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The Future of Music Policy Summit has been over for a while now. But for those of you who were too busy recovering from Pop Montreal shows during the 4 day weekend of madness that was Oct. 4-7 and missed all or any of the presentations that took place during the day at the McGill [...]

The first thing Dan Seligman tells me once we’ve introduced ourselves is that he’s producing five shows for the Arcade Fire right now. This is impressive and potentially nerve making so at this point I make my first mention of Danagement, to ask if he’s now Danaging Arcade Fire. This is in reference to his [...]

More news from the Future of Music Summit at McGill last weekend.
A State of Independents: The Changing Definition of Indie
Jenny Toomey Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition
Molly Neuman Director Label Relations, eMusic
Ian Ilavsky Co-Owner, Constellation Records
Jeff Waye Label Owner, Ninja Tune / Big Dada / Counter / Third Side Music
Jeff Remedios, Arts and Crafts [...]

Paul Anthony CEO, Rumblefish, Inc.
Patrick Curley President, Third Side Music
Michael Hausman, Owner, Michael Hausman Artist Management, Inc.
Stacey Mitsopulos Lawyer, Taylor Mitsopulos Burshtein, Entertainment Lawyers
Terry O’Brien Relationship Manager, SOCAN
Harry Poloner Vice President, Membership Group, ASCAP
I came in late to this panel to catch the majority of panellists expressing their ignorance of Creative Commons licenses. This makes [...]

More POP coverage from Tessa and her Merry Band of Indyish Bloggers. Mr. John reporting here.
Sandy Pearlman - Visiting McGill Scholar and Producer, Blue Oyster Cult, The Clash
Daniel Levitin - Professor, McGill University and Produced/Consultant, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and Chris Isaak.
Susan Rogers - CIRMMT Fellow, McGill University
Gary Lucas - Recording Artist, Mighty Quinn Records
Paul [...]

NOTE: Some of this content comes from the Future of Music program. Shoulda been properly cited but it wasn’t so consider this your official heads up.
Friday afternoon at the Future of Music Summit, Sarah covers the DIY Online Distribution panel
Lindsay Lynch - Operations Manager, MapleMusic.com
Brian Camelio - President, ArtistShare
Shannon Coulter - Director of A&R, [...]

Sarah’s coverage of the Young Artists Panel on Friday at the Future of Music Summit at McGill during Pop Montreal
Torquil Campbell - Musician, Stars
Win Butler - Musician, Arcade Fire
Brian Current - Composer
Bernadette Houde - Musician, Lesbians on Ecstasy
Moderated by Chris Taylor - Lawyer, Taylor Mitsopulos Burshtein, Entertainment Lawyers
Also in the audience was the CEO of [...]

We promised more coverage…careful what you wish for people. “Field Notes” from the Team, a.k.a Tessa and her crew.
On Thursday, David Byrne spoke at the Future of Music Summit with his touring manager (who answered some questions at the end). Byrnes had prepared a Powerpoint presentation with piecharts and graphs that were mostly useful visual [...]

These are more of Tessa’s notes “from the field”. Hot off the wire.. as they say. Stay tuned, there’s lots more to come.
Larry LeBlanc - Canadian Bureau Chief, Head of Billboard Magazine in Canada
LeBlanc spoke about how 30 years ago the magazine was only dealing with Canadian content and how now, because of the digital [...]

These are some of Tessa’s notes “from the field”. Her team has been out, tirelessly covering the conference by day and the bands by night.. all in the name of things that make you go ‘ish.
Welcoming everyone to the FMC where Jenny Toomey, Executive Director of the 4th Annual Future of Music Coalition, Don [...]