Big Brother and the Hodling Company
Big Brother and the Hodling Company is a podcast about music + web3, where MacEagon Voyce speaks with the pioneers working at the music-web3 crossroads. Together we're fending off Big Brother, defying the blitzkrieg of domination and death rays with good music and structural transformation.MacEagon Voyce is a writer, musician, and tech founder. After five years of balancing culture journalism at VICE with people ops work at various startups, he founded a social music app called Grey Matter and started falling down web3 rabbit holes. He’s especially fascinated by collective ownership and realigning platform incentives around the creation of pu...
Maarten Walraven | Wild Awake, Music X, Water & Music and Symphony.live
Maarten Walraven has a PhD in History and works at the intersection of music and media. He's co-project lead for the Water & Music Academy, co-editor of MUSIC x, a newsletter on music tech, and is head of Operations at Symphony.live, a streaming video platform created in collaboration with some of the world’s leading symphonic orchestras. He also just started Wild Awake, a music project focused on building scenes that uses web3 technology.We discussed the importance of scenes, and of …
Black Dave
Black Dave is a musician, producer, rapper, visual artist, anime and streetwear aficionado, and web3 pioneer who continues to push the bounds of what artists can do in those still nascent sandbox of music meets the blockchain.His latest experiment was launching the Black Dave token, which is an investment in his ideas, and he's very explicit that it's not a guarantee and there’s no financial return. It’s about ideas – a refreshingly honest project in what’s becoming a very financialized …
Steph Guerrero | Legato
After spending four years in various marketing positions at Universal Music Group, Steph Guerrero made the jump to web3. She captains El Drop, a Twitter Spaces dedicated to Latinx artists – a community she’s long championed – and she runs Goat for Mars, a consultancy that helps artists transition into web3. She also operates as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Legato, a web3 licensing-as-a-service platform for creators. Recently the web3 label Dreams Never Die held a town hall call …
Tyler Bancroft | List3n, Dreams Never Die & Said the Whale
Hailing from Vancouver British Columbia, Tyler Bancroft has been playing in and shepherding his Juno-award winning band Said The Whale for the better part of two decades. He entered the web3 space via the social DAO – or decentralized autonomous organization – Friends with Benefits and the web3 label Dreams Never Die, whom he just joined as the Senior Vice President of web3 development – amidst a sudden restructure and tumult that came to a head in an aggressive town …
Austin Robey | Metalabel
Austin Robey is the co-founder of Ampled, a web-based platform for direct community support of musicians, which was formed as a collectively owned co-op. He’s also part of the founding squad of Metalabel, an organization that builds resources, tools, and infrastructure for collectives and creative communities – often within the web3 space. We talked about elevating the concept of collective ownership as a cultural value, his evolving perspective on the role of venture capital, and a love for music whose …
Rob Abelow | Where Music's Going
Rob Abelow is an artist manager, the founder of Roll Call Records, former co-founder of the web3 music discovery platform, Dopr, and now author of the excellent newsletter, Where Music’s Going.After managing some bands in college, Rob Abelow, as a 23-year-old, approached one of the singers of the band Dispatch, which had just become the first independent band to headline Madison Square Garden, and convinced him, backstage at MSG, that he should become his manager. From there, Abelow would go …
LaTecia Johnson | Visionary Rising
LaTecia Johnson started her career as a songwriter, and over the past decade, she’s forged a career in tech, creating strategies for household names like Apple, Microsoft, and Nielsen. More recently she led strategy for Royal, an on-chain platform for investing in music royalties, delivering category-defining partnerships with artists like Nas, Diplo, and The Chainsmokers. Now she’s gone all in on Visionary Rising, her agency and growth partner for creators, startups, and brands.We chatted about all of that, as well …
Jon Eades | The Rattle
Jon Eades spent 7 years at the eminent Abbey Road Studios before co-founding The Rattle, an organization that’s done everything from running physical spaces in London and Los Angeles to running a venture studio to launching a tokenised network of supporters.We chatted about his journey and how he got here from being a nerdy, dreadlocked teenager in suburban London who loved maths, manual labor, and playing the trumpet.https://www.linkedin.com/in/joneades/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Heno. | Artist, Builder and Community Organizer
Heno. is an artist, producer, engineer, community organizer and web3 builder. He's is a first-generation Ethiopian-Eritrean American who grew up in Maryland in a neighborhood with frequent police intervention and brutality, and in his own words he never thought he’d live this long. Today he’s worked with artists like Mick Jenkins, JPEGMAFIA, and Snoop Dogg, and he was named part of the inaugural NFT 100 curated by NFT Now. Heno has been able to leverage successful NFT (that’s non-fungible token) …
Christian Vivadelli + Nikita Bondarenko | Stems Labs
Senior designer Christian Vivadelli and A&R; whiz, Nikita Bondarenko are the COO and CPO and two of the co-founders of Stems Labs.Stems Labs is a community and platform that allows artists to drop audio tracks (stems) as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. The organization recently raised $4M to build toward a permissionless infrastructure where artists and fans can connect through music’s building blocks, creating new, enduring opportunities for remixes and monetization.https://twitter.com/StemsDAOSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr...