The Vana Room

Christianne Kinney is a music attorney based in Los Angeles, CA. She represents artists, celebrities, intellectual property owners, and tech companies in the entertainment space. She is a Billboard T…

Sound Royalties is a financial services company that works with creatives to fund their businesses and endeavors. For musicians, this means Sound Royalties can analyze your various revenue streams an…

Davey Jay is an Orlando, Florida-based entertainment attorney. In this episode, which is part of our contract series, Davey, Monique, and Lennon discuss the inner workings of an admin publishing deal…

Bruno Guez is the founder, CEO and futurist at Revelator, the leading tech company powering the music industry. He founded Revelator to provide the technology infrastructure to move & manage the digi…

Chris Jay is an RIAA-Certified Platinum recording, mixing, and mastering engineer based in Orlando, Florida. Over the course of his nearly two-decade career he has worked with artists and groups like…

Welcome to season two of The Vana Room podcast! Our first guest is Davey Jay, an intellectual property attorney and partner at Meehle & Jay in Orlando, Florida.

Davey, Monique, and Lennon talk about p…

Big name artists and musicians like Stevie Nicks and Bruce Springsteen are selling their music publishing catalogs to companies like Hipgnosis and Primary Wave, among others. Why are musicians sellin…

Mental health in the music industry has quite often been pushed to the side. Musicians and various music professionals fail to recognize its importance. However, the stigma around mental health is be…

Keith Kirk is a metadata specialist based in the UK. He has worked with a number of artists and major record labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony Music, BMG, Kobalt, and many more.

In this e…

Building your team as a musician will be one of the best things you can do for your career. If you're not sure of how to approach or do something, there are music professionals out there who will hel…

Why do so many artists release music on Friday? Should independent musicians release music on a Friday? There are a few reasons why you may want to consider releasing this day of the week and why you…

Did you know there are ways you can sell your band/artist merch for free? It doesn't cost you anything. The printing company will simply take a percentage of your sales. They'll even handle customer …

Education in any professional workspace is critical in order to continue advancing in your career. There are a number of resources that are available for you to learn for free, at a really affordable…

The MLC, which stands for Mechanical Licensing Collective, was established in 2018 under the Music Modernization Act. The MLC's responsibility is to collect the blanket mechanical royalties that is p…

What royalties are earned when someone streams your music on Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music? Who collects those royalties? Where do you sign up? These are the most common questions for musicia…

The music industry can seem like a desolate void, but there are so many really strong organizations that offer a number of things to its members. For example, joining a PRO like ASCAP or BMI will not…

Music marketing has changed drastically over the past decade. The days of uploading your music to your distributor, like Jamvana, and hoping for the best are long gone. There is an extensive process …

A music distribution service, like Jamvana, is a company that will distribute your music to all of the major digital service providers, like Apple Music, Spotify, TIDAL, and more. Every music distrib…

Playlisting is a fun way to curate music that you love and share with friends and family or maybe just yourself. However, since the boom of music streaming it has turned into a business as well.

Ther…

In this episode, hosts Monique and Lennon sit down with Orlando, Florida-based intellectual property and entertainment attorney Davey Jay to discuss copyright registrations, scammy third party copyri…