Everyone in music works too much and has a million things they feel they must accomplish, but taking time to recover is just as important as getting ahead. Movies and television based on the life of music professionals and the artists they support make the entertainment business seem like a nonstop party highlighted by epic highs and perilous lows. It’s true that there is a lot of fun to be had in this industry, as well as plenty of opportunities to cut loose, but work is wor

If Kidz Bop proved anything, it’s that you can never underestimate the power and appeal of music you can sing along to. The Greatest Showman released in theaters all the way back in December of 2017 and the musical’s powerful earworms held sway over the charts all of last year. So much so that The Greatest ShowmanSoundtrack was the best selling album in the world in 2018. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, an organization that represents the recorded m

Spotify, Google, Pandora and Amazon have teamed up to appeal a controversial ruling by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board that, if it goes through, would increase payouts to songwriters by 44%, Variety has learned. A joint statement from the first three of those companies reads: “The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), in a split decision, recently issued the U.S. mechanical statutory rates in a manner that raises serious procedural and substantive concerns. If left to stand, the CR

Making your living as a musician is undeniably tough and doesn’t look to be getting easier any time soon. As such, every performer should be looking to every possible avenue for making money, especially when playing live. The following article comes from Last Minute Musicians, a proud partner of DMN. While weddings, clubs and bars are all still very viable options, we at Last Minute Musicians have compiled a list of some of the more unusual gigs you could seek out, with some

After years of lobbying, the fight over the Copyright Directive, and the future of digital media in Europe, is about to end Late in the evening of Feb. 13, European Union policymakers hammered out the final version of the new Copyright Directive -- the subject of a fierce four-year battle between media businesses and tech giants like Google over how creators will be compensated in the digital age. At stake are billions of dollars in potential revenue for the music industry, a