You're Not Too Cool for Rock School

The Austin Music Foundation, a local nonprofit dedicated to uniting and serving our local music community, puts together a big seminar every couple of months called Music Industry Boot Camp (MIBC). Since 2002, MIBCs have been familiarizing our local musicians -- a group to which half of you reading this probably belong -- into the various and sundry business aspects of the tumultuous, sleazy, and overstimulated world of the music industry. Whether it's the 1-2-3s of stage performances, the best approach to getting your band on the radio, or the impact of politics on the Austin music scene, the topics covered by MIBC's impressive roster of local and national panelists are undoubtedly of much help to our city's legion of would-be Guthries, Cohens, and Hasselhoffs.

This coming Monday, AMF presents its 30th edition of Music Industry Boot Camp: "Generation Next: Internet Marketing for Indies" brings together Chris Gray (Austin Chronicle), Travis Higdon (owner, Peek-a-Boo Records), and Marc Gunn (Bard's Crier) for a panel discussion of the "online social networking phenomenon, the best practices of how to utilize the sites themselves and the tools that correspond, as well as focus on the future of internet marketing." A free-for-all one-on-one Q&A with the speakers will follow, where you'll finally get a shot at convincing Chris to mention your sweet band's new Def Leppard cover album in TCB.

[Austin Music Foundation]

AMF presents Music Industry Boot Camp #30
"Generation Next: Internet Marketing for Indies"
Monday, June 26th, 2006
Lucky Lounge
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Seminar Discussion
7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Round Table Workshop
Free!