The American DJ: The Future of Radio” examines the state of radio and the Disc Jockey, through the enlightening and humorous story of Kendall Weaver, as told from behind the microphone, and inside the meetings. Plus, a study of the state of radio, featuring interviews with industry leaders like; Adam Carolla John Tesh Nina Blackwood And a host of Air Talents and consultants from coast to coast. Is radio dying, or will it be stronger in 10 years? Will the internet kill or revive radio? How does your favorite station really operate? And where do we go from here? If you’re a radio professional, you’ll recognize much of this from your own career. If you’re interested in how the business works, you’ll find it truly educational, and amusing.

In her first two books, Sheila Davis classified the major song forms and enduring principles that have been honored for decades by America's foremost songwriters. Those books have become required reading in music courses from NYU to UCLA. In The Songwriters Idea Book, Davis goes one step further, giving you 40 strategies for designing distinctive songs. You'll break new ground in your own songwriting by learning about the inherent relationship between language style, personality type and the brain. You'll go, step by step, through the creative process as you activate, incubate, separate and discriminate. You'll learn to use the whole-brain techniques of imaging, brainstorming and clustering. You'll expand your skilled use of figurative language with paragrams, metonyms, synecdoche and antonomasia. You'll be challenged to design metaphors, form symbols, make puns and coin words. And, you'll learn how to prevent writer's block, increase your productivity and maintain your creative flow. Over 100 successful student lyrics from pop, country, cabaret, and theater serve as role-models to illustrate the "whole-brain" songwriting process.

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists, such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly and LL Cool J, sell millions of albums with her sensual dancing. In a word, Karrine was H-O-T. So hot that she made as much as $2500 a day in videos and was selected by well-known film director F. Gary Gray to co-star in his film, A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel. But the film and music video sets, swanky Hollywood and New York restaurants and trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of People and In Touch magazines only touches the surface of Karrine Steffans' life. Her journey is filled with physical abuse, rape, drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness and single motherhood—all by the age of 26. By sharing her story, Steffans hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticised industry and help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered. If they're already in danger, she hopes to inspire them to find a way to dig themselves out of what she knows first-hand to be a cycle of hopelessness and despair.

No one understands the music business and the changes it has undergone in recent years better than LA lawyer Donald Passman. For 20 years, his book has offered detailed advice to artists and executives, novices and experts alike on how to thrive in these volatile times. This completely revised 7th edition sets out recent developments in record deals, copyright, new technologies and film music. It also offers unique advice on how to navigate your way through the ins and outs of songwriting, music publishing, merchandising and performing. Whether you're a newcomer or an established professional, "All You Need to Know about the Music Business" is an essential companion.

“Your Band Is A Virus – Behind-The-Scenes And Viral Marketing For The Independent Musician” is the essential music marketing guide that uses straight forward language and actionable advice to cover highly effective promotional strategies used by independent musicians and bands. Many of them are marketing tips and resources you won’t find in any book by the Industry Moguls. In today’s music market there are no “1,001 Ways to Promote Yourself” or “Foolproof Ways To Become A Star.” Today's independent artist must be aggressive, yet innovative and respectful in their promotion tactics. For artists who wish to have their music covered by music and mp3 blogs, websites, magazines, newspapers, internet radio and podcasts. This updated edition features an exclusive interview with legendary record producer Stuart Epps (Led Zeppelin, Elton John). “Bottom Line: This book can really change your life.” – Indie Music Digest “Your Band Is A Virus” is jam packed with tips of the trade and is a viral marketing guide to success. – Muzicnotez.com “In the past, I myself have spent many years promoting in the music industry working with various record labels, primarily Universal Records South doing New Media marketing. I worked with CMT, AOL, and MTV to name a few – and the same unique marketing tactics I used to promote these signed musicians are covered in this e-publication holding nothing back! If you want to be signed, to have your name in lights, and to get your music recognized by the right people then “YOUR BAND IS A VIRUS” is a must read for any musician or band who is hungry for exposure.” - Jake A. Wheat, Street Blast Media

Pattison presents a unique, in-depth approach to the process of lyric writing. Songwriters will examine 17 extraordinary songs and learn the distinct elements that make them so effective. Pattison then presents more than 30 lyric-writing exercises designed to achieve the same results. From generating lyric ideas and managing repetition to developing verses, it's all here. Songwriters will: find warm-up exercises that revolutionize songwriting imagery; use a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus to generate ideas and find snappy rhyme; create meaningful metaphors and similes while avoiding cliches; develop verses by using or breaking conventional rules; experiment with point of view in every lyric to make a song stand out

How to start and build a successful career as a DJ-from at-home mixing to making demos to playing to a live crowdWhether it's a digital or vinyl track of "Proud Mary," a DJ sets the mood, amps up the excitement, and gets a crowd of revelers rockin'. Often an outsized personality, blessed with a gorgeous voice and an encyclopedic knowledge of music, a DJ is this era's new pop star. For those interested in how to begin a career as a DJ, DJing For Dummies offers newcomers all the technical know-how needed as well as advice on how to create your own DJing style and how to make DJing work for you. With tips on equipment essentials, such as turntables, slipmats and needles, headphones, and amplifiers, as well as buying records, CDs, and MP3s, this practical guide takes you through the basics of mixing, song structure, building a foolproof set, creating a great demo, and what to do when you finally face a live audience.Includes ten resources for expanding your skills and fan baseWith invaluable advice on ten DJing mistakes to avoid as well as answers to DJ questions you're too afraid to askIncludes updated info on the latest software and techniques, expanded content on digital DJing, and DJing over the InternetWith tips on the ten items to take with you when you get a gig, as well as how to DJ at a wedding, DJing For Dummies will help turn your fantasy into an exciting and fun, money-making career.

My iPhone, Second Edition   Step-by-step instructions with callouts to iPhone photos so that you can see exactly what to do. Help when you run into the few iPhone limitations. Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your iPhone.     Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your iPhone working just the way you want. The tasks include:     • How to use all the essential features of iPhone 3G such as the cell phone, visual voice mail, conference calling, and contact information.   • How to add network connections and switch between them; surf the web using full-featured web pages just like on a computer; and receive and manage your email, from all your accounts, including Microsoft Exchange, wherever you are.   • How to configure MobileMe to keep all your contacts, email, and events current on your device wirelessly.   • How to use an iPod and and iTunes 8 to listen to music and podcasts or watch movies, TV shows, and music videos.   • How to take quality photos and view them, email them, or transfer them to a computer.   • How to find, download, install, manage, and use thousands of iPhone applications.   • How use Maps to find any location, plan a route to it, and then track your route with GPS.   • How to customize the way iPhone looks and works with your own wallpaper, Home screen button layouts, ringtones from your favorites songs, and more.   CATEGORY:  Apple Digital Media COVERS:  Apple iPhone USER LEVEL:  Beginning-Intermediate   Quote from front cover.   “As easy as the iPhone is to admire and use, Miser unlocks all of its secrets and offers frank, useful advice for getting the most out of the most amazing product of this century (so far!).” –Mark A. Kellner, Technology Columnist, The Washington Times

The artist named by Rolling Stone as one of America’s best singer-songwriters and the 2005 Producer of the Year shares the inside story of his music career From his days with one-hit-wonder band the Marvelous 3 to his current work producing some of today’s hottest talent—from Weezer and Katy Perry to Pink, Avril Lavigne, and Panic! at the Disco—Butch Walker has proven himself a major influence in contemporary pop music. But the road to success wasn’t easy. Drinking with Strangers takes you into the studio and onto the stage, offering a rare glimpse into a life defined by raw talent, determination, a drive for perfection, and some ridiculous haircuts. At age seventeen, Walker left small-town Georgia with his hair metal band and headed for the mean streets of Los Angeles. Full of piss, vinegar, and Jack Daniel’s (mostly the latter), these young Southern musicians were determined to become the biggest band on the Sunset Strip and land a major-label record deal. After many false starts—including an ill-fated concert tour of China—Walker’s rock-and-roll fantasies hadn’t quite come true, so he embraced the do-it-yourself approach. Taking control of his destiny, he learned to make success on his own terms, but not without some memorable, occasionally drunken stumbles along the way. Walker’s adventures taught him a number of life lessons he shares here with insight and candor, revealing the blessings of failure—and what it’s really like to spend your life going from gig to gig, drinking with strangers. In a voice as wry as his lyrics, Walker pays tribute to his influences, from his parents to MÖtley CrÜe, from KISS to both Elvises (Presley and Costello). He offers a clear-eyed yet humorous look at the music business—the greed, the booze, the drugs, the infighting, the swindles, the unfulfilled promises—and explores its bad side, too. In documenting his rise to the middle, Walker frankly describes the delicate balance between success, selling out, and just knocking back another shot of whiskey to numb the pain. Whether or not you are familiar with Walker’s music, Drinking with Strangers is a must-read for anyone who wants to make it in the music world, covering such essential topics as the digital revolution and its impact on both performers and producers, the art of creative collaboration, and what it’s really like to work with cutthroat competitors who might steal your soul (and your song). Unflinchingly told, Walker’s twenty-year journey of failing upwards becomes an unforgettable rite of passage.

The Big Payback takes us from the first $15 made by a "rapping DJ" in 1970s New York to the recent multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were inked, The Big Payback tallies the list of who lost and who won. Read the secret histories of the early long-shot successes of Sugar Hill Records and Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC's crossover breakthrough on MTV, the marketing of gangsta rap, and the rise of artist/ entrepreneurs like Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs. 300 industry veterans-well-known giants like Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, the founders of Def Jam, and key insiders like Gerald Levin, the embattled former Time Warner chief-gave their stories to renowned hip-hop journalist Dan Charnas, who provides a compelling, never-before seen, myth-debunking view into the victories, defeats, corporate clashes, and street battles along the 40-year road to hip-hop's dominance. Watch a Video