– JESSICA PACE j.marie.pace@gmail.com
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The Workplace Lab, a recorded podcast with listeners around the globe, is in search of industry experts in all fields, including the entertainment industry, to come on the show and talk trade secrets. That includes pay, branding, networking tips, communication strategies and more. Contact show host Ariana Robinson Danquah with booking inquiries at Contact@ WorkplaceLab.org. Recorded podcast Advance Your Art seeks creative types who have used their skills to change careers, build a company or for some other entrepreneurial endeavor to discuss how they did it. Contact Yuri Cataldo at Yuri@Ad vanceYourArt.com for more information. Established music marketing and promotion company, A man A plan A canal, needs a summer 2017 intern to cultivate relationships with radio stations and universities through calls and ELTON JOHN emails, data entry, report preparation, social media management, tour promotion, show attendance and more. It’s an unpaid position but a great foot in the door. Current projects include the Flaming Lips, the Magnetic Fields and more. A résumé and cover letter are required in the application. Visit AmanAplanAcanal.com for more information. Radiant Images, an award-winning camera rental house, is hiring a hi-tech motion picture solution consultant, which might give you the chance you’re looking for to meet tons of people in the film industry. The position is responsible for negotiating with producers and camera assistants on contracts for company equipment and requires strong organizational and communication skills. Applicants must have at least three years’ experience in the camera industry and an understanding of the equipment. The company offers competitive salary and benefits. To be considered, submit a résumé and cover letter and visit RadiantImages.com for more information.
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Stax Records recently reissued Melvin Van Peebles’ landmark, genre-defining album, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, on vinyl as part of a year-long initiative to celebrate the record label’s 60th anniversary. The 1971 soundtrack, performed by a then-unknown Earth, Wind & Fire with contributions by Van
Peebles, is also now available for the first time in hi-res digital formats and includes new liner notes from music critic Jeff Weiss and from Van Peebles’ son, Mario Van Peebles, who directed 2003’s Baadasssss! about the making of his father’s film. Melvin Van Peebles was a torch-bearing writer, director, actor and composer who directed, scripted, edited and scored the entire film of the same name, which is soundtracked by a soulful, funky and gritty combination of hymn-based vocalization and jazz rhythms. For further details, contact Aaron Feteri at Aaron@ReckoningPR.com. Elton John’s and Bernie Taupin’s hits “Rocket Man,” “Tiny Dancer” and “Bennie and the Jets” have been reimagined in video as winners of The Cut were revealed at a world premiere screening in Cannes, France. Majid Adin’s winning video for “Rocket Man” was described as “a poignant animated work” that draws on his personal experiences as an Iranian refugee making his way to England. The “Bennie and the Jets” video was interpreted by directors Jack Whiteley and Laura Brownhill as a futuristic talent show inspired by Fritz Lang’s 1927 science-fiction film, Metropolis. Max Weiland’s winning video for “Tiny Dancer” is a tribute to Los Angeles and its people, who are connected by love for the song. Contact Imani Troy at ITroy@RogersAndCowan.com for more information. All videos are accessible on YouTube here: Youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqye wHETEzWVJ1mWMAsm7uNczYbc_IlMG. Cidny Bullens is on tour, performing his widely praised live autobiographical show, Somewhere Between: Not an Ordinary Life, in which the Grammynominated musician talks love, death and gender identity through storytelling and song. Directed by Taylor Rubinstein, Bullens tells his story from arriving in Los Angeles in the mid-‘70s, working with Bob Dylan, Rod Steward and Sir Elton John, and recording critically acclaimed album Desire Wire in the late ‘70s, which brought Bullens international fame. Bullens also tells of losing 11-yearold daughter Jessie to cancer and struggling with gender identity to the point of finally deciding to change his name from Cindy to Cidny and transition from female to male to embrace the person he always felt he was. Contact Cary Baker at Cary@Conqueroo.com for more details. JESSICA PACE is a music journalist-turned-news-reporter based in Durango, CO. She is from Nashville, where she started a writing career by freelancing for publications including American Songwriter and Music Connection. Contact her at j.marie.pace@gmail.com.
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Eliot Glazer
Media and TV writer, musician Web: EliotGlazer.com Contact: Heidi Vanderlee, HV@ SharkPartyMedia.com Most Recent: Haunting Renditions Eliot Glazer’s new live concert creation, Haunting Renditions, offers “an intimate night of bad music made good” once a month, in which he takes low-brow pop songs––anything from Avril Lavigne to Shaggy––and transfigures them into classically arranged productions. Glazer says. “These songs really tickle the audience, and they remember the lyrics. I like doing these songs that are just left-ofcenter, just off the radar, and present them in a funny context.” Glazer’s most well-known job might be as executive story editor of the popular Fox series New Girl. Glazer broke into the world of script writing while studying in New York, where eventually one of his scripts landed on the desk of Darren Star, who hired Glazer to write for his TV Land series, Younger. That led Glazer to bigger things, including the writer’s room for New Girl. One of the biggest challenges of entering the profession, he says, is learning to market oneself without “driving people away or pissing your friends off.” “Getting the word out is really difficult. It’s a crowded marketplace, and with social media it’s difficult to make a splash. The challenge is figuring out how to do that appropriately,” he says. “If you’re modest, you have to learn to be more aggressive.” Glazer also writes for such projects as Comedy Central’s Broad City, and he developed an original half-hour comedy for Comedy Central with Executive Producer Will Arnett, and created the viral video Shit New Yorkers Say, which has four million YouTube hits. He also created a comedic web series that addresses gay issues, culture and stereotypes. Through it all, Glazer has avoided a pigeonhole, which he attributes to tenacity and simple friendliness. “It’s a matter of really being thoughtful and being a self-starter and also ingratiating with the community,” Glazer says. “Whatever community you want to be part of, figure out the way to get in there. A lot of that comes from just being nice.” July 2017
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