Break the Business

TOPICS: "Canada's Prince of Piano" Martin Mayer ioins Ryan as our guest co-host. Find out more about his music by visiting www.martinmayermusic.com. Ryan and Martin talk about artists getting paid on terrestrial radio and why Spotify's payouts are not fair to musicians. Our guest this week is Lucas Sacks, Director or Booking for Brooklyn Bowl. Lucas nas some great advice for indie artists on now to get booked in mid-sized venues. Visit brooklynbowl.comRate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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TOPICS: What do I do if my band name is “taken” by another band; worst decisions in music history; we interview HotDrop co-founder and CEO Max Goldberg. Find out more about our guest’s work by visitingwww.hotdropapp.com.Rate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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TOPICS: 95-year-old Angela Alvarez wins the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist; lack of competition in the concert ticketing and promotion industry is hurting indie musicians; Bill “Downupright” Boulden stops by to help us create our song for their “We’re Doomed, We’re Dancing” Kickstarter project; we interview indie dream pop artist Jenny Kern. Jenny’s new EP “Your Heart Knows” is available now. You can find out more about our guest’s work by visiting www.jennykernmusic.comRate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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TOPICS: Our Break the Business guests are getting nominated for Grammys; it is getting tough for indie musicians to go on tour post-COVID; our guest this week is DJ/Author Amani Roberts. You can find out more about our guest’s work by visiting www.amaniexperience.com.Rate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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TOPICS: Katie Zaccardi talks about how videos go viral on TikTok; is it OK that TikTok doesn’t meaningfully pay musicians; is Twitter dying?; we interview MIME Entertainment co-founder Tony D. Alexander. You can find out more about his work by visiting mimecorp.com.Rate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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TOPICS: Winamp nostalgia; Taylor Swift dominates the Billboard Hot 100; strategies to help indie musicians get their music into video games; we interview Winamp Chief Commerical Offical Thierry Ascarez to learn more about Winamp’s new creator tools (Winamp for Creators). Find out more by visiting www.winamp.com/creators.Rate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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TOPICS: Happy Halloween! Ryan and co-host Katie Zaccardi talk about Taylor Swift’s new album and strategies for creating TikTok videos more efficiently and effectively. Our guest this week is Grammy-winning songwriter Evan “Kidd” Bogart of the Halloween-themed group LVCRFT. Evan talks about his experience working with LVCRFT and shares some awesome songwriting tips. LVCRFT’s new album “Scream Warriors” is available now and you can find out more by visiting LVCRFT.neRate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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TOPICS: How artists can create and promote content more efficiently; award shows are creating categories for K-pop; we interview Vampr CEO Josh Simons about his social connection platform for musicians. You can find out more about our guest’s work by visiting www.vampr.me.Rate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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TOPICS: YouTube is close to overtaking Spotify as the largest revenue producer in the music industry, but that is bad news for creators; ElisaRockDoc talks to us about TwitchCon and gives us a career update; new Super Mario movie trailer; we interview multi-platinum superproducer Ricky Reed about his amazing career and starting his Nice Life Recording company. You can find out more about ourguest’s work by visiting nice.lifeRate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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TOPICS: We are interviewing two guests this week! Jamie Parganos, the executive director of Creative Muse joins us to talk about how she uses music to help children and heal communities (and the artistswho serve them!). We are also joined by UK-based recording artist Imen Siar to talk about her incredible rise as a young singer-songwriter.Help communities affected by Hurricane Ian by visiting www.volunteerflorida.org/donatefdf.Rate/review/subscribe to the Break the Business Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Follow Ryan @ryankair and the Break the Business Podcast @thebtbpodcast. Like Break the Business on Facebook and tell a friend about the show. Visit www.ryankairalla.com to find out more about Ryan's entertainment, education, and business projects.”

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