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Making a Scene Recap 2020
Making a Scene Recap 2020
Making a Scene brought you over 900 posts in 2020 which averages out to 2.5 posts a day for 365 days. Not to toot our own horns here, I don’t believe there is any other indie music resource that has come close to amount content we have created in 2020.

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The Indie Artists Guide to TikTok
The Indie Artists Guide to TikTok
If you are an indie artist, TikTok marketing has become great channel for promoting your brand. Even in 2020, there is relatively little competition on TikTok. But you need to think of TikTok for promoting your music much like Instagram Stories. They are not meant to push for direct sales of your music, but rather show a place to show the personality of You/Band and/or your Musical Brand. We are going to go through some of the basics of using TikTok to promote your “Personality and Musical Brand” on TikTok.

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Independent Blues Award Nominations Close Jan 1 2021!
Independent Blues Award Nominations Close Jan 1 2021!
The independent Blues Awards celebrate the diversity and power of the music that is created by those artists that acknowledge their inspiration and roots are in the blues. These awards will represent not only those “touring” artists who work within the established blues community, but embrace working artists who work in other markets but still acknowledge and honor their roots in the blues.

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Dione Taylor is Making a Scene
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Jack De Keyzer is Making a Scene
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Matt Eckstine is Making a Scene
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Luca Burgalassi is Making a Scene
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Katarina Pejak is Making a Scene
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David Rotundo is Making a Scene
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Barrett Anderson is Making a Scene
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Larry Jay is Making a Scene!
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John Fusco is Making a Scene
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Michael Schatte is Making a Scene
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AJ Crawdaddy is Making a Scene
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Stax ’68: A Memphis Story
Stax ’68: A Memphis Story Various Artists Stax Records/Craft Recordings One of my favorite holiday…

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Charles Colizza Group Hug the Devil
Charles Colizza Group Hug the Devil Self-released Montreal, Quebec -raised, NYC-based guitarist Charles Colizza makes…

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Jimmie Vaughan The Pleasure’s All Mine
Jimmie Vaughan The Pleasure’s All Mine The Last Music Co. While his younger brother Stevie…

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Pylon Poets Lucid Hallucinations
Pylon Poets Lucid Hallucinations Independent   The Band: Pylon Poets are an Alternative Rock band…

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Straight To You Live
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Straight To You Live Provogue/Mascot Label Group Kenny Wayne Shepherd first…

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Dave Keller You Get What You Give
Dave Keller You Get What You Give Tasty Tone Records Montpelier, Vermont’s Dave Keller has…

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Andy Cohen Tryin’ To Get Home
Andy Cohen Tryin’ To Get Home Earwig Records Andy Cohen grew up in a household…

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Tom Mason Under A Mistletoe Sky
Tom Mason Under A Mistletoe Sky Gas Station Music Born in Minneapolis, Tom Mason now…

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Hamilton Loomis This Season
Hamilton Loomis This Season Ham-Bone Records Texas born Hamilton Loomis’ early influences include Johnny Copeland,…

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Richard Ludmerer’s Top Indie Blues Albums of 2020
Richard Ludmerer’s Top Indie Blues Albums of 2020 In no particular order Read the Review!…

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Jim Hynes Top Jazz Releases of 2020
Jim Hyne’s Top Release Picks of 2020 In No Particular Order Read the Review! Read…

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A Gulf Coast Christmas
A Gulf Coast Christmas Various Gulf Coast Records Gulf Coast Records was founded by Mike…

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Alastair Greene The New World Blues
Alastair Greene The New World Blues Whiskey Bayou Records Southern California’s Alastair Greene was first…

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Sam Barlow Faith in The Blues
Sam Barlow Faith in The Blues Montrose Records Twenty-six-year-old Sam Barlow is a West Texas…

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Jon KT The Real Cover Up
Jon KT The Real Cover Up KT Productions Jon Lindley was born in England and…

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Rhythm City Rhythm City
Rhythm City Rhythm City Autumn Hill Drummer Rob Silverman released his own Drumology two months…

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Markus Gottschlich Found Sounds
Markus Gottschlich Found Sounds Self-released The U.S.-based Austrian pianist, composer, bandleader, and Steinway Artist Markus…

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Terminal Station Brotherhood
Terminal Station Brotherhood Hard Rain Records Terminal Station is a Vancouver based blues-rock band. They…

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INTERVIEW WITH A PRO

Interview with the Pros - Junior and Sugar - Big City Rhythm and Blues Magazine
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Interview with a Pro Bob Corritore
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Interview with a pro - Jim Odom Founder of PreSonus!
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Interview with a Pro - Pat Quinn - Buddy Guy Radio
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Interview with a Pro - Arnau Bosch - SoundStorming
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Melissa Clarke - Interview with a pro - Americana Highways!
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Interview with a Pro Evan Lowenstein - Stageit.com
Making a Scene Presents an interview with Evan Lowenstein CEO of Stageit.com Many indie artists…

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Interview with a Pro - Peggy Still Johnson - Writing Music for Film
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Interview with a Pro - Diane Durrett VP Atlanta Chapter of the Recording Academy
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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with a Pro - Vinny Rebas - Indie Connect
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Interview with a Pro - Mick Kolassa - Endless Blues Records
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Interview with a Pro - Kenny Neal - Booga Music
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Interview with a Pro - Tina Terry - Booking Agent!
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Interview with a Pro - B Christopher - Production Music Libraries
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Interview with a Pro - Michael Frank - President of The Earwig Music Company!
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Interview with a Pro - Sallie Bengston - President NOLA Blue Records
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Interview with a Pro - Songwriter, Producer, Engineer Twist Turner!
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Music Business

Making a Scene 2020 our Coverage Recap
Making a Scene Brings you our Recap of our Coverage in 2020 2020 has been…

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An Indie Artists Guide to Using TikTok
Making a Scene Presents an Indie Artists Guide to TikTok TikTok started out in 2014…

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New Covid Relief Bill has Provision for $15 Billion for Small Music Venues
Congress and the Senate have reached an agreement on a new Covid-19 relief bill. This new round…

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Guitar Center is Set to File for Bankruptcy
Guitar Center, Musicians Friend, Music & Arts set to file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy! The…

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Independent Blues Award Nominations open for 2021!
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Filling your Music Marketing Funnel
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Independent Blues Awards 2020
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Funnel Marketing for the Musician
Funnel Marketing For the Musician With the shutdown of the gig economy many indie artists…

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Content Creation - The Future of Indie Music?
Content Creation – The Future of Indie Music? With the Shutdown of the gig economy…

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Small Music Venues are Sending out an SOS with the Save Our Stages Act!
Small Music Venues Are Sending Out An SOS With the “Save Our Stages Act” COVID-19…

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Muddy Waters Chicago Home to Become A Museum
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InstaBand - Surviving the Streaming Revolution
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The Addiction Formula - A Holistic Approach to Songwriting
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How to Make it in the New Music Business - Book Review
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Tools for the Modern Songwriter
Making a Scene Presents Tools for the Modern Songwriter Before we even get into it,…

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The Post Pandemic Music Economy
Making a Scene Looks at the Post Pandemic Music Economy Where are we Now Before…

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Independent Blues Award Nominees Announced!
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OBS Studio a Free Solution to Take your Content Creation to the Next Level
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Review of the Warm Audio WA-14
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Tape Plugin Shootouts Don’t Make Sense
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Review of the Warm Audio WA-47jr
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Presonus Releases Studio One 5
PreSonus Releases Studio One 5 When you invest in a DAW for your studio it…

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Review of the Pick Slinger
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Review of the Presonus Eris 3.5 Speakers
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Kemper Profiler Review
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Interview with a Pro Evan Lowenstein - Stageit.com
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Warm Audio's WA-273 preamp Review
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Building a Grammy Winning Studio!
Building a Grammy Winning Studio When Billie Eilish won her first Grammy for “Best Pop…

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Plugin Alliance Mega Bundle Review
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LIVE Music Survey
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Review of the Warm Audio WA-412 API preamp
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How to Mic Drums!
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Review - Warm Audio WA-47 Microphone
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Top 10 Wireless Guitar Systems under $200
Top 10 Wireless Guitar Systems Under $200 Guitar cables…let’s face it, they can be annoying.…

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Podcasts

LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Dione Taylor
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Music on the Couch Show #546
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #546 – 12/21/2020 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11861139 HEAD HONCHOS I got…

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring The BluesBones
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Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #70 with Guest Joe Morganfield
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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Indie Blues Double Shot December 2020 #4
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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Duke Robillard
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Turn it up Show #69 with Host Gerry Casey and his Guest Sari Schorr
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Music on the Couch Show #545
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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Indie Blues Double Shot December 2020 #3
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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Grainne Duffy
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Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #68
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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Jack De Keyser
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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Indie Blues Double Shot December 2020 #2
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Music on the Couch Show #544
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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Katarina Pejak
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Turn it Up with Gerry Casey featuring "The Southbound Snakecharmers" Show #67
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