What the “Digital Download Era” Means for Artist
As we put a decade behind us, I feel it is important to look back at where we came from, and to look forward to where we are going. We all know how the digital downloading epidemic affected the music industry, as the better part of the last decade consisted of product flying out the [...]
ADN Artist Danika Kary Promotes Music with New Video!
The Artist Development Network artist, Danika Kary, is a 14-year-old future super star! We are so proud of her! She’s become quite a talented songwriter, and she’s an example of what it takes to make it in this competitive market….SELF-PROMOTING! Danika is getting music videos produced in her home town, to help promote her music. The major [...]
How Original Is Your “Original” Music?
I’m thankful that I’ve spent the bulk of my musical career in film and television. One of the interesting aspects of visual media is that success is based on ratings. Ratings are not usually related to much more than what holds people’s attention. Its open season every day in TV land and the show, that [...]
Suiting the Record Label, Keeping the Artist’s Creativity
Are you a suit or a poet? I’d like to think of myself as a poet when I can be, but a suit when I have to be. Deep down, I want to be a poet, or one of those starving artists so dedicated to the craft of creating material with artistic integrity that I [...]
The Artist and the Woodpecker
I attended college as a returning student at the age of 27. My world had little in common with the 18-20 year old kids that were there to see how much beer they could drink. I really enjoyed learning at that stage of my life. And while I have forgotten much of what I was [...]
Step By Step Path to Professional Singer
I am a professional singer/songwriter in Nashville TN. Like most music industry veterans, the first years of my career were spent on stage, learning to entertain a crowd. And while the music business has taken me an a very long journey, as of 2009, it’s all come full circle and right back to the stage.
If [...]