Our friends at IAFAR (Independent Alliance For Artist Rights) are helping artists get paid a different way - ensuring they are properly remunerated for their performances on recordings.

How live performances of cover songs can pay respect and royalties to your favorite songwriters.

Exactly one month ago, Nathan Apodaca single-handedly introduced a generation of young people to "Dreams" and Fleetwood Mac. "Dreams" is now the oldest non-holiday song to hit the Billboard Streaming chart - surpassing Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean". So what does that mean for the band and the songwriter, Stevie Nicks?

It could just as easily have been Janine. Or Linda. Or LYnda, if the sample is particularly “overly demanding or entitled” as TMZ has defined the pandemic’s favorite indignant aunt: Karen. Being a Karen. Karening, even, which Urban Dictionary is more than happy to detail for the curious mind.