A two-day event bringing high level music industry debate and the most exciting new bands in the modern
world back to that narrow strip of land between the Hudson and the East River.

Curated by Manchester-based In The City in conjunction with AEG Live
and with several nods to the great traditions of the New Music Seminar which ruled in the 80s and early 90s
In The City of New York is two days of talking about music, thinking about music and just enjoying music.
Music, music, music: as a certain UK politician may have once said...

By night at the Nokia Theatre ITCofNY will host six of the UK's hottest new bands.
Followed by exciting after-show events throughout downtown Manhattan.
During the day industry leaders will gather in the W Hotel on Union Square for a series of panels,
seminars and master classes on the current state of the music industry and, more importantly,
where it's heading next. Like In The City, the daytime side of the event will centre on major industry
figures/legends in conversation with skilled interviewers - with Fred Davis, Marc Geiger,
Tom Silverman, Ted Cohen, Ralph Simon and the inimitable Bob Lefsetz already confirmed -
and again, like In The City it will cover the most cutting-edge topics affecting the industry we call home.

DRM: The end is nigh or is it?
Jobs and Niccoli say it's over; it's what Ged Doherty said at In The City
in Manchester last October. Didn't go down well.
He got in trouble for his honesty and his pains; whose pain
will DRM be if it continues?
Panelists: Scott Cohen, Rob Wetstone, David Card, William E. Pence, Jamie Perlman

Hey, man, New York Freeway's blocked man:
Festivals in the 3rd Millennium Glastonbury sold out in minutes,
Coachella getting full of Brits,
who says the music business is in trouble?
Panelists: Ed Bicknell, Paul Tollett, Marty Diamond, Gerry Gerrard, Brandon Schmidt

The Howl Seminar - "I have seen the best
minds of my generation"
Debate the future of this wonderful business.
It's chaos out there for the record companies; they don't know
whether they're coming or going. Most of them think they're going.
To offer some signposts to the future, ITCofNY invites some of its
favorite clever people. Correction, very clever people.
You don't need a weatherman but you do need to listen to these folks.
Panelists: Ralph Simon, Marc Geiger, Tom Silverman, Ted Cohen, Andy Gershon, Patrick Moxey

Bring me your poor and huddled masses
and we'll make stars of them and ship them back
From Hendrix to the Killers: why/how do US bands get their first exposure in the UK?
Is it that the UK is we're more open? Is it because your radio is shit? Let's all hear it for Chas Chandler;
how come it took a Geordie bass player to launch the creator of the electric guitar?
Panelists: Martin Heath, Jonathan Shalit, Asif Ahmed, Lesley Bleakley, Mark Reiter, Mattie Safer, Gabriel Andruzzi, Steve Ferguson

The New Music Retailers Panel
Apple showed the way but there's a bunch of other guys on their tail; when's Amazon getting in,
will anyone give us full on variable pricing, and who wants Paul McCartney with their latte
or Malcolm McLaren with their new sofa? (Great album though, sir)

A Brand New Approach to Music
A music industry in crisis still looks attractive to anyone trying to sell anything to young people...
make that sell anything to anyone. Here in the UK they're selling Marks and Spencer's clothes with
Itchycoo Park. "What did you do there? I got high." Yeah. Maybe we don't sell music anymore,
we sell other people's products.
Panelists: Andy Varley, Adam Bauer, Barry Lederman, Usher Winslett, Kris Chen, Gillian Nisbit, Trey Shelton, Matthew Hiltzik

The ITC Hypothetical
In The City's most in-demand ticket as a group of industry insiders are taken
through a hypothetical situation, which demands cunning, and in some cases even moral fibre.
Panelists: TBA