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Chapter five in “The Future of Music” by David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard discusses of the future of music sales. It discusses how CD’s are becoming obsolete due to digital music and pricing. I think that CD’s should be lowered in price, because who wants to spend $15 to buy one when they can get it for free or buy single tracks for 99 cents? Most people just want the singles anyway. In addition, the retail space of CD’s is shrinking, making it harder to find certain music. So much more is offered online and more artists can release stuff online without a record label. According to the article, a lot of fans buy videogames that feature music, which outsells a lot of CD’s and digital tracks. Many bands make money through merchandise and touring sales and give away free tracks. The future of music can change at any moment.

Red Vinyl Showcase

Our showcase was a success! Did you make it out to the event?
Will have pictures and reviews up soon.....
For now, share your comments on the event.

Merg Toast

Josh (Merg Toast) has some videos up on youtube! Just search Merg TV to see videos of him talking and interviewing other artists. Here's one of those videos!

Merg Toast will be playing at our show on August 25th!

The artist line up.....

Red Vinyl is helping the Minnesota School of Business, Brooklyn Center campus celebrate 21 years on August 25th from 11am to 1pm and 3pm to 6pm at the BC campus with a concert! All students may attend along with their families and friends!
Artists include:
· Toxic Waste (Alex Staples)
· Pragmatic (Chaz Croaston)
· Real McCoy (Christopher McCoy)
· Brooklyn Yerres (Charlotte Achin & Alex Staples)
· JD
· Merg Toast (Joshua Bryant)
· Swift Profit (Tony)
· Soulful (Aaron Wilson)

Red Vinyl will be selling a digital download card of our first compilation album titled “The Learning Curve: Volume 1.”
Visit us on-line at http://www.redvinylmedia.blogspot.com/, www.twitter.com/redvinyl, www.ilike.com/user/redvinylmedia, www.facebook.com/redvinylmedia, and http://www.redvinylmedia.tumblr.com/ .

MSB-BC/Red Vinyl celebration....

On August 25th....
Red Vinyl Media Presents
"The Learning Curve: Volume 1."

Get your copy of our album on a digital download card at this event:

When: August 25th
Time: 11am-1pm or 3pm-6pm
For: The Celebration of the BC campus's 21st birthday and Red Vinyl's debut album release

All students are welcome to attend and bring their family and friends. There will be campus tours, food, games, music, prizes, and more!

Hope to see you there!

Show on August 25th!

Remember to check out Red Vinyl's album release show on Wednesday, August 25th at the BC campus. Students are welcome to bring their family and friends! Times and the artist line up will be announced by Friday.
Soon we will have facebook pictures of all of the artists up on our page!
So be sure and visit that page at www.facebook.com/redvinylmedia and join the page!

We are busy finalizing everything for the show, including getting a banner made. Remember that you will be able to buy our debut release, The Learning Curve: Volume 1 as a digital download card at the show. The show is celebrating the BC campus's 21st birthday!

Also, check out our iLike page at www.ilike.com/user/redvinylmedia. Music should be up soon!

www.twitter.com/redvinyl
www.redvinylmedia.tumblr.com
redvinylmedia@gmail.com

Music Biz students on the web.

Have you checked out the other music business websites from the other campuses?

Check out Richfield/Broadview Media's website:

www.globexstream.com/news.html

This is what the students from this campus are up to:

"Our Audio For Multimedia (Richfield/Broadview) students produced a viral video to help aid flood victims in Nashville. Students did all the creative work and the Internet research. You can view the video on our Globe X Stream youTube channel , on our Facebook group "Globe X Stream" facebook , or on this site GXS/Nashville . This was a Service Learning project. We JUST posted it & are starting the viral campaign. This Summer we hope to do another. Who's got a great cause????" ( courtesy of http://www.globexstream.com/)

The students from this campus (along with Chris Hinding) are also helping MSB music business graduate, Minnesota Fats, launch his new single featuring Snoop Dogg! Fat's last album, "Perfect Candidate" was nationally released and hit the 5,000 mark in sales. Check out his radio spot for B96 at http://globexstream.com/fatsb96.html !

Also, check out the St. Cloud campus's facebook page for Students Against Radio Performance Tax at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Students-Against-Radio-Performance-Tax/131896056831660