01/27/2018

6 Steps to Take If Your Music Has Been Stolen There are countless instances of music being stolen.  We see it on the ground level quite often, and see it at different levels, from DJs playing mixes in clubs that they didn’t make (and leaving the vocal drops in so we know who made it), to renaming a file so a producer is taking complete credit for something they didn’t make at all.  Getting caught doing these things can ruin your career. Many in the music entertainment world come from a

01/13/2018

Why Every Musician Needs a Website Jay LeVert Due to today’s new Music Industry dynamics, the “business” of artist development, monetizing music products,  and the overall strategies for the construction of effective “Marketing Platforms” has become controlled by an ever-changing paradigm. Social Media has become the front line for independent artists wishing to build their careers. And in this instance, for aspiring as well as established artists, websites have become more than the “new

12/23/2017

What to expect from the changes to the tax code. BEFORE THE END OF 2017 LeVert and Associates has a few recommendations for changes their clients might want to make now, before the law changes for the 2018 fiscal year. Property taxes.  The law changes how much of the nonfederal tax you pay will be able to be deducted starting in 2018. (This includes state and local taxes.) If you wanted to deduct most of those taxes by, say, paying them now, you’re generally not going to be able to,