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“Europe is risking its credibility as a defender of human rights,” said Oxfam’s Tesorieri, referring to EU dealmaking with questionable partners.
Jesse Cannon believes in the roar of the crowd.
He believes in the teens who tweet incessantly about their new, favorite bands, forcing friends to watch the groups’ YouTube videos and scan their Facebook pages.
He believes a T-shirt transaction is better served with 15 free songs thrown in, and that those tunes should be shared as often as possible.
"Free music isn’t a bad thing," he says.
And after nearly two decades recording, producing and managing some of Jersey’s most successful rock and punk acts, Cannon believes music’s next generation will be shouldered by artists who reach their supporters directly, wherever they are.
In his new book with co-writer Todd Thomas, "Get More Fans: The DIY Guide to the New Music Business" (MusFormation, 732 pp., $29.99), Cannon, 36, details an ever-changing, do-it-yourself landscape in which greenhorn musicians defect from what he calls "a cookie cutter system."
"Instead of trying to find that A&R guy who will leave the record contract under your pillow, it’s about focusing on making fans and those fans will shout so loud, all the music business will come to you," Cannon says from his humble studio in Union City.
Here are five tips veteran music producer Jesse Cannon recommends for aspiring bands and artists looking to make their mark on the local, national or world scene.
• Spread your sound. There are dozens of streaming websites out there — including Spotify, Bandcamp and ReverbNation — to get your music heard, but also upload your stuff onto more obscure sites such as Distrokid, CD Baby and TuneCore to reach as many people as possible.
• Free music is okay. Fans might not pay for your music at first, but a few free tunes sent to their email can spark interest and lead to future purchases.
• Talk to fans. Take time before and after shows to hang out with your supporters. If you can connect with them, those in the music business are more likely to listen when they hear your fans talking about you.
• Maintain your merch. Music-lovers wearing your T-shirts are mobile marketing tools. Keep your logos legible and true to your sound, so passersby can almost "see" what you sound like and look you up later.
• Book the right shows. If no one is showing up to your performances, change something. Playing organized events are better than thrown-together shows with bands who don't make sense sharing a stage.
He stresses the need for bands to ditch the "rock god" persona and instead construct tightly woven relationships with supporters, utilizing social media, email, merchandise and time spent before and after shows to interact with the music lovers who will hopefully launch their careers.
In the book, Cannon provides numerous tips on how to cultivate a fan base and juggle the dozens of places online where admirers can hear songs and connect with the musicians, including Bandcamp, SoundCloud, Spotify and ReverbNation.
All of this is supplementary, of course, to "getting your music as amazing as you can before you ever go to the studio," he says.
The approach sounds exhausting, especially for artists with day jobs, who may prioritize rent and groceries ahead of handwriting custom messages to every fan who buys a poster or bracelet.
But for bands who wish to survive in an industry in which any tech-savvy listener can follow them for years without spending a penny, Cannon insists that "always being available" is among the first steps toward a career in 21st-century rock ’n’ roll.
The Montclair native’s methods have already seen success, particularly with Man Overboard, a flourishing pop-punk group from South Jersey whom Cannon recorded and managed for about two years.
"He was the guy who told us, ‘You need to make a Twitter page, so you can connect with your fans,’ and eight months later, Twitter was the biggest thing in the world," says bassist Wayne Wildrick. "He had a plan — we didn’t.
"We are so much further along with social media and our website, things that he put in motion for us, and we are reminded of it everyday."
In 2009, Man Overboard were Cannon’s "guinea pigs," as he pushed the goofy guys from Williamstown to tweet every day, never run out of a T-shirt size and post silly YouTube videos of the band, even when they weren’t recording.
As the group gained national attention, new ideas arose, such as modeling merchandise web pages after retail stores’ sites and maintaining email lists with thousands of names, to reach people directly with updates on the band’s new music and touring schedules.
Cannon focused on "owning fans," and after many long nights enhancing Man Overboard’s online presence — and waiting for what he calls "the right record deal" — today’s product is undeniably rewarding.
Veteran music producer Jesse Cannon's book "Get More Fans: The DIY Guide to the New Music Business."
The band, now signed to Rise Records, has migrated from basement shows to rock clubs and arenas all over the world, and will headline a North American tour this summer. The group is currently on tour with Baltimore pop-rockers All Time Low and will play the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville on May 2.
"We were the experiment, and everything he wanted to try with us always worked," Wildrick said.
The "experiment" also yielded 250 pages of notes, which were polished and transcribed for Cannon’s book, along with the input of about 200 musicians, producers and business professionals.
A new edition of the guide, which was originally released in April 2013, is now available on Amazon.com. The update adds tips on how to run a band and squeeze rock star aspirations into a 9-to-5 lifestyle.
Similarly to many of the artists he produces, Cannon began his career as a hopeful teen in his parents’ Essex County basement, recording local bands in exchange for "Doritos and Snapple."
He played keyboard and drums in a few bands, but disliked touring and, in the late ’90s, chose mixing boards over trying to make it as a musician.
His tongue-twisting studio Cannon Found Soundation was born and has resided in Hudson County for eight years (it’s now co-owned by Cannon’s co-producer Mike Oettinger).
Other than Man Overboard, Jersey bands to come through the compact 39th Street location include Saves the Day, Senses Fail, the Dillinger Escape Plan and Brick + Mortar.
As the man at the switch, Cannon acts as a servant of his artists’ sound, tailoring records to the band’s quirks and learning from each group as they learn from him.
The philosophy mirrors the idealism fueling his book, following what he calls a "democratization of knowledge."
"The big fear was, the music industry is really lazy … ‘Oh my God, if I give away that tip, everyone’s going to know this,’ " Cannon says. "But really, if you give away that tip, we all just get better."
The animated series foretold in 2000 of a Trump presidency that would bankrupt America. This time around he is obsessed with Twitter, and himself.
The Simpsons have joined the long list of celebrities that have expressed their support for Hillary Clinton in the race for President of the United States.
In a video posted on YouTube over the weekend, the creators of the long-running animated comedy series made a parody of Hillary Clinton's 2008 ad, which tried to present Barack Obama as unprepared for the presidency. The video shows children snuggled inside their blankets. A voice over states: "It's 3 A.M. and the phon...
The video then pokes fun at Hillary, who is slightly delayed – and annoyed – by Bill answering the phone. However, it does not miss an opportunity to laugh at Donald Trump as someone who obsessively is on Twitter, reads the great speeches of Adolf Hitler and spends hours making himself look presentable – using a fake t...
The Simpsons foretold of a Trump presidency in a 2000 episode called "Bart to the Future," in which Lisa assumes office after Trump has run the American economy into the ground, leaving the country broke.
Oct. 11, 2012 Tranquilino C. Pavo, 87, of Ewa Beach, an Army veteran, died in Wahiawa. He was born in Ewa. He is survived by sons Lance and Errol, daughter Venus Dewberry, brother Alec, sisters Anacita and Corazon, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Visitation: 6 p.m. Tuesday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio,...
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BARCELONA, Spain — Mobile World Congress is a very different conference than CES. Where CES is a wild, glitzy affair with a lot of consumers around, MWC is very much a business conference.
People from all over the world come to Spain each year to network and make deals. For some companies it’s the only time during the year that the whole management team sees each other in person.
Some of the technology discussed here — like 5G — is too far off in the future to have much bearing on the mobile business today. But other technology trends — like unlicensed spectrum — is very top of mind, and could have real, near-term implications for mobile operators.
In broad terms, unlicensed spectrum means unregulated and unowned radio waves on which pretty much any provider can run wireless services like LTE. Wi-Fi, for example, runs on unlicensed spectrum.
For big wireless carriers, U-LTE is seen as a way to scale up wireless capacity and speeds in a world where licensed spectrum is limited and where demand for mobile Internet service continues to shoot upward.
But it also presents an interesting problem for wireless carriers that have spent billions to buy licensed spectrum. The most recent FCC spectrum auction yielded $45 billion. Verizon spent $4.5 billion on a single spectrum block. How much are these investments worth with all this free spectrum around?
It could also create new competitors and downward pricing pressure. “What’s to stop someone from using unlicensed spectrum to launch a competing service?” asked PricewaterhouseCooper’s Dan Hays, echoing the concerns of telco executives he’s talked to here.
“It’s the Wild West; you don’t know what you’re going to find there,” another mobile industry executive said. This also makes it tough for carriers to manage traffic, prioritize time-sensitive data types, and guarantee service levels.
PwC’s Hays points out that something like this happened before with another service that runs on unlicensed spectrum: Wi-Fi. The telcos once wanted to block Wi-Fi service on their phones, but they eventually realized they would have to go along.
The telcos are now going along with U-LTE. Right now they’re interested in running LTE service in unlicensed spectrum as a sort of buffer against “surge” periods, when traffic is high.
About a year ago, Qualcomm and Ericsson lobbied the 3GPP standards committee to allow LTE service to run on the 5.8GHz band. That band is one of two unlicensed bands that are typically used by Wi-Fi service. One executive told me Qualcomm wants LTE to run in unlicensed spectrum because operators would have to pay it ro...
But because the 5.8GHz band is relatively uncrowded, and because new software has been developed to make the various signals play nice within a shared spectrum band, U-LTE in the 5.8GHz band is winning acceptance.
“It’s a starting point people tend not to argue with,” said another industry executive, pointing to the fact that some operators, and likely Ericsson and Qualcomm, may try to win acceptance for running LTE on other Wi-Fi bands later on.
So the genie appears to be well out of the bottle; U-LTE looks like it’s here to stay. The interesting question is whether unlicensed spectrum might represent a breeding ground for new startups that would launch new kinds of wireless services to the detriment of Big Telco and to the benefit of consumers.
It’s possible and even likely. Savvy investors should keep a careful eye out for such startups.
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About 15 minutes later, Butler left his residence and saw Talent about a mile away, in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 2200 block of Hurley Way, in the Arden Arcade area. The two men began arguing, and Butler pulled out a handgun and shot Talent twice, killing him.
Butler has two prior strike convictions for robbery and shooting at an inhabited structure, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
One of the last remaining obscure parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been deciphered by researchers in Israel.
Sixty tiny fragments were pieced together over a period of a year, identifying the name of a festival marking the changes between seasons.
It also revealed a second scribe corrected mistakes made by the author.
The 900 scrolls, written by an ancient Jewish sect, have been a source of fascination since they were first discovered in a cave in Qumran in 1947.
The collection is considered the oldest copy of the Hebrew Bible ever found, dating to at least the 4th Century BC.
It is not known who wrote the scrolls, although some scholars have credited an ascetic desert sect called the Essenes.
The sections of the scrolls were pieced together by Dr Eshbal Ratson and Prof Jonathan Ben-Dov of Haifa University. They were written in code and some of the fragments were smaller than 1 sq cm (0.155 sq inches).
They detailed special occasions celebrated by the ancient Jewish sect, which observed a unique 364-day calendar.
These included festivals of New Wheat, New Wine and New Oil, which were related to the Jewish festival of Shavuot.
The researchers also discovered the name used by the sect for a festival observed four times a year that marked the transition between the seasons - Tekufah. The same word in modern-day Hebrew means "period".
They said they were assisted in deciphering the code by annotations discovered in the margins by a scribe correcting omissions made by the author.
"What's nice is that these comments were hints that helped me figure out the puzzle - they showed me how to assemble the scroll," Dr Ratzon told the Haaretz newspaper.
The priceless Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves in Qumran on the western shore of the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. They were reportedly first discovered by a young Bedouin shepherd searching for lost sheep.
How well will Metal Gear Solid 4 sell in Japan?
Forums - Sales Discussion - How well will Metal Gear Solid 4 sell in Japan?
Using typical ratios of other PS3 games to PS2 counterparts, I think it may do about 300-350k the first week, and end around 600-700k.
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There is nothing to suggest MGS4 will be the PS3's Saviour or sell over a million software-wise.
But for some strange reason, I feel like this game will do AMAZINGLY well in Japan. I don't know that it will give the PS3 a hardware boost for more than a month, but in terms of software I think the sales will be incredible.
Yeah, DMC4 did 208k the first week. I know for a fact that MGS is a much more popular series in Japan than DMC.
So, 350k will be my estimate.
people always forget, when citing previous consoles and prequals, that the first "new" game on a "new" gen always sells higher than normal. For example. GT Prologue compared to its PS2 counterpart. DMC compared to PS2 counterparts. There is an aura of excitement, newness, freshness and intrigue that pushes sequels debu...
Id say 400k first week roughly 1 million LTD.
Call me pessimistic or whatever, but japanese gaming this generation has been very peculiar.
Except we're talking about Japan only, GT4P sold way better than GT5P in Japan.
if this game (which is actually 2 games in one with Metal Gear Online -wonder if Japanese market even cares about that one-) can't break 300K first week with the different bundles and limited gunmetal PS3, then I'd lose all hope for the japanese "gamers".
WiiFit will be 2008 #1 selling game in NORTH AMERICA!
WiiFit will top 1m in sales in its first month of release in North America.

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