This week on the podcast, INDIE WEEK Founder Darryl Hurs is joined by Dr. Leland Harper, an author, professor, and expert on diversity, equity and justice in the events and hospitality industries. Find out he the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion for your events, and how to increase exposure to underrepresented groups and communities to allow for new outlooks to flourish,
and how you can get started!

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation. 

We acknowledge that this project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.

The metaverse is here, bringing new opportunities for music creators and rights holders. So this week, we share a special panel sesson from the 2022 Futureworlds conference featuring INDIE WEEK Founder Darryl Hurs alongside Yung Spielburg (Water & Music), Jessica Powell (AudioShake), Kimberly Knoller (Pixelnyx), Karen Allen (Infinite Album), and Rodel Delfin (Falcon Media).

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation.

This week, we share a great conversation from INDIE WEEKLY #82: Music Industry Predictions for 2023. Hosted by INDIE WEEK Founder Darryl Hurs, he's joined by 604 Records Founder and music lawyer Jonathan Simkin, Audioshake CEO and tech industry expert Jessica Powell, and Indoor Recess publicist and manager Joanne Setterington. They discuss what lies ahead for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the music business, the health of the touring market, and more!

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation.

This week is all about practical advice for grant writing! From the 2022 edition of the indie101 conference, it is presented by Jorge Miguel from Seneca College. Jorge is an award-winning Flamenco Guitarist, composer and producer of 25 + years, 1000+ shows, who has performed from coast to coast, and released three albums of original material.

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation.

This week on the podcast, from INDIE WEEK 2022, we’re sharing a session called Export Opportunities for Canadians Abroad. Building a devoted audience at home is goal #1 for most artists and small businesses. But at a certain point, if you want to make a career out of it, you need to go abroad, no matter which country you’re from. You need to tour, sell records, sell merch, and generate excitement outside your home market in order to maximize your opportunities and livelihood. Here, we’ll share the resources that are available for international growth and what the right time is to seek export opportunities.

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation.

From SCREENxSCREEN 2022, we’re sharing a session with INDIE WEEK Founder Darryl Hurs and Scriberbase CEO and Founder Adam Levinter. The session was called “The Subscription Economy: A Preferred Fan Experience and New Revenue.”  

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation.

On the podcast this week, we’re sharing a conversation from Indie Weekly #66. Here, Indie Week Founder Darryl Hurs’ chats one-on-one with Aysanabee, an Oji-Cree singer-songwriter signed to Ishkōdé Records and one of Toronto's hottest rising artists.

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation.

For our first Indie Weekly Podcast episode of 2023, we thought it would be fun to rewind back to last January and replay Darryl Hurs' Indie Weekly conversation from this time in 2022. He was joined by Eric Alper and Adam Lewis of the Planetary Group to discuss their thoughts and predictions on what would happen in and around the music industry in 2022. Let's see how prescient they were! Some of the insights from this chat are certainly still worth hearing.

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation.

Hit-maker Karen Kosowski's start was in Toronto as a performer but in recent years she has made a name for herself as one of the most sought after producers in Nashville having worked on Grammy-nominated projects (Mickey Guyton) and produced segments for the Grammy Awards and the Super Bowl.

In this conversation with Darryl Hurs from Indie Week 2022, Karen discusses her work with American country star Mickey Guyton, for whom she produced the majority of Guyton’s triple-Grammy-nominated album Remember Her Name, and is a co-writer on several of the album’s tracks. With Guyton, Karen has played the national anthem at the Super Bowl and the Grammy Awards, among other high-profile spots.  She talks about her move to Nashville and how to make it in the industry. 

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation.

This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.

From Indie Week 2022, we share Darryl Hurs’ fun and revealing conversation with multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer Todd Kerns. One of the nicest guys in rock, Todd is currently most noted for being the bass player and back-up singer in “Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators” and for being the frontman of classic ‘90s rockers The Age of Electric. While touring the world, playing to sold out audiences, he’s shared stages with some of rocks biggest names, including some of his own personal heroes. These include Slash, Lemmy, Alice Cooper, Rick Nielsen, Duff McKagan, Adam Levine, Fergie, Bill Murray, Sammy Hagar, Michael Mon roe and Sylvain Sylvain to name a few.

In this conversation, hear stories from the days of Age of Electric, meeting and joining Slash's band, moving to L.A., building a lasting career as a hired gun, and a lot more. 

As always, Indie Week sends a big thank you to our sponsors and funders! They are: Slaight Music, CD Baby, ACTRA RACS, the CMRRA, LyricFind, Bandzoogle, CIMA, City of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, Ontario Creates, FACTOR, Seneca College, and the SOCAN Foundation.

This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.