Just Thought You Should Know: Recent Episodes
Matt Annecharico
Dreamscope Media Group CEO and award winning recording artist Matt Annecharico gives you insights into the music industry including current topics, trends and interviews with people from the industry. Based on his book of the same name available on Amazon.
We all deal with vulnerability whether we like to or not. As artists, we are naturally more vulnerable than most. Often, we are called narcissists. But are we? Matt shares why "naked" made him tear up in public while listening to the self-described "shame researcher" Brené Brown's book "Daring Greatly" and relates some key concepts surrounding vulnerability, our culture of scarcity, and narcissim to your career as an artist.
For the first time in history, the playing field has been levelled in the music industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Major artists are not able to perform sold-out stadium tours and have been forced into doing performances from their living rooms just like many independent artists have been doing for years. Dreamscope's SEVP Chief Creative Officer, Matin Fellani, and Matt discuss ways that independent artists can elevate their performance videos and why there's no better time now to get creative!
Matt talks with Music Ally's SVP of Digital Strategy about the data artists should be collecting and how important it is for marketing.
Matt speaks with music industry veteran Jeff Cheen about China's royalty collection system and the work he's doing to make it better for artists.
In the last of Matt's "interview revisited" series, Matt revisits an interview with hip-hop violinist Daniel D. about his career highlights.
In the 4th part of the series, Matt Annecharico revisits and interview he did with the incredible indie artist Live Hart about her career highlights, new music, and writing for other artists.
In this "interviews revisited" episode, Matt speaks with Michael from the pop/rock/christian band Stars Go Dim about their music, why they chose to gave one of their albums away for free, and other career highlights.
Part 2 of Matt's "interviews revisited" series, we revisit an interview with Bryan Calhoun from US-based performing rights organisation SoundExchange to discuss the important role they play in royalties collections.
The first of the "interviews revisited" series, Matt revisits an interview with audio engineer, studio owner and musician Robert Venable.
Matt welcomes Dreamscope Records Head of A&R Gonçalo Charneca to discuss what A&R actually is and their important role in the artist to label relationship.
Data is important to any business - including artists. Why is this important and what kind of data should artists be keeping track of?
Spotify recently announced that they were releasing the marque space on their platform for artists and their teams to be able to buy advertising. Is this really good for indie artists like they claim? Or is this a return to 'payola'?