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2 Shots and Royalty Check

A different kind of music business podcast. Raunchy, honest, and brutally fun advice about making a living in music with Michael St. James and Stu Miller.

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March 26, 2025

Best Day to Release Music, Blurr’d Radio, Sync of the Week | 2ShotsMu…

The best day to release music (and why is it Friday?), what are music industry folks looking for in your release and why, secondary ticket markets in the UK, Lizzo update, Gene Simmons’ ridiculous tour, We talk about KISS (ar...

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March 19, 2025

Tax Season, The Southern River Band, Sync of the Week | 2ShotsMusicPo…

Taxes, Boo, HS Music Program Fundraiser, Gen X is still Gen X’ing, Old music and new music, 45 year old songs Can we please turn up the music!?, DOJ and Livenation/Ticketmaster, SXSW canceling music?, World’s most popular Mu...

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March 12, 2025

Rocky Theme, The Pretty Wild, Sync of the Week | 2ShotsMusicPod EP 80

Sleep sucks, the Rocky movies, fun with lyrics, Stu hasn’t seen Rocky I?, Star Wars fun, Cocktail 2, Robbie Williams or not?, some songwriting notes, Diane Warren is the actual G.O.A.T, arcs with artists instead of singles, ...

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March 5, 2025

FCC and Payola, Meerkat, Sync of the Week | 2ShotsMusicPod EP 79

10 hr recording sessions, comp tracks, christian choir outtakes, FCC and payola, Artist relationships, Producing for you, the Sandman, Lacrimosa and In Memoriams. RIP Dolly’s husband Turn You On New Song: Meerkat Old Song: An...

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Feb. 26, 2025

Streaming Stats, Dirty Blonde, Sync of the Week | 2ShotsMusicPod EP 78

Bob Seger, strip club dayshifts, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, requests at a show, The UK AI Opportunities Action Plan, UK copyright law, silent album, surprising new Apple Music numbers, streaming slowdown, Wu-Tang is forever, Michael...

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Feb. 19, 2025

SNL Weekend, Amber Van Day, Sync of the Week | 2ShotsMusicPod EP 77

Monty Python - Holy Grail vs. Life of Brian, Valentine’s Day shenanigans, playing in the corner, pinball and tequila, SNL Weekend - Post Nirvana, music documentary, SNL movie, John Mulaney’s musicals, some highlights and lowl...

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Recent Blog Posts

Sept. 13, 2023

"My First Sound System"

Stu's custom "My First Sound System" Hoodie is available now.  Click here to get it: https://2shots-and-a-royalty-check.printify.me/product/2421408/my-first-sound-system-by-2shotsmusicpod This unisex heavy blend hooded sweatshirt is relaxatio…

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Aug. 9, 2023

Music Release Checklist - EP 19 | 2shotsMusicPod

Release Checklist   You’ve written, arranged, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered a song. Now it’s time to release! It does not cover everything, and it definitely doesn’t cover the promotion and marketing side, but we c…

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July 19, 2023

Christmas in July - 2ShotsMusicPod

So, put on your ugliest sweater and let’s get you ready for Christmas in July. An ideal Christmas release for most of you will be a five song EP; with three originals and two Public Domain songs–meaning no mechanical licenses needed for…

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Reviews

Anti-drummer

"I find this podcast to be hilarious, informative and offensive to drummers and insufferable bands from the 90’s. 5 stars."

tmariotti | May 8, 2023

I might be biased but…

"This is rad."

Soho bill | April 19, 2023

Love the show

"I love this show because it's like we're hanging with you and learning so much about the industry. Thank you both."

Billy "Bigfoot" Louie | June 30, 2023

Entertaining. Valuable. Great Humans.

"The amount of REAL valuable advice, tips, and info about the music business and industry is unmatched. Not to mention, always entertaining. You both are amazing humans and I enjoy filling my ear-hole…"

DanielleUhl_coach | July 6, 2023

Great info for independent artists and artist adjacent individuals

"Michael and Stu add a very humorous flair only they can to this well of information - especially for independent artists and their music careers. These two will have you laughing and learning about …"

kishpa | March 25, 2024