January 30, 2025

Producer And Designer James “Homebwoi” Maddox On My Latest Podcast

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In this week’s podcast episode, I sit down with the brilliant hip hop artist, producer, and designer James ‘Homebwoi’ Maddox. Homebwoi’s work has been featured on 10 major label albums, 2 major motion pictures, and 3 commercially released video games. Not only that, he’s also the head of product design for his company Metro Southern Media, […]

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January 30, 2025

Spotify Is Paying Songwriters Less, And A Federal Judge Says That’s OK

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Artist often complain about the royalty payout from Spotify, but they’re making great money compared to songwriters. Generally songwriters make about a quarter of what an artist makes, but that’s going to decrease even further after a federal judge ruled in favor of Spotify over the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) in a lawsuit about bundled […]

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January 23, 2025

Acoustician Norman Varney On My Latest Podcast Episode

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In this week’s podcast episode, I sit down with the amazing Norman Varney of AV RoomService. Norman is an acoustic consultant who has designed over 500 critical listening rooms around the world, starting back to when he owned an audio retail store.  After that, he became director of the Custom Installation and Home Theater divisions at Music Interface Technologies. There he […]

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January 10, 2025

This Could Be The Algorithm That Frees Us From AI-Generated Music

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I don’t think that musicians are inherently against AI-generated music when used as a tool, but they’re certainly insulted and outraged when it’s used instead of real human-generated music. This is especially egregious when a song generated by an algorithm is collecting Spotify or TikTok royalties while real artist’s tracks go unplayed. The real problem […]

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