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The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music Tisch School of the Arts, New York University is proud to introduce JARED GUTSTADT, CEO of Jingle Punks the revolutionary online and iPad music licensing service for an intimate discussion and live session on MAKING AND SELLING YOUR MUSIC Friday, February 4th @ 4:15pm (doors open at 4:00)721 [...]

The Clive Davis Department of Recorded MusicTisch School of the Arts, New York University is proud to announce SONGTRUST: HOW TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR MUSIC PUBLISHING W/ DOWNTOWN MUSIC Thursday, December 9th from 6:30pm-8:30pm721 Broadway, 9th Floor Lobby Do you take your music seriously but don’t know how to take control of your publishing [...]

Get a free download of “Anarchy,” the first single release from Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music alumnus Sam Belkin’s band Nobody Can Dance. If you prefer to buy your music, the song is available on most digital music stores.  Enter “Nobody Can Dance” in the search bar of a store like iTunes or Amazon.com [...]

In May 2008, Dan Chertoff was getting ready to graduate from The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. He’d also just started a new A&R gig at Canvasback, a record label headed by industry vet Steve Ralbovsky as a joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment. Now Canvasback has jumped the Sony ship and moved over [...]

Princeton @ Union Hall from Patrick Duffy on Vimeo. Rock band Princeton, managed by Clive Davis Department alumnus Seth Kallen, received a positive review for their Sept. 9th Union Hall gig in the New York Times: reviewer Jon Carmanica called their upcoming album Cocoon of Love “harming and frisky, with touches of the Cure and [...]

Though 2008 Clive Davis Department alum Zach Berkman got voted off early this August from MTV’s reality competition show P. Diddy’s Starmaker, we look forward to bigger and better things from this talented singer-songwriter. Zach’s updates since leaving the show, via the MTV blog site: “I released a brand new five-song EP called As Far [...]

Buzzworthy Los Angeles band Princeton is releasing their debut record Cocoon of Love this fall on Kanine Records. The band is managed by 2009 Clive Davis Department alumni Seth Kallen for his company This Side Up Sounds. Princeton has recently gotten praise from influential blogs such as Pitchfork, Stereogum, and NY Mag, and will be [...]


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The Clive Davis Institute is an innovative undergraduate leadership training program for aspiring creative music entrepreneurs, housed at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Students who dream of becoming leading executives, recording artists, record producers and music journalists come to us to learn the art and business of creating and selling hit music.

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  • Bobby Davis: TO WHITNEY This sadness I have inside Brings me down, makes me cry We’ll miss that infecti [...]
  • Deborah Evans: Today, Saturday, we lost one of the all time greatest singers of my generation. It was announced tha [...]
  • CHRIS WILKINSON: GOD BLESS YOU CLIVE AND THE WHOLE HOUSTON FAMILY... WHITNEY.. WHAT YOU GAVE US WAS IMMEASURABLE TALE [...]
  • veronica: Is there a workshop for adults? Or is this strictly for high schoolers? There really needs to be an [...]
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What I'm Doing...

  • Menya's about to open for RCA band 2am Club at Blender Theater 2 nite...exciting 2010-04-21
  • Kevin Liles, Mick Rock, DJ Rekha, Kevin Killen, Mocean Worker...check out all our summer masterclasses: http://tinyurl.com/y69ysms 2010-04-21
  • Steve Lillywhite did an amazing job lecturing for us last week. Thanks Steve! http://tinyurl.com/y2opjox 2010-04-21
  • our new Future Music Moguls workshop is underway...priority deadline to apply is October 16...see http://www.futuremusicmoguls.com 2009-09-24
  • thanks to all for a great Michael Jackson panel discussion last night....video will be coming soon for those who couldn't make it 2009-09-18
  • thursdays discussion panel on michael jackson panel is sold out....looks like michael fever hasnt died down yet 2009-09-16
  • exciting weekend....NYU Open House is Saturday...The VMAs on Sunday....and then Oprah with Whitney Houston on Monday...yes! 2009-09-11
  • theme of the day, should you walk into our lobby, is 80s pop classics....go Belinda Carlisle! 2009-09-08
  • we're up and blogging...and twittering now! 2009-09-08
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