We polled industry experts for the March/April feature Dream Big: How To Succeed In Today’s Volatile Music Business. For those of you who really want to get ahead, here’s the full transcript of each interview, with lots of extra insights and advice.Mike King – Course Author, Instructor and Director of Marketing, Berkleemusic; former Marketing/Production Manager, Rykodisc; former Director of Marketing and Managing Editor, Arists House Music just recorded the best song I ever wrote. What’s the new model for getting my music heard? What to do with my demo?

via Dream Big: Mike King of Berkleemusic.com | American Songwriter.

Musicians getting in trouble with the law – well, that’s nothing new. What’s a good music resume without a couple of arrest reports to fill out the career dips? But what about that YouTube “take down” notice you just received for the video you posted of your band covering “Freebird?” You got a mechanical license to release the song on your CD right?, and the video turned out awesome, so you owe it to the world to post it online. But did you get a sync license for your online videos of cover songs?

via Wait! Don’t post that music video on YouTube without a sync license! | Disc Makers’ Echoes – Insight for Independent Artists.

What you’re seeing above is a great music video cover by Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers of the Hall & Oates classic I Can’t Go For That. The band has been recording from the dashboard of its tour van for some months, presumably between traveling from show to show. These great performances have been dubbed the “Van Sessions,” posted to YouTube and nicely curated into a playlist here. If you’ve seen it before, you’re in good company: This video hit the Internets on March 23, 2012 and has steadily been racking up views thanks to posts on Reddit.com, shares among friends on Facebook, showing up on Buzzfeed, thedailywh.at, boingboing.net and isnichwahr.de, among many others. You can see these stats if the uploader makes them available from video’s Youtube analytics, the little bar graph button under the video

via How to turn a YouTube hit into Dollars and Fans.

Facebook is changing all pages over to the new Timeline, like it or not. Here are the five things that if you address on your Facebook page you should be in pretty good shape.

via Five Things You Need to Do to Your New Facebook Timeline Page | Michael Brandvold Marketing – Music Marketing.

It’s always exhilarating finding cases like this that validate the lessons we so often, teach, learn, and debate here on MTT. This story in particular, highlights the power of conscientious direct-to-fan (D2F) communication on the part of Fleet Foxes’ front man, Robin Pecknold.

The Viral Power of Fan Communication: A Case Study On Fleet Foxes – MTT – Music Think Tank.