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For Northern California artists and songwriters J Kent and Leshon, the new California law is allowing them to be more creative.

Making a living in the industry is increasingly hard for most songwriters and musicians in the streaming era. Royalties tend to be meager, while many say concerts produce less revenue.

The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, or AmFree Chamber, will be based in Branstad’s home state.

And Nancy Pelosi goes to Kyiv.

For working musicians who depend on touring to make money, the new economic realities created by the pandemic and the growing influence of streaming

India.Arie was already tired of the meager checks she was receiving from Spotify when...

Apr 23, 2021 - 8:25 am The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) has completed its first-ever monthly distribution of mechanical royalties, which is a result of the new blanket license established by the  Music Modernization Act of 2018 (MMA). The ball got rolling in February 2021 when digital service providers (DSPs) began reporting their streaming and download usage numbers for the previous month to the Mechanical Licensing Collective. The organization’s first calculation of ro...

Posted at 5:53 pm on December 17, 2020 by Brett T. As Twitchy reported back in October, even Hillary Clinton super-fan Peter Dao said “there’s no better word” to describe the members of the Lincoln Project than “grifters,” and his Democrat followers agreed, saying that “supporting them beyond [the 2020 election] is a hard no.” A lot of people have been asking what the Lincoln Project is going to do now that President Biden is around the corner. Democrats don’t want to be associa...