Business Side of Music

How Do You Know That You're In The Flow State? Do you find yourself playing something on your instrument without putting any thought or consciousness into the process? Does it just happen freely without any effort? What makes such people as Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and companies like Uber and DropBox become successful in the tech world? And how does that translate into being...

What if you discovered that someone other than yourself was making money off of our creative content? What if a big brand was using your music as part of a marketing campaign without your knowledge? What could you do about it? You can't have value to your copyright if you don't assign value to it. Technically, all things online are governed by the Digital Millennium Copyright, but that act was wri...

"I am beyond grateful for the growth we've experienced since Ghostwriter was founded in 2015," says Founder and CEO Chris Bragg. Founded in 2015, Ghostwriter Music has placed music in many of the most anticipated film campaigns, advertisements, video games, and TV promos in modern media. Honored with a 2019 Music + Sound Association (MASA) Award for Best Record or Adaptation in a Film Trailer, and...

Have you ever traveled by plane from one gig to the next, only to arrive and find that the integrity of your guitar has been compromised… or worse, has been destroyed, only to find out that the airline you just flew on won't be taking responsibility for any damages. Ciari Guitars has created a solution. Creating what has been called "The Most Convenient Guitar in the World" by Forbes Magazine, the...

Maisly is an international singer/ songwriter, currently residing in London, who in her early 20's made a huge splash with her debut single "All About Us," released under the previous name "Marta" that reached #1 in Germany and #4 in Norway on the Google Play Country Music charts in the first week. Her music video for "All About Us' has received over 2.5 Million views on Youtube. In addition, her...

Do you look at your stems when recording in the studio as a revenue stream, or just layers of your song as a whole? Audioshake has created the AI technology, which is designed to help the rightsholder to the music to be able to create professional stems without having to go back into the studio. This is perfect for the artist looking to create not only vocal tracks but also segmented files that ca...

Despite the past year being an upsetting time for the music industry, it's still provided a prime opportunity to accomplish a few things in your career. But are you, as an artist doing the right things? Do you have a professional-looking website? Something that you can take ownership of? How established is your email list? Are you using it to contact your fans, or are you relying on social media?...

Are you taking full responsibility for your career? Are you your biggest detractor from being successful? Rejection is tough to take. Not only that, the music business is a very competitive field to work in. There are ways to handle it, though. It knows how to handle that inner critic, those voices inside your head. It all starts with building your confidence and knowing that nothing is impossible...

Interview with Jeff Coffey is a musician, singer, songwriter who has released 4 solo albums that have been well received by radio and music fans.  His songs are very relatable and bridge the gap between Pop, Rock, and Country.  Two singles from his CD "Through Your Eyes" and "Long Way Home" made it to the Top 20 on the FMQB AC/40 Chart. Much of Jeff's music has been featured on numerous TV shows o...

Meet Miles Copeland. He grew up living worldwide, in such places as London, Washington, DC, and throughout the Middle East, particularly Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria , Egypt , and Lebanon. At an early age, Copeland and his brothers were fluent in Arabic. In 1978, Copeland became manager of his brother Stewart's band, The Police. Copeland shepherded the group to become one of the biggest bands of t...

In this episode, we chat with Jonathan Taplin regarding his career working with Bob Dylan, along with The Band (Dylan's back-up band, along with their solo career), his time with George Harrison putting together the legendary Concert For Bangladesh, what it was like to be a part of Woodstock (yes, he was actually there), and how he and Martin Scorsese came to working together on not only on the no...

Having All The Pieces of the Puzzle is what makes us successful in the music business. But you don't know what you don't know. It takes years of experience, contacts, and resources to get ahead of the game. On top of that, in today's Current Music Climate, We need to be current in Social Media Version 2.0 to rise above the rest of the noise out there. Having a comprehensive marketing and publicity...

In today's episode, we have DC Glenn from the multi-platinum hip hop group "Tag Team." Their music has been featured on everything from having a #2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts (for seven weeks straight) with "Whoomp! (There It Is)", Their music featured in such films as Elf , Shark Tale , Beverly Hills Chihuahua , and D2: The Mighty Ducks . After the bright lights, big crowds, the record d...

An Impressionist Painter, An Inspired Madman, A Restless Innovator, A True Legend of Jazz Drums, A Master of Drumming Insanity, and a Genius of the Sticks. These are some of the words that describe Grammy Award-winning drummer Paul Wertico. Hailed in the press as "One of the most versatile and musical drummers in music today," Paul Wertico was a member of the Pat Metheny Group from 1983 to 2001. D...

You're not a bit of everyone as an artist, or at least you shouldn't be. You are your own identity. Do you have a strategy in place to move your career forward? Are you performing music that fits your lifestyle and belief system, or are you only making the moves to please others or attempting to do so to get ahead? In the end, it's all about brand loyalty, with you yourself being the brand. So is...

In this episode, we discuss Matej Harangozo, the creator of Open Source Entertainment, a Record Label, and a Music Business Incubator. He's also the creator of Digital Science Media. Matej literally started his first company from the ground up with almost no start-up capital, to a 5 million dollar a year, 50 employee enterprise called "greenNEWit." Wanting to break into the music industry, he inve...

In this episode, we talk with Guy Robinson, the founder and CEO of the Coalition Agency based in London, England. Our conversation covers how the college live music market has mostly disappeared due to not only the pandemic but new tastes and lifestyles in the young adult market in how they approach their music and discover new artists without attending shows. We also discuss how his company found...

Grammy award-winning producer Vivek J. Tiwary is an acclaimed producer of musical entertainment from Tony Award-winning Broadway shows to groundbreaking immersive experiences, a Grammy Award-winning record producer, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and a media financier/investor. He is the founder of Tiwary Entertainment Group. Vivek's graphic novel The Fifth Beatle won numerous literary aw...

Have you ever wondered where your passion for music was taking you? In this Covid Pandemic-focused world we currently live in, is there a way to determine the best course of action for you to take? Are you getting the most out of your core creative skills or even knowing what they are, let alone making any money off it? Today's guest is Christopher Caliendo, the founder of Caliendo World Music Pub...

Can music sometimes take the place of medicine? Is it beneficial for Alzheimer's patients to listen to music? Can you improve the quality of your life with the advent of music into your daily routine? Is it possible to save the music education programs in our schools, and why is it needed? These questions and many more are what we discuss with our guest Mindy Peterson. A graduate of Aquinas Colleg...

A lot of singing has to do with your mindset going into it. It's not just physical. It's also mental, along with physiological aspects. Whether it's live on stage or in the recording studio, The voice is not for internal use. It's for external use, or as today's guest Judy Rodman likes to say, "The Dance of the Melody." In this episode, we discuss those aspects, along with the understanding that e...

Are you prepared to run your Day to day operations? Your publicity, your Marketing, your Branding, and your Performance as an artist? Also, keep in mind that you really can't pay anybody to like your music. You can, however, create a brand. Creating a brand helps identify that you find the marketing partners to help you reach your audience. Guest Nathan Dohse helps explain how to put all of these...

Music is intellectual property, but when the music industry and the tech industry have tried to come together in the past, there have been legacy issues. History has dictated what you, as the content creator, have at your disposal to get it out there to the masses. Oscar Höglund, Co-founder and CEO of Epidemic Sound, a MusicTech company that's paving the way for creators to use music to take their...

We chat with entrepreneurs, radio/podcast hosts, mentors, music industry executives, Candy O'Terry, and Jacy Valeras, the creators and hosts of the series "Country Music Success Stories." During our discussion, we talk about everything from the glass ceiling for women being much higher than it is for men in the music business (It's an unspoken rule that in radio, you're not supposed to play to fem...

Growing up in his own words, "he had a bizarre childhood," Jack Williams enlisted in the Marines, wanting to impress his dad, and became a member of Force Recon. Just before going to Vietnam, knowing he probably wouldn't return if he did, his commanding officer called him into his office and informed him that due to a paperwork snafu, he wound up getting orders to ship out to Hawaii, where he woun...