Published by
BethanyLeavey on
October 13, 2009 in
Artist News.
Tags: advice for music industry, All The Right Elements, Arkansas, career advice, entertainment industry, industry professionals, Little Rock, mtv, Music Industry, Sway, symposium.
MTV's Sway Calloway
MTV Executive Producer and influential Hip-Hop personality Sway Calloway will be launching a series of symposiums aimed at helping people who are interested in having a successful career in the television, radio, entertainment and multimedia industries. Titled “All The Right Elements”, these symposiums will feature moderated discussions with industry professionals on topics such as The State Of The Music Business, How To Break An Artist, Marketing And Promoting Your Artist and The Future Of Multimedia. Registrants will also be able to interact with the industry professionals during organized Q&A sessions. Sway and his business partners entertainment executives Rich Nice and Kelly Jackson hope to use their combined twenty-five plus years in marketing, promotions, artist development, publicity and A&R to advise others who are looking to follow in their footsteps.
The debut All The Right Elements event will take place in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at the Statehouse Convention Center, with more dates in select cities across the country for 2010 to be announced soon.
Quoth the French existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre: “Hell is other people.”
It’s a heck of a philosophy to build a record around, but one that struck a chord with American Princes. Not only does the Little Rock band reference Sartre in the title of their excellent 2008 release, Other People, they also inject their power-pop with a good dose of his social unease. Co-frontmen Collins Kilgore and David Slade take turns intoning jittery refrains such as, “I have never felt so alone,” and “You can’t change yourself / You can’t change the world.” Sounds pretty bleak on paper, yet the power of this group lies in their ability to deliver anxious manifestos as hook-laden rock on par with the Wrens and Hot Hot Heat.
Daedal and fearless, Other People takes listeners on a brilliant joyride through pop, new wave, even a little reggae. One thing’s for certain, paranoia never felt so good.
