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Making a Scene Celebrates 9 Years!

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Making a Scene Celebrates 9 Years of Publication! It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since Making a Scene first came to life. It’s time to celebrate and look back at some of the milestones we’ve achieved over the past nine years. As of today we have published 1,821 Artist interviews and 2,873 […]

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Interview with a Pro – Jim Odom talks about the PreSonus/Fender Acquisition

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  PreSonus HOME PAGE        Fender HOME PAGE FENDER PreSonus Making a Scene Presents an Interview with a Pro – Jim Odom Talks about the Fender/PreSonus Acquisition Ever since the announcement was made that Fender Musical Instruments was “Acquiring” PreSonus Audio Electronics the existing PreSonus userbase started to buzz about how this is […]

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Blues Foundation Announces the Blues Music Award Winners

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Blues fans from all over the world tuned into our virtual broadcast of the 42nd Blues Music Awards.Congratulations to all winners and nominees!   B.B. King Entertainer Shemekia CopelandBand of the Year Rick Estrin & The Nightcats Best Emerging Artist Album Harlem King Solomon Hicks Blues Rock Album Mike Zito and Friends – Rock ‘n’ Roll: […]

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Small Music Venues are Sending out an SOS with the Save Our Stages Act!

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Small Music Venues Are Sending Out An SOS With the “Save Our Stages Act” COVID-19 has left many businesses in distress, and the live music industry has suffered leading to hundreds of venues closing their doors. Senator Amy Klobuchar, D- Minnesota, and Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, have introduced a bill to the senate called the […]

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Muddy Waters Chicago Home to Become A Museum

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HOME PAGE Muddy Water MOJO Museum and Community Center Muddy Waters aka McKinley Morganfield is widely recognized as the father of the Chicago Blues and one of the major influential figures in the birth of Rock and Roll. Modern music today would be much different if it not for the music of Muddy Waters. For […]

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ASCAP Responds to the Closing of Streamlicensing.com

We recently reported on the closing of Streamlicensing.com  Now ASCAP Responds to allegations made by the former owners of Streamlicensing! Recently, ASCAP learned that the StreamLicensing.com service has shut down. We are writing to inform all StreamLicensing Broadcast affiliates that the owners and operators of the StreamLicensing service have not been transparent with its customers, […]

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Streamlicensing.com Has Closed it’s Doors!

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Streamlicensing.com, one of the largest licensing companies for small web broadcasters and internet radio, has suddenly ceased all operations yesterday. The sudden loss of this resource will hit the small webcaster fairly hard. Streamlicensing collected royalties from small webcasters for the music they stream which is paid to record companies and artists. This is essential […]

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Dave Davies of the Kinks Announces new Tour and new CD!

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Dave Davies Announces a new Tour and CD release! “We had great success with “You Really Got Me” and “All The Day and All The Night” and “I Need You” and “She’s Got Everything;” there’s quite a few Kinks tracks recorded that have my guitar sound on it. The Kinks music was very varied, it’s not just hard rock, it’s a mixture of many things really.” That […]

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The Music Modernization Act passes in the US Senate

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Music creators need copyright reform to ensure fair compensation for their work. Congress and the Senate listened. The Music Modernization Act, the biggest update to music legislation in the past 40 years. Impacting hundreds of thousands of music creators nationwide, and future generations, the Act unites provisions from across the music community under one legislative […]

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BandLab Launches Cakewalk by BandLab as a FREE DOWNLOAD!

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SONAR relaunches as ‘Cakewalk by BandLab’: Iconic DAW now free to download for everyone   World-leading DAW SONAR, with the entire SONAR Platinum feature set, is relaunching as Cakewalk by BandLab Full authentication and unlimited feature-access will be available free Early access to Cakewalk by BandLab is available now on Windows SINGAPORE, 4 APRIL 2018 — Today, […]

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Brief History of South By Southwest SXSW!

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In 1986 the organizers of New York’s “New Music Festival” wanted to bring their festival to Texas. They contacted the Austion Chronicle in the hopes of making it happen. Fortunately for Austin that deal feel through, Roland Swenson, a staffer at the Austin chronicle got together with his publisher Nick Barbaro, Editor Louis Black and Musician/booking agent Louis […]

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Gibson Sells Cakewalk’s “Intellectural Property” to BandLab!

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There may be hope for all those diehard users of Cakewalk’s premiere DAW software “Sonar”. BandLab has announced that they have aquired all of Cakewalks Intellectural property and “Certain” assets from Gibson. What does this mean to you the user. Well it seems that Bandlab did not purchase the “Company” Cakewalk, but instead purchased the […]

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New Rules for Monetizing Youtube Videos

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As you may have heard, or not heard, Youtube has decided to create stricter rules for Monetizing Videos! We are going to attempt to break down this news and give you an understanding as to how this affects you as an independent artist! WHY? The new channel-monetization guidelines are one part of an attempt to […]

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A Brief History of the International Blues Challenge

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A Brief History of the International Blues Challenge by: Mick Kolassa “You don’t have to win the IBC, all you have to do is be in the game, and there’s no telling what good things can happen to you, because they happened to me.”   Watermelon Slim What do Teeny Tucker , Jarekus Singleton, Shakura S’Aida […]

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Gibson Kills Cakewalk and the Sonar Line of DAW’s!

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Gibson has decided to discontinue all development of Cakewalk products, which includes the very popular DAW(Digital Audio Workstation) SONAR, which has for 30 years been the flagship of the Cakewalk line. The apparent explanation is “they want to focus on consumer audio electronics” Gibson Brands announced today that it is ceasing active development and production […]

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Atlanta Blues Society Makes Commitment to Healthy Environments for Musicians

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   The Atlanta Blues Society has long had the policy of a Smoke Free Environment for all of their events. They require any venue that they work with to be smoke free during any event that is hosted by the Atlanta Blues Society. This in itself is a huge step in creating a healthy environment […]

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Independent Blues Awards Nominations are now open!

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IMPORTANT!! PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU ENTER ANY NOMINATIONS The independent Blues Awards celebrate the diversity and power of the music that is created by those artists that acknowledge their inspiration and roots are in the blues. These awards will represent not only those “touring” artists who work within the established blues community, but embrace working artists […]

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The John Pagano Band releases their new Video “Bottom’s Up”

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Indie Blues Artists – The John Pagano Band (formally JPBlues) have released their second production video for their upcoming CD “One More Round”. The first video was for the song “Ain’t Gonna Lose you” which was released as a single and video earlier this year. This new video sets the bar a bit higher as […]

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Where would you host your music if Soundcloud Closes?

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Where would you host your music if Soundcloud Closes? Recent news about Soundcloud started making rounds in quite a few social media group forums I lurk in frequently.  The most popular article shared was the article by Tim Ingham published on Music Business worldwide.  Another article by Andrew Liptak published just days later on The […]

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Making a Scene is Looking for Writers

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Are you involved with your local music scene? Do you love indie artists and believe the music you listen to needs to have more attention? Do you want to be known as a music journalists? Well here is your chance to become part of the fastest growing music related magazine on the internet.  Making a […]

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The Independent Blues Awards Nominations are open for 2017

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IMPORTANT!! PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU ENTER ANY NOMINATIONS The independent Blues Awards celebrate the diversity and power of the music that is created by those artists that acknowledge their inspiration and roots are in the blues. These awards will represent not only those “touring” artists who work within the established blues community, but embrace working artists […]

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The State of Internet Radio and Why is it Important to the Independent Artist

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There has been alot of conversation out there between independent webcasters and independent artists about the new royalty schedule from the Copyright Royalty Board. Some webcasters have cut their loses and ran, some have geo fenced off the whole US market. If none of this makes sense to you, well you are not alone. I […]

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Meet Paul “Mr. Blues” Benjamin “Chairman of the Board” of the Blues Foundation

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An Exclusive Interview with Paul Benjamin – “Chairman of the Board” of the Blues Foundation by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud The Board of Directors for any non for profit organization is the driving force in determining the direction the organization takes. The awarding of the position of “Chairman of the Board” can be the most […]

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41 Years of the Music Industry in 30 Seconds!

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This is a real eye opener for anyone in the music industry. Indie Musicians, take heed of what the trends are telling you! .. The global market for recorded music fell slightly in 2014 to $14.97 billion, down 0.4 percent from the year before, as sales of online music matched those of CDs and other […]

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ReverbNation and Making A Scene teaming up to find the best INDIE BLUES

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Making a Scene has teamed up with Reverbnation to create a “Opportunity” for the purpose of conducting an international search to find artists that best define what “INDIE BLUES” is or could be. The search is not restricted to those who categorize themselves as “Blues” artist but is expanded into all genres of music. Those chosen will be […]

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Willie Dixon enters the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame

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Willie Dixon will be inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame at the 46th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner in New York City June 18 He will be joined by Cyndi Lauper, Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia, Toby Keith, and Linda Perry. It is wonderful to see this bluesman recognized by this prestigious organization, as […]

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Atlanta’s own Tommy Brown is going to be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame

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The Blues Foundation has announced three living performers to be inducted into its Blues Hall of Fame. The three are Tommy Brown, Eric Clapton and Little Richard! What a wonderful thing for Atlanta blues fans, to see our own Tommy Brown honored in this fashion! The press release states, “In the early ‘50s Tommy Brown […]

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MUSIC ROYALTIES & WHAT THEY MEAN TO YOU

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SHOW # 261 – 02/16/15 ROUNDTABLE # 4 – MUSICIANS,CLUBS & BMI – MUSIC ROYALTIES & WHAT THEY MEAN TO YOU Panelists included Musician, Tas Cru, VP River City Management, Carson Lamm and BMI Executive Jeff Syracuse.  The conversation revolved around the reasons BMI (and ASCAP & SECAN) do what they do and how the […]

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How One Generation Was Single-Handedly Able To Kill The Music Industry

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How One Generation Was Single-Handedly Able To Kill The Music Industry   The old music industry is dead. We’re standing in the ruins of a business built on private jets, Cristal, $18 CDs and million-dollar recording budgets. We’re in the midst of the greatest music industry disruption of the past 100 years. A fundamental shift […]

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Blues Foundation Provides FREE Health Screenings at the IBC!

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An Exclusive Interview with Dr. Janice Johnston about Health Screening at the IBC by Richard Lhommedieu on Mixcloud  Often musicians do not have access to good medical care and more importantly, to good early detection services to protect them from some of the most common and potentially deadly medical conditions such as High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, […]

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HOW ONE INDEPENDENT MUSICIAN DEFEATED BMI

EDITORS NOTE: This is reprinted with permission of the author. I felt it was ironic that an independent musicians needs to be at odds with an organization that is designed to protect his rights. It is an interesting read, and a conversation that needs to happen with the new music business increasingly becoming centered on […]

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Getting Sued for $10 Million over a Pink Tribute Band?!!

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The New York Post reported that this NY singer was being sued for 10 Million Dollars because she was not talented enough and not good looking enough to front a Pink Tribute band. (Read the Article in the NY POST Here). But to be more specific, the real story is a bit more involved.  It […]

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HELP MAKE MUDDY WATERS HOME A NATIONAL LANDMARK!

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PLEASE EMAIL THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE ON BEHALF OF THE MUDDY WATERS HOME!! Amy Martin Director  Amy.Martin@illinois.gov Illinois State Historic Preservation Office  Both the State of Illinois and  the City of Chicago knew that the Muddy Waters home was in danger and they have done nothing to protect this valuable historic building The Muddy […]

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Blues Community Rallies in Support of Ailing Performer

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Blues Community Rallies in Support of Ailing Performer “Wailin’ for Walter – A Benefit Concert for Walter Trout” to take place at UACCNJ in Whippany NJ, 5/28/14 WHIPPANY, NJ, May 1, 2014 – Legendary bluesman Walter Trout is presently awaiting a liver transplant at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and nationwide efforts are […]

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