Music Video Production May Be A Thing Of The Past With AI-Generated Videos From Rotor Videos

Music video production can be a tedious and expensive task, and one that many artists consider a necessary evil. For some artists, the fun is in making music not in trying to translate it to picture. That task could be a thing of the past thanks to artificial intelligence and the AI-generated videos from companies […]

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Terry Manning Part 2, TikTok Blowing Up With Gen-Z, And What Makes Music Universal On My Latest Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is part 2 with the legendary Terry Manning, who’s had successful careers as a record producer, audio engineer, photographer, composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist. Over his career, Terry has worked on some huge hits with Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Otis Redding, Joe Walsh, Shania Twain, Al Green, Lenny Kravitz […]

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If You Post A Lot To YouTube, You’ll Like These Upcoming New Creator Features

One thing that YouTube does well is listen to its users. Sometimes it takes them a while to respond, but they usually will add a feature or two that everyone really wants. If YouTube is one of your main social media tools, then you’re really going to like these new upcoming Creator features that will […]

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The New Era Of High-Fidelity Music Finally Begins With Apple Spatial Audio

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that I’ve been predicting Apple would release its long-awaited high-fidelity music tier any time now. Of course, I’ve been predicting this for the past 5+ years, but with today’s announcement of the launch of its Spatial Audio service that prediction will finally come […]

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Producer/Engineer Terry Manning, Hit Trends On The Billboard Hot 100, And The Best Song Tempo To Study To On My Latest Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is the legendary Terry Manning, who’s had successful careers as a record producer, audio engineer, photographer, composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist. Over his career, Terry has worked on some huge hits with Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Otis Redding, Joe Walsh, Shania Twain, Al Green, Lenny Kravitz and many more.  […]

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Music Licensing Expert Michael Elsner, Singles That Won’t Die, And Focusrite Acquires Sequential Circuits On My Latest Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Michael Elsner, who started playing sessions for a multitude of television, album and film projects, which eventually led to his own music appearing on TV and film as well.  As a songwriter and composer, his songs have been placed in over 180 individual television series, accounting for over 800 individual […]

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No Wonder Indie Artists Can’t Get Traction – Distrokid Uploads A Million Tracks A Month

Indie artists are getting more and more depressed about the fact that the competition is so fierce that it’s difficult for their music to get any traction. This fact was brought home again recently when online distributor Distrokid revealed its upload numbers at around a million tracks per month, which shows just how much competition […]

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The Top 10 YouTube Video Presenter Greeting

If you’re shooting anything other than music video then you’re probably going to want to greet your audience in some way. YouTube did a study to find what was the most popular presenter greeting and came up with the top 10. This came from a data set of over 1 million videos with a minimum […]

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Will The Spotify Price Increase Trickle Down To Artists?

The Spotify price increase recently announced affected 12 markets, including the United States, which many see as the first step to overall increases over time. In most cases the increases were limited to bundled subscription plans, like in the case of the United States (Family Plan), and the United Kingdom (Student, Family, and Duo Plans). […]

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Songwriters Aren’t Being Paid Enough From Streaming And This Report Outlines Why

Songwriting was always a way that a musician could make a good or even great living without having to be a performer. The problem is that most of the rules for how songwriters get paid were written back in the days of physical media. In our streaming economy things are tilted more towards the performer […]

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Producer Brian Malouf, The 10 Most Expensive Albums, And Music Industry Drowning In Data

My guest on the podcast this week is Brian Malouf who’s a multi-platinum American producer, engineer, and mixer who has worked with Michael Jackson, Queen, Madonna, Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder and other world-known artists.  Also serving as an executive at several major record labels over the years, his work has amassed a total of 53 gold, platinum, […]

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The 5 Steps To YouTube Video Optimization In 2021

Just putting a video up on YouTube is not enough these days. If your video isn’t optimized properly then the YouTube algorithm won’t drive traffic to it, so it doesn’t do you much good at that point regardless of its quality. Luckily, optimizing a video isn’t that difficult, it just takes a little extra time […]

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The Popularity of Clubhouse Is Causing The Major Social Networks To Retaliate

Whenever a new hot social network shows up you can count on an automatic knee-jerk reaction from the major social networks to come up with something similar. Clubhouse is the latest platform to start gaining some traction, and as a result, Facebook and Twitter have already released their own versions of the same audio-only idea. […]

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Streaming Recommendations, World’s Quietest Room, And Producer Richard “Younglord” Frierson On My Latest Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Richard “Younglord” Frierson, who’s a Grammy-nominated hip hop and R&B producer and a founder of Truth Licensing, a major provider of music for films, TV shows and commercials. Rich started producing for Puff Daddy’s Hitmen production team at the tender age of 16. His production credits include Puff Daddy, […]

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Will SXSW Change Now That A Big Corporation Is A Part-Owner?

Music conferences come and go over the years, but one that not only keeps going but continues to with gravitas is South By Southwest. SXSW has always been thought of as not only the king of the hill for these types of gatherings, but remains respected for not being strictly a money-grab (although there’s plenty […]

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