At the Future of Music Policy Summit, impressive names that start with “Senator” or “Chairman” or “CEO” or “Rock Star” tend to hog the limelight. But there’s so much more that the conference has to offer us mere mortals — whether we’re musicians, techies or label folks (or maybe a combination of all three). In this post, we’ll shine a light on five Policy Summit gems with their own brand of star power. read more

We at Future of Music Coalition are huge fans of Mac McCaughan, and not just because he’s a member of indie-rock stalwarts Superchunk and Portastatic. And not only due to the fact that he co-founded in 1989 one of the most influential and forward-looking independent record labels around, Merge Records. And not simply because Mac is an all-around awesome dude (which he is).

Don’t miss Mac at the 2009 Future of Music Policy Summit (Oct. 4-6, Georgetown University Washington, DC)! read more

Can we get a drumroll, please? (Apologies to David Letterman.) read more

For this edition of FMC’s “Behind the Policy Summit” series, we’re traveling across the pond to introduce you to another fabulous speaker at Future of Music Policy Summit 2009. Today’s victim, er, subject is Brian Message — a partner in Courtyard Management (the team representing Radiohead, Supergrass and the 22-20s, among others). In addition to his high-profile management duties, Brian is also the newly appointed chairman of the Music Managers Forum in the UK. read more

Continuing with our “Behind the Policy Summit” series, we’re very excited to introduce not one, but two speakers with whom you’re probably already familiar. But let’s talk about ‘em anyway! read more

With FMC’s 2009 Policy Summit just around the corner (Georgetown University in DC, Oct. 4-6), we figured it’s a great time to get you better acquainted with some of the awesome speakers we have lined up for this year’s event.

First up is Ian Rogers of Topspin Media — a digital visionary who’s helping to shape the future of music. read more