Making a Scene Presents

00:22:14

You Can Hold Music Again: How Smart Media Could...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/15

Making a Scene Presents - You Can Hold Music Again: How Smart Media Could Reconnect a Digital Generation With the AlbumFor most of recorded music history, loving music meant touching it. You walked into a record store, flipped through rows of albums, picked one up, studied the cover, carried it home, broke the seal and spent time with the object before the first song ever reached your ears. The music was obviously the reason for buying the album, but the ritual around it became part of the

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01:20:26

Interview with JP Soars

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/13

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with JP SoarsJP Soars has spent more than two decades building his reputation the way roots music was meant to be built: onstage, night after night, with a guitar in his hands and a road-tested sound that refuses to stay politely inside one genre. A fiery guitarist, soulful singer, and inventive songwriter, Soars moves through blues, rock and roll, Latin rhythms, country, Southern soul, and gypsy jazz with the confidence of a musician guided less by category than

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00:36:07

Gerry Casey's Interview with Sujata

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/11

Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with SujataSujata is a British-Indian singer and songwriter based in London. Raised in Calcutta by her musical family and steeped in the Bengali Folk Music tradition, her focus moved to Pop and Rock soon after she settled in England. Inspired by Janis Joplin, Dolly Parton, Aretha Franklin, George Harrison and her own cross-cultural upbringing, Sujata’s songs present a unique fusion of Rock, Pop, Blues and Indian sounds – sitars and tablas with guitars

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00:20:04

Harmonics Without the Math: What “Warmth,”...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/11

Making a Scene Presents - Harmonics Without the Math: What “Warmth,” Saturation, Tubes and Transformers Are Really Doing to Your MusicWalk through enough recording studios and eventually somebody will tell you that a microphone preamp sounds warm because it has tubes, another sounds punchy because it has transformers, and a plug-in sounds analog because it adds harmonics. Give the conversation another ten minutes and somebody will announce that even harmonics are musical while odd harmonics are

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00:20:14

You Own the Music. But Who Owns the Pipes?

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/10

Making a Scene Presents - You Own the Music. But Who Owns the Pipes?For most of the modern independent music movement, we have spent a lot of time telling artists to own their masters, control their publishing, keep their copyrights, and avoid signing contracts that turn a lifetime of creative work into somebody else’s asset. That advice still matters because ownership is the foundation of almost every serious attempt to build long-term income from music. The problem is that the music business has

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00:22:30

Your Studio Has New Landlords: Native Instruments,...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/10

Making a Scene Presents - Your Studio Has New Landlords: Native Instruments, iZotope and the Price of Trusting an EcosystemThere are few relationships in modern music more intimate than the one between a producer and a piece of software that has been sitting inside every session for ten years. We may pretend plugins are tools in the same way a screwdriver is a tool, but nobody has ever opened an old album session and discovered that their screwdriver needs to log into an account in Germany before it

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00:24:48

Washington Just Changed the AI Music Fight

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/09

Making a Scene Presents - Washington Just Changed the AI Music FightIf AI Training Becomes Fair Use, Independent Artists Need a Bigger Rights StrategyFor the last several years, the music business has been circling one giant question about artificial intelligence: whether AI companies should have to pay for the copyrighted music they use to train their models. That debate has attracted artists, record labels, publishers, technology companies, lawyers, lobbyists and enough venture capital to make

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01:11:51

Interview with Donna Herula

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/06

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Donna HerulaDonna Herula is an award-winning blues singer, songwriter, resonator slide guitarist, bandleader, educator, and Chicago Blues Hall of Fame inductee whose music bridges Delta blues, early Chicago blues, folk, soul, gospel, Americana, and New Orleans rhythm. Hailed by Living Blues Magazine for her “superlative guitar prowess,” Herula has built a reputation as a powerful acoustic and electric blues artist with a gift for emotional honesty, intricate

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00:34:24

Gerry Casey's Interview with Michael Christie of The...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/04

Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Michael Christie of The Kings of CoolThe Kings of Cool are a Ballyshannon, County Donegal band whose music blends classic guitar pop, soft rock, country, jazz, and the melodic craft of timeless songwriting. Built around Michael Christie, Jason Kelly, and Stephen Gallagher, the band carries the easy chemistry of musicians who have known each other for years, played together in different settings, and found a new creative spark at exactly the moment

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00:19:56

The Fan, the Brand and the Music

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/04

Making a Scene Presents - The Fan, the Brand and the MusicWhy the Future of an Independent Music Career May Depend Less on Finding More Listeners and More on Building Better RelationshipsThere is something wonderfully strange about the modern music business. An independent artist can sit in a bedroom in Georgia, make a record, distribute it around the world, reach listeners in countries they have never visited, sell a ticket directly to someone three states away and talk to a fan on the other side

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00:20:21

SoundCloud Put the Sale Next to Discovery. That Could...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/03

Making a Scene Presents - SoundCloud Put the Sale Next to Discovery. That Could Change the Indie Music BusinessThere is something almost delightfully old-fashioned about one of the more interesting music-business announcements of 2026. A fan hears a song, likes the song, decides it is worth a few dollars, gives the artist some money, and receives a copy of the music. After more than two decades of streaming pools, recommendation engines, royalty calculations, subscription tiers, content IDs, creator

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00:21:19

The Labels Aren’t Fighting AI. They’re Buying Into...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/02

Making a Scene Presents - The Labels Aren’t Fighting AI. They’re Buying Into It. So Where Is the Indie Artist’s Equity?For the last few years, independent musicians have been handed a very simple story about artificial intelligence. AI was the thing coming for your songs, your voice, your recording career, your session work and, if the more dramatic headlines were to be believed, possibly the last decent cup of coffee in the control room. Artists were warned about scraped catalogs, cloned voices,

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00:22:46

There Are Humans Inside the WAV File

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/02

Making a Scene Presents - There Are Humans Inside the WAV File: The AFM AI Lawsuit and the Rights Revolution Independent Artists Should Start Building NowThere is a wonderful moment at the end of making a record when all the complicated things that went into it suddenly appear to become simple. The drummer has gone home, the guitar amps are quiet, the background vocals have finally stopped multiplying, the producer has approved the mix, and somebody has decided that the mastering revision really is

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00:28:46

Gerry Casey's Interview with Jovan Webb

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/08/29

Jovin Webb did not find the blues. He was born into them.Raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Webb grew up surrounded by gospel music, Southern church culture, Gulf Coast grit, and the kind of real-life struggle that has always fed the deepest blues. He built his voice the old-fashioned way: singing from lived experience, playing night after night, and learning how to turn pain, faith, temptation, survival, and hope into music that sounds both ancient and urgently

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00:54:04

Interview with Leslie Waugh

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/08/28

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Leslie Waugh Leslie Waugh is a Texas-based Americana singer-songwriter whose music tells the kind of stories that country music was built to carry: not the glossy kind about beer, trucks, and easy slogans, but the deeper kind about identity, reinvention, disappointment, resilience, love, and the strange grace of finding your own voice later than expected. http://www.makingascene.org

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00:24:16

The Song You Already Own May Be Your Best Investment

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/08/27

Making a Scene Presents - The Song You Already Own May Be Your Best InvestmentThe Music Business Has Finally Discovered Something Artists Should Have Known All Along For most of the history of the record business, artists were trained to think about music in release cycles. You wrote a song, recorded it, released it, promoted it for a few months, crossed your fingers, annoyed your friends with social media posts, and eventually moved on to the next record. The old album was pushed toward the back

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00:23:26

Direct-to-Fan Platforms Are Becoming Discovery...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/08/26

Making a Scene Presents -Direct-to-Fan Platforms Are Becoming Discovery Platforms. Don’t Make the Same Mistake TwiceThere was always something pleasantly old-fashioned about the original idea behind https://www.patreon.com/. You went out into the world, made music, played shows, posted videos, appeared on podcasts, begged the algorithm gods for mercy, handed out flyers, annoyed your friends, annoyed your friends’ friends, and somehow found people who cared about what you did. Then Patreon gave some

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00:26:10

Don’t Close the Session Yet: Build the Revenue...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/08/26

Making a Scene Presents - Don’t Close the Session Yet: Build the Revenue Package When You Finish the MasterThe Song Is Finished. The Business Asset Is Not. There is a wonderful moment in every recording project when everybody finally agrees that the song is finished. The singer has stopped asking whether one word in the second verse could be louder. The guitar player has accepted that the solo does not need another half-decibel. The mastering engineer has sent the file called something reassuring

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00:20:38

September 1 Is a Warning: Build an Exit Package for...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/08/25

Making a Scene Presents - September 1 Is a Warning: Build an Exit Package for Every Music Platform There are certain phrases no musician wants to see in the subject line of an email from a company holding an important piece of their career. “Important changes to your account” is one. “Service transition” is another. “We’re evolving” usually means somebody in a conference room has made a decision that is about to create several hours of work for people who were not invited to the conference room

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01:21:21

Interview with Hugh Pool and Jon Ragusa of Mulebone

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/08/22

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Hugh Pool and Jon Ragusa of MuleboneMulebone is the long-running blues and roots partnership of guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer Hugh Pool and multi-instrumentalist Jon Ragusa. Built on the foundation of traditional blues, the duo takes the language of country blues, folk, roots music, and early American song forms and stretches it into something soulful, agile, and adventurous. At the heart of Mulebone is a rare musical conversation between

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