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Birthdays and bloggers and Americana!
Notes From Next Big Nashville
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- Arts-Entertainment
- american federation of television and radio artists
- americana music
- artist management
- bobby bare
- bobby bare jr
- brooks dunn
- full music
- indie label
- local rock bands
- management panel
- music conference
- music row
- nashville musicians
- nashville songwriters association
- nashville songwriters association international
- niceties
- recording academy
- shedaisy
- sound exchange
- town bands
OK...since I'm a few days late on this post and don't have time for a huge write up, I'm going to give a quick recap of the Next Big Nashville festival/conference that went off in Nashville last week. (No rest.
Next Big Sleep Deprivation 2008: Wrap Party
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If you went to the NBN party at ICON Friday—it was nice, but a little shmoozecore—you might have noticed that, in addition to bottles of a certain lite beer, there were copies of Paste just about everywhere.
Inside This Week's Music Section
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The Gangsta-est Swag of the Year: The Tennessee Music Conference and Hip Hop Awards seek to make the invisible visible. (Sept. 6 & 7 at The Millenium Maxwell.)
Friday Business Links
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A Bertelsmann supervisory board meeting is meeting to decide what to do with the company's half of the Sony BMG joint venture. A decision is expected by the end of the month. (Billboard.biz)
Missing One Thing, Finding Another
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I usually put in a good chunk of time at the International Country Music Conference every year, but this year I got to be there for a grand total of six hours.
May I Brag On My Dad a Little Bit?
Uno, Dos, Tres, No Mas! U2 Manager Wants To End Illegal Music Downloads
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Paul McGuinness, longtime manager of rock band U2, has called on Internet service providers to immediately introduce disconnection policies to end illegal music downloads and urged governments to make sure they do.
In a passionate keynote speech delivered Monday during the International Managers Summit at the MIDEM music conference, McGuinness said it was time for artists to stand up against what he called the "shoddy, careless and downright dishonest way they have been treated in the



