Paramore’s Jeremy ‘Jerm’ Davis - From Myspace to Monarrch | Hacking Music w/John Pisciotta EP #209 In this episode of 'Hacking Music,' we delve into the music industry with founding member of Paramore. Jeremy ‘Jerm’ Davis, John Pisciotta, Ken Gay, and Mark Adkison. We discuss his journey in the Nashville music scene, the formation and rise of Paramore, and his experience with the early 360 deals. Jeremy shares insights into the history and evolution of music contracts, highlighting the importanc...
Sep 24, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Becoming Ai Ready - AI's Impact on Creative Industries, Artist Control & Monetization | Hacking Music w/John Pisciotta #206 In this episode of the Hacking Music podcast, John Pisciotta, Ken Gay, Mark Adkison and Finbar O'Hanlon an expert in the AI space discuss what it means to become AI-ready. The discussion delves into the impact of AI on creators like authors, musicians, and filmmakers. They explore the concept of a style transfer engine and its revolutionary potential for the music and m...
Aug 15, 2024•38 min
EP: 207 Understanding the Digital Replication Right - First Ever Federal Property Right in Their Own Voice and Likeness 3 Big Takeaways from The ‘No Fakes Act’ The No Fakes Act Gives Every American a First Ever Federal Property Right in Their Own Voice and Likeness DIGITAL REPLICATION RIGHT. Each individual shall have the right to authorize the use of the voice or visual likeness of the individual in a digital replica. Establishes Strong Federal Remedies empower individuals with the ability to s...
Aug 15, 2024•57 min
Irreplaceable Artists in a World of AI w/ Finbar O’Hanlon | Hacking Music w/John Pisciotta #205 This episode of 'Hacking Music,' hosted by John Pisciotta, delves into how AI can help artists to actually become BETTER artists, featuring insights from innovator Finbar O'Hanlon. It covers the journey of artists evolving with technology, using AI not just as tools but as partners in creativity, enhancing their ability to connect with audiences and manage their careers. O'Hanlon highlights concepts s...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 205
From Dolly to Jay-Z: Staging World-Class Experiences with Ken Gay Training Session | Hacking Music w/John Pisciotta #204 In this episode of Hacking Music we delve into the intricacies of live music performance and stage production, offering listeners a unique blend of training, interviews, and actionable insights from the music industry's best. The episode features an in-depth conversation with Ken Gay, an expert in staging experiences for top artists like Dolly Parton, Madonna, Jay Z, The Gaith...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 14 min
Happy Tuesday people. How we living? Hope everybody is. Good. Whether you're online or watching your dashboard, super glad you're here. This is Monetizer. Monetizer happens the fourth Tuesday of each month, where we talk about e commerce, productizations, process and systems, kind of the back office stuff that makes the front office possible. SuprFan Origins Let's talk a little bit about super fans and artists communities. We work for one of the Largest publishing companies in the world here in ...
Mar 14, 2024•31 min•Ep. 202
The Business and the ART of Tribute Bands, James Volpe Rotondi | Hacking Music with John Pisciotta #203 In this episode, we discuss the world of tribute bands. Our guest is James Volpe Rotondi, known for his role as “Jimmy Page” in the tribute band Zoso, and his journey from joining the band to becoming the heart of it. We learn about the back story of Zoso, from its humble beginnings to becoming respected figureheads in the tribute band scene, and discuss the challenges and rewards of portrayin...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Future Beats Nostalgia - Fly In Formation Don’t get it twisted, the past decades were great, but nothing compared to what's in front of you. Create What’s Next. Your future depends on it. Good morning, fam. It is Tuesday here. So flying formation, let's point our minds in the right directions and clean out our minds and put some guardrails up as we go about our day. Uh, so today in flying formation, I want to talk really, it's a cautionary tale. Uh, it's called future beats nostalgia. And what h...
Feb 13, 2024•3 min•Season 2Ep. 201
Love & Execution with Lauren Bateman - Hacking Music EP: 200 In this episode I spoke to guitarist, instructor and entrepreneur Lauren Bateman. We hit on a TON of actionable points, my favorite one being our love of execution and how it balances with our passion and mission. If your new to our community… Hacking Music is a training & execution platform that helps artists align & monetize their talent and ability. Our mission is to serve the world by strengthening the next generation o...
Feb 06, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 200
Mechanics of Career Building in 2024 with Ken Stokes [ aka PK, Pretty Ken ] From Talent to Icon - the Difference that Makes a Difference Monthly call in with Atlanta's Ken Stokes [ AKA PK, Pretty Ken ]. Ken is a founder of the Attic Crew and helped shape what Atlanta Music is and continues to become. Ken has built with OutKast, Big Boi, The Dungeon Family, Goodie Mob, CeeLo Green, Killer Mike, Youngbloodz, Organized Noise, Young Jeezy, TI, Akon, and La Face Records. If this is your first time or...
Dec 08, 2023•59 min
BMI For Sale!?! with Michael Drexler, What a BMI Acquisition Could mean for Tomorrow’s Artists Michael Drexler is Principal at Drexler Research. Previously lead teams at: - Sony Music Entertainment ·- Senior Director, Business Development, Corporate Development & Strategy - Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) - Executive Director, Business Development, Digital Licensing & Strategy - Warner Music Group - Vice President, Digital Strategy & Corporate Development (M&A) 1. Michael Drexler’s S...
Nov 02, 2023•54 min
Domino Belief[s] A community series where we will take a “slice” and unpack it. How it works, how it benefits what you’re doing and how it compounds over time. These “dominos" stacked together “end to end” act like actual dominoes. There are no accidents or surprises when dominos fall. When your dominos are lined up they fall into each other every time…they WORK. They build mometum almost automaticly. Once our beliefs [ some call it mindset or models] are lined up, they strengthen what we DO, ho...
May 17, 2023•10 min
Today we’re going to workshop a tool that helps you to “tune” a central part of your career. Can’t wait for this , in our How to Not Become a Disposable Artist and Build a Career you Actually Want Challenge with 🧨 Dynamitri Joachim. Join the community for the full episodes https://www.hacking-music.com/offers/2N8C5TEV Topics so far... How To Not Become A Disposable Artist Challenge: 1. SUPERSONGS - THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE INSANELY GREAT 2. 10 THINGS EVERY ARTIST SHOULD AUTOMATE 3. BECOMING AN OR...
Feb 15, 2023•56 min
CLIP - Artist Subscription Model - We are Living in the Future Artist Subscription Model - Staging Experiences Fans Love to Pay for Why Subscriptions? How Subscriptions Work? What to Watch Out For This clip is from “How to Not Become a Disposable Artist” - 14 Day Challenge You can get full 14 Days of trainings and PDFs here. https://www.hacking-music.com/How_to_Not_Become_a_Disposable_Artist...
Jan 13, 2023•7 min
From How to Not Become a Disposable Artist - 14 Day Challenge You can get full 14 Days of trainings and PDFs here. https://www.hacking-music.com/How_to_Not_Become_a_Disposable_Artist
Jan 11, 2023•8 min
The Treasure Map EVERY Songwriter will Need as they Navigate their Career This clip is from - How to Not Become a Disposable Artist - 14 Day Challenge You can get full 14 Days of trainings and PDFs here. https://www.hacking-music.com/How_to_Not_Become_a_Disposable_Artist
Jan 11, 2023•7 min
Reverse Engineering SuperSongs - What is a SuperSong? Examples and Attributes of SuperSongs. From - How to Not Become a Disposable Artist - 14 Day Challenge You can get full 14 Days of trainings and PDFs here. https://www.hacking-music.com/How_to_Not_Become_a_Disposable_Artist
Jan 11, 2023•15 min
The 4 Song Archetypes with Examples of Each This clip is from - How to Not Become a Disposable Artist - 14 Day Challenge You can get full 14 Days of trainings and PDFs here. https://www.hacking-music.com/How_to_Not_Become_a_Disposable_Artist
Jan 11, 2023•14 min
What songs to NEVER write - How The Top 2% of Writers Pick WHICH Song to Write - BEFORE WRITING A NOTE, Writing TO a concept or Writing FROM a Concept? This clip is from - How to Not Become a Disposable Artist - 14 Day Challenge You can get full 14 Days of trainings and PDFs here. https://www.hacking-music.com/How_to_Not_Become_a_Disposable_Artist
Jan 11, 2023•4 min
Creative Differentiation for Artists - How Artists Become part of the Future instead of part of History. THE 4 QUESTIONS to Help YOU Get it RIGHT. This clip is from - How to Not Become a Disposable Artist - 14 Day Challenge Grab the Full session for Each of 14 Days of Trainings and PDFs Tutorials here. https://www.hacking-music.com/How_to_Not_Become_a_Disposable_Artist
Jan 11, 2023•14 min
RED OCEANS VS BLUE OCEANS For Artist Entrepreneurs - Getting this RIGHT Changes Everything From - How to Not Become a Disposable Artist Training Challenge Grab the Full session for Each of 14 Days of Trainings and PDFs Tutorials here. https://www.hacking-music.com/How_to_Not_Become_a_Disposable_Artist
Jan 11, 2023•11 min
How Journey Answered the 4 Questions of Creative Differentiation and Become part of the Future instead of part of History. From - How to Not Become a Disposable Artist - 14 Day Challenge You can get Full 14 Days of Trainings and PDFs here. https://www.hacking-music.com/How_to_Not_Become_a_Disposable_Artist
Jan 11, 2023•12 min
Jared DePasquale - Scoring, Sync and Sandboxes For over twenty five years Jared has composed the musical scores for some of Western culture’s most celebrated stories and iconic characters. In this conversation we talked about the intersection between scoring music and music supervision. How to work with scoring composers better and how scoring composers can work better with music supervisors. Some of the things we talked about in this conversation; From Edward Van Halen to John Williams - Imitat...
Oct 18, 2022•55 min
Song Archetypes with Kurt Goebel Archetypes have traditionally been the realm of films and filmmakers. Undeniable characters such as Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, Frodo and Thelma and Louise. In this conversation, we talk about archetypes and how they apply to songs and music supervision. Giving music supervisors, and artist producers clear tracks to run on. As well as helping them avoid the playing “the music brief game” that distracts so many artists. Kurt Goebel is one of Nashville’s finest p...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Get It Out of Your Head and Into The World - 4 Tools for Multiplying Your Time TOOL 1: The Super High Value Task Tool It’s SOOOOO common to get struck in your head. So easy to be distracted by the noise. Do you feel it? Yeah. For artists and entrepreneurs the superpower of this century is found in one word, That word is Focus. Here’s the deal - The world needs the stuff artists have IN them. And at the same time - theres a war. So how do get better at it? Where do we spend our time? How we rank ...
Sep 15, 2022•25 min
How to Talk About Yourself Without ALWAYS Talking About Yourself - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 7 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 ɢᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ᴇxᴄɪᴛᴇᴅ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴠɪsɪᴏɴ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜ ɪɴ ɪᴛ. “The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.” -Lois Wyse Artists and Entrepreneurs are out to change things whether artists know it or not artists sell IDEAS. The IDEA may look like a song, The IDEA may look like a live experience, The ID...
Sep 08, 2022•36 min
Build Your Moat - Protect, Fortify and Expand your Career How to Protect, Fortify and Expand your career by learning to spot your vulnerabilities, gaps and blindspots. On this episode of Hacking Music's weekly live podcast, John and Dylan discuss "Building Your Moat" as a smart artist and entrepreneur. Developing protective barriers around your career as a musician will be essential to longevity. In any war or competitive game, you have your “Defense” and you have your “Offense”. Your “Defense” ...
Jul 25, 2022•40 min
Artists Sell Experiences. Full Stop - How To Sell Live Without Selling Out with Chris Stone We talk about how artists approach sales, commonly get it exactly wrong by avoiding this important pine of a healthy, profitable careers and how artists can take advantage of Amazon's new influencer dashboard. Welcome to Hacking Music, the goal of this podcast is to break off a piece of the Hacking Music training we use and train artists in every day. To master the best of what other headliner artists hav...
Jul 25, 2022•54 min
Hey everybody, welcome to a conversation I call Agile Artists. This is all about managing projects that matter. We are joined today by my guest, Tommy Norman. This is EP 5 in How To Build A Platform Under Your Music: The 10 Habits That Are More Powerful Than Talent. Whether we realize it or not, EVERYBODY IS A PROJECT MANAGER and to a large extent EVERYTHING IS A PROJECT. So let's make sure we get this right. To be clear, I’m not talking about "quick" tasks, the “one and done” type things. I’m t...
Apr 21, 2022•52 min
Join us for a conversation on "Interesting vs Important" A Decision Making Tool To Do More Of The Right Things, More Of The Time. This is EP 4 in How To Build A Platform Under Your Music: The 10 Habits That Are More Powerful Than Talent. By The End Of This Video Your going to Learn: 1. What I Vs I Is And How I Vs I Works? 2. 2 Paths: How One Tricks You And The Other Actually Strengthens You. 3. Give you a Powerfull Tool To Help You Do More Of The Right Things - More Of The Time....
Apr 01, 2022•10 min
