Lightning 100

With a music industry career that spans three decades, Shelia Shipley Biddy has handled jobs from the front desk to the board room. The first woman to head a Nashville record label, her success is...

Jennie Smythe is CEO of the digital marketing agency, Girlilla Marketing. She's worked to market dozens of top-shelf artists including Darius Rucker, Ben Rector, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Aldean and Nickelback. On this episode, we talk...

For more than a decade pianist, sound-sculptor and songwriter Marco Benevento has been amassing an extensive resume of composition and collaboration. His studio albums have set forth a vision for music that connects the...

Nick Palladino is the President and primary Director for Moo Creative. He's done work for Garth Brooks, OneRepublic, Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert and Toby Keith, among others. On this episode we talk about the current state...

Two of Music Business Radio's favorite guests return this week – Michael Omartian and Terry Christian. Michael alone has participated in sales of over 350,000,000 albums as a producer, arranger, artist and musician. He’s also...

Steve Keller, CEO of iV Audio Branding, began his start in the Nashville music scene by making dance remixes of country hits for artists like Tim McGraw and Wynnona. He is an expert on...

David Dufresne is CEO of Bandzoogle, a platform for musicians to build websites, engage fans and sell music and merchandise directly. More than 20,000 musicians and bands use Bandzoogle. David has a venture capitalist background and...

Michael Dorf is founder and CEO of City Winery, Nashville's newest venue and sister to City Wineries in New York City, Chicago, and Napa Valley. In 1986, at only 23 years old, Dorf founded The...

Dave Steunebrink shares his story about coming to Nashville from New Zealand, working in the music business, discovering Paramore, current projects like The Vespers and much more. %CODE1%

This week Music Business Radio takes you behind the scenes of the recent Summer NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants). We visited the convention floor for three days and talked to  reps from Casio,...