It's more than just a job: It's music, money and drinking beer with Zakk Wylde wearing a Mexican wrestling mask. Amy Sciarretto and Rick Florino distill years of real world experience into a practical, step-by-step career guide for anyone who wants to turn a love for music into a full-time job. Everything you need to know to go from the mosh pit, to backstage, to building your own music/entertainment start-up for little or no money. Amy and Rick pull back the curtain and show what really goes on behind-the-scenes in the highly competitive music industry. Learn how to launch an industry career from anywhere, and how to thrive in a changing, fast-paced enviornment. Includes more than twenty no-holds-barred interviews with Grammy winning, multi-platinum musicians and industry leaders. If you want a music industry job, if you want to start a magazine, a record label, a website, this book is the blueprint. This step-by-step guide to the music industry teaches the secret reason record companies want you as an intern; 13 things that can kill your chances of making it in; how to use the internet to launch your career; how to attract the right kind of attention - and avoid the wrong kind; how to spot bands that will help your career, and much more, written by two industry professionals.