While a comfortable, regular income is not likely to happen overnight, people who are passionate about music and technology can build and sustain a viable career over time. More and more musicians and songwriters are learning to produce music on their own from their bedrooms. Does this pose a...
Music publishers, like Universal and BMG, represent songwriters and make sure they get compensated for the commercial use of their songs. Publishers try to maximize the commercial potential of your songs by securing placements, sync licensing deals (for use in video), and other revenue-generating ...
Some Hanukkah repertoire and maybe even a few of the many secular holiday tunes penned by Jewish songwriters. Kddos welcome — Seth promises to get them up, moving, and even make them part of the band for a song or two! Family Holiday Festival Where: MLK Library | Penn Quarter, DC ...
A part of this money will be transferred to the physical distributor which will take its share and deliver the rest to either you as the artist or to your record label. A physical sale will generate mechanical royalties for the track's songwriters and publishers. Types of music royalties If...
another important step is to make sure you’ve registered your song with your performing rights organization, or PRO. PROs collect money on behalf of music publishers and songwriters for public performances. The two big PROs are ASCAP and BMI; there’s also SESAC and a handful of oth...
A child participates in mutton busting at the National Western Stock Show. Photo courtesy of National Western Stock Show Blackened Whiskey Dinner Crafting the perfect whiskey is sort of like penning the perfect song—perhaps that’s why Metallica is so good at both. Taste the heavy metal band’...
we have to endure the longest night of the year. To help Denverites fortify themselves for the celestial event, the Dairy Arts Center is holding this performance on Solstice Eve. The songs of Colorado-based singer-songwriters Carla Sciaky, Danny Shafer, Martin Gilmore, and Ingrid Avison should...
: new findings about the advanced processes and materials the painter — who began studying at thePennsylvania Academy of the Fine Artsat age 15 — used in the early 20th century. This is the first major showing of Cassatt’s life’s work in over 25 years. Want to make a day of it?
Money was often tight due to the ongoing Depression, and mothers would sew the worn-out socks into monkey toys for their children. Soon, a sock monkey pattern came with every pair of socks. 1933: Sears Wish Book JeepersMedia // flickr 1933: Sears Wish Book This trend wasn't so much a...
When a music company makes music, it needs to pay the songwriters and singers. It costs a lot of money! This makes the price of the CDs go up. Piracy is likestealing. People who make pirated copies of CDs take away the writers' and singers' work without payingthem. They even don't...