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Sky Rocket Your CD Sales, Fan Base, and Indie Music Career

Sky Rocket Your CD Sales, Fan Base, and Indie Music Career

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Should You Sign with a Major Label or Stick to Indie?

Should You Sign with a Major Label or Stick to Indie?

Simply put, there are two types of record companies, Independent labels and Major labels. As you probably know, both have their advantages, and both have their disadvantages. Really, it all boils down to what type of record deal you are looking for personally. Before you try to figure out how to get a record deal or how to get signed, you really need to decide which is the best fit for you and your music style.



Ingrid Michaelson – Indie Success Via Prime Time

Ingrid Michaelson – Indie Success Via Prime Time

Indie pop crooner Ingrid Michaelson found fame in the unlikeliest of places—Old Navy. While her singles had already put the un-signed artist toward mainstream success, thanks to the January 2007 episode of Grey’s Anatomy, the national exposure via the clothing company streamlined her career—with a million downloads and a Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hit.



Protein Power – Full Disclosure

Protein Power – Full Disclosure

What Is Protein, and What’s in It for Me?

This issue we are taking Agenda readers on a revealing tour of protein as we delve into what protein is, why you need it, the buzz behind protein diets, and how they really work.



The Shack

The Shack

William Paul Young’s best seller The Shack is a unique way of looking at the relationship between man and God. Mackenzie Phillips returns to the shack where three and a half years before his youngest daughter Missy was murdered by the man who had abducted her from their campsite.



My Sister’s Keeper

My Sister’s Keeper

How would you feel if you knew that the only reason you were conceived was as a donor for your sibling? For the entire thirteen years of her life, Anna Fitzgerald, the main character in Jodi Picoult’s best seller, My Sister’s Keeper , has been the main source of her older sister’s survival.



Insights: Impermanence

Insights: Impermanence

Two of the difficult lessons of life are those of letting go and impermanence. Nothing . . . no one lasts forever, and many would welcome their parents and their pets agreeing to accompany them throughout their lives. I walk through a forest of trees and smell the scent of freesia or gardenia, but the smell doesn’t linger.



Use Favorite Summer Fashion in Your Own Fall Collection

Use Favorite Summer Fashion in Your Own Fall Collection

Fashion weeks around the globe have already become the “it” calendar check-off in the industry. And whether or not you have the opportunity to make it backstage, have a seat at the show, hit after-show parties, and/or look at the pics from the shows in every fashion magazine you can find on the shelf at Borders, this event gives us ideas.



Julia Anderson (“True Beauty”)

Julia Anderson (“True Beauty”)

Little did she know that her friend’s suggestion to enter the True Beauty competition would lead to a career-altering path. Julia Anderson had recently competed in the Miss Texas competition, which didn’t go as well as she had hoped, and decided to go to an audition her best friend found online.

Thinking the ad was ridiculous, but still curious, Julia was just looking for something else to do. “I just happened to have the day off from school and my three part-time jobs at the time. I saw it as a sign, so I thought I’d go ahead and go to that audition. From one callback to another, I ended up in LA and on the show.



The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

As someone who attends a great deal of Broadway theater, I am a little nonplussed about the “star effect” that many producers have increasingly introduced to that wondrous island of American theater between 55th and 41st Streets (my apologies to Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont a few blocks north). Oftentimes when Rodeo Drive meets Broadway, the results can be disastrous (I love you, Julia Roberts, but your turn in the Broadway play, “Three Days of Rain” . . . Ouch!!).