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The Manager's Playbook
The Manager’s Playbook: Essential Roles and Realistic Paths For Musicians As musicians, we all ponder the role of personal managers, those guiding lights who can shape ... -
Kubernik: Kaylan & Volman on The Frank Zappa Years
Out this week is a "new" Frank Zappa album Funky Nothingness and I'm very excited about this June 2023 retail release out from UMe. “Funky ... -
Kubernik: Bob Conti On Donna Summer and Jose Feliciano
Percussionist, Songwriter, Musical Director, and Record Producer Bob Conti on Jose Feliciano and Donna Summer Photos Courtesy of Bob Conti and David Chatfield. By Harvey ... -
Singers Sound-Off 2023
Well, it’s that time again, time for our annual array of vocal artists from across the musical and multi-generational spectrum. And this year is our ... -
Kubernik: Marshall Chess on the Legacy of Chess Records
Veteran music business legend Marshall Chess is the son of Leonard and nephew of Phil Chess, the dynamic duo who founded the monumental Chicago-based blues ... -
20 Ways to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft and Fraud
By Bobby Borg and Britt Hastey Identity theft and fraud exists when a less than desirable person gets hold of your personal information, uses it ... -
The Recording Process
The recording process is arguably the most important step in accellerating your music career. The listener decides within the first bar if they want to ... -
The Music Producer
Let me start by thanking the staff at Music Connection for reaching out to me for my thoughts about what the role of a ‘Producer’ ... -
A&R Roundtable 2023: Moby, Stephanie Wright, Sameer Sadhu, Chloe Weise Donovan
How to Grab Their Attention Attracting the attention of a record label talent scout could mean the difference between a thriving career and endless obscurity. ... -
Behold! The Awesome Power of the Daily Journal
Writing is a muscle, and journaling is going to the gym. That’s why the most important book I assign is full of blank pages: a ... -
Artists Finding Their Tone at Home
Music Connection speaks with musicians, composers and songwriters who’ve invested their time and money in a home recording studio. Each provides hard-won advice on the ... -
Are You Cut Out to Be a Film, TV or Game Composer?
When Music Connection asked me to contribute my thoughts about music composing for Film and TV, I was flattered. I thought the best way I ... -
Rehearsal is Crucial: How to Make Your Live Performance Really Pop
“If your live show is boring, you lack energy, or you are missing cues with your hype man and not performing all your lyrics, the ... -
Business Managers: Bills and Investments
We’ve all heard about musicians who hit it big, then ended up penniless. In one such infamous story, rapper MC Hammer, who was once reported ... -
Studio Tech Roundtable 2022: Check Your Tech
The most respected recording studios on the planet all have this in common: A studio technician whose job it is to ensure the facility’s equipment ... -
Everything You Need to Know About Digital Music Distribution
Music distribution is as old as the music industry itself. Even when sheet music publishing companies ran the business, they needed someone to print out ... -
Singers Sound-Off 2022: Tolliver, Leslie Hunt, MacKenzie Grant,Fee Waybill, Dionne Warwick
It’s time for our annual, and always eagerly anticipated, singers spotlight feature where we sit down with some of the greatest voices (newcomers to legends) ... -
Make Your Livestreams Shine
Now that we are about to hit our two-year pandemic mark, it has become clear that even as the pandemic wanes, livestreaming will not. In ... -
Lisa Roy: A Lyrical Life of Light, Laughter and Love
For the past two decades plus, Lisa Roy has been a well-known and highly regarded figure in the music, production and pro audio communities. She ... -
A&R Roundtable 2022
Without A&R, record labels wouldn’t have any musical talent. These industry representatives are the key to discovering artists who create songs that change our lives. ...
