Brett Manning Studios: Finding Your Head Voice

(JUNE 2011) Meet one of the newest members of the Brett Manning team: Jason Catron. With a voice as smooth as silk, but powerful as any professionally trained opera singer; listening to Jason is like...

What’s Your Social Network Worth?

(JUNE 2011) With the recent explosion of social networking, most people have set up an account with Facebook, Twitter or Foursquare. That's a wonderful first step but do you know how to use those accounts to maximize and unleash the marketing power that social networking holds?

Letters From Lindsey: To Sign or Not To Sign

(JUNE 2011) To sign or not to sign…that is the question! As we roll into summertime, most artists are gearing up to hit the road and looking forward to the next leg of their tour schedule and if they're wise, they're also thinking about the next leg of their career. One of the biggest career...

Production Agreements: Who Owns What?

(JUNE 2011) This month I decided to respond to a question that was emailed to me from Daniel H. He asks: "I had a Producer tell me that if we recorded a project, I would own the songs but he would own the actual recordings…is that true?"

Show Up

(JUNE 2011) Uncertain of victory or utter annihilation the one thing I could not do was not show up. Like some unwritten code in my DNA as a man-child, I had to at least be there, to not run from the challenge, I may not have been able to walk away from the scene but at least I would show up.

With Music and Justice For All

(JUNE 2011) Artists boast all the time about being unique and unlike the rest but Corrin Campbell is the real deal. Her unmatched background coupled with her dynamic, pop rock sound makes her a force to be reckoned with in the Christian music world.

The “Musts” of Marketing

(JUNE 2011) Being an independent artist is tough work. You have to have talent and drive, but that's the easy part. To survive and thrive independently, you have to operate as a business; sometimes doing the job of 6-7 different people. One of the most important jobs is that of marketing yourself...

Where Do We Go From Here?

(APRIL 2008) As everything moves digital, where does that leave our industry at large?