With the national shutdown of schools and the advent of stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines, the RIL initiative had to switch gears.

\Do you have a single? How are you going to bring attention to it? What is going to make people stream it? Playing it in the club …

A captivating speaker and music industry veteran takes audiences on a behind-scenes-journey inside today’s music business.

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Wendy Williams, says Blackout is that music industry book!

Music industry veteran Paul Porter has released the book “Blackout,” an explosive look at the corruption running rampant in the music industry.

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“Blackout” takes readers on a ride through Porter’s whirlwind of media jobs, working for and with some of the music industry’s most colorful, well-known and scandalous players.

Blackout: My Forty Years In The Music Business, is a chronicle of my successes and failures, my dreams and disappointments in the music business.

Blackout: My Forty Years In The Music Business