It is important to vote. It is important for the nation to see that New Orleans is a place that is changing for the better. How can we think about sending a man (William Jefferson) back to Washington who has not explained the presence of $90,000 in FBI marked cash in his freezer? Karen Carter (Jefferson’s opponent) works hard in the Louisiana legislature and helped the music industry pass some excellent tax incentives to encourage recording in Louisiana similar to the film credits.

Basin Street Records’ CDs make great gifts. We offer quantity discounts and will customize your corporate gifts with stickers on the outside of the shrinkwrap. For more information, email us at gifts@basinstreetrecords.biz.

Today’s Times-Picayune has a story about Loyola University’s Music Industry Studies program. Did you know that Mark Samuels, the President of Basin Street Records is an adjunct professor and teaches one of the sections of Introduction to Music Industry Studies in this program? Follow this link to the story:
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1163399627214170.xml&coll=1

Mark Samuels, President, Basin Street Records will participate in this months Politics with a Punch. Click here for details:
http://www.ringsidepolitics.com/index.php?pageID=8

Check out this cool piece on Theresa Andersson
http://nolaview.blogs.nola.com/default.asp?item=217083

Jazz Journalist Larry Blumenfeld talked today on WNYC’s Soundcheck from New York City about the issues facing musicians in New Orleans. Listen to an “on demand” replay now at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2006/10/13.