Spokes in My Musical Wheel – Chapter 3
Making up another spoke in the wheel that keeps the music machine alive are the creators of the...
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The Wheel Turns
I’ve been around this music “magazine” thing for a few years now. You can probably figure that out by the fact that i actually used the word “magazine.” So, more than two decades ago I did a...
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Musical Travel Adventures – Chapter 4
Touring around the world, whether for festivals, concerts, or seminars, I have known for some time...
Read MoreHot Guitars Are Cool, but Hot Guitars Are Not!
I’ll set the stage by saying that I decided to record my latest CD, Hula Girl Highway, (released July 29th) in Nashville. As you can imagine, a lot of pre-production work goes into maximizing efficiency when recording a...
Read MoreGet On Your High Horse
CEO Wyatt Easterling and President/Artistic Director Celeste Krenz have combined their love for American music and their years of experience with major Nashville and independent record companies to start High Horse...
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Don't Get Ripped Off
The entertainment business has more than its fair share of unscrupulous people trying to take a...
Read MoreHow Did Katy Perry Make It?
By Lisa Popeil As we all know, unlike ‘normal’ jobs, there is no direct path to financial independence (aka ‘a job’) as a singer in the commercial music industry. I’ve always been curious about how so-and-so ‘made it’,...
Read MoreThe Solo Gigger: The Ever Changing Business Model
One of my guitar students and his father came to see me at a restaurant gig a couple weeks ago. He’s a successful businessman and I asked him casually, “ how often does your business model change?” He answered, “weekly!”...
Read MoreGiving In and Giving Up
At some point in your career you will contemplate giving it all up. I have reached this point many times in my own career. Sometimes dealing with the egos and attitudes of others in this business is just too much for...
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Managers And Agents
Over time I’ve received quite a few emails and phone calls from readers asking variations on the...
Read MoreKISS Rocks In A Monster Way!
KISS launched the MONSTER book, album & tour on L.A.s famed SUNSET STRIP, where they first touched down in the early 70s & fell so in love with the vibe, these New Yorkers moved & held court for last 40 years from!...
Read MoreShure's Get the Gig Contest
Today, Shure launched its second annual “Get the Gig” Artist Relations internship competition which is open to all college juniors, seniors and 2012 graduates. The winning Artist Relations Intern will help to...
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- Two Music and Audio Buyouts That May Actually Be Good News… For a ChangeA couple of pieces of industry news that may have gotten lost amidst the poop-show that passes for common culture and attention spans these days. Buyouts happen all the time and we should all expect so see more of them for a couple of reasons. 1) Many of the founders of enterprises ranging from smaller […]
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- Waves Now Offering Marc Mozart’s YOUR MIX SUCKS (Waves Edition)Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and leading maker of audio plugins for mixing, music production, mastering, sound design, broadcast, post-production and live sound, is offering the Marc Mozart book, YOUR MIX SUCKS (Waves Edition), integrating Waves plugins throughout 14 chapters of guidance, inspiration and methodology on mixing music. […]
- The Show Goes On with Allen & HeathThis summer in Bardstown, Kentucky, the sounds of composer Stephen Foster’s “Oh! Susanna” and “My Old Kentucky Home” are alive again at the J. Dan Talbott Amphitheatre thanks in part to a new audio blueprint featuring an Allen & Heath dLive C3500 control surface and DM64 MixRack. Built in 1958, the amphitheatre has hosted The […]
- Meyer Sound LEO heads out on China’s festival circuitMTA Festival China’s music festival scene has been in full swing this summer, with many gatherings across the nation relying on new Meyer Sound LEO Family systems provided by Stage Arts Groups (S.A.G.), a diversified production and artist management enterprise based in Beijing. One standout event in S.A.G.’s non-stop summer schedule was the MTA (Music […]