Launching at 9 p.m. April 12 on WEtv, the show is billed as a inside look at “the rambunctious, tight-knit Braxton sisters” as they deal with “sibling rivalry, man drama, bankruptcy, a DUI and much more!”
Now that’s entertainment, folks.
So, want to meet Toni, Traci, Towanda, Trina and Tamar and their “headstrong mother”?
The WE network is running a Twitter sweepstakes (a Tweet-stakes?) contest. The winner gets to travel to L.A. for the show’s launch.
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Great. This one’s for you. “Big Brother,” the CBS reality show where a bunch of strangers move into a house and then spend every waking moment together while cameras capture it all, has Atlanta in its sights.
The show plans an open casting call, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at the Hard Rock Cafe downtown.
While on the show contestants (called “housemates”) aren’t allowed to contact the outside world, so if you want in get all your socializing out of your system now!
Want to be on “Big Brother?” Tips from the casting director
Season 13 of the CBS reality show “Big Brother” cranks up this summer, and casting folks are coming to Atlanta in search of possible participants. The open casting call is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at the Hard Rock Cafe downtown.
We got a few minutes on the phone with casting director Robyn Kass for some tips on trying out.
“People need to not prepare too much before they audition,” she said. “They shouldn’t be thinking, okay, what am I going to say in my two-minute monologue?”
After all they’re looking for personality, which you can’t fake. Kass said that over the years she’s seen people over-audition by trying to invoke reality show jargon.
“Stay away from the buzz words,” she said. “We’d rather you tell us a story.”
In other words, instead of telling the casting crew how venal you are, be prepared to illustrate it.
“We’ll have someone say, ‘I’m conniving, I’m backstabbing, I’m controversial, I’m manipulative.’ Then we’ll ask, ‘Tell us about a time you were manipulative,” and they’ll go, ‘uh…um…’ Stories are really great instead of just using the buzz words.”
If you’re just plain nice, that’s alright, too. The show needs a few white-hat characters for variety.
“We always have to have a rootable person,” Kass said.
If you’re coming to the casting call, bring a completed application, which you can find here. You’ll get a few minutes to sell yourself. If they like you, you’ll be invited to a callback within a few days. That will be a more in-depth visit of about 30 minutes.
The show will get started around the Fourth of July weekend and lasts for three months.
“The last man standing wins $500,000. Second place is $50,000,” Kass said. “If you can make it to the end it’s not a bad gig.”
- Jennifer Brett/The Buzz/jbrett@ajc.com
Casting in other cities:
LOS ANGELES, CA
Saturday, April 2nd 1pm-4pm
Spot 5750
5750 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
NEW ORLEANS, LA
Friday, April 8th 5pm-9pm
Gordon Biersch Restaurant and Brewery
200 Poydras St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
BOSTON, MA
Saturday, April 9th 12pm-3pm
Bell In Hand Tavern
45 Union Street
Boston, MA 02108
ATLANTA, GA
Saturday, April 9th 11am-3pm
Hard Rock Cafe
215 Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
CHICAGO, IL
Saturday, April 9th 6pm-9pm
Manor
642 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60654
DENVER, CO
Saturday, April 9th 11am-2pm
Rocky's Autos
6350 Federal Boulevard
Denver, CO 80221
LANSING, MI
Thursday, April 14th 4pm-7pm
Champion Chrysler Jeep Dodge
6525 W. Saginaw Hwy.
Lansing, MI 48917
JACKSONVILLE, FL
Thursday, April 14th 5pm-7pm
Beall's Department Store
13500 Beach Blvd.
Jacksonville, FL 32246
SCOTTSDALE, AZ
Saturday, April 16th 12pm-3pm
Firehouse Bar & Grill
4312 North Brown Avenue
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
DALLAS, TX
Saturday, April 16th 2pm-6pm
Frankie's Sports Bar
227 McKinney Ave.
Dallas, TX 75204
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Saturday, April 16th 3pm-6pm
Sugar Cafe
679 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
NEW YORK, NY
Saturday, April 16th 12pm-6pm
Roy Arias Studios
300 W. 43rd Street, 5th Floor, Room 508
New York, NY 10036
WASHINGTON, DC
Saturday, April 16th 12pm-3pm
Madam's Organ Restaurant & Blues Bar
2461 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
NORTH TAMPA, FL
Saturday, April 16th 12pm-3pm
The Dubliner Irish Pub
12836 Henderson Rd
North Tampa, FL 33625
CINCINNATI, OH
Saturday, April 16th 4pm-7pm
Lunar
435 Elm Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
SPARTANBURG, SC
Monday, April 18th 9am-12pm
Dave Edwards Toyota
2450 Reidville Rd.
Spartanburg, SC 29301
LOUISVILLE, KY
Wednesday, May 4th 5pm-8pm
Waterford Park - Great Lawn
129 River Rd.
Louisville, KY 40202
NASHVILLE, TN
Friday, May 6th 5pm-9pm
McFadden's Restaurant and Saloon
134 2nd Ave. North
Nashville, TV 37201
CHARLESTON, SC
Saturday, May 7th 1pm-4pm
Mad River Bar & Grille
32 North Market St.
Charleston, SC 29401
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ATLANTA--MTV is looking for a new group of roommates for its show "The Real World" on Saturday, March 26. The auditions will be held at Loca Luna from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Those auditioning should be between the ages of 18 and 25.
"The Real World: Las Vegas" is currently being shown on MTV. Producers will be casting the 26th season in Atlanta and other cities across the United States. The show made its MTV debut in 1992.
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ATLANTA -- R&B singer Pebbles will be in Atlanta this Saturday and Sunday holding auditions for "R&B Star." Pebbles is known for the songs "Girlfriend" and "Mercedes Boy." She also discovered the group TLC in the '90s.
"R&B Star" will hold casting calls in Atlanta, New York, and Los Angeles. This weekend's auditions :
Where: Atlanta at Woodruff Arts Center
Date: Saturday and Sunday (Mar 26 & 27)
Time: 10a.m. to 4p.m.
Pebbles says, "I know this, in my heart, is going to reignite the excitement and the flame of R&B music. Because people think it's dead."
The winner gets to perform at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans in July, on the same stage as artists such as Mary J. Blige and Kanye West.
For information about the competition, click button below: (give page time to load)
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Virgin Mobile is looking for 6 amazing social media spokespeople (or any Lady Gaga fan for that matter) to submit a 1-to-2 minute video showing us why you should be the Little Local Monster. The 6 winners will join one of the Monster Ball shows in either Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, Nashville or Uniondale.Submission Deadline: March 28, 2011
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Estimated: $100 Million
Birdman, the CEO of Cash Money records, has had a very successful past few years with Lil Wayne being one of the top selling artist in the game and Drake and Nicki Minaj both going platinum.
#4 - 50 Cent
Estimated $100 Million
50 Cent, while not selling as much as he use to, has got involved with various businesses such as vitamin water, headphones, website, movie production and more to keep generating income.
#3- Dr. Dre
Estimated $125 million
Dre hasn't dropped an album in a decade but he has made a lot of money recently with, "Beats By Dre," and other business ventures along with his production. Plus he gets a cut off of Eminem who was the highest selling artist for the last decade, cha CHING.
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The news surrounding the music industry these days might make you wonder if anyone is buying CDs any more. Major-label CD sales are down again. Downloads are up. So the question on the table is: As an independent artist, do you really need to make CDs these days?
There are many factors to consider, and what is true for major-label artists does not often
translate to independents. As a matter of fact, amidst the last few years of continuously
declining major-label CD sales, Disc Makers has seen continued growth in new CD jobs
ordered, and indie-only CD Baby has seen consistent increases in CD sales. It speaks to the
fact that one revenue model does not fit all markets, and the ingredients for success for a major-label artist vs. an independent are simply not the same.
I know what many of you are thinking. “Of course Disc Makers is going to tell me I need to keep making CDs!” Yes, we are a CD manufacturing company, and that gives us a particular stake in the subject. It also gives us a unique perspective, and a front-line view of what the demands of the market and our client base are. In addition to that, we’ve leveraged some of our great connections within the music industry and reached out to gain insight and commentary on the question of the viability of the CD format. Here are a few things to consider.
1. CDs legitimize you.
What major music artist doesn’t have a CD? Physical product, and in this case CDs, demonstrate that you as an artist are committed to your career. Giving a music business professional a CD is the fastest way to get them to listen to you and take you seriously. Don’t make them work to hear your music!
2. CDs are an integral part of the indie revenue stream.
Getting paid good money by a club or promoter to play a show is a difficult prospect. So if you’re on the road, even for a weekend jaunt, you need to have something tangible to sell to help increase your take at a gig.
Download cards can and should be sold, but your new fan can’t go out to their car and stick a download card in their player to give it a listen in between sets. Having other things to sell – merch, posters, and stickers – is helpful too, but your CD is the main course on that meal ticket.
• 70% of overall music industry revenues come from CD sales.
You don’t want to cut off that much revenue potential.
• You make more money selling CDs at gigs than selling downloads on somewhere like iTunes. A CD costs you between $.90 and $1.50 to manufacture. Sold at $15, that’s over $13 per unit. iTunes takes $2.99 per album, which leaves you with $7 per sale (assuming you are able to move any product via iTunes and don’t have to pay out any more of your money to a third vendor).
• Major-label CD and DVD sales in 2007 added up to $15.7 billion. That’s an encouraging number, even if it is in decline. Download sales were at $2.9 billion. Download sales are increasing for sure, but they still pale in comparison overall.
• CD Baby has seen an increase of 6% in sales since last year. Since 1997, CD Baby has sold over 5 million CDs. That’s easily over 400,000 per year on average, and growing. People are still buying independent releases.
3. No connectivity required.
If one thing is clear, the landscape in the music industry is changing. This is nothing new. We’ve been in business since 1946, and we’ve seen plenty of formats rise and fall. Digital downloads and transfers are clearly a model that you ought to pursue to their fullest extent, for both revenue and promotion, but CDs still represent the huge majority of revenue in the music industry. The fact is, some customers just don’t do downloads. You’ll lose a sale if you don’t have a CD for them. Even your grandmother knows how to use a CD.
4. Permanence (no crashing computers and lost data).
Your music is virtually permanent on a CD. Hard drives crash and MP3 players die, it’s a sad fact of life. But if you have a disc with the content on it, your message or album is not lost. And of course, if you own a CD, you can easily rip MP3s for storage or use with your favorite media player and still have the disc as a backup and for use with your stereo, car, etc.
5. A CD tells a story.
The artwork that comprises your CD package allows you to further illustrate your album’s artistic statement. A great looking CD and your specific choice of packaging say something about you and can help you further connect with your listening audience. Plus, listeners experience the track sequence, pacing, and breadth of your work exactly as you intended.
Singles certainly have their place and can spark interest in your act, but albums are the only way for you to create a thematic and sonic statement of where you as an artist are at the time the disc is recorded and released.
Someone browsing through iTunes may skim right over your band’s name or song titles. But that same person, given the opportunity, might pick up your CD package based on the appeal of the artwork alone. CDs are a one-stop, self-contained collection that deliver music, graphics, artwork, lyrics, photos, and credits — all in a neat, compact package.
Not to mention the fact that after spending months (or years) composing, refining, rehearsing, recording, mixing, and mastering, there’s a real sense of accomplishment in having something to physically embody the sweat, money, and tears that went into the work you’ve created. Digital files are a great way to deliver tunes, but nothing beats having a CD to represent the completion of your artistic efforts.
6. Shopping your music? CDs are the way to go.
CDs remain the preferred format if you’re shopping your music for film, TV, multimedia, gaming, or licensing opportunities. An overwhelming number of music editors and journalists still prefer a physical CD and press kit when being pitched an emerging or even an established artist.
Radio stations still utilize CDs in their selection of music for airplay.
If you choose not to press CDs, your chances for success and exposure on the radio are virtually non-existent. And while many artists now feel no need to court major labels to achieve success, if you do want a label’s attention, CD sales are the most important metric they’ll consider. If you prove you can move product, you’ve got a chance at impressing a label.
7. CDs sound better than MP3s.
CDs sound better than an MP3 download, because they’re not compressed like an MP3 file.
8. It makes a swell gift, too.
Want to reward members of your fan club and street team? There’s no better way than giving them a limited-edition CD with music recorded and packaged especially for them.
9. What’s true for majors isn’t true for indies.
The majors are selling fewer CDs, it’s true. Retail music CD sales are down anywhere from 9-14%. But you are not a major-label artist (at least not yet). Remember that the model for each is significantly different.
To really sell downloads in significant quantities, you need people actively seeking your music to buy. This requires a large and established fan base, and/or a popular hit single, and/or a tremendous amount of money spent on promotion, and/or a significant buzz on the web. As an indie artist, you may not have any of these things yet, you’re still building your name and awareness about yourself and your music. Chances are you’re giving away songs through digital distribution to promote yourself.
As an indie, you rely on hand-to-hand music sales, personal contact at gigs, something tangible you can hand to someone as soon as you’ve sparked an interest in your act. Nothing does that better than a CD.
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1. Make Best Use Of Recording Studio Time people use bad practices. I’ve seen people hire a studio for a day,
spend most of the day writing lyrics and playing on the studio’s
game console / snooker table, then using the last 1/5th of the
session to actually record their music. This I can understand if
you’re under a major record label with a limitless budget who won’t
take this studio time out of your album sales (I don’t think that’ll
ever happen?), but for anyone else this is a big waste of time and
money!
These studios have various entertainment in their buildings as
they WANT you to waste time. The more time you waste, the more
you’ll be going back to their studio and the more money they’ll
make. They’re a business, their aim is to make money… FROM YOU!
Counteract this by writing and practising all your lyrics at home.
That way, once you go into the studio all you’ll need to do is
record. After all, that’s what a recording studio should be for.
Anything else apart from the recording equipment is a distraction,
so don’t get tricked into lining someone else’s pocket.
Asyou do things, you should constantly be looking at what works and what doesn’t. Doing this will allow you to pick out things that are
worth doing and those that aren’t. When things don’t work, you
should ask yourself why they don’t work and if there’s anything you
can do to potentially make them work. When things do work, try and
find out why they work and see if you can do it on a bigger scale.
Many musicians don’t do this, and end up wasting valuable time on
things that aren’t working. Because they’ve never stopped to measure
the results they’re receiving, they don’t realise what they’re doing
is ineffective so carry on along the wrong path.Actively learning from your experiences and implementing what you
learn is a great way to streamline your efforts and help you reach
your goal a lot quicker.
habit of many independent musicians. Not having a plan can often
lead to a lack of focus and not really knowing what to do. For
example, many people have the goal of doing as many shows as
possible, but don’t have a plan of how they’re going to get these
shows and by when. You need to know how you’re going to do something
so you can systematically put it into practice (Randomly waiting for
shows to appear isn’t a very good strategy). You also need to know
by when so you’ve got a end date. If you don’t have a end date you
could be working to achieve one aim for years before you realise
it’s not working. At least if you set a date you can stop and
reflect on whether or not something is working and adapt
accordingly.
It’s often wise to set S.M.A.R.T aims. S.M.A.R.T stands of
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timed. You want to
make yourself specific goals that can be measured and will be
achievable. For example, you may say you want to do ten shows by the
end of the year. This is specifically what you want to do, it can be
measured with numbers, and it should be achievable. On top of this
it’s realistic and it has a time limit.
Making a plan for your music career with S.M.A.R.T steps will
allow you to have direction rather then just swinging out and hoping
for the best. Then, along with analysis, you can alter and refine
your plans to you find something that works for you.
an option for promoting to people at shows and the like, you can get
a lot of online promotion done for you automatically while you work
on other things. At Independent Music Advice for example, we use
Tweet Twain, FanBridge (free email blast to 400 subscribers) and/or
MailChimp (Which is free up to 500 subscribers). Tweet Twain automatically adds people to our twitter account, messages them, and updates our twitter status to a schedule we specify. These twitter users then check out our website and often sign up and / or
become regular readers. FanBridge sends free email blast to 400 subscribers. This service has been around for some time and is one of my favorites. MailChimp
automatically sends our subscribers pre written messages every week,
effectively building a relationship with our reader on auto pilot.
The amount of time these tools have saved has been extremely
valuable, and will allow you more time to make your music and do
anything else you need to do.
can really help you and they want to they’ll contact you back. When you’re networking there will be many people who will waste your time. The key is minimising the time they waste in your search for good music industry contacts, and holding on to the good contacts you find.
All these five steps will lead to a more efficient music career, saving you valuable time and money. If you know of any other ways to make your career more efficient, please let us know in the comments.How To Make Money From Free Music http://bit.ly/fwI8OT
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“Real Housewives Of Atlanta” Kandi Burruss’ deceased fiance A.J. Jewell’s daughter was shot in the head on Saturday. 15 year old Asheley Jewell was driving with friends when someone from another car that was chasing them, opened fire on the car she was riding in. She was hit in the back of the head and is now in critical condition. Police believe it was a road rage incident. This is what Kandi tweeted:
My heart feels heavy 2day. :-( I have my daughter & her friends so I'm trying to keep smiling but I'm worried about some1 else I care about
Kandi Burruss
Remember, Asheley was living with Kandi at the time her dad was murdered. Let’s keep her in our prayers.
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