Article: New Music Seminar puts heads together // Movers and shakers discuss the state of the recording art

NEW YORK Over the course of four days in Manhattan, the seventh annual New Music Seminar played host to some 6,000 attendees and turned the clubs of New York City into a showcase for more than 100 bands. During daylong sessions at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, there were panels on songwriting and management, radio and nightclubbing, heavy metal and new age.

There was a mock record-deal negotiation and a "faceoff" between independent and major record labels. There was advice on booking clubs and programming videos. There was plenty of moaning about how awful and irrelevant radio has become.

Although a few of the seminarians were genuine movers and shakers within the music industry, most ...

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