The New Music Seminar Returns (And We Have a Special Registration Discount For You)

The almighty New Music Seminar, an industry-defining and -leading combination of workshops, seminars, and presentations looking to “create a music business in which talent can rise to its highest potential based solely on its merit, without regard to its financial resources or connections,” will run from July 19-21 at Webster Hall.

Tom Silverman, the founder of Tommy Boy Records and one of the music business’s most knowledgeable figures, founded the NMS in the 1980s to educate music industry heavyweights about where their industry was going. Today, as so many music industry vets struggle to adapt to a changing landscape, Silverman, who predicted EMI’s transition into an artist services company nearly six months before it was announced to the public, remains ahead of the curve.

And Silverman knows that even more significant changes lie in store. “There are not enough albums that sell over 250,000 units to justify four major labels’ existence,” Silverman said. “In two years, there will be not enough to justify three.”

Because of all these changes, as well as a growing interest in them, Silverman expanded the NMS this year. There will be more of everything: 10 TED-style “intensives” on everything from crowdfunding to branding, more workshops, and three closed-door industry summits on new music business models, technology, and the interactivity between branding and music that will be about frank discussion rather than company lines.

There’s more going on than we could possibly explain in a single post, so click here to check out the murderer’s row of experts that will be speaking, click here to view the Seminar’s full schedule, and once you’ve gotten sufficiently excited about going, e-mail us to get a discount code. The code gets you two registrations for the price of one, and registrants will also be eligible to win a $1200 Gibson SG Raw Power guitar.

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