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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Melody GuyMelody Guy is a Nashville-based Americana singer-songwriter whose unforgettable voice and fearless honesty have powered a life on the road, with more than two million miles of touring across the United States. Blending rock, country, soul, and pop, she delivers songs with the kind of emotional clarity that stops people mid-conversation. Her voice has drawn comparisons to Eva Cassidy, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, and Grace Slick, but her sound is ultimately her own—grounded, dynamic, and deeply human.
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Making a Scene Presents - Streaming Growth is Slowing And That’s Good News for Indie Artists.For the past ten-plus years, the music industry has sold indie artists one simple dream. Get your music on streaming. Get on playlists. Get the numbers up. Then, somehow, the money will follow. A lot of artists found out the hard way that this dream has a catch. Streaming is real. Streaming is powerful. Streaming can introduce you to new listeners all over the world. But streaming, by itself, rarely builds a stable living.
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Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Jamiah Denzel RogersDeacon Denzel and Dirty Church is the kind of band that doesn’t just play a set — they build a room, light it up, and then invite everybody inside. Rooted in the sweat-and-soul tradition of rock, blues, funk, and gospel, their sound feels like a late-night revival meeting colliding with a barroom jam: gritty, joyful, and impossible to fake.
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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Otis WalkerOtis Walker was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and came up in the deep musical tradition of the American South. He cut his teeth in the music business in Muscle Shoals, absorbing the sounds, work ethic, and soul that have defined generations of legendary recordings. That foundation shaped both his playing and his approach to songwriting, grounding his music in feel, groove, and authenticity.
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Making a Scene Presents - More Artists Need to Earn Enough Instead of a Few Earning EverythingFor most working musicians, the real problem isn’t that people stopped loving music. Music is everywhere. The problem is that the money stopped landing where the work actually happens.
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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Dana MaragosDana Maragos is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter whose music is rooted in storytelling, tradition, and a lifelong relationship with song. Her journey began early, when her grandmother bought her a $25 guitar in Chicago’s Old Town at just six years old. Growing up on the city’s South Side, Dana learned her first chords from a teenage neighbor, singing along to the songs of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Eric Andersen. Those early influences planted the seeds for a songwriting voice built on honesty, melody, and quiet emotional strength.
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Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Austin and the Syd ExperienceAustin & The Syd Experience is a Columbus, Ohio–based funk rock ensemble delivering a fearless, high-voltage blend of hard rock, psychedelic soul, and raw, merciless funk. Known as “ASYD Funk,” their sound is loud, sensual, and deeply groove-driven, built to hit the body as much as the ears.
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Making a Scene Presents - Why Streams Don’t Build Careers (And What Actually Does)For a long time, streaming has felt like the finish line.You upload your music. You watch the numbers climb. You refresh your stats like they’re a scoreboard. You cross your fingers that the algorithm notices you, blesses you, and turns your song into a “moment.”And then you wait.
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Making a Scene Presents - How AI Can Turn Your Fans Into a Street Team (Without Burning You Out)For decades, street teams were built on chaos. Flyers stuffed into backpacks. Group texts that started strong and then quietly died. Friends-of-friends who swore they would help spread the word and then vanished the moment real life showed up. It was almost always unpaid labor, held together by enthusiasm, favors, and blind hope. Labels leaned on this model when they were small and scrappy. Indie artists copied it when they had no other options. And most of the time, it fell apart for the same reason every time: nobody had the time, energy, or systems to keep it running.
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Making a Scene Presents - Tracking vs Mixing: Two Spaces That Should Never Fight Each OtherMost home studios don’t fail in dramatic ways. They don’t blow up. They don’t announce themselves as broken. They quietly stop delivering results. Songs take longer than they should. Performances feel stiff. Mixes never quite translate. Confidence erodes one small frustration at a time.
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Making a Scene Presents An Interview with The Long HoneymoonMinneapolis-based pop-rock band The Long Honeymoon has been filling venues and winning over audiences for more than three years with their high-energy live shows. Built around original songs packed with rich vocal harmonies, catchy pop grooves, and clever arrangements, the band delivers music that feels both familiar and fresh. Made up of musicians with more than two decades of experience in the Twin Cities music scene, The Long Honeymoon blends a deep love of classic pop-rock with a modern sound and a joyful spirit that connects with music fans of all ages.
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Making a Scene Presents - Native Instruments’ Insolvency ShockWhat It Really Means for iZotope, Plugin Alliance, Brainworx, Kontakt, and Indie Artists Who Depend on ThemNative Instruments is not just another plugin company.For many indie musicians and producers, it is infrastructure. Kontakt lives inside massive writing templates. Maschine defines entire beat-making workflows. Traktor runs live rigs. Reaktor holds years of personal experimentation. iZotope tools like RX, Ozone, Neutron, and Nectar are the safety net that lets a small team sound professional.
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Making a Scene Presents - AI Writing Secrets for Musicians - Write Like a Marketer Without Sounding Like One
The biggest lie indie artists are told about marketing is that it’s about tricks. Hooks. Hacks. Algorithms. Magic phrases that somehow turn strangers into fans. That’s not marketing. That’s noise.
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Making a Scene Presents - The Future of Fan Data: How Web3 and AI Empowers Direct-to-Fan AnalyticsThe music industry has never had a problem collecting data. It has always had a problem giving it back to artists.
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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Joyann ParkerJoyann Parker is an American roots and soul singer-songwriter whose powerhouse voice and emotionally rich songwriting have made her one of the most compelling independent artists in today’s modern roots landscape. Blending blues, gospel, jazz, R&B, and vintage Americana, Parker pairs raw vocal authority with deeply human storytelling. Known for her electrifying live performances and unwavering authenticity, she has built a devoted fanbase through connection, craft, and emotional honesty rather than hype.
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The 10 Most Common Home Studio Mistakes (And How to Fix Them Without Spending More Money)Home recording has never been more accessible. You can buy a solid microphone, a capable interface, a powerful DAW, and professional-grade plugins without leaving your house. On paper, there has never been a better time to record your own music. And yet, a lot of home recordings still sound thin, harsh, muddy, distant, or unfinished.
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Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Carrie ZavalaZavala Sol is a San Diego–based five-piece band blending blues, swing, Southern rock, and funk into a sound that feels both timeless and fresh. Formed in 2022, the group came together with an almost immediate musical chemistry, driven by powerful original songs and a shared commitment to groove, storytelling, and high-energy performance.
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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Terry RobbSome musicians collect awards. A rare few become so closely associated with excellence that an award ends up bearing their name. Terry Robb is one of those rare artists.Born in Vancouver and now based in Portland, Terry Robb is widely regarded as one of the finest acoustic blues guitarists on the international stage. His mastery of fingerstyle guitar is so respected that after winning the Muddy Award for Best Acoustic Guitar multiple times, the Cascade Blues Association permanently named the honor after him. It is a distinction that speaks not only to his technical brilliance, but to his lasting influence on the blues community.
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Making a Scene Presents - Tonalic by Celemony: Intelligent Loops That Actually Listen to Your MusicThere are two kinds of tools in modern music production. The first kind makes noise faster. The second kind understands music.Most loop tools fall into the first category. They give you sound, but not context. You drag something in, hope it fits, and then either force your song to work around the loop or spend time chopping it up so it doesn’t feel like a copy-and-paste job. That process can kill momentum fast, especially if you are an independent artist juggling songwriting, production, recording, and release schedules on your own.
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Making a Scene Presents - Record Labels Aren’t Evil—They’re Just Optional NowFor most of modern music history, record labels were not just powerful. They were necessary. If you wanted to record, distribute, promote, or even be taken seriously, you needed a label. That reality shaped everything artists were taught to believe about success. Get signed. Give up control. Hope for the best. But here is the truth nobody in the industry likes to say out loud anymore. Record labels did not suddenly become bad. They simply stopped being mandatory.
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