Ah, pockets. Amazing, aren't they? I wonder what's in your pocket right now.

I'll be the tissue. Yes.

Picture of the family. Ah, how about a lottery ticket with six magic numbers?

No, don't worry. It's still time.

This Saturday, it could be you. Lotto from the National Lottery.

Play now. Rules of procedures apply. Players must be 18 over.

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officially rolled out its service with a superstar list of artists releasing NFTs on the platform. According to a new report from Twitch and the analytics platform illuminate one in three people discover new music through Twitch. Hip-hop star logic has signed to BMG for a licensing deal with marketing and distribution. The copyright royalty board has maintained its decision to increase the headline rate paid to songwriters in the United States.

On-demand streaming services between the years 2018 and 2022. Alicia Outroch has been named the first Chief Technology and Product Officer at TuneCore. The Amsterdam Dance Event has announced the first wave of artists for their October 2022 lineup. A big thank you to Hannah Rosenberg of Megahouse for gathering today's news. Now stay tuned for this week's episode of And The Writer Is.

Guys, listen up. Last year we started working with Lamp. It's a school called Los Angeles Academy for artists and music production. It's run by and founded by Stargate. Their mentor list is nuts. It's, you know, Benny Blanco, Tommy Brown, Tinashe, Emily Warren, John Cunningham, you know, a bunch of people who've been guests on this show. So obviously we're fans of that.

And this school has been amazing. And I wanted to bring them back this year so they can tell you an update on how Lamp is going and ways for you guys to get involved in Lamp.

Tor, dude, good to catch up. It has been a very strange time in the last year, but you guys are still trucking through and it's even growing and growing. So I just want you to tell everybody, you know, what's going on? How's the school going?

Well, as you know, Ross, the Lamp is a one year high level music program. We're in Santa Monica, California, and we have a site with 48 students. They collaborate, write music, produce every single day. And we started this last year. We're just graduating our first class and we're doing admissions for the next year now.

And just the level of music that's coming out of this place is mind blowing. We thought it was going to be hard to get people up to professional level, but people came in with a growth mindset and they're already at a professional level.

So these guys are ready to go out because we create a real world environment where it's just like being in a writing sessions.

We pair producers with songwriters and artists and we write songs every single day. Then we break them down once a week, focus on the songwriting, focus on the performance, the production, the beats are the beats hitting are the titles great.

Are the melodies distinct? Is it memorable? What can we do to make it better? And that's the type of feedback you don't get in the industry, right? No one's ever going to tell you what you can do to your song to make it better.

They just won't call you back. We have a program where it feels like the real world, but you get professional feedback from the best mentors in the game.

I mean, I can't imagine if we would have had this when we were coming up, just the ability to not only meet some of the people that you have coming in, but the ability to actually get that feedback is priceless because it took most of us a lot of not so good songs.

Exactly. When we started Lamp, the mission was, what can we give to the next generation that took us years to learn? What are the things that we wish we knew when we started out that we can tell people?

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