The Scene

MusicDetour.com’s commentary on music, performances, and the DC metro area music scene

Final Soul City Radio Panel this Friday

Filed under: Issues — Tags: , , — Dave @ 1:30 am

For those of you interested in the state of the music industry, tune into Soul City Radio this Friday at 10pm for the last of four panels on independent music. Yours truly will be participating in the panel with Teisha Marie and Casey Rae-Hunter with host DeWayne Alston. It should be an interesting discussion on the implications that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has on music as a whole. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section of this post about the panel during and after the discussion. More details and the radio widget after the jump.

(more…)

Independent Music Panels

Filed under: Issues — Tags: , , — Dave @ 12:28 am

Are you interested in the ability for the independent musician to take-on the Big Four record labels? Then check-out the up-coming panels on Soul City Radio. During the month of February, Soul City Radio will be bringing you a series of panel discussions. The panels will be discussing various issues pertinent to the independent music industry and the artists that make up it’s ranks. Keep your mind open in order to

Each week will bring you a different panel and a different discussion. The following is a list of topics and panelists: (more…)

Independent Radio: Soul City Radio

Filed under: MD, R&B — Tags: , , , — Dave @ 6:00 am

One of the main ways that artists and music fans can subvert the monopolistic radio industry is to go online for radio. Fortunately, Baltimore has a great internet radio site that is focusing on the promotion of independent music. Soul City Radio is focused on non-mainstream Hip Hop, Soul, Neo – Soul, R&B or Jazz. Station founder DeWayne Alston is trying to promote both independent artists and the idea of independent music; look in the near future for more information about the panel discussions that Alston will be hosting on his show “Soul Session”. The station is live at different times, but you can always check-out the week’s shows. The station player and schedule is after the jump: (more…)

Powered by WordPress