Your Social Media Image Size Guide For 2022

It’s great to have a social presence and even better when it helps your music, but for those that can’t afford a social media manager and do everything themselves, it’s easy to get overwhelmed sometimes. One of the most frustrating things for artists doing their own social media is graphics. Each social platform changes their […]

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Jeff Komar Of Avid Answers Your Immersive Audio Questions On My Latest Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Avid Solutions Specialist Jeff Komar. Jeff grew up around music and recording so he naturally gravitated towards the tech world. He joined Digidesign in 2000 before it was bought by Avid, and he’s specialized in helping creators solve problems ever since.  Since there have been so many […]

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How YouTube’s Copyright Match Tool Can Make You Money

While YouTube has a very powerful tool to help catch reuploads in its Copyright ID tool, it’s not as proactive as many would like. For instance, Copyright ID might flag a video for using your music, but many times it’s up to you to catch a problem by just searching around to see what happens. […]

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What Your Taste In Music Says About Your Spending Habits

Connecting what we listen to with how we act or what we buy has always been somewhat hit or miss. It’s almost like equating how someone dresses when they go out to a club or concert with what they wear to work. Sometimes it matches but most of the time it doesn’t. That being said, […]

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Mastering Engineer Michael Romanowski Talks Immersive Mastering On My Latest Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Grammy-nominated mastering engineer Michael Romanowski, who’s the owner and chief mastering engineer at Coast Mastering in Berkley, CA. Michael has over 30 years of experience mastering in stereo, but he’s been a pioneer in mastering for immersive audio, complete with a new purpose-built 9.1.6 room. Michael’s immersive […]

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There’s Still Time To Schedule Your Year

Being an artist is hard. There’s so much to do and it seems like there’s never enough time. One way to lessen the burden to make a schedule for the year, and while this better done in December, it’s still not too late. Yes, it may change as your year rolls along, and that’s okay. […]

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Here’s Why You Can’t Upload Directly To Spotify

Did you ever wonder why you can’t upload your songs directly to Spotify? How about Apple Music or Amazon Music? Why can the record labels do it but an indie artist can’t? If you remember, Spotify did have a direct upload program, but it ended on July 1st, 2019 without a word as to why. […]

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Happy New Year – Here’s To A Great 2022

Happy New Year everyone! Let’s have a safe, happy and prosperous 2022 together. As always, I’m very grateful and thankful for your continued support!

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Trends And Predictions For 2022 On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

It’s that time of year again to take a look back at the influential music business stories from 2021, see how the predictions from last year fared, and have a look forward to the trends and predictions for 2022. Among the things I’ll discuss in Podcast 401 include: Music centers shifting to new places on […]

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Music 3.0 Has Again Been Named One Of The Top Music Blogs

Thank you, Feedspot, for selecting the Music 3.0 blog as one of the Top 60 Music Industry Blogs. It’s an honor to be mentioned in the same breath as Billboard and Music Business Worldwide as well as many other fine publications. This is the second time in a month that Music 3.0 has been named […]

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What The Current Social Media Landscape Looks Like

We’ve seen quite a consolidation of social platform usage over the last few years but this infographic from Visual Capitalist is still surprising. As you can see, the current social media landscape is dominated by one player and two lesser giants, with everyone else trailing far behind. As you might have guessed, Meta (formerly Facebook) […]

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A Merry And Happy (And Safe) Christmas To You

Have a very merry Christmas and a wonderful Holiday. Stay safe so we can enjoy the upcoming new year together. Thank You! I am grateful, thankful and humbled by your continued support.

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Some Personal Studio Horror Stories On Episode 400 Of My Inner Circle Podcast

We’ve hit a milestone today with Episode 400 so I’m going to change things up a little. There’s new theme music (I’m not sure if I like it – if you have something better please send it), and the upcoming episodes this year will be more theme-based. First up will be a deep-dive into immersive […]

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Delivery-Only TikTok Kitchen Chain Slated To Open Soon

I guess it had to happen sooner or later. TikTok is said to be in the process of opening up a string of delivery-only restaurants they’re calling TikTok Kitchen across the United States this coming March. The company plans to have 300 locations when it opens with as many as 1,000 by the end of […]

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Engineer Dennis Moody, No New Rock On The Album Charts, And The State Of Sampling

My guest on the podcast this week is my good friend for many years Dennis Moody, who also appeared on the very first episode of the Inner Circle Podcast as well as number 100, 200 and 300. This is episode #399 and I’m going to be changing things up starting on episode 400 so I wanted to […]

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