My guests on the podcast this week are founder and CEO Nick Laroche and lead designer Yohan Antoine-Édouard from the online collaboration platform BeatConnect. BeatConnect offers a low-cost, easy way for producers and musicians to collaborate either using the stand-alone online app or via a plugin on their favorite DAW. The platform arose from Nick’s frustration with […]
Continue readingIt’s easy to take an artist or band website for granted. After all, we’re all pretty well-versed in social media these days, and it’s easy to think that a website is unnecessary. Even worse is that we take it lightly and create something that’s a placeholder at best. Lest you think that it’s not important, […]
Continue readingMaking some real money from streaming seems to only apply to the top 0.1% of artists, and we’ve seen numerous studies that have indicated enormous revenue generated by a handful of artists. That’s on audio streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music though. What about TikTok? Here’s a list of songs that are raking in […]
Continue readingMy guest on the podcast this week is the CEO of Merlin, Jeremy Sirota. Merlin is a digital rights partner for independent labels and distributors all over the world. It’s powerful enough that some now refer to it as the 4rth major label. Jeremy previously held a number of senior positions at Warner Music Group and Facebook, […]
Continue readingUntil recently, the last thing most people ever thought about was being tracked online. We have a better sense of how that works now, but sometimes we’re still not aware that some of our most-used platforms know a lot more about us than we might be comfortable with. It turns out that Spotify has a […]
Continue readingOne of the ways we learn is by looking at the ideas that others are using successfully, and generally that works pretty well. When it comes to huge channels like Topper Guild, Sony Sab, or GR6 Explode however, their YouTube strategy probably won’t work for you as a band or artist, and in a bit, […]
Continue readingMy guest on the podcast this week is 18 time Grammy-winning engineer Benny Faccone, who started working at the famous A&M Studios back in 1980 where he worked on records by Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Supertramp, Michael Jackson and many more. After Benny went free-lance, he quickly became the go-to engineer for […]
Continue readingWe’re using the Internet more than ever in 2021 and the amount of communication is unprecedented. There are more platforms than ever and all of them are more active than ever before as well. Here are just a few numbers of what happens every 60 seconds online that might put things into perspective: Every 60 […]
Continue readingWe’re all curious about superstars on so many levels, but especially when it comes to how much they make. There are several lists that come out every year that takes a look inside the top music moneymakers, but I especially like the one from Billboard. This list looks at the top 5, and you’ll probably […]
Continue readingMy guest on the podcast this week is Barry Rudolph, who’s probably done more magazine gear reviews that anyone on the planet by a factor of 10. As an engineer, Barry’s worked on 15 gold or platinum records by artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hall and Oats, Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger and many more. Barry has also written […]
Continue readingEvery artist needs to understand his or her brand, but that’s easier said than done. First of all, most artists just don’t know where to get started. Although there’s a lot more information that can be found in my Social Media Promotion For Musicians book, here are a few things that you can do right […]
Continue readingFacebook has led the charge to take over as the king of online video, but while that hasn’t happened, it has settled into a groove of being a reliable host for videos. That said, while Facebook provides a somewhat different audience from YouTube, the strategy for posting videos has changed almost every year. A new […]
Continue readingMy guest on the podcast this week is Grammy Award-nominated keyboardist, composer, and record producer Jeff Lorber. Jeff has released more than 25 albums during his career and he’s considered one of the pioneers of the modern jazz genre. Many of his songs are featured on The Weather Channel’s “Local On The 8s” segments, and he’s contributed […]
Continue readingRecently Sony Music launched its “Artists Forward” initiative that that ignored any unrecouped balances for acts that were signed to the company before 2000 and have not had an advance since. The move garnered widespread applause across the industry, and now it announced it will extend the program to heritage songwriters as well. The new […]
Continue readingIf you’ve ever tried to register a domain you know that it can be a frustrating experience. Unless you grabbed your preferred name back way when websites were just taking off, chances are that the name you want is already taken. That leaves you to either using a modified domain name (bobbyowsinskilive.com instead of bobbyowsinski.com, […]
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