MI's Music Business Program is featured in a front-page Los Angeles Times Calendar section article about the changing role of record company A&R representatives. The January 5 piece by staff writer Randy Lewis, "A&R Still Short For: Connection", includes perspectives from Music Business instructors and industry A&R veterans Jeff Blue, Don Grierson, and program director Kenny Kerner (pictured L-R). "The harsh reality is that few record companies, among the major labels anyway, have either the time, money or interest to nurture an act for four years, as Blue did with Linkin Park before the band became a platinum-selling smash," writes Lewis. "Grierson, Blue and their colleages...are hoping to equip a younger generation with the skills they'll need to succeed in a more demanding professional climate...By adapting bedrock A&R principles to a new media landscape, they're mining rock history to shape the future."

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