How Can I Make Music My Career?
You’re passionate about music. You spend hours listening to music and creating your own playlists. You know you’d love to work in the music industry but realistically you know that you suck at making music of...
Category: Music Business Program
What skills are needed to be a music producer?
The best music producers in the business understand what it takes to make a b-side into a single that gets played over and over again on the radio or downloaded hundreds of thousands of...
How Do I Make a Living in Music?
When you are passionate about something and figure out a way to make a living from it, life can be a beautiful thing. Years ago, up and comers dreamed of being the next big...
How to be a successful music producer
In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell explains that to achieve world-class greatness in a field, a subject needs to spend 10,000 hours practicing a specific task. So, if you spend 20 hours a week...
Special: Lawyer Steve Gordon talks Contracts for Creatives
In a recent episode of RRFC’s weekly show “Connected,” hosts DJ IZ and Cloie Wyatt Taylor featured special guest Steve Gordon, a noted entertainment lawyer in New York who recently released a book called...
Ashley Calhoun: Rahki manager and Author of New Music Business Curriculum!
There is an important business element to the music industry that often gets missed by the public eye, upon which artists get brought together, deals get struck, and music gets made. In such a...
RRFC INTERVIEW: JoAnn Bush, owner of ES Audio in Los Angeles
If you read this newsletter regularly, chances are the names “ES Audio” and “Donny Baker” ring a bell, because both names show up regularly here. Located in Los Angeles, ES Audio is a world-class...
