Welcome back to the world's #1 global Music Business podcast! Today we talk w/ Billboard 2023 Top Music Lawyer Karl Fowlkes, Esq. on everything you need to know about the legalities of writing, recording & releasing music. We also delve into Karl's extraordinary career as Managing Partner of The Fowlkes Firm, Co-Founder / COO of EVGLE & so much more. Tune in to learn how to handle songwriting splits and group / band agreements. As well as how to pay producers, players, engineers, arrangers, remixers, release cover songs & what simple agreements you need in place to ensure you own your music in full. Here we go! This episode is brought to you by ⁠Downtown Music⁠, whose mission is to shift the power center of the music industry into the hands of those who create - & those who support that creation - by giving them the finest and most comprehensive set of tools and services. Downtown is committed to building a more equitable music business. Downtown believes in partnership, advocacy, and helping musicians develop sustainable careers - so they don't require clients to give up ANY of their copyrights. Also! We're planning live podcast tapings both in the U.S. & around the world in coming months & years. If you'd like to be in the loop on said live events, & all updates on the book this podcast is based on, ⁠⁠sign up for our email list HERE.⁠⁠  ⁠Book this podcast was based on (Second Edition):⁠ 10% off w/ code PODCAST Season Two Video trailer: https://youtu.be/ubuyq9uYa8s FULL VIDEO of this & ALL Season Two episodes available under the VIDEOS tab HERE: https://volume.com/p/sustainablemusiccareer/ Questions? ⁠⁠@EmWizzle on Twitter⁠⁠ CREDITS: Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, & Host:⁠⁠ Emily White⁠⁠ Project Manager: ⁠Michael Zimmerlich⁠ Engineer: ⁠⁠Nathan Cain⁠⁠ Music: ⁠⁠Matthew Wang⁠⁠ Recorded Live at ⁠Nō Studios

You've gotten your art together, which is no easy task. Congrats! Before you hit the studio it's crucial to ensure you have the tools in place to build your audience so they're ready when the time comes to release your music. While also ensuring your data collection & marketing platforms are set up before your release, so you're not scrambling to set everything up when your music is out. To navigate this & more, host Emily White chats with the force that is Kennita Hickman - Chief Culture Curator at Catera. Kennita has built up her career & dominated her local scene while expanding regionally & nationally. This episode explores how to ensure you have your marketing foundation in place to thrive for your release. While also exploring Kennita's career & how she's navigated her way to the top. Here we go! This episode is brought to you by Downtown Music, whose mission is to shift the power center of the music industry into the hands of those who create - and those who support that creation - by giving them the finest and most comprehensive set of tools and services. Downtown is committed to building a more equitable music business. Downtown believes in partnership, advocacy, and helping musicians develop sustainable careers - so they don't require clients to give up ANY of their copyrights. Also! We're planning live podcast tapings both in the U.S. & around the world in coming months & years. If you'd like to be in the loop on said live events, & all updates on the book this podcast is based on, ⁠sign up for our email list HERE.⁠  ⁠Book this podcast was based on (Second Edition):⁠ 10% off w/ code PODCAST Season Two Video trailer: https://youtu.be/ubuyq9uYa8s FULL VIDEO of this & ALL Season Two episodes available under the VIDEOS tab HERE: https://volume.com/p/sustainablemusiccareer/ Questions? ⁠@EmWizzle on Twitter⁠ CREDITS: Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, & Host:⁠ Emily White⁠ Project Manager: Michael Zimmerlich Engineer: ⁠Nathan Cain⁠ Music: ⁠Matthew Wang⁠ Recorded Live at Nō Studios

We're back for Season Two of How to Build a Sustainable Music Career & Collect All Revenue Streams! Thank you for making this the #1 Music Business podcast globally. Your support from Australia to Africa & beyond truly means to world to us. We look forward to visiting as many of you as possible in the coming seasons! In the meantime, we're pleased to share the premiere of Season Two, recorded live at Oscar winner John Ridley's Nō Studios in host / author Emily White's home city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The show covers the entire modern music industry, from recording to release, while ensuring artists aren't missing a single revenue stream along the way. This season does so through the lens of Milwaukee's music ecosystem in a way that's applicable to where you live. While also examining what we can learn & how we can grow together to thrive as a creative community. To begin, Amazon #1 best-selling author Emily White chats with the icon that is Vernon Reid of Living Colour on "getting one's art together." There's no point of moving on to future episodes until one's soul is encapsulated in musical form. When is one "ripe" & ready to record? Vernon & Emily discuss this notion through the vibrant tapestry of Vernon's career. How does one find this flow state? That's what getting one's art together & this episode is exactly about. Also! We're planning live podcast tapings both in the U.S. & around the world in coming months & years. If you'd like to be in the loop on said live events, & all updates on the book this podcast is based on, sign up for our email list HERE.  ⁠Book this podcast was based on (Second Edition):⁠ 10% off w/ code PODCAST Season Two Video trailer: https://youtu.be/ubuyq9uYa8s FULL VIDEO of this & ALL Season Two episodes available under the VIDEOS tab HERE: https://volume.com/p/sustainablemusiccareer/ Questions? @EmWizzle on Twitter CREDITS: Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, & Host: Emily White Project Manager: Michael Zimmerlich Engineer: Nathan Cain Music: Matthew Wang Special Thanks!: Tim Emgushov 

We did it! Host and Author Emily White truly feels we've covered the modern music industry, now including questions from you that we didn't cover in the episodes bringing to life the chapters from the book this podcast is based on. To wrap the season we're thrilled to cover the final audience question that has been posted to Emily: "Are NFT's good or bad?" The short answer yet another question: like anything we create - is it compelling? To dig in on all things NFT's, whether you have no idea what that means or are an NFT expert, Emily chats with Author, Consultant and all around Music Tech Expert, Karen Allen. Karen has a wonderful book out called Twitch For Musicians so the conversation naturally evolves to best practices for live streaming and what's happening on TikTok. Tune in, enjoy and thank you again for making How to Build a Sustainable Music Career & Collect All Revenue Streams the NUMBER ONE Music Business Podcast IN THE WORLD! Our minds are blown by the response and we can't wait to return in 2023 with live tapings of Season Two in workshop form. To be the FIRST to hear about that, sign up for this podcast and book's email list HERE. Thanks again and Happy Listening! Questions? Reach out to @EmWizzle on Twitter ⁠Book this podcast was based on (Second Edition):⁠ 10% off w/ code PODCAST Email List to be directly contacted when S2 & the book's next edition drops: https://bit.ly/SustainableList CREDITS: Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, & Host: Emily White Engineer: Nathan Cain Music: Matthew Wang Sponsorship: info@c-ent.com Graphics: Neelu Mohaghegh 

Experienced touring crew members Noamme Elisha & Jeff Maker share insights on joining the touring crew, challenges faced on tour, transitioning to new careers, financial planning, pandemic coping strategies, and exploring NFT opportunities in the music industry.

This podcast, and the book it's based on, is written for the perspective of the musician who writes, records, and performs live. However listener Brian D wrote to Emily and asked how he can move his career forward without being a songwriter. He said, "I am a drummer trying to get my name out there to bigger artists." And thus this bonus episode titled "How to Be a Session Musician" was born. Host and Author Emily White immediately thought of her longtime friend, Brian Viglione, for this episode. Brian is a world-class drummer whose band The Dresden Dolls has experienced the heights of success while he's parlayed that into a career recording with Nine Inch Nails and playing with one of his childhood heroes, The Violent Femmes. Tune in to hear how Brian has built a successful career as a session, touring musician and more.  Also! Anyone who shares this episode before 2/28/22 and tags @emwizzle and @zildjiancompany on Instagram or Twitter, or @emwizzle and @Zildjian on Facebook will be entered in a drawing to win a 16" K Constantinople Crash cymbal from Zildjian! We will draw and contact the winder on Monday 2/28/22. Happy Listening! ⁠Book this podcast was based on (Second Edition):⁠ 10% off w/ code PODCAST Email List to be directly contacted when S2 & the book's next edition drops: https://bit.ly/SustainableList CREDITS: Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, & Host: Emily White Engineer: Nathan Cain Music: Matthew Wang Sponsorship: info@c-ent.com Graphics: Neelu Mohaghegh 

We did it! Host and Author Emily White truly feels we have covered all aspects of building a sustainable music career and collecting all revenue streams. We're forever grateful to you for listening! And we're not done yet! Both Emily and a listener had ideas for two additional episodes that cover "How to Be a Session Musician" and "How to be a Touring Crew Member." So we hope you enjoy this "final" episode of the season, but stay tuned for two bonus episodes dropping soon!  Want to pick up the book this podcast is based on or dig in deeper by booking consulting time with Emily? Get free shipping plus 10% off with the code FRIENDOFEMILY here: https://www.collectiveentinc.com/book2 Thanks again and Happy Listening! ⁠Book this podcast was based on (Second Edition):⁠ 10% off w/ code PODCAST Email List to be directly contacted when S2 & the book's next edition drops: https://bit.ly/SustainableList CREDITS: Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, & Host: Emily White Engineer: Nathan Cain Music: Matthew Wang Sponsorship: info@c-ent.com Graphics: Neelu Mohaghegh 

Amaechi Uzoigwe's resume / CV speaks for itself as Co-Manager of Run the Jewels, Co-Founder of Studio A, an investor, advocate, and more. But to host Emily White, he is pure inspiration as a human being. This is a candid conversation on Amaechi's career and rise to becoming one of the top managers and most respected minds in the industry. However his journey has been far from a straight and narrow path. Settle in to learn how getting out there to do the work, and always doing right by artists, can lead to organic professional relationships that last a career and a lifetime. Similarly, Amaechi is a true modern manager in the sense that his work in film, branding, and activating around causes important to Africa & Africans throughout the Diaspora takes his work and artists to the next level and beyond. As we begin to wrap up the series of this podcast based on Emily's book of the same name, she felt it was crucial to speak with Amaechi and share his story with you. We hope you enjoy it and happy listening! ⁠Book this podcast was based on (Second Edition):⁠ 10% off w/ code PODCAST Email List to be directly contacted when S2 & the book's next edition drops: https://bit.ly/SustainableList CREDITS: Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, & Host: Emily White Engineer: Nathan Cain Music: Matthew Wang Sponsorship: info@c-ent.com Graphics: Neelu Mohaghegh 

We did it! You now know how to build a sustainable music career and collect all revenue streams. However, help is always appreciated! In this episode Host Emily White interviews a longtime, yet very modern manager, Randy Nichols. Emily and Randy break down artist management and the ancillary team members that surround an artist. Important note!: *Many* music industry folks listen to this podcast and have read the book it's based on. The point is - we're all learning and growing together. It's important, if not crucial, for you to have an understanding of what is going on in all aspects of your career even if you're fortunate enough to have folks helping you along the way. We hope you enjoy and happy listening! ⁠Book this podcast was based on (Second Edition):⁠ 10% off w/ code PODCAST Email List to be directly contacted when S2 & the book's next edition drops: https://bit.ly/SustainableList CREDITS: Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, & Host: Emily White Engineer: Nathan Cain Music: Matthew Wang Sponsorship: info@c-ent.com Graphics: Neelu Mohaghegh 

This is the second episode where Host Emily White interviews a handpicked artist to discuss the concept of the book this podcast is based on, in particular Chapter 11 - Repeat & Grow! As we've *just* about covered the entire modern music industry, now it's on you to go back to Chapter 1 (Get Your Art Together) to begin the process again. This episode takes you through Artist Nikki Hill's journey, who has been doing just that. Nikki Hill has created a path outside of the norm and molding her own image has been a lifelong brand for the singer, songwriter, and bandleader.  With the lack of exposure for Black soul-rock singers/entertainers, Nikki found herself being misinterpreted. She became known in some circles just as much for confusing local audiences who initially assumed a different vibe based on her photo, as she did for leading an explosive, soulful, not-to-be-missed electric guitar-driven performance. Refusing to let the experience undo her path, Hill embraced the muse and jumped into the process of probing the vital role that Black women played in what became rock ‘n’ roll. As word spread, so did interest, allowing Hill opportunities to open for a range of artists like Dr. John, Aaron Neville, Los Lobos, to Eileen Jewel and Nelly, before any music was released. Nikki continued to develop her sound, learning with trial and error, a lot of road mileage, self-releasing albums, and carving out a place for herself, and hopefully a place for other people going through similar struggles. We hope you enjoy and Happy listening! ⁠Book this podcast was based on (Second Edition):⁠ 10% off w/ code PODCAST Email List to be directly contacted when S2 & the book's next edition drops: https://bit.ly/SustainableList CREDITS: Creator, Executive Producer, Producer, & Host: Emily White Engineer: Nathan Cain Music: Matthew Wang Sponsorship: info@c-ent.com Graphics: Neelu Mohaghegh