Performing Rights

My name is Shawn Murphy and I moved out to Chicago from New York about 12 years ago, and I immediately fell in love with this city.

One of the first things I was told when I moved to town was that musicians here in Chicago don’t make “demos”. A demo is demonstration recording produced by a musician usually in an attempt to get a record deal. No, my friend told me, Chicago musicians make records. They make records which they will release themselves; more...