are the albums we would distribute to all of the Radio stations nationally. Also as UMGD Interns we have opportunities to get tickets when available as well as many other perks like meeting artists. I have really enjoying what I have been doing the passed month. This week I have been doing mostly data entry, and mail room. I have been doing a little more odd jobs for many of the other label reps around the offices as well. As for now its kind of been same old same old stuff, I know that it should get a little more exciting as soon as the holidays come around.

Marthe Mekuria at EMI/ Capitol Records

A little late entry but here I am...
Its Tuesday, 6 weeks into the internship program, and I have to go to Santa Monica today to do some paper work to officially be employed with this company.

Other then that.... I completed the internship requirements but will still be living at 'The Medows'.

Last week I learned how to use an online distribution data base to figure out what marketing and promotional tools are cost effective for certain albums and genres at the labels that we work on behalf of. I also went over several contracts of well known artist and record labels that my mentor has established deals with. I went to an in store, sat in conference calls and meetings.

I am very interested in how my following weeks will develop. I will have a lot of work to do, and a lot to learn. I also will have to get up earlier!!!!

To be at the office before 8 am every day... I would have to start taking the bus between 6 and 6:30 am. On Wednesday's I will have to be at the office before 6 am..... That means I will get up around 4 am...... I will take a bus between 4 and 4:30am...... Hmmm.... Good luck to me, going to sleep earlier, waking up on time and not to missing a bus!

Waking up early in California is not so hard because at least it isn't below zero, snow, ice, cars that won't start up etc....

Rob Peek - Alan Ett Music Group - 10/27/08

Hey Guys,
Sorry for a late entry, but last week was busy as all get out.

A major company was in town last week looking over the company and meeting with the different people to decide whether or not they want to do business with us.
It was very formal and very busy. A few major projects were also in the works, last week, and I got to sit in on a Sound Effects editing session for one of them, which was very interesting. No one really notices, but you'd be surprised how many background noises there are in a show that you don't even think of. Everything from the sound a couch makes when someone sits down, to just ambiance that goes on in whatever setting you're in.

I also got to attend a music supervision panel discussion that was put on by L.A. Women in Music.
That was also very interesting. I got to see a few of the people that I might someday be working for, as well as hear their opinions on what the industry is like today, and the different ways they deal with music on any given project.

After that, we got to the McNally Smith Interns and Alum picnic. It was a beautiful setting at the Marina, and a beautiful day to have it. It was good to see the other interns, as well as some of the alumni who are out here making their way into the industry.

Lots of things going on, and I'm looking forward to being able to relax a bit this week.

That's about all for now.

Stay tuned for next weeks exciting blog of L.A. Internships.

Andy Frost | Wooddale Church | 10/19-10/25

This week at Wooddale we finally got to install all the different components into the system. The two full time guys I work with put in about 30 hours in 2 days to get a lot if it installed Wednesday was about a 16 hour day. We needed to be done by Thursday morning so that this guy Matt from AVI could come in and program everything. On Wednesday we finished getting everything in the racks that wasn't in already and getting all of it tied into they system.

On top of that it was the one day of the year that they have a huge lift come and use it to get up and change all the bulbs in all the lights up in the truss. Since this time last year there were 14 lights out that we thought were just the bulbs. We bought 12 lights to replace others up there since the ones up there are about 20 years old. But once up there it was determined that some just could not be revived. So that meant getting those 12 new light fixtures set up and then mounted and aimed from the truss. After all that it was about 3am. Quite the day.

Andy Frost
Wooddale Church

Evan Gundlach, Music buisness, Universal, twin cities

Well this has been quite a week. My week was already pretty busy since it was midterms, and I had tests in almost every class. I was already worn out on Tuesday, but when I got it I found out I could meet Ludacris. I was pretty excited although I've never really been a huge fan, I thought he would be really interesting to meet. The meeting was at best buy’s headquarters and there were about 40 people there. They played 2 of his new music videos and then introduced him. Ludacris actually did a lot of the talking which I was surprised about. His manager was there along with the vice president of Interscpoe records in New York. He talked about his new cd coming out, and we heard clips of just about every song that was on it. Again, like I said I’ve never been a huge fan, but I liked what I heard and it was cool having him explain each one. After the meeting everyone got to meet him and take a picture and get a signed photo. The meeting was a really nice break from the stress of midterms. I thought we were supposed to have a music meeting on Friday but since it’s a slow time of the year they didn’t have one. I worked on sales history for target and then organized a room full of promotional things for universal. This was definitely one of the more exciting weeks at universal and we will see if this next one can top it.

Another week passes

So another big week goes by at Universal.  Unfortunately I spent a ton of hours mailing out all of the raffle prizes this week.  I did, however, get to meet Ludacris at Best Buy Corporate, which was sweet.  I was really really impressed by him.  He came off as a very well-spoken, intelligent dude. His new album sounds like its gonna be dope.  November 25th is definitely gonna be a big day in the rap world with Luda, Kanye, and Akon all releasing albums.  I'm totally stoked.

Oh and other big news for myself.  I found out there is an Artist Development Rep position opening out in Chicago that I think I'm gonna go after.  Wish me luck!

Josh Woodard- Pangaea Entertainment Group- Week 5

Sorry everybody I didn't mean to leave you all hanging! But boy has it been a busy past week and a half. I just left the office and said my goodbyes to rest of the staff heading to London for MUSEXPO Europe. I spent my time last week sending out mailers to tastemaker radio stations, working on stuff for the hush hush ATTACK! newsletter, and most importantly helping get the final touches together for the confrence. It's a really great feeling contributing to something so big, that will bring so many big names in the music industry together under one roof, and it is crazy to think about the huge outcomes our confrence will provide to the industry. I'm just really thrilled that I've been given the opportunity to be a part of making it happen!

Aaron Chesling-UMGD-Ludacris

Hello everybody, this past week was one of the most exciting experiences i have had so far. Don't get wrong I am loving the soundscan, DMAs, and the PIM and what not, but I was ready for the this week. I was able to sit in on a artist discussion at the Best Buy Corporate Offices. This week they were able to bring Ludacris, one of my favorite hip hop artist. I was very shocked to see how Luda presented him self when he came in, he had excellent public speaking skills, this might be do to the fact that he used to be a DJ. Luda discussed his new album coming out in December, and what we could expect from it. He said that they were going to take a different approach to writing and mixing the album. The album is called "Theater of the Mind" it takes the approach of making what you hear to be very cinematic or very theatrical, in not only lyrics but maybe even a plot over the course of the album. The album is going to be mix in 5.1 surround sound as well as his music videos. His videos are now being shot in HD and blue ray for the even more up close experience. He showed us many of the new tunes on the album as well, we were some of the first to hear them as well, very good stuff coming this winter. After the discussion we were able to meet and talk to Island Defjam Crew icluding: Ludacris, his manager, and the president and CEO of Island Defjam, very fun experience, wont ever forget it.

Andy Frost | Wooddale Church | 10/12 - 10/19

I talked before about Wooddale Church expanding and adding a campus in Edina. he way it works is the pastor speaks live at one campus while a pre-recorded video of the sermon is played at the other campus. We have been having to add a lot of equipment to the main Eden Prairie campus to accommodate for all this. We have added a lot of new equipment like switchers, scalers, playback and record devices for both DVCAM and DVD, and much more. All those being tied into the system require a lot of new cabling. We ran all the cable a few weeks ago, just the wire with no ends on it so it was easier to run through conduit. This past week we had to put all the different connectors on all the ends of the cables. There is a lot of different video cables and audio cables. 

Also we added about 10 new monitors video station for the person running the new and expensive video switcher. They are for viewing all the different video sources coming from different places. 

There is a lot more work to be done here....

Andy Frost

Wooddale Church

10/19/08 - Rob Peek - Alan Ett Music Group

This week was a mental challenge for me.
I did the same sort of things that I've been doing the whole time, however this week seemed to be up in my head too much. Sometimes we all just need to take a step back and refocus our energy and determination back on to our goals. It's easy to get side tracked out here. This whole city is a booming hub of entertainment. It's easy to loose oneself amidst the constant hustle that goes on out here on a daily basis, it can be a bit of a whirl-wind that takes you for a ride in circles, but never really gets anywhere, which is what I contended with this week.
Saturday, however, was a great day. I finally got to get out of the apartment and see some real sights. It was a day of reflection and realignment, further affirming my goals and aspirations of making money in the industry out here.
I got to see some very cool places that have alot of musical history in them. As well as meet some people that were very inspirational and very wise.
This weekend was just what I needed to put me back in the right mind to do what I set out to accomplish. I can't wait for these next few weeks. I'm expecting some very cool things to happen!

Vance McCain, D.A.R.P Studios, Recording Technology

This week at D.A.R.P was great!!! Dallas is getting ready to go on tour which means the interns get to man the studio for a week or two. During the week the rehearsed every day for about 4 hours so I know his set from front to back. The music he plays is more of a house/electonica sound so it was real intense to listen to. Life outside the studio this week was really interesting also. I met Talib Kweli and Novel on the set of video shoot for Novel's new single. I also was introduced to Dj SouthanBred who was SouljaBoy tour dj this summer at a networking event downtown Atlanta. Sad to say, my computer still has the flu so I still have to use my phone as my only source of internet. If you all would like to donate to the Vance Has A Sick Computer Fund, contact Debbie in the Career Center ha ha!!!OBAMAFORPRESIDENT



God Bless,

Vance McCain

Langen- ASCAP-MInneapolis- 10/12- 10/19

Bands never know what's going on.

In order to sign up for ASCAP you need to have one or two writers that will be getting the money.

You can not sign up as a whole band.

Bands don't understand this.

It's hard to convince bands that you want to help them with their money for free. They get all defensive and don't trust very easily.

I have not been able to sign up any bands yet but I swear! This week I will get Sleep Is The Enemy at least!

I am waiting to meet up with Andrea who had my internship a few semesters ago and hopefully she will be able to help a little.

Thats all for now!

Peace

Langen

Antonio Rosario - Week 5 - North Star Media

Another week, another few new experiences.
The past week has been different - I've been working in the administration department exclusively, but I am now doing work for the creative department as well.

The major project of the week was going through all of our library contracts to see if they had a roll-over clause, and to check and see if the term had ended or not. Ron was so pleased with the work, that he said he may have some more contract work for me soon.

I've been getting a taste of the company in every department, and I am thankful for that opportunity.

I'm writing this at the Apple store in the grove, so i'll keep this short.

til next week.

Aaron Chesling-Universal Music Group- week 3

Hello everybody. This week at Universal Music Group, was learning a new system that I have heard about but never really new what it was. After about 2-3 hours of doing some tour entries I was instructed to find out albums sales for hundreds of bands associated with UMGD, this is known as Nielson's SoundScan. It was very interesting to see what groups sold, and which groups didn't. Surprisingly there were moments where I saw less popular bands selling more then some major groups. I was also instructed to do some front desk work, I was very busy this week, cant wait for friday. Happy Blogging everybody.

Josh Woodard- Pangaea Entertainment Group- Week 4

Hey sorry folks didnt mean to keep yall waiting, but its been a busy last week! The whole office is putting the last touches together for our upcoming music media and technology confrence MUSEXPO Europe. I got to help put together things and prepare them to be shipped to london for the confrence. I also stayed busy doing internet research, and helping people around the office with other projects. Thursday I got to promote the Passport Approved Meaghan Smith show by putting up flyers all over from melrose to hollywood. Saturday I got to go to the show and hang out with everybody from work, it was a really fun and eventfull week. I can't wait to tell you all what is going on this week! Peace out

Josh

B96 internship 10/13/08

not too much happened for this week. We just had a meeting in regards to upcoming events, appearances, etc. Sorry on my blog not being the most entertaining. I'm looking to switch position to where i would be in charge of production slots, such as commercials between airings. I will keep ya posted as soon as i get the info..

Deuces..
Delreece

Evan Gundlach, Music Buisness, Universal, Twin Cities

Well hello everyone! This past week at universal was actually a little uneventful, but I still had a pretty good time. On Tuesday I worked on fastrac for target. I do this about once every other week, and it is getting easier and smoother to do every time. Once I got done with that I worked on the song placement analysis. I have been working on this for quite awhile and fell a little behind with all the other stuff I'm doing with target. We also put a lot of the databases online so anyone who works for universal can see the data even if it is being updated. I thought this was pretty neat since it’s like a giant shared drive for the company on the internet. On Friday we had a music meeting, and watched some new videos. After the meeting, I worked on some mailings for the new T.I cd. I also put away some posters that have been coming in and helped organized this room where they keep a lot of promo items. Well that was my week and I’m ready for whatever this week throws at me.

Langen- ASCAP-MInneapolis- 10/5-10/12

This internship is proving to be harder than I thought.

Finding the bands that want to sign up with ASCAP was easy but trying to get them to organize themselves is proving extremely difficult.

I need to figure out who the write is for the songs and who will take all the credit for publishing. 

I should have known that this was going to be hard being that I'm dealing with a bunch of rock bands and all that but it's frustrating.

My goal is to get two bands completely signed up this week.

We will see how this goes.

Peace

Langen

Vance McCain, D.A.R.P Studios, Recording Technology

This week was a busy one for D.A.R.P. Dallas has finally launched his clothing line and store on last thursday. I was really glad to be involved because as an intern, I made a big impression because of my hard work. The party at the store was a great networking experience for me. As far as the studio goes, I basically slept there lol. I left late alot because I got to engineer a few sessions. I wish I could write more but I am still working off of my mobile phone. God Bless Everyone.

Vance McCain

Antonio Rosario - North Star Media - Week 4 - 10/11/08

Another week, another weekend...

This week I finished up my royalty statements at North Star Media, got to work on an EPK i'm working on for Sota Rico Productions, got to work on a press release i'm doing for Sota Rico, got asked by Warren Griffin to do his myspace design, and picked up a paid design gig back home for a group called Self Made Hustlers.

I also sent out ASCAP writer / publisher registration forms back home to Maria so she can register her stuff.

Marty Silverstone of NSM checked out my CD and liked it - the next time there's a hip hop placement needed he said he'll try to pitch my stuff. That's exciting.

ummm... what else... I'm supposed to go visit Toni out @ the Meadows tomorrow - hopefully I have all my work done before then.

My new toy of the week is the Blackberry Curve - it is a very handy device for a businessman on the go - if you're considering picking one up, I encourage it. my business number is 818-433-5876, you may give me a call if I can be of service to you.

That's pretty much it - it's been a month already. time flies when you're handling business. i've been making some wonderful connections and enjoying the warm weather. The amount of knowledge i've obtained so far out here is unbelieveable - it's a crazy game, but being out here is teaching me how to play it properly.

My company back home in MN; Graff Roots Media will be making a holiday album. that should be fun. :)

Rob Peek - Alan Ett Music Group - 10/10/08

It's been a bit of a roller coaster this week, a few great highs, and a few personal lows. However, all things considered, I'm still here and I'm still learning.
I mainly stuck to my normal intern duties, data-entry, casting, random odds and ends. however, I did get to do a couple interesting things this week.
I got to sit in on a dialogue editing session, which was very interesting. Most people who I talk to say it's probably the most boring job of the sound design field, however I found it pretty cool. Maybe it's because I don't do it every day.
It's interesting to see a technician take rough recordings, and I do mean ROUGH, and shape them in pro tools. The end results were amazing. I even watched this guy take parts of two other completely different words, cut them apart, and make an entirely different word, and you would never be able to tell, the guy on screen even looked like he was actually saying it.
Keep that in mind the next time you watch an interview on a reality show.
Anyway, not much else to tell. I'll try to have something really good for you next week!
Until Then.

Attention to Detail

Apparently I need to pay a little more attention to detail and actually read my email messages when they are sent to me. I apologize for this being my first post of the semester.

I am currently interning at UMGD (Universal Music Group Distribution) in St. Louis Park. So far it has been a great experience. I really think I lucked out with where I was placed. I think I am getting the best overall experience you get from an internship here at Universal. I have plenty of responsibilities, and truly get to learn the system. It's nice knowing my work actually makes a difference.

I am in the Sales & Marketing Dept. for Universal/Motown/Republic. This is the largest division under the entire Universal label. It is our responsibility to work with accounts like Target and Best Buy to get them to bring our products into their stores, and get placement in their weekly ads. I do quite a bit of analysis, like what an artists previous album has sold, and project what their next album will sell. Its definitely not easy these days, with all the digital downloading that takes place.

My biggest project thus far has been organizing a raffle for a charity called City of Hope that does cancer research. We got all of the branches together and they donated all kinds of Autographed Music Memorabilia. Then we sold raffle tickets for $5 each. We ended up raising $5000. Not too bad if you ask me.

Well I think that gets me up to speed thus far. I promise there will be more to come.

Tim Leutgeb.Acadia Cafe.Week 2

Another busy week on the WestBank. I just got about fifteen e-mail from musicians who are interested in playing the Acadia Cafe. I am working on editing the newsletter that is going to be sent to 2,000 people on the 15th. I have three mid-week bracer series shows to book and make posters to distribute. The owners are interested in starting a street team that I would manage, sounds like fun. The website is going to be redesigned soon to accomidate the newsletter and the myspace needs updating constantly. Just the usual this week...
Tim

Aaron Chesling-Universal Music Group-Week 2

Well everybody it is officially week two, and things are off to a great start. After doing some extensive data entry, I was exposed to some new more interesting tasks.

Fonatana and their representative Sara Hartley, who I met the first week, had me do some sorting of various tours and merchandise in each of those areas. It was mainly just excel work but it was interesting to see how many shows each band was doing, and where they were playing. I was sorting info for bands of almost all genres like Pennywise, Tech 9, Pop Evil, as well as many other independent artists. As for Friday I believe we are going to have another board meeting discussing more pre-released material and stuff that just came out this week, I am very excited to see whats new.

Antonio Rosario - North Star Media - Los Angeles - Week 3/4 or something

Greetings,
Antonio Rosario here reporting live poolside in Los Angeles, California.
I just got out of a meeting with David Llauger Meiselman of Boricua Films (http://www.boricuafilms.com)

I'm a day late (oops) on posting, and for that I apologize - I had one helluva stressful week, so i'll try to break it down as well as possible -

Last week I completed another catalogue, which lead me to working on royalty statements. I got through 2 different stacks, and now my last stack awaits me on my desk tomorrow. Besides that, I got to watch an upcoming episode of American Idol: Rewind for any songs that weren't cleared.

Work as usual - things are going fantastic at North Star Media.

Last monday, I was offered a spot as Vice President of Sota Rico Productions, and I accepted - this increased my workload. I am now working on online press kits, writing press releases, designing the new Sota Rico myspace, and I designed all of our business cards! :-)

Besides that, I catalogued all the songs under my own company Graff Roots Media, and am working on clearing samples for a project we have released so it can be considered pitch-able.

It's been a week full of phone conferences, meetings, typing, and headaches... but this week is a completely new week.

you may now reach me at Antonio.Rosario@SotaRico.com - but it'll just forward to my Orikal@gmail.com account anyway ;-)

B96 internship 10/3/08

We had went out to Little Ceasars in Hilltop (on Central Ave NE) to promote B96. We had given out prizes, like movie tickets, t-shirts, DVD's, CD's, and candy to name a few. I got the chance to meet Peter Parker and have a small conversation with him. The pizza was good as well lol. I acknowledge the value of street promotion by actually meeting your customers. Giving back to your customers provides more customer satisfaction and reduces turnover.

Rob Peek - Alan Ett Music Group - 10/5/08

Another week down here at the Alan Ett Music Group in Los Angeles, CA.
I'm starting to get myself into a bit of a routine here, which is both good and bad. It's good because I'm getting comfortable with what I'm doing, and the people I'm working with. I'm building great relationships with the people here, and have turned some important heads already. It's bad because now I have to keep myself from getting complacent. I'm finding myself drifting off into space every once in a while, and while it's nice mental break, I need to stay focused.
There is alot to learn here, and no one will tell you what to learn, or how to learn it. Everything I've done so far has taught me something, though it's easy to view it as tedious, monotonous, and boring, there is a purpose for it.
The trick is figuring out why it is so important, and then deriving a lesson from it.
That's about it. This up coming week looks like it will be busy and full of new experiences.
Until then,
Rob Peek

Josh Woodard- Pangaea Entertainment Group- Week 3

YO! Whats up?! Well it was another beautiful week in Los Angeles, It was extremely hot here the first part of the week. As for my internship, i stayed busy puting together a mailing list of Dance Radio Stations, around the country, to promote one of our artists with a mailer of her new cd. Among a few other things I also got the chance to go on an adventure from our office in Beverly Hills all the way to Hollywoods walk of fame, taking pictures of Pink Log siteings. This saturday I was lucky enough to get a ticket to go to The Detour Festival in downtown L.A., there were a lot of great bands there, but the highlight of the festival was either the DJ tent on the steps of city hall blasting dirty electro beats, or seeing the Mars Volta bring the fetival home and melting my face off with their awesomeness.




Keep it real,

Josh

Evan Gundlach, Universal, Music Business, Twin Cities

Well, Another interesting week at universal. This week I ended up working on a lot of little projects. Tuesday I worked on entering pim for best buy. This is putting packaging information into a computer system to make shipping of cd’s easier. I did that for a while and then I helped with some more mailings for some best buy items. I also found out that we have an extension until February on the target tour analysis so I will be working on that every once in a while when I have free time. On Friday there wasn’t a music meeting, but it gave me a lot of time to catch up on target history reports. I had to pick up where the last intern left off so I have about 2 months of sales to record. I am almost caught up now and it got much easier the more I did it. Well, that was my week this week I think next week ill be working more with target, but I guess we will see on Tuesday.

Langen- ASCAP-MInneapolis- 9/28-10/5

This week was pretty lame yet again for my internship.

I talked with two people in the industry who were:

1.) Doug Weaver... Manager of Racing Kites and works at Fearless Records

2.) Jay... He owns his own management company and also works at two venues in California.

I got a lot of good tips from both of them about how to improve my business and all that good stuff which was really awesome.

I am going to start signing bands up tomorrow. Hopefully I don't mess it up!

Peace!

Vance McCain, Darp Studios, Recording Technology

In my last blog, I don't believe I had the chance to explain what Darp studios is. D.A.R.P is an acronym for Dallas Austin Recording Project Studios based in Atlanta Georgia. For the past few weeks Atlanta has had a gas shortage so a lot of stations were only allowing citizens to by $25 dollars worth of gasoline. Its crazy to ride past a gas station and see cars waiting in line for hours to receive gas. On a brighter note, my days at Darp were very active. They allowed me to de-solder many xlr and 1/4 inch cables. I also got to sit in on a session with one of Rowdy Records hip hop artist. On thursday I attended a networking mixer at Apache café. It allowed me to meet a lot of the big local artist and djs. That's about wraps up everything I accomplished this week. I am writing my blogs from my phone until my laptop is repaired.

God Bless,
Vance McCain

Marthe Mekuria at EMI/Capitol

Monday: Went to visit the director of Urban A&R at Capitol Records in his office at the 9th floor (he got a nice view!). I had met him prior to starting my internship at an Interscope party where his artist J.Holiday was performing. We talked for a long time, almost an hour, and I was blessed to learn a lot about Capitol Records and A&R. My dream.

Tuesday: Went to the premier for N.W.A. VH1 documentary, and happen to run into Charley Brooks and Nancy from Cube Vision. The documentary was amazing. I want to see it again! After the documentary there was an intimate discussion on N.W.A. and the life of Easy-E with Easy-E's son, ex-group member, film makers and the questioning industry professional audience.

Wednesday: My supervisor helped me get my resume and cover letter cleaned up as we are hoping to find me WORK! He also wrote me a stunning recommendation to put in my cover letter. I also got assigned to three other people at the office so I can build my skill and network.

Thursday: Went to one of the in stores for the group "People Under The Stairs" to help promote their new album Fun DMC and increase sales for the independent record store. They had a singing, but there where barely any fans there. It was very boring. Especially because it took us almost two hours to drive to the store in traffic, and we still had to make a trip back.....

Friday: We went to another in store for the same group. Technical difficulties took forever, and boredom kicked in again. I again, like the day before, ended up spending most of my time talking with Shawn Jackson, a MC signed with Tres Records, who was just as bored as I. After hours of music talk, he gave me both his albums, that much reminded me of the Roots and a Tribe Called Quest. We kind off talked about collaborating. But I already know it all depends on life, schedules and deadlines. You never know though.

Veronica, 93X Week 3

So, this time I edited a commercial all by myself. Patrick even left the studio and went to get a cup of coffee while I gave it my first shot on my own. It was a commercial for Motorheads where they apparently sell "pimpin wear." I think it took some serious dedication and concentration for Patrick to make it through that whole script without laughing. Anyway, I had to go through and edit out every little pause and breath between sentences to try to get it down to 1 minute long but it ended up being 1:01 which was pretty good considering it was almost a whole page worth of words single spaced. After the commercial, I set up the Loud and Local show for him so that all he had to do was talk and play the songs. There was some pretty good music in the show this week. Just as a courtesy, and since he has the time to if he has help, Patrick myspace messaged one of the bands to let them know that they were gonna be on the show so that hopefully they could tune in and hear themselves.

Evan Gundlach, music buisness, universal, twin cities

Hello again it has been a really crazy week with school really getting into gear and my internship ive hardly had any time to do much of anything. So this past week I again was helping with the target account at universal. I have been helping in adding titles to a database that tracks targets sales of an album to the national sales of an album and then calculates the share target has over the market. It is really interesting being able to see how some genres have a much higher share while others have a very low. I also finished up the target tour data ase that tracks record sales in an area after the show or group had gone through the area. On Friday I actually helped mail out promo boxes to independent record stores all over the Midwest. We also had our music meeting on Friday which has gone from weekly to bi-weekly so that was a lot of fun. We saw new music videos and talked about more upcoming releseas like the killers and fall out boy. Even though this week was crazy and I havnt been able to write till now it was a lot of fun and im sure this week will be the same.

Veronica, 93X Week 2

So, week 2 was a lot of watching and seeing again. I got to do a little more hands on stuff this time. I got to work on an online commercial for some car repair place and I used some funny sound fx on it. Its pretty fun and to work on something that I hear on the radio. I always used to listen to 93X and I made it a preset in my dad's  car for my 10 year old brother because he really likes rock music. Anyway, next week I'll actually be recording the show for Patrick so he wont have to do that and talk too. Not that it's difficult to him, he makes it look like a piece of cake. Hopefully I will get the hang of it pretty quick but we'll see how it goes next week.

Andy Frost | Wooddale Church | 9/20/08-9/27/08

Hello all,

On Wednesday we spent a lot of the time putting together racks of audio and video gear. It's all for the new campus that is opening in November. The church is in the middle of being renovated so its pretty dirty everywhere. We are not just waiting for a some thing to get finished until we can get all the gear into the church and get everything up and running. It's pretty cool we could have had an install company come in an do a lot of the work but we are saving the church so much money by just doing it ourselves. It involves some extra work though... plus it's pain cleaning up everything.

I also was in on Saturday becuase they needed extra help for the Saturday night service. I ran cameras. They record every Saturday night service as a backup in the case that there is an emergency and the pastor is unable to speak. They would be able to play the video of the sermon for the Sunday services. It doesn't seem like a difficult job but you have to follow the pastor as he walks around stage so that he never gets out of the camera shot. It's easy to get distracted i guess. It went fine though.

I guess that was most of what happened this week, I'll keep you all updated.

Andy Frost

Aaron- Universal Music Group Chapter: I

I left my house very excited which contributed to me almost getting extremely lost on my way to Universal Music Group, I was wandering exactly what I was going to do there. I was expecting to do mailing stuff and smash boxes, (which i did later that day), but I didn't expect to discover that i was going to be taking part in a board meeting to review and listen to pre-released music videos and albums. I was taught how to do some simply data entry, they referr to it as "PIM" and simple computer stuff, emails, ect. I also was able to meet all of the label representatives from Universal Republic, Defjam, Mercury, Disney, and Fontana. It has been extremely fun and has really gotten me very excited for this next week and what new things I will learn, until then I will be posting later.

Tim Leutgeb, Acadia Cafe

I started working with Ted, the owner of Acadia Cafe in the spring semester of 2008. My goals then were to learn how to develop a small music oriented business as they were re-opening the Acadia Café at the time. They closed down shop at the Franklin and Nicollet location December 2007 with plans for a new location on the west bank of Minneapolis as soon as possible. My list of duties then were to build the stage, re-work the sound system, buy lights, hang lights, hang speakers, buy equipment, fix equipment, and book bands to fill the room. I started my own weekly series on Wednesday nights called the Midweek Bracer series and started booking bands as well as working with the series promoters from the last location to fill the room.

I left Acadia May 2008 for the summer. I returned September 2008 to do another internship for the semester. My goals this semester are to increase sales through marketing. The question becomes, how do you use music to generate sales? I have developed Acadia’s MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/theacadiacafe) I work the calendar on the website (http://www.acadiacafe.com/) and am currently developing a monthly newsletter that will be sent to over two thousand e-mail addresses.

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