PLP 105: Bass Battleground – Winter Atlas vs Rei Low

Bass Battleground is an online DJ competition running through mid-December and is produced by Emerald Summers Presents, an Atlanta based promoter. During this time, I’ll be bringing you shorter interviews with each of the contestants. This week I interviewed Winter Atlas who is a DJ, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based out of Greenville, South Carolina. Winter Atlas has over a decade of musical experience playing with bands, as a studio session bassist, and as a vocalist. Winter Atlas will be going head-to-head against Rei Low: an Atlanta Based producer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist who makes industrial pop, deep house, and techno. You can watch them compete (and me open!) starting at 4pm eastern on the Emerald Summers Presents Twitch channel.

PLP 103: Bass Battleground – B-Riel vs AltBraKz

Bass Battleground is an online DJ competition running through mid-December and is produced by Emerald Summers Presents, an Atlanta based promoter. During this time, the Producer Life Podcast will be bringing you shorter interviews with each of the contestants. On Sunday, July 10th at 4pm eastern we have two new DJs for their first round: B-Riel, an Atlanta based freeform bass and dubstep DJ will face off against Vancouver native AltBraKz who specializes in glitch and Drum & Bass.

PLP 082: Key Takeaways From the 2021 DIY Music Conference

I spent the last three days attended CD Baby’s 2021 virtual music conference. On today’s episode I’m recapping many of the surprising things I learned about Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, branding, and more. I’m not going to try to cover all three days in one podcast (I took 17 pages of notes!), so instead I’ll highlight … Read more

PLP 068: Benji Harris on Scarletta, Touring and Corporate Gigging with SongDivision

Today we’ve got a really unique guest: I’m joined by Benji Harris, one of the members of the hit country music trio, Scarletta. As part of this band, they hit the Top 30 on Country Radio, toured arenas across the country, made an appearance on Good Morning America, the Today Show, and Late night with Seth Myers. Currently, Benji is focused on his corporate work with SongDivision where he puts his singing, songwriting, and guitar playing to use entertaining corporate clients and helping to reinforce key points in corporate events. SongDivision employees hundreds of contract musicians, including DJs, and corporate gigs can be really lucrative so you’re not going to want to miss this episode.

PLP 057: Sandra Bullet on being a Portuguese Rockstar, Vocalist for Hire, and Professional Streamer

Sandra Bullet is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from Portugal who specializes in rock and cover songs. She has also been the voice for countless producers in styles ranging from EDM, Jazz, Bossa Nova, Trance, Country, House, and Pop because she is currently a top rated seller on Fiverr with over 1,000 completed projects from 40 countries around the world. Additionally, she is one of the most experienced streamers on Sessions Live and is PAID to livestream there. These two platforms have enabled Sandra to follow her passions as a full-time musician for the last three years.

PLP 053: Top Ten Producer Takeaways from 2020

I thought a good way to start 2021 would be to recap the top lessons I learned over the last year as a result of this podcast and my guests. This will be a quick, but really important episode since it will not only give you some of the overarching themes from the previous year but can also serve as an index for some of the shows you may have missed.

List of Songs that are Blocked on YouTube

YouTube is one of my favorite platforms as an artist. I post my original tracks as well as mixes and mashups all on my channel. Two months ago I also began live streaming there as well using Restream.io. I love YouTube because of the number of tools they offer creators as well as its reach. I also love its amazing content ID system which does a remarkable job identifying songs and giving rights-holders granular control over their content.

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