PODCAST · music
Making a Scene Presents
by Richard LHommedieu
Making a Scene is the #1 Resource for the Indie Artist and the Fans that Love them! http://www.makingascene.org
Episodes
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The Smart Tour Starts at Home: Building a Local Music Scene and a Regional Touring Business That Actually Makes Money
Making a Scene Presents - The Smart Tour Starts at Home: Building a Local Music Scene and a Regional Touring Business That Actually Makes Money Why independent artists should stop measuring success by miles traveled and start building a music economy in their own backyard. The Great American...
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The Next Music Industry Middle Class Will Be Built Around Relationships That Survive the Platform
Making a Scene Presents - The Next Music Industry Middle Class Will Be Built Around Relationships That Survive the Platform The music industry has become remarkably good at collecting information about fans, tracking transactions, and creating new ways to sell music. Unfortunately, the people...
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The American Music Tourism Act Is Now Law.
Making a Scene Presents - The American Music Tourism Act Is Now Law. Indie Artists Should Pay Attention to What Happens Next Washington Has Officially Discovered That Music Makes People Travel On October 9, 2026, President Donald Trump signed the American Music Tourism Act of 2025 into federal…
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Interview with Reverend Raven
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Reverend Raven A musician is only as good as the last gig, and a career is measured less by a list of names than by the people in the room, the groove onstage, and whether the audience leaves smiling. Still, the story is worth telling. Born and raised in...
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25 Smart Media Products You Can Actually Build for Your Merch Table
Making a Scene Presents - 25 Smart Media Products You Can Actually Build for Your Merch Table How to Turn Ordinary Merch Into Physical-Digital Collectibles Without Setting Fire to the Tour Budget The first generation of Smart Media Albums has arrived, and now comes the much more interesting...
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The Album Is Not the Object Anymore
Making a Scene Presents - The Album Is Not the Object Anymore How Indie Artists Can Turn Almost Anything Into a Smart Media Collectible For most of the recorded music business, the album had a fairly simple job description. It was the thing that contained the music. You bought the vinyl record,...
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We Solved Music Distribution. We Forgot to Solve Making a Living.
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…
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Interview with Wren and Wilde
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Wren and Wilde Wren + 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...
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Gerry Casey's Interview with Jason Reilly Owner of Jamboja Studios
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Jason Reilly Owner of Jamboja Studios Jason 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...
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Great Performances Beat Great Equipment
Making a Scene Presents - Great Performances Beat Great Equipment Spend 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...
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Smart Media Albums Enter the U.S. Billboard Charts Today
Making a Scene Presents - Smart Media Albums Enter the U.S. Billboard Charts Today The Bigger Opportunity Starts After the Sale For 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…
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When AI Becomes the Music Fan’s Personal Shopper
Making a Scene Presents - When AI Becomes the Music Fan’s Personal Shopper Spotify, Meta Muse, and Why AI Agent Optimization May Become the Next Battleground for Independent Artists For most of the internet era, musicians have been told that success begins with getting somebody to click…
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What Independent Musicians Can Learn from Netflix, Disney, and the Streaming Wars
Making a Scene Presents - What Independent Musicians Can Learn from Netflix, Disney, and the Streaming Wars The 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...
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Interview with Teni Rane
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Teni Rane Teni 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...
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Gerry Casey's Interview with The StereoGang
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with The StereoGang THE 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...
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Move the Microphone Before You Buy Another Plugin
Making a Scene Presents - Move the Microphone Before You Buy Another Plugin The Science of Microphone Placement and Better Guitar and Vocal Recordings How distance, angle, reflections, and a little understanding of acoustics can transform your recordings without transforming your home studio into...
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Facebook Just Gave Independent Musicians the Best Argument Yet for Owning Their Fan Relationships
Making a Scene Presents - Facebook Just Gave Independent Musicians the Best Argument Yet for Owning Their Fan Relationships Meta’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...
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The Great Engagement Lie
Making a Scene Presents - The Great Engagement Lie How Indie Musicians Became Free Labor for the Platforms That Charge Them to Reach Their Own Fans We Were Told to Chase Likes, Followers, Hearts, and Streams. Nobody Explained Who Was Actually Making the Money. There is a strange ritual taking…
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Your Song May Already Have Made Money You Never Collected
Making a Scene Presents - Your Song May Already Have Made Money You Never Collected Somewhere Out There, Your Music May Be Making Money Without You Imagine spending months writing a song, recording it, paying musicians, mixing it, mastering it, and finally releasing it into the world. You upload...
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Interview with Cassandra Cole
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Cassandra Cole Cassandra 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…
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Gerry Casey's Interview with Austin Walking Cane
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Austin Walking Cane Austin 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...
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How Microphones Hear
Making a Scene Presents - How Microphones Hear Why the Voice in the Room Is Not Always the Voice in the Recording One 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...
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Five Things You Can Sell and the One Thing You Should Keep
Making a Scene Presents - Five Things You Can Sell and the One Thing You Should Keep There 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...
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You Finished the Record Now Build the Smart Media Album
Making a Scene Presents - You Finished the Record Now Build the Smart Media Album A Making a Scene Practical Guide to Turning a Finished Album Into a Physical-Digital Product Fans Can Buy, Tap, Keep and Come Back To In our previous Making a Scene feature on Smart Media Albums, we looked at why…
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You Can Hold Music Again: How Smart Media Could Reconnect a Digital Generation With the Album
Making a Scene Presents - You Can Hold Music Again: How Smart Media Could Reconnect a Digital Generation With the Album For 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...
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Interview with JP Soars
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with JP Soars JP 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...
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Gerry Casey's Interview with Sujata
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Sujata Sujata 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...
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Harmonics Without the Math: What “Warmth,” Saturation, Tubes and Transformers Are Really Doing to Your Music
Making a Scene Presents - Harmonics Without the Math: What “Warmth,” Saturation, Tubes and Transformers Are Really Doing to Your Music Walk through enough recording studios and eventually somebody will tell you that a microphone preamp sounds warm because it has tubes, another sounds punchy…
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You Own the Music. But Who Owns the Pipes?
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...
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Your Studio Has New Landlords: Native Instruments, iZotope and the Price of Trusting an Ecosystem
Making a Scene Presents - Your Studio Has New Landlords: Native Instruments, iZotope and the Price of Trusting an Ecosystem There 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.…
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Washington Just Changed the AI Music Fight
Making a Scene Presents - Washington Just Changed the AI Music Fight If AI Training Becomes Fair Use, Independent Artists Need a Bigger Rights Strategy For the last several years, the music business has been circling one giant question about artificial intelligence: whether AI companies should…
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Interview with Donna Herula
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Donna Herula Donna 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...
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Gerry Casey's Interview with Michael Christie of The Kings of Cool
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Michael Christie of The Kings of Cool The 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...
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The Fan, the Brand and the Music
Making a Scene Presents - The Fan, the Brand and the Music Why the Future of an Independent Music Career May Depend Less on Finding More Listeners and More on Building Better Relationships There is something wonderfully strange about the modern music business. An independent artist can sit in a...
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SoundCloud Put the Sale Next to Discovery. That Could Change the Indie Music Business
Making a Scene Presents - SoundCloud Put the Sale Next to Discovery. That Could Change the Indie Music Business There 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…
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The Labels Aren’t Fighting AI. They’re Buying Into It. So Where Is the Indie Artist’s Equity?
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...
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There Are Humans Inside the WAV File
Making a Scene Presents - There Are Humans Inside the WAV File: The AFM AI Lawsuit and the Rights Revolution Independent Artists Should Start Building Now There 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....
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Gerry Casey's Interview with Jovan Webb
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…
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Interview with Leslie Waugh
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,...
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The Song You Already Own May Be Your Best Investment
Making a Scene Presents - The Song You Already Own May Be Your Best Investment The 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,...
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Direct-to-Fan Platforms Are Becoming Discovery Platforms. Don’t Make the Same Mistake Twice
Making a Scene Presents - Direct-to-Fan Platforms Are Becoming Discovery Platforms. Don’t Make the Same Mistake Twice There 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,...
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Don’t Close the Session Yet: Build the Revenue Package When You Finish the Master
Making a Scene Presents - Don’t Close the Session Yet: Build the Revenue Package When You Finish the Master The 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…
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September 1 Is a Warning: Build an Exit Package for Every Music Platform
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...
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Interview with Hugh Pool and Jon Ragusa of Mulebone
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Hugh Pool and Jon Ragusa of Mulebone Mulebone 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...
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Gerry Casey's Interview with Bright Black
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview with Bright Black Bright Black is a Midlands alt-metal band from England, bringing together the force of modern hard rock, the emotional weight of metal, and the kind of melodic intensity that makes heavy music hit harder than volume alone. Hailing...
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One Song, Many Products: How Indie Artists Can Turn a Recording Into a Revenue Catalog
https://www.makingascene.org The Place the Indie Artist goes to Build the New Music Industry Making a Scene Presents - One Song, Many Products: How Indie Artists Can Turn a Recording Into a Revenue Catalog We Have Been Selling the Song Far Too Cheaply An independent artist can spend weeks writing…
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When the Recording Carries the License: AI, Audio Provenance and the Future of Artist-Owned Rights
Making a Scene Presents -When the Recording Carries the License: AI, Audio Provenance and the Future of Artist-Owned Rights An A2IM spotlight on SonicOrigin points toward a future where a recording can carry a persistent connection to its ownership and AI-licensing terms even after ordinary...
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AI Licensing Is Becoming a Contract Business: What Indie Artists Must Demand Before They Opt In
Making a Scene Presents - AI Licensing Is Becoming a Contract Business: What Indie Artists Must Demand Before They Opt In The AI Fight Is Learning to Speak Contract For the last few years, the music industry’s argument over artificial intelligence has mostly sounded like a fight about permission....
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Build the Stack, Own the Fan: How Independent Artists Can Create a Sustainable Music Business
Making a Scene Presents - Build the Stack, Own the Fan: How Independent Artists Can Create a Sustainable Music Business Stop Waiting for One Check to Save Your Career Independent artists have spent decades being sold different versions of the same dream. There is always supposed to be one thing...
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Interview with the All Night Boogie Band
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with the All Night Boogie Band All Night Boogie Band is an award-winning blues, rock, and soul-inspired band from the Green Mountains of Vermont, built on big vocals, hard-driving grooves, gritty guitar work, and a deep affection for the sound and spirit of...
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Making a Scene is the #1 Resource for the Indie Artist and the Fans that Love them! http://www.makingascene.org
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Richard LHommedieu
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