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  • Industry Pro: VP of Operations Andrew Prince

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    Today’s profile is a guest post from Alexa Brooks, a Bay-area blogger with a serious passion for music and the music biz. Her subject, Andrew Prince, is a music industry executive who didn’t wait until he had his undergrad degree to test drive his dreams. It resulted in ruling out one aspect of the business [...]

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  • Industry Pro: Music Manager Jennifer Yeko

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    Today’s profile subject, music manager Jennifer Yeko, started out doing music management as a side project while making a living in a very unique way. The creativity she demonstrated during that period, before she was able to call herself a full-time music manager, as well as the foresight she had to focus on licensing music to [...]

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  • Up & Comer: DJ and JD Erin Jacobson

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      When YII met DJ Erin (Jacobson), we were impressed not only be her passion for music, but how she’d found ways to incorporate that passion into her daily life in college and then into her post-collegiate plans. She was very clear about what she wanted and we think other readers could learn a lot from her [...]

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  • Spotlight: Rolling Stone Magazine

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    Though it is not the music journalism powerhouse it was when Lester Bangs’ writing was often more entertaining than the music he reviewed and a teenage Cameron Crowe was covering bands on tour (as chronicled in his movie, Almost Famous), this elder statesmen pop periodical still covers mainstream music like no other and a positive write up in its pages [...]

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