Bobby Owsinski

For the last few years we’ve heard a lot about an alternative streaming royalty model called user-centric, where the artist gets paid according to the number of times that a user listens. The current standard pro-rata way of determining royalty payouts which uses market share. This was all talk until Deezer and Universal Music Group announced its upcoming “artist-centric” royalties, using the user-centric model but with a twist. The way […]

Home / Inner Circle Podcast / Vinyl Pressing Expert Dustin Blocker, Music Videos Losing Importance, And Gibson Finds Its Lost Archives On My Latest Podcast On my latest podcast episode: Vinyl pressing expert and president of the Vinyl Records Manufacturing Association Dustin Blocker talks about the unseen steps in vinyl manufacturing, the latest in cutting-edge vinyl, developing quality standards for vinyl pressing, working towards sustainability, and much more. Traditional music […]

Many artists and bands once relied on Instagram’s long-form IGTV as a way to get their music out, but after the platform retired the feature last year, they were stuck in the new reality of Reel’s short-form videos. Now Instagram is testing 3 and 10 minute videos on Reels, which makes it look a lot like IGTV has come back again. While short-form videos are still what users prefer, there […]

Artificial intelligence (Ai) is a wonderful tool that can be used to enhance the creativity of any musician, songwriter or producer, but it’s also so new that it treads on areas of copyright that haven’t been fully established yet. Much of this is because the last update to U.S. copyright law was the Digital Millennium Act way back in 1998, which was drafted before internet distribution and streaming. Indeed, the […]

On my latest podcast episode: Independent audio producer, NPR contributor, National Geographic Explorer and founder of Eco Location Sound Bill McQuay talks about telling stories with sound, going around the world to capture audio, helping scientists use sound to understand the world, his setup for recording spatial audio, how sound is determining if insects are disappearing or not, and much more. BMI may be acquired and its songwriters are not […]

We knew this day was coming and many will be surprised that it hasn’t come sooner, but on-demand audio like podcasts and streaming is now more popular than linear formats like radio, Pandora and SiriusXM. This according to the Edison Weekly Insights report, the company that constantly studies our listening habits in the United States. If you look back at even four years ago, radio was outpacing on-demand audio by […]

In the UK Brexit was a hotpoint topic before Covid hit, and many of the predictions of what would happen afterwards, especially to UK musicians and crew, have now come to pass. Since the referendum to leave the European Union in 2016, musicians and their crew have suffered greatly as a new survey shows that nearly half of them have less work now than they did back in the pre-Brexit […]

On my latest podcast episode: Holistic artist and vocal coach Wendy Parr speakers about doing gigs around Hollywood as a teenager, making music in India with some top Indian artists, how she’s helped some of today’s top artists overcome their personal roadblocks, developing her holistic approach to coaching and much more. The latest on Ai music copyright and why a recent court ruling could change everything. And why we may […]

Anyone who’s ever formed a band knows how difficult it can be to come up with a name. Many times the arguments over the name are enough to break up the band before it even gets started. Luckily today we have ChatGPT to come to our rescue. I asked the Ai to come up with 10 band names for a hard rock and an Americana band, then suggest some names […]