SOCIALLY DRIVEN MUSIC = (MUSIC + SOCIAL ADVOCACY & ACTIVISM + 💲)∞ “The Love Letters” title obviously borrows from the author’s apt surname…. https://bit.ly/TheLoveLetters (Twitter Post)…. Check out why everyone is saying that a 3-part series of essays being called “The Love Letters” is a must-read for anyone who is…

First of all, not everyone who can create a track in their bedroom is an artist or songwriter. Of the estimated 60,000 tracks uploaded every day to Spotify alone, there are actually a small fraction that objectively qualify for mass distribution, or will be remembered, or have any redeeming value…

Find out what everyone in the #musicbusiness is talking about. We welcome forward thinking music companies, artists, songwriters, super fans (Stans) and, of course, social causes to contact us and join the conversation. Are you a #musicartist, #songwriter, music industry luminary/mentor, super fan or social cause? If you care about…

Socially Driven Music began as a plan to guide music creators in improving their livelihoods while intersecting with and championing social causes. We quickly recognized that this is best made possible by influencing the politics integral to it all. Together, we can impact social good rather than just complain about…

Socially Driven Music’s objective is to not only illuminate daunting issues confronting society and the business of music, but to harness the energy that results when reminded that the two are inextricably tied and that solutions can be activated through “Calls-To-Action” to a diverse, engaged music community. There is no…

Come along and be part of dismantling the music business and recreating it with a return to quality and social impact! We are all hearing observations, prognostication and some reasonably insightful analysis about the dysfunction of the music business over the last several years, but no actual solutions. Until now. …

Want the Secret Sauce for Music and Fan Interaction IRL and the Metaverse? We can feel our blood pressure rise as we avidly follow the news in various live media and voraciously read about current events each day. As engaged citizens, we feel obliged to subscribe to a firehose array…

Warner Music, Sony Music and Universal Music Acknowledge Failure. While the dismissal of unrecouped advances for legacy artists and songwriters by Warner Music, following Sony and then followed by Universal (sensing a familiar music industry lemmings-like pattern?) will be welcomed, it is not a sign of “the seismic transformation of…

The Beatles resonated so deeply with me as a kid that later I became their American music publisher as Worldwide EVP of ATV Music