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Undertoad · 05-10-2005, 02:15 PM

Many people would qualify to do A&R for my* independent artists label, itsaboutmusic.com. My pal Dean will interview you by phone.

The company's deal is that for a $500 buy-in by the artist, itsaboutmusic.com will release their work for only a 10% commission (they get almost all the revenues), CD & DVD-on-demand at a very reasonable rate ($2 better than CD Baby I think); inclusion in itunes and rhapsody and napster and 100 other music sites, national and international; promotion into any deals the business strikes; promotion to music for commercials to some of the biggest names in that business; packaging and web design; inclusion in samplers to media and such; inclusion into a great community of independent artists, and much more.

All this and itsaboutmusic.com does not require any of the artist's publishing rights. It's the first honest independent record company. More detail is available here

The A&R person's deal is that they get $200 of that up-front fee. If one was diligent one might make a good deal of money this way.

It's more of a co-op than a label, but Dean thinks it is less interesting to people when described that way. SM can rate whether this seems a good deal and I hope he does.

* I say "my" because I have a small piece of it.

05-10-2005, 02:15 PM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Many people would qualify to do A&R for my* independent artists label, itsaboutmusic.com. My pal Dean will interview you by phone. The company's deal is that for a $500 buy-in by the artist, itsaboutmusic.com will release their work for only a 10% commission (they get almost all the revenues), CD & DVD-on-demand at a very reasonable rate ($2 better than CD Baby I think); inclusion in itunes and rhapsody and napster and 100 other music sites, national and international; promotion into any deals the business strikes; promotion to music for commercials to some of the biggest names in that business; packaging and web design; inclusion in samplers to media and such; inclusion into a great community of independent artists, and much more. All this and itsaboutmusic.com does not require any of the artist's publishing rights. It's the first honest independent record company. More detail is available here The A&R person's deal is that they get $200 of that up-front fee. If one was diligent one might make a good deal of money this way. It's more of a co-op than a label, but Dean thinks it is less interesting to people when described that way. SM can rate whether this seems a good deal and I hope he does. * I say "my" because I have a small piece of it.