What You Need to Know from the San Francisco Musician and Promoter Workshop

Zambaleta on 19th and Florida in the Mission, SF

I’ll be the first to admit that I was a bit dubious when I initially heard about the first installment, via Twitter, of this San Francisco-based event back in November. How many seminars, workshops, and online tutorials are already out there promoting their take on the best practices in social media for musicians and managers? However, a closer look at the list of instructors, not to mention the partners including SonicLiving and the premier music technology event in the Bay Area, SF MusicTech Summit, revealed that the San Francisco Musician & Promoter Workshop promised to transcend your atypical music industry-related gathering.

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Spinning Platters Podcast Episode 11 – Everybody Votes

We take this ballot thing very seriously
We take this ballot thing very seriously

In episode 11 of the Spinning Platters Podcast, our regular hosts are joined by six additional Spinning Platters staffers to talk about our favorite albums of 2009. Also, D.P. talks about his day at the SF Music Tech Summit, and we head gloriously off course, as usual. The recording session took more than two hours, so we’ve broken the podcast up into two parts. Come back soon for part 11.5, but until then, enjoy the show! Continue reading “Spinning Platters Podcast Episode 11 — Everybody Votes”