{"id":184,"date":"2025-12-22T22:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:09:45","slug":"music-business-monthly-com-2025-looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Music Business Monthly.com  2025 Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-33e3f1c36f1b92425eb9a93401728e54\"><strong><em>What an interesting year 2025  Joe and Matheus of Varulven Ventures LLC<br>Looking forward to 2026 (photo by Matheus utilizing Google A.I.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varulven.com\/\">http:\/\/varulven.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joe-and-matheus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joe-and-matheus-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" style=\"width:346px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joe-and-matheus-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joe-and-matheus-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joe-and-matheus-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joe-and-matheus-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joe-and-matheus-624x624.png 624w, http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joe-and-matheus.png 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dec 22, 2025 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Varulven Ventures LLC is the new corporate name for Boston&#8217;s Original Rock Label &#8482; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-17-31-57-Music-Business-Monthly-Where-the-Industry-Comes-To-You-tm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"574\" height=\"116\" src=\"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-17-31-57-Music-Business-Monthly-Where-the-Industry-Comes-To-You-tm.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-17-31-57-Music-Business-Monthly-Where-the-Industry-Comes-To-You-tm.png 574w, http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-22-at-17-31-57-Music-Business-Monthly-Where-the-Industry-Comes-To-You-tm-300x61.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We have brought the industry to you for decades now with new ideas and new ways to help keep you organized in 2026, our 50th year.  Over this half a century we have documented important music from the area both on our Boston Rock and Roll Anthology series and Visual Radio, our TV show which has, arguably, more interviews with New England area artists than any other organization.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This page will be updated frequently with industry news on MLC Mechanical Licensing Collective, Sound  Exchange, Performance Rights Organizations (BMI, ASCAP, SESAC etc,) collecting monies on YouTube advertising, videos, commentary on what is shaking in the industry.  Why let Bob Lefsetz have all the fun with his podcast and <a href=\"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/\">https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/<\/a>  when we&#8217;ve been around for decades too!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"721\" height=\"721\" src=\"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DemoDeal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61\" style=\"width:203px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DemoDeal.jpg 721w, http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DemoDeal-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DemoDeal-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DemoDeal-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The newest volume of the Demo that Got the Deal &#8482; is <\/strong>in production as we speak with our old friends Artie Knyff and Wicked Theory, Bobby Doyle and the Feel Goods and Greg Walsh&#8217;s New Ghosts, all from decades ago with new music in 2025\/2026, along with Zale, R&#8217;DANE, Wesrok with Big Mountain, Jourdan and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are Boston&#8217;s original Rock Label &#8482; and we have an ambitious project to put every year from 1958-2026 and onward online with music we license, Boston Rock and Roll Anthologies \/ New England Music spanning 70 years, online, a history of New England with video interviews and more like you&#8217;ve never seen before!  <a href=\"http:\/\/varulven.com\/\">http:\/\/varulven.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s 6:08 pm December 22, 2025&#8230;.get ready for our new journey&#8230;.and yours&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Viglione<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Varulven Ventures, LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an interesting year 2025 Joe and Matheus of Varulven Ventures LLCLooking forward to 2026 (photo by Matheus utilizing Google A.I.) http:\/\/varulven.com\/ Dec 22, 2025 Varulven Ventures LLC is the new corporate name for Boston&#8217;s Original Rock Label &#8482; We have brought the industry to you for decades now with new ideas and new ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicbusinessmonthly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}