Category Archives for "Inner Circle Podcast"
December 26, 2017
A Look Back At 2017, And A Look Ahead On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
No guest on the podcast this week because it’s time for my annual look back at the year in the music business and music production. We’ll go over some of the big events of the year that will have an effect on next year as well. Speaking of next year, I’ll also look at some […]
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December 19, 2017
Producer Eric Copeland On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Eric Copeland, who has become one of the top Christian and jazz producers in the country, producing around 25 artists every year. His specialty is not just music, but guiding and growing artists thanks to his decades of experience in the music business. Eric also has a […]
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December 12, 2017
Music Business Consultant Bryan Calhoun On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest this week on the podcast is Bryan Calhoun, who’s been a business and marketing consultant to artists like Kanye West, Lil Wayne, The Cult, Questlove, Nicki Minaj, and Drake. He’s a noted music industry speaker, and has given workshops at conferences that include SXSW, MIDEM, The New Music Seminar, CMJ, ASCAPs I Create […]
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December 5, 2017
Producer/Engineer Bob Power On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
This week’s podcast guest is Bob Power, who’s a Grammy Award–winning and multi-platinum producer, engineer, composer, arranger, performer, and educator. Bob started his career as a television and advertising composer, working on campaigns for The American Cancer Society (an Emmy Award winner), AT&T, Casio, Coca-Cola, Elizabeth Arden, Hardee’s, Hertz, Intel, Mercedes-Benz, Purina, and The United […]
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November 28, 2017
Television Audio Engineer Jeri Palumbo On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
Jeri Palumbo is a television broadcast engineer, audio mixer and RF tech who’s worked on hi-profile sports shows for more than 25 years. She’s been part of the TV audio team for all of the most celebrated sporting events, including the Super Bowl, NBA and NHL playoffs, and most recently, the World Series. Not only […]
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November 21, 2017
Artist Manager Nicholas Mishko On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
Nicholas Mishko is an artist manager who brings a blend of old school wisdom to modern management. After a stint at Abkco Music and Records in the New York watching deals for music by legacy artists like The Who and Rolling Stones, Nicholas was well armed for negotiating recording and publishing contracts. That’s a skill […]
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November 14, 2017
Mastering Engineer John Greenham On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on this week’s podcast is Mastering engineer John Greenham, who has won 3 Grammy’s and been nominated for 6 others. His client list includes work for Katy Perry, Mary J Blige, Ice Cube, Jennifer Lopez, Sam Smith and many more. We spoke at length about mastering via phone from his studio in in […]
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November 7, 2017
Musicpreneur Tommy Darker On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
Musicpreneur Hub is a global community of music entrepreneurs where you can ask anything about music and your question will be connected with handpicked, top industry experts to answer. Tommy Darker is a musician, lecturer at the University of Westminster, speaker at global music conferences, and the founder of that great music resource site. I […]
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October 24, 2017
The Recording Academy’s Government Relations Officer Daryl Friedman On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest today is Daryl Friedman, who’s the chief government and member relations officer for the Recording Academy. Daryl joined the Recording Academy in 1997 and established the organization’s Washington, D.C., office, where he created The Academy’s GRAMMYs on the Hill initiatives. . There are some major copyright and royalty issues facing artists and songwriters […]
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October 17, 2017
TV Composer Rich Tozzoli On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on my latest podcast is television composer and author Rich Tozzoli. Rich has written an incredible 16,000 music cues that have been used on more than 10,000 cue sheets on 714 television series! Rich is not only a great composer but he’s also a talented engineer as well, and the author of several […]
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October 10, 2017
Composer/Arranger Dennis Dreith On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest today is composer/arranger Dennis Dreith, who started in the business playing sax for The Beach Boys but soon turned to composing and orchestrating for commercials, television and motion pictures. Along the way Dennis wrote the scores for cartoons for Hanna Barbara, television movies of the week like Columbo, and motion pictures like A […]
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October 3, 2017
Producer/Engineer J.J. Blair On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest this week is Grammy-winning producer/engineer J.J. Blair, who has a wide variety of credits that go from Johnny Cash to Rod Stewart to Weezer to the Black Eyed Peas, and many more. J.J. is an avid microphone collector and we spoke at length about his collection, his studio, and his techniques, as […]
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September 26, 2017
Marketing, Content and Technology Consultant Frank Wells On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
Frank Wells started his career in the music business as head of technical services at the famed Masterfonics studio complex in Nashville, but then made a left turn when he become editor first of Audio Media Magazine, and then later Pro Sound News. I talked to Frank about some of the things that go on […]
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September 19, 2017
The Story Behind Berklee’s Avatar Acquisition With Ian Kagey On My Latest Podcast
Recently the recording world was shocked to hear that Berklee College of Music acquired one of New York City’s most glorious studios – Avatar (formerly known as Powerstation). There are still a lot of questions as to what’s going to happen with the facility, but on this podcast we get the answers right from the […]
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September 12, 2017
Are You Owed Money You Don’t Know About? – The Topic Of My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
Are you owed money for playing on a record that you don’t know about? That’s what the topic of my latest podcast is about. My guests today are PR and marketing manager Brian Stewart and Chief Operating Officer Shari Hoffman from the AFM SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund. The fund distributes over $60 million […]
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