Making a Scene Presents

00:21:02

We Solved Music Distribution. We Forgot to Solve...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/10/05

Making a Scene Presents - We Solved Music Distribution. We Forgot to Solve Making a Living.There was a time when one of the biggest problems facing an independent musician was simply getting a record into the marketplace. You could make a great album, spend money you probably didn't have recording it, press a few hundred CDs, load the boxes into your car and then discover that most of the record business had no particular interest in helping you put those CDs anywhere people might actually buy them

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00:59:10

Interview with Wren and Wilde

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/10/03

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Wren and WildeWren + Wilde is a Minnesota folk and Americana band led by singer-songwriter Hilary Yoder, whose distinctive “smoke folk” sound blends emotional honesty, roots-driven songwriting, and a dark, smoldering atmosphere that sets the group apart within the Midwest music scene.At the heart of Wren + Wilde is a deep respect for storytelling. Their songs are built around lived experience, human connection, and the emotional tension between hope and

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00:36:22

Gerry Casey's Interview with Jason Reilly Owner of...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/10/03

Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Jason Reilly Owner of Jamboja StudiosJason Reilly is an Irish musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and studio owner whose work sits at the intersection of performance, recording, and artist development. Based in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Reilly is closely associated with Jamboja Studios, a private residential recording facility created to give musicians the time, space, and equipment to focus completely on making

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00:18:42

Great Performances Beat Great Equipment

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/10/02

Making a Scene Presents - Great Performances Beat Great EquipmentSpend enough time around recording musicians and you eventually witness a familiar little ceremony. Someone finishes a take, listens to the playback, makes a face normally associated with discovering something unpleasant in the refrigerator, and decides the studio needs an upgrade. Perhaps the microphone is not expensive enough. Maybe the preamp lacks whatever invisible magic lives inside transformers made during the Eisenhower

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00:23:23

Smart Media Albums Enter the U.S. Billboard Charts Today

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/10/02

Making a Scene Presents - Smart Media Albums Enter the U.S. Billboard Charts TodayThe Bigger Opportunity Starts After the SaleFor the past several weeks, we have been watching the Smart Media Album story with the kind of cautious enthusiasm that years in the music business eventually teaches you to develop. The idea has always been interesting because it combines something fans can physically own with a digital experience that can continue growing after the sale, which fits neatly into a future

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00:22:22

When AI Becomes the Music Fan’s Personal Shopper

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/28

Making a Scene Presents - When AI Becomes the Music Fan’s Personal ShopperSpotify, Meta Muse, and Why AI Agent Optimization May Become the Next Battleground for Independent ArtistsFor most of the internet era, musicians have been told that success begins with getting somebody to click something. First we worried about getting people to find an artist website through Google. Then musicians were told they needed Facebook pages, followed by Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Spotify playlists, pre-save

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00:20:03

What Independent Musicians Can Learn from Netflix,...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/28

Making a Scene Presents - What Independent Musicians Can Learn from Netflix, Disney, and the Streaming WarsThe movie and television business has figured out how to turn entertainment into an ongoing relationship with an audience. It is time independent musicians stopped thinking like content suppliers and started thinking like entertainment companies.There is something wonderfully strange happening in the entertainment business. Netflix spends billions of dollars creating and acquiring

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01:20:19

Interview with Teni Rane

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/26

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Teni RaneTeni Rane is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Americana and folk singer-songwriter whose music grows from the landscape around her and the questions that have shaped her life. Appalachian songbirds, white oaks, wildflower fields, and the changing seasons find their way into songs that explore belonging, identity, longing, and the complicated beauty of being human. With an intimate vocal style and a thoughtful approach to storytelling, Rane creates

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00:31:56

Gerry Casey's Interview with The StereoGang

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/25

Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with The StereoGangTHE Stereo Gang is a high-energy rock band from Kochi Prefecture, Japan, bringing the raw power of classic hard rock, the rebellious spirit of rock and roll, and the soulful foundations of the blues into a sound built for a new generation. Formed at Kochi University’s light music club, the band came together around vocalist Miu and a shared passion for music that feels immediate, physical, and unapologetically alive.Drawing

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00:24:30

Move the Microphone Before You Buy Another Plugin

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/24

Making a Scene Presents - Move the Microphone Before You Buy Another PluginThe Science of Microphone Placement and Better Guitar and Vocal RecordingsHow distance, angle, reflections, and a little understanding of acoustics can transform your recordings without transforming your home studio into another expensive equipment collection.There is a peculiar ritual that takes place in home recording studios all over the world. A musician records an acoustic guitar, listens to the playback, and decides the

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00:14:05

Facebook Just Gave Independent Musicians the Best...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/23

Making a Scene Presents - Facebook Just Gave Independent Musicians the Best Argument Yet for Owning Their Fan RelationshipsMeta’s new subscription plans and reported restrictions on outbound links expose a problem independent musicians have been living with for years. Artists have spent decades building audiences on social media, only to discover that having thousands of followers and having control of a music business are two very different things.The Landlord Has Decided to Charge for the Front

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00:20:09

The Great Engagement Lie

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/23

Making a Scene Presents - The Great Engagement LieHow Indie Musicians Became Free Labor for the Platforms That Charge Them to Reach Their Own FansWe Were Told to Chase Likes, Followers, Hearts, and Streams. Nobody Explained Who Was Actually Making the Money.There is a strange ritual taking place in the independent music business. Every morning, thousands of musicians wake up, reach for their phones, and check their numbers. How many people watched yesterday’s video? Did that new song get added to

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00:25:16

Your Song May Already Have Made Money You Never...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/21

Making a Scene Presents - Your Song May Already Have Made Money You Never CollectedSomewhere Out There, Your Music May Be Making Money Without YouImagine spending months writing a song, recording it, paying musicians, mixing it, mastering it, and finally releasing it into the world. You upload the finished master to your distributor, announce the release on social media, send an email to your fans, and watch the streaming numbers slowly climb. Eventually, the distributor starts sending payments, and

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01:07:28

Interview with Cassandra Cole

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/20

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Cassandra ColeCassandra Cole is a California-born, Minnesota-based singer-songwriter whose music occupies the space where alternative soul, indie folk, and emotionally charged songwriting meet. Now rooted in the Twin Cities, Cole has developed a sound that is intimate without being fragile, atmospheric without losing its human center, and driven by a willingness to explore difficult emotions with uncommon honesty.Drawing inspiration from storytellers and

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00:28:03

Gerry Casey's Interview with Austin Walking Cane

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/19

Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Austin Walking CaneAustin Walkin’ Cane plays what he proudly calls “Damn Fine Blues” — a gritty, soulful mix of original songs and classic Delta blues built around slide guitar, raw vocals, and the deep pull of American roots music. Whether performing solo, as a duo, or with a full electric band, Cane brings the spirit of Highway 61 to the stage with a sound that feels lived-in rather than recreated.A singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist with

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00:26:45

How Microphones Hear

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/17

Making a Scene Presents - How Microphones HearWhy the Voice in the Room Is Not Always the Voice in the RecordingOne of the strangest experiences in a home studio happens before anybody has touched an EQ, compressor, reverb, or one of those plugins that promises to make your vocal sound like it was recorded in a million-dollar studio somewhere in the Hollywood Hills. A singer stands a few feet in front of you and sounds wonderful. The voice feels warm and natural, the low notes have body without

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00:24:17

Five Things You Can Sell and the One Thing You Should...

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/17

Making a Scene Presents - Five Things You Can Sell and the One Thing You Should KeepThere is a habit in the music business that we probably should have questioned a long time ago. An artist spends months writing a song, recording it, paying musicians, fixing vocals, choosing mixes, mastering the final recording, building an audience around it and eventually creating something with real economic value. Then, almost immediately, the industry teaches that artist to think about who can take control of

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00:20:38

You Finished the Record Now Build the Smart Media Album

Making a Scene Presents ·

2026/09/16

Making a Scene Presents - You Finished the Record Now Build the Smart Media AlbumA Making a Scene Practical Guide to Turning a Finished Album Into a Physical-Digital Product Fans Can Buy, Tap, Keep and Come Back ToIn our previous Making a Scene feature on Smart Media Albums, we looked at why this emerging physical-digital format could become important for independent artists. Luminate has now recognized Smart Media as a physical music category in the United States and Canada, and qualifying products

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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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