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THAT RETAIL CHICK: Desiree Williams (right) and Anthony David at Sound Shop

It’s been over a year since we featured Desiree Williams in Creative Loafing. At the time, she’d just played an integral role in helping Atlanta soul mainstay Anthony David garner commercial radio spins on V-103 (WVEE-FM).

Since then, Williams, who manages Sound Shop at the Mall West End, has been extending her retail/industry expertise beyond the record store via her funny-as-hell, informative column, That Retail Chick, in which she dispenses priceless advice to unsigned artists.

Check out several of the tips from a recent post — Top 20 reasons artists don’t make it in the music industry — on her newly established blog, That Retail Chick:

3. “I’m from OHIO and I moved to ATL to break my music because OHIO ain’t feeling me???”

• If you can’t make a name for yourself in your own city, do you really think it will be easier in ATL? If you just moved to Atlanta thinking this is the place to make a name for yourself in the music industry, take a number. Because you just got in line with a slew of other folks that came here to do the same.

7. ”Artist development…man f–k that, I got SWAG!”

• For all of the artists out there, that have deals, songs on the radio, reality TV shows, or the ones that have no buzz at all; Swag is no good without PERSONALITY and media training is a must! Fans want to see a STAR! And grabbing your pants to hold them up while try to walk or acting stand-off-ish around fans will not work! You may have swag on a record or in a video, but your personality is at Level Zero in person! (more…)

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Criminal Records
466 Moreland 1154-A Euclid Avenue
404.215.9511
Week ending 2/28/2009

1) Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
2) Morrissey Years of Refusal
3) M. Ward Hold Time
4) Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion
5) Trail of Dead The Century of Self
6) Dan Averbach Auerbach Keep It Hid
7) Abe Vigoda Reviver
8) Anthony & the Johnsons The Crying Light
9) Dexter Romweber Duo Ruins of Berlin
10) Various Artists Dark Was the Night

Moods Music
1131 Euclid Ave.
404-589-9379
Week ending 2/27/09

1) Mabanua Done Already
2) The Foreign Exchange Leave It All Behind
3) Slakah the Beatchild Soul Movement Vol. 1
4) Samon Kawamura Unfold
5) Lalah Hathaway Self Portrait
6) V The Revelation Is Now Televised
7) Ledisi Soul Singer
8) Omar The Collection
9) Pete Rock The Surviving Elements
10) DJ Jamad Afromentals Presents: Fro Evah
(more…)

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Criminal Records
466 Moreland Avenue
404.215.9511

For week ending 2/20/2009

2. Morrissey Years of Refusal
3. M. Ward Hold Time
4. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavillion
5. Trail of Dead The Century of Self
6. Dan Averbach Keep It Hid
7. Abe Vigoda Reviver
8. Anthony & The Johnsons The Crying Light
9. Dexter Romweber Duo Ruins of Berlin
10. Various Artists Dark Was The Night

Decatur CD
356 W. Ponce de Leon Ave.
404.371.9090

For week ending 2/20/2009

1. Various Artists Dark Was The Night
2. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
3. Beirut March of the Zapotec
4. M. Ward Hold Time
5. Vertiver Tightly Knit

Wuxtry Records
2096 N. Decatur Road
404.329.0020

For week ending 2/20/2009

1. Bob Dylan Tell Tale Signs
2. Don Iver Blood Bank
3. Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique 20th Anniversary Edition
4. The Killers Day & Age
5. Miles Davis Kind of Blue

Big Oomp Records
1120 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd. SW Ste. 2
404.755.5100

For week ending 2/20/2009

1. O.J. Da Juiceman Otha Side of The Trap

2. Beyonce I am Sasha Fierce
3. Jamie Foxx Intuition
4. Ludacris Theater of The Mind
5. DJ Unk Second Season

Sound Shop
816 Oak St. SW
404.752.9494

For week ending 2/20/2009

1. Charlie Wilson Uncle Charlie

2. Jamie Foxx Intuition
3. Anthony Hamilton Point of It All
4. Bobby Valentino Rebirth
5. India Arie Testimony Vol.2
6. T.I. Paper Trail
7. Beyonce I am Sasha Fierce
8. Keisha Cole A Different Me
9. Plies Da Realest
10. Musiq Soulchild ONMYRADIO

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