Come out May 19th 2012 12 noon at 2523 Bayou Road. Thousands of free books will be given away, There will be Music performances, activities, and food. A festival like no other.
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Poem by: @johnlacarbiere
Song by: http://www.facebook.com/KevinStylez

Up and coming singer and pianist Wynton Stylez kicks off season one of the Underground Tour show featured by http://thecoderednetwork.com | This show is geared toward the virtuosi of New Orleans music and culture. Share with a friend!

To Pay Or Not to Pay

“Should you pay to Perform”

What’s up everybody I have not written in a while but, I have a few new articles and advice I want to share answering a few questions you may have in the process. This includes to Pay or not to Pay referring to an Artist, Company, Talent or any other entity. I would suggest that making the decision to either pay to play or not pay will be a situational decision. For example if you are an upcoming artist and you are looking to get on a show and perform paying is usually your only option at your starting point. I am a believer that at some point you as the artist should graduate to being the one to get paid to perform but, that responsibility almost will fall directly on you as an artist. Why? Because it is up to the artist to put in work and build a DEMAND for his/her name and Brand. Just like with any other brand or business you may have to pay for certain entry fees and access areas to begin with and as you work to develop your business’s brand you will find that you will no longer need to put forth that money for those same and even greater points of entry. I have seen great debates over should an artist have to pay to perform and should a promoter charge an artist to perform. Usually in every case I find that Promoters never present the right argument or “defense” (because they are usually on the defense) and end up looking like the bad guy (which some are… but, that will be discussed in a later article), or Artist make weak arguments of why they should be paid. Example an Artist that has NO physical copies of his latest release, NO fully original material, No fan base, and nothing in the streets with NO performance history complaining about paying to perform is a bad argument. New Orleans is usually late on the business side of things and formatted changes which can cause most of these seemingly no brainer issues that should not be issues. When it comes down to it, If you are in a situation where you are benefiting a promoter you have a thing called demand. If you have yet, to create demand than pay. Simple. These principles can extend to Magazine/Site features, Album Features, and so on. Feel free to respond and stay tuned for more.

MightyJoe504

MightyMuzik™.com

The Code Red Network is bringing an entire digital network to New Orleans and its first show to hit the waves will be the NOLA Top10 Music video countdown show with host jusCookie from the Cookie Jar Radio show! If you are an artist and would like to submit your video for review to make the show please refer to the instructions below or visit http://thecoderednetwork.com :

FAQ: below is the link to our PDF file for the Video Submission guidleines! Please review guidelines and Submit videos for our upcoming shows!

VIDEO SUBMISSION GUIDE (click to download)

Hopefully you all have been following New Orleans talent 3d Na’Tee and her career aas it has developed. If not, it is not to late to jump on the ride! Here are some shots from an upcoming video release from the Diva to her song “Dear Father” which is filled with heart felt emotions that unfortunately many can relate to. Really great song you can check out more of her material at her official site: 3dnatee.com

With the success of last years Underground Tour which can be seen via our youtube page (youtube.com/mightymuzikmag) we are glad to announce that we will be bringing it back for another year! We have started filming for this new year and If you are an artist or New Orleans talent and are part of the underground scene email us [themag@mightymuzik.com] for consideration to be a feature on this years tour. Thanks for your support from all of us here at MightyMuzik™.

In early July we caught up with Alison (writer/editor) at Euclid Records in New Orleans to talk to her about the book project she worked on “The definition of Bounce” along with 10th ward Buck & Lucky Johnson.

Right on time as always comes the highly anticipated 2-cent yearly release of their Christmas video including HipHop artists that are currently relavent at the time. Really great production with a collection of visuals that will have you laughing. More videos can be seen at 2-cent.com.

This Industry Influence was definitely an event you would have wanted to be in the building for if you did not make it out. A lot of great information was given to compliment some great performances. Make sure you check out the featured folks in this video and make an attempt to attend Industry Influence. Remember every first Monday of the month be at the Hangar in New Orleans to network, see performances and get some great insight from people making their way thru the industry!