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A collection of informative articles on Independent Music Business for the Indie musician. Booking, Radio promotion, online promotion, economics, and Music business related news

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Why Musicians Should Move from Twitter to a Decentralized Social Media Network “Bluesky”

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Musicians are encouraged to transition from Twitter to the decentralized platform Bluesky for better content discovery, user control over data, and meaningful engagement. Bluesky offers a safer environment for creative expression, a growing community for artists, and fewer distractions, making it an ideal space to connect authentically with fans and promote music.

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Cyanite: Leveraging AI-Powered Music Analysis for Marketing

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Cyanite is an AI-driven music analysis platform that aids artists and marketers in understanding audiences through data insights. It offers features like mood-based recommendations, audience segmentation, and automated playlists, enhancing targeted marketing efforts. By analyzing song characteristics and trends, Cyanite optimizes campaigns and improves connections with listeners in the evolving music industry.

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Independent Blues Award Nominations open for 2025!

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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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Lemonaide Collab Club – Ethically Sourced AI for Beat Makers

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Lemonaide, an artist-first AI music company, balances ethical AI training with top-quality music production. Lemonaide’s Collab Club lets producers train AI with their own music, ensuring artists’ fair compensation. Co-founded by MJ Jacob and Anirudh Mani, the platform aims to inspire creative collaboration and establish ethical AI standards in the music industry.

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How to Use Cyanite and Chartmetric to Market Your Music

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Making a Scene – How to Use Cyanite and Chartmetric to Market Your Music In today’s music industry, success isn’t just about talent; it’s also about effectively using new technology to understand and connect with your audience. Two powerful tools, Cyanite and Chartmetric, have emerged as essential assets for musicians and music marketers alike. By […]

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The Future of the Music Industry – Decentralization

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The music industry is undergoing a potential shift towards decentralization, driven by blockchain technology and smart contracts. This transformation promises to enhance transparency, efficiency, and direct artist-fan relationships while eliminating intermediaries. It could lead to higher revenue for artists and a more engaging experience for consumers through new decentralized platforms and models.

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The Importance of Failure in the Music Industry

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Failure in the music industry is crucial for growth, creativity, and long-term success. It offers learning opportunities, builds resilience, and promotes innovation and authenticity. Facing setbacks strengthens both artists and their teams, driving personal and professional development. Embracing failure allows artists to evolve and achieve significant breakthroughs on their path to success.

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Harnessing the Power of Spotify for Artists to Understand Fan Demographics and Marketing

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Spotify for Artists provides musicians with control over their profiles and access to detailed analytics about their audience. It offers demographic insights, marketing tools like playlist pitching, and allows artists to tailor strategies based on listener data. Utilizing these insights can aid in creating targeted marketing and connecting more meaningfully with fans.

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Goal-Oriented Music Marketing: Strategies for Success

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Making a Scene Presents Goal-Oriented Music Marketing: Strategies for Success In today’s competitive music industry, artists and bands must approach marketing with clear, defined goals. A goal-oriented strategy not only helps musicians stay focused but also maximizes their potential for success. Here’s how to effectively market your music from a goal-oriented perspective. 1. Define Your […]

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Independent Blues Awards 2024 VOTE NOW!

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Making a Scene announces the 2024 Independent Blues Awards, highlighting diverse blues artists, record companies, and publicists. Voters can explore nominees via Spotify, enhancing engagement and artist visibility. Categories include Male/Female Artist, Traditional/Contemporary/Blues Rock Bands, and more. Extended voting till Sept 15, 2024. Ensure full ballot completion to vote.

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10 Effective ways to Understanding your fans

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Making a Scene Brings you 10 Effective Steps to Understanding your Fanbase Understanding your fans is crucial for building a strong, engaged community. Here are some effective ways to get to know your fans better: 1. Social Media Interaction Engage Regularly: Respond to comments, like posts, and share fan content. Polls and Surveys: Use features […]

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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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Harnessing AI to Transform Music Marketing Campaigns

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Making a Scene – Harnessing AI to Transform Music Marketing Campaigns Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI), recognized for its transformative potential across a multitude of industries, is making a significant impact on the music industry as well. I know many of you hear the term AI, and you think it is the end of music as […]

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Striking the Right Chord: Navigating the Intersection of Music and Technology as an Independent Artist

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Striking the Right Chord: Navigating the Intersection of Music and Technology as an Independent Artist Introduction From the invention of the electric guitar through multi track recording, MIDI and now with the digital revolution the way we make and consume music has constantly evolved. Today, the consumer has embraced streaming as a way to consume […]

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A Comprehensive Review of Songvest: A New Era in Music Investment

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Making a Scene brings you a “Comprehensive Review of Songvest: A New Era in Music Investment” Introduction SongVest, a unique and innovative platform, has emerged as a novel way for music enthusiasts to invest in songs, leading to a new form of music royalties investment. This groundbreaking approach not only allows fans to foster a […]

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How Musicians Can Harness AI-Enhanced Visual Content Creation Tools for Effective Music Promotion

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Elevating Your Brand: How Musicians Can Harness AI-Enhanced Visual Content Creation Tools for Effective Music Promotion In the ever-evolving landscape of the music industry, standing out amidst the noise requires more than just great tunes. Visual content has become a powerful tool for musicians to capture audience attention, convey their brand identity, and ultimately drive […]

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AI and the Future of the Music Industry

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AI and the Future of the Music Industry Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been rapidly advancing and integrating into our lives over recent years whether we see it or not. It is leaving an indelible mark on multiple industries and revolutionizing not only the way see the world around us, but opens up Technological advancements […]

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DataMind Audio Unveils Virtual AI Instrument and Ethically Sourced “Artist Brains” 

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DataMind Audio Unveils Virtual AI Instrument and Ethically Sourced “Artist Brains” Wildly creative music tech trailblazers team up with sound designers and music producers to set an ethical, green paradigm for AI in music. While much of the AI-powered tech for music creation spits out replicas or facsimiles, DataMind Audio does something radically different. Founded […]

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The Truth about Spotify

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Making a Scene looks at the Truth about Spotify Introduction There is no argument that consumer has embraced streaming as a way to consume music! For the consumer this is a no brainer, you don’t have to store you music on a shelf, you don’t have to fill up your phone’s memory with mp3’s and […]

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CD Baby Teams Up with SymphonyOS AI Marketing

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SymphonyOS brings AI marketing power to CD Baby’s 2M artists Introduction Social Media Marketing and Content Creation has become an ever increasing part of an indie artists daily life. Today there is not a scenario where an indie artist does not have to dedicate a major amount of time and effort to create and distribute […]

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Interview with a Pro – Clay Hawkins on OME (Open Music Exchange)

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with a Pro – Clay Hawkins of The Open Music Exchange Introduction It is no secret that the current revenue from streaming services like spotify/youtube/pandora, etc. is not sustainable as a business model for the music industry. The Digital Revolution has however proven to be very fluid […]

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Tuned Global and Sona.stream create an Artist-First Streaming Service

Making a Scene – Tuned Global and Sona.stream create an Artist-First Streaming Service What is Sona? Music is everything at Sona. Co-founded by producer TOKiMONSTA and Laura Jaramillo, Sona’s vision is a music industry that’s more equitable and rewarding for both fans and artists. This starts with sona.stream, an ad-free music streaming platform with a […]

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Independent Blues Award Nominations open for 2024!

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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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No Words Atlanta – Instrumental Music Festival!

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  Making a Scene brings you a preview of No Words Atlanta – an Instrumental Music Festival! Atlanta has the Only Instrumental Music Festival Anywhere! Music without words connects directly with the listener, creating a powerful experience. No Words Music was an light-bulb idea that occurred to life-long instrumental guitarist, Ann Wood (PerkinsWood) while attending […]

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Spotify to Institute a 1,000 stream Threshold Before Payment

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Spotify will Institute a 1,000 annual stream limit on royalty payments Spotify is looking to institute a new payment model that will require A new minimum annual threshold of 1,000 annual streams before any track starts generating royalties on the service. This will adversely affect the Indie music market and will funnel millions of dollars […]

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Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame Presents Billy Joel- My Life, A Piano Man’s Journey

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First-Ever Major Billy Joel Exhibit to Open on November 24th at Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame ‘My Life, A Piano Man’s Journey’ to showcase the legendary musician’s life and career in an exclusive exhibition After nearly a year in the planning, the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame (LIMEHOF) has […]

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Moises announces AI Voice Studio

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Moises launches AI Voice Studio, a brand new model for artist-first voice modeling Vocalists can now license their own voices and sell their models to producers and content creators DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) like ProTools, Logic, and FL Studio have massively increased accessibility to music making. MIDI instruments, sample libraries, and plug-ins unlocked the sounds […]

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BandLab Announces New Integrations with Airbit

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Making a Scene Looks at Bandlabs new Aquisition “AirBit” Introduction Bandlab has  been quietly (or maybe not so quietly) acquiring indie music assets since 2015! They started by purchasing the Cakewalk DAW Software product SONAR from Gibson and released it as a FREE download (which now they plan to release a new version as a […]

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2023 Independent Blues Awards Winners Announced!!

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Making a Scene Presents The 2023 Independent Blues Awards Winners! This is the 8th year we have produced and honored independent blues artists with the Independent Blues Awards. The voting this year has broken all records and was the largest voting participation since we began. As always we believe that not only are the winners […]

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Interview with a Pro – Gerry Roszak – Kondler & Associates Royalty Audit Team

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  Making a Scene Brings you an Interview with a Pro – Gerry Roszak of Kondler and Associates Royalty Audit Team Introduction In the music industry, the traditional revenue streams for musicians and songwriters have undergone a significant transformation. With the rise of digital music platforms and streaming services, the way in which artists earn […]

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Building a Songwriting Roundtable using Social Media

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Making a Scene Presents Building a Songwriting Roundtable using Social Media Introduction As a songwriter, it can be difficult to find a group of like-minded individuals to collaborate with and bounce ideas off of. Thankfully, social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram have made it easier than ever to connect with other musicians and build […]

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Laura Zito Cancer Support

Laura Zito Cancer Support Hi, this is Mike and Laura Zito. Most of you know, my wife Laura was diagnosed with Stage4 Pancreatic Metastic Cancer in July of 2022. She was given 9-12 months to live at that time. Laura decided she would fight with everything she had to beat the odds, and she did. […]

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Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Celebrates Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary

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Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Celebrates Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary with Hip-Hop Concert  Unveiling of LL COOL J Statue, Performances and Panel Discussions with Son of Bazerk, A.J. Rock (J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E.), DJ Jazzy Jay, Dinco D (Leaders of the New School), DJ Johnny Juice and Keith Schocklee (Public Enemy) MC Glamorous and Ralph McDaniels […]

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Bandlab Discontinues Free Version of Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW

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Bandlab Discontinues Free Version of Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW Bandlab, the company behind the popular digital audio workstation (DAW) software Cakewalk, has announced that they will no longer be offering a free version of the software. Bandlab acquired Sonar by Cakewalk DAW after Gibson discontinued the software after it purchase it from Cakewalk, leaving their […]

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Independent Blues Awards 2023 VOTE NOW!

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Making a Scene Presents the 2023 Independent Blues Awards! Congratulations to all the nominees! The 2023 Independent Blues Awards nominations are now in and ready for you to vote on. We do things a bit different than other awards in that we give you the opportunity to explore and experience artists and music you may […]

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A Review of the Warm Audio WA-CX12 Microphone

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A Review of the Warm Audio WA-CX12 Microphone When it comes to recording music, having high-quality equipment is essential. Microphones are especially important to ensure the best possible sound. The Warm Audio WA-CX12 is a microphone that has been gaining popularity among music producers and audio engineers. Warm Audio designed the WA-CX12 as a faithful […]

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What is the Music Licensing Collective and Why Should you Care!

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What is the Music Licensing Collective and Why Should you Care! The Music Licensing Collective (MLC) is a non-profit organization that was established in the United States as a result of the Music Modernization Act (MMA) of 2018. The MMA was signed into law to address the issue of music licensing and copyright law in […]

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The Difference Between Compression and Limiting

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The Difference Between Compression and Limiting Introduction Compression and limiting are two frequently used audio processing techniques that audio engineers use in music production, mixing, and mastering. While they might seem similar, they serve different purposes and have distinct characteristics. In this blog post, we will explore the differences between compression and limiting and when […]

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Making a Scene Turns 9 Years Old!

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Making a Scene Turns 9 Years Old! On May 1 2014 we launched Making a Scene as a web magazine that would support independent artists with Interviews, CD Reviews, Gear Reviews, Articles on Music Business as well as keeping a finger on the pulse of the Music Industry and informing the indie music community on […]

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The Future of the Music Industry

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The Future of the Music Industry Introduction Music has always been an integral part of human culture. From traditional folk songs to the latest pop hits, music has the ability to connect people and inspire them. The music industry has gone through many changes over the years, from vinyl records to cassette tapes, CDs to […]

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AI Songwriting Tools For Words and Music

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AI Songwriting Tools for Words and Music Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming various industries, including music. The integration of AI in music has led to the development of AI songwriting tools that can compose music and even write lyrics. These tools have become popular among musicians, producers, and songwriters, as they can save […]

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Independent Blues Awards 2022 Winners Announced!

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  Acoustic Blues CD Nominees Best Independent Blues Acoustic CD CD’s that were produced with primarly acoustic instrumentation   Ghalia Volt   Donna Herula   Steve Hill   Chris Bergson   Hector Anchondo   Elly Wininger   Cole Allen   Little G Weevil

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Independent Blues Award Nominations open for 2023!

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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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Independent Blues Awards 2022 VOTE NOW!

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Making a Scene Presents the 2022 Independent Blues Awards! Congratulations to all the nominees! The 2022 Independent Blues Awards nominations are now in and ready for you to vote on. We do things a bit different than other awards in that we give you the opportunity to explore and experience artists and music you may […]

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