Making a Scene Presents

Richard LHommedieu
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Making a Scene is the #1 Resource for the Indie Artist and the Fans that Love them! http://www.makingascene.org

  1. 22h ago

    The Most Valuable Thing You Take Home From a Show Might Not Be the Money at the Door

    Making a Scene Presents - The Most Valuable Thing You Take Home From a Show Might Not Be the Money at the Door Why a $27 million investment in live-event marketing should change how independent artists think about touring, fan relationships, and building a sustainable music career. The Most Expensive Thing You Can Leave Behind at a Gig Picture a familiar Saturday night. You're playing a packed little music venue about two hours from home. The band is tight, the sound is good, and the audience is responding to every song. The bartender is moving drinks like there's a national emergency, someone near the stage is recording the performance on a phone, and the bass player has somehow managed to find another cable that wasn't broken during soundcheck. By the final encore, everyone agrees it has been a great night. After the show, you sell a few shirts, sign a couple of CDs, pack the equipment, and settle up with the venue. Maybe you made a few hundred dollars after expenses. Maybe you made enough to cover gas and buy breakfast on the way home. Either way, the show is over, the money is counted, and everyone heads home with the satisfaction of knowing they put on a good performance. But here's the part that should bother every independent musician trying to build a career. Somewhere in that audience were people who genuinely connected with your music. Some would gladly come see you again. Others might buy a new album, subscribe to exclusive content, bring friends to your next show, or even help introduce you to another venue. Yet by the time you finish unloading the van, most of those people have disappeared into the night without any reliable way for you to reach them again. http://www.makingascene.org

    The Most Valuable Thing You Take Home From a Show Might Not Be the Money at the Door

  2. 2d ago

    Stop Selling Things to Your Fans. Start Building Things With Them.

    Making a Scene Presents - Stop Selling Things to Your Fans. Start Building Things With Them. How fan-created merchandise, shared ownership, AI-powered creativity, and a new approach to artist-approved businesses could turn an independent musician's audience into a community of entrepreneurs. What If Your Next Great Merchandise Idea Comes From Your Audience? Somewhere in America, an independent musician is sitting in a room filled with cardboard boxes containing 200 T-shirts that seemed like a brilliant idea six months ago. The artwork looked terrific on the computer screen, the printing company offered a discount for ordering in bulk, and everybody in the band agreed the shirts would sell like crazy. Unfortunately, the audience appears to have missed that particular meeting. Now the shirts are taking up space next to the spare microphone stands, the band still owes money on the printing bill, and the drummer has suggested giving them away at Christmas. http://www.makingascene.org

    Stop Selling Things to Your Fans. Start Building Things With Them.

  3. 3d ago

    You Own Your Masters. So Why Can Someone Else Make Your Music Disappear?

    Making a Scene Presents - You Own Your Masters. So Why Can Someone Else Make Your Music Disappear? The DistroKid and Universal Music Group dispute exposes a dangerous weakness in the independent music business. Artists fought for the right to own their recordings, but owning the music means surprisingly little when someone else controls access to the audience. It's time to rethink what artist independence really means. The Day Your Music Disappears Imagine waking up on a Tuesday morning, pouring yourself a cup of coffee, and checking your streaming numbers. You have spent the last six months promoting your latest record, playing shows, sending emails, talking to radio stations, and convincing every friend and relative who still answers your calls to give the music a listen. Your songs are finally starting to find an audience. Maybe one has landed on a popular playlist, or perhaps a music blogger has discovered your work and started sending listeners your way. Things are moving in the right direction, which is about as close to a miracle as most independent musicians experience in today's music business. Then you discover that your music is gone. http://www.makingascene.org

    You Own Your Masters. So Why Can Someone Else Make Your Music Disappear?

  4. 6d ago

    Gerry Casey's Interview with Chris Vincent

    Making a Scene Brings You Gerry Casey's Interview with Chris Vincent Chris Vincent is an award-winning singer-songwriter and slide guitarist based in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city he often describes as both home and muse. Its rhythms, history, contradictions, and restless creative energy run through his music, giving his songs a sense of place without ever confining them to one tradition. http://www.makingascene.org

    Gerry Casey's Interview with Chris Vincent

  5. Oct 22

    Interview with Sunjay

    Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sunjay Sunjay’s tenth studio album, Split The Sheets, brings a long creative journey full circle. It follows Black & Blues Revisited (2022) and the critically acclaimed Chris Smither tribute I’m Just Like You (2024), two records that looked closely at the music, writers, and traditions that helped shape him as an artist. Split The Sheets completes that arc while also opening the door to something broader, bolder, and more personal. Fresh from a successful UK tour, international appearances in the Czech Republic and Germany, and support from BBC Radio 2, Sunjay returns with what may be his most ambitious and sonically adventurous album to date. At its heart, Split The Sheets is an album about love in all its contradictions. Across fourteen songs, Sunjay explores attraction, commitment, devotion, jealousy, humor, lust, heartbreak, regret, longing, and loss. It is a record about the light and shade of relationships, and about the many ways love can comfort, complicate, inspire, and undo us. http://www.makingascene.org

    Interview with Sunjay

  6. Oct 22

    Your Music Catalog Is Becoming a Financial Asset. Here's How to Use It Without Selling Your Masters.

    Making a Scene Presents - Your Music Catalog Is Becoming a Financial Asset. Here's How to Use It Without Selling Your Masters. The music business is discovering that a catalog can be more than a collection of recordings. It can become a source of funding, financial independence, and long-term opportunity. But as companies like Pipeline build a new market around music royalties, the question is whether working independent musicians will finally get access to the same financial tools available to larger music companies. The independent music business has spent decades telling artists that their music has value, usually right before somebody else explains why they should own it. Record labels have offered recording budgets in exchange for master rights. Publishers have offered advances against songs. Investment companies have purchased catalogs from musicians who needed money today more than they needed royalty checks tomorrow. The deals have changed over the years, but the basic idea has remained stubbornly familiar. The people who control the money tend to end up controlling the music. http://www.makingascene.org

    Your Music Catalog Is Becoming a Financial Asset. Here's How to Use It Without Selling Your Masters.

  7. Oct 21

    The Music Industry Has Been Collecting Royalties. But Does It Know What Songs Are Actually Being Played?

    Making a Scene Presents - The Music Industry Has Been Collecting Royalties. But Does It Know What Songs Are Actually Being Played? New research from Britain's grassroots music venues raises troubling questions about how live-performance royalties are measured, who gets paid, and whether the next generation of music technology could finally give independent songwriters a more accurate accounting. There's Music Coming From the Stage. Is There Money Finding Its Way Back? Imagine you're sitting in a little music club on a Friday night. The place holds maybe a hundred people, the bartender is having trouble keeping up, and a three-piece blues band is absolutely tearing the roof off. The guitarist has been playing professionally for twenty years, the bass player has a day job because apparently being able to play bass doesn't impress the electric company, and the drummer is holding everything together with the sort of musical magic that deserves considerably more money than the contents of the tip jar. The band plays fourteen songs. Ten are originals written by the musicians onstage, three are obscure blues covers, and one is a rearranged version of an old soul classic that sounds almost nothing like the recording that made it famous. The audience loves it, the venue sells drinks, and the musicians walk away with their agreed payment and perhaps a few merchandise sales. Somewhere in the background, however, another financial transaction is supposed to be taking place. The venue's music licensing arrangements help support a system intended to compensate the people who wrote the compositions being performed. That money moves through performance-rights organizations, which attempt to determine which songwriters and publishers are entitled to payment. But there's a rather important question buried in that process. How does the organization distributing the money actually know what the band played? http://www.makingascene.org

    The Music Industry Has Been Collecting Royalties. But Does It Know What Songs Are Actually Being Played?

  8. Oct 21

    When the Streams Lie: Washington Is Finally Looking at the Real Cost of Music Streaming Fraud

    Making a Scene Presents - When the Streams Lie: Washington Is Finally Looking at the Real Cost of Music Streaming FraudThe Federal Government Is Asking a Question Independent Artists Should Help Answer For years, streaming fraud has been discussed as though it were mostly an accounting problem involving robots, suspicious playlists and fractions of pennies that somehow escaped from a giant royalty bucket. That description has never really captured the damage. An independent artist does not build a career inside a royalty spreadsheet. They decide where to tour, where to buy advertising, which songs deserve another marketing push, which cities seem to be growing, what merchandise to manufacture and where their next precious few hundred dollars should go. When the numbers feeding those decisions are fake, the artist can lose far more money outside the streaming platform than they ever expected to earn from the streams themselves. http://www.makingascene.org

    When the Streams Lie: Washington Is Finally Looking at the Real Cost of Music Streaming Fraud
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Making a Scene is the #1 Resource for the Indie Artist and the Fans that Love them! http://www.makingascene.org

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  • Creator
    Richard LHommedieu
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    638
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2019 Midnight Circus Productions
  • Show Website
    Making a Scene Presents