Evan Gundlach- universal-music buisness- twin cities

Hello,

This week was a pretty hectic one. I had to be moving out of my apartment by the end of the weekend so I was running all over moving stuff back home, going to school, and interning. I ended up not having to come in on Friday since the music meeting was canceled and everyone in the analysis team where going to be gone. This was perfect since I needed a lot of time to move. I’m all done now but my week went pretty much like this. Tuesday went fine I worked a lot on the artist appearances and got a lot more information into the data base. I started a new schedule so I go in fifteen minutes earlier and get out a little early and it lets me beat a lot of traffic. One thing that I really like about universal is how laid back and understanding they are about a lot of things. Anyways Thursday I worked on more artist appearances but I got to fine new shows and add those into the data base. It was pretty cool that I got to make up my own section and put it in there. That was pretty much my week at universal. Till next time, Later!

-Evan Gundlach

These Contracts All Look The Same!!!

Hey there! Langen from Soup Bowl again. This week has been more or less the same as every other week.

I finished getting information from radio stations' websites and creating a spreadsheet that included normal information about the stations like address, phone number, and contact names. The list ended up being well over 200 radio stations long. Hopefully it will help Soup Bowl in the near future. It's helping me and Distractions right now. 

Ryan and I got a bunch of copies of contracts from some teachers at school and we were comparing them to try and help us write our own contracts with riders and we realized that they were all the same except for a little bit of different wording. We never actually got a contract written but we definitely got some good ideas for our own contracts.

Well that's all for this week. 

Peace

Langen

Gray Matters

Well this in Soup Bowl Records was a fun one. Okay not really, but it's been hot. On Tuesday I had to look up more college newspapers for Ryan, which I did. I've collected a huge list of them. I just have to look up the conferences that the schools are in and then look up their newspaper. Though some of the websites for the newspapers don't have their mailing address on there so that always makes it hard to get in contact with them. That's all I really did on Tuesday.

On Wednesday I had to send out some more blog emails like usual. That wasn't so bad, just the same old thing that I usually do every Wednesday. I send out the emails to the same places every week hoping that the band will get mentioned. Though it has happened twice to The Z-MO Trio. So that is good, knowing that all my hard work is getting paid off.

This week Ryan is going to be gone, so we get to work with Brian, so that will be good. You know experience something else besides Ryan, though he is great. I wonder what we will be doing this week without Ryan there. Hmmm, you'll have to wait till next week to find out what I did this week.

Christina

Bear, that is all.....

Well here I am again with another tale of the exciting life at Soup Bowl Records. Well last week I didn't have to send out any blog emails so that was kind of different and I didn't have to look for local support for any shows. On Tuesday I was in charge of looking for new college newspapers. I had to look on their websites and find an address, someone to contact and all that info so we can send them promo stuff about the bands if they decide to head out there.

This part also went into Wednesday's work, where I had to look all over. Though some of the websites I was looking on had no address for their newspaper, which was quite weird and quite frustrating at the same time. That is mainly what I had to for last week, I know it doesn't seem like a lot but it there are a lot of colleges out there.

I was going to work on radio stations but Langen got that job for Wednesday so I was lucky not to have to do that one. But who knows what I'll be put up to this week during my internship. Till next time,
Christina

Evan Gundlach, Universal, Music business, Twin citys

Greetings again! Well this week was just about as eventful as the last. Over last weekend someone broke into the office building and stole three laptops. This was a huge problem since many of the computers were being taken up but it let me do some other things around the office. I did a lot of work in the mailroom this time delivering packages and helping send things out. This was nice because I actually got to meet a lot more people in the office and I got to know a lot more about what other people do. On Tuesday I got two tickets to the jack Johnson at Apple River in Wisconsin. I was really excited because I didn’t think I was going to get a ticket since they are in such high demand. The concert was great and I had a great time. On Thursday some of the laptops came in so more computers opened up. I worked on an artist appearance data base. This is where we look at an artist that has had a live performance and we enter information into the data base about it. After this we look at there record sales for the following weeks after the performance. Once you get all this information then you can see if there is a lift in the CD sales. Certain shows give artists more of a lift and those are the shows universal wants to put their artists on. On Friday about half of the office was gone so there wasn’t a music meeting. It was a really slow quite day and I actually left about an hour early. I worked on more artist appearances and some of the album tracking database and it was a really nice way to end the week. Week 3 was a great one and I hope week 4 is even better. Talk to you next time.

-Evan Gundlach

Nick Garrison - A.E.M.G. - L.A.

Hello again from sunny California, and by sunny, I mean hot. The weather today was around 110 degrees in the valley.
This past week at Alan Ett I was able to sit in on more sound and dialogue editing for different television shows. It's been really interesting to see how the shows are sent to them from the production companies and how certain sounds are added and dialogue cleaned up to enhance shows. Little things that aren't noticed by the normal television watcher add a lot to the show. You would certainly notice if certain room noises were left out, but their subtly when added in makes the show sound so much different. And believe me, I have now seen a show both ways.

Other than that, not too much went on this week. I caught a little cold that was going around the office, which caused me to go home sick on Monday.

One last thing, I did go check out a church service here at a place called Mosaic I had heard about. They have podcasts and deal with different media outlets and after chatting with some of the production staff, I was invited to come out early next Sunday to observe how they set up their equipment and different things they do behind the scenes.

Take care,
Nick

Traci @ Key Club, LA-- Music Business: Nothing new...

Hey all,

So this week I really have nothing new to report.  I spent 3 days recovering from a stomach bug before being able to go back to my internship.  Those last two days of the week were spent taking it easy and working on a project to get all our event planning information in a neatly organized binder that can be easily accessed by our planners and be presentable to our clients.  

Saturday ended with a bang... You can take this to be funny, or turn-of-phrase, but ironically is 100% true.  No, I choose not to decipher it.  It is a personal matter and those that were involved know what I am talking about, to everyone else, I apologize for being cryptic.  

Today was spent in relaxation watching one of the best television series ever created, Studio 60.  If you haven't seen it, you should watch it.  It won't take long, it was only one season, which is a major blow to the world of GOOD television.  

That's all I have this week.  It wasn't a great one, so I apologize that this post is not as upbeat and quirky as usual.  

Traci