Music

How the traditional streaming services are paying artists...

genuinely curious. /higher-market &  /music & /pals & /boston ↠ say hello 👋  +++ 🟠 ↑↑HIGHER↑↑

For many artists, hitting 10,000 plays on a new song is a big deal. But on Spotify, that only adds up to $44. There’s gotta be a better way!


If you saw the lifetime income I’ve earned since 2016 on distrokid,  you’d tell me to immediately just embrace being a plumber and abandon art forever haha

“A lot of mid-level intellectual jobs are gonna disappear. My best bet about a job that’s safe is plumbing.”

https://youtu.be/MGJpR591oaM

from recording .RA files DL’d on a 14.4k modem onto cassettes to now owning my very own anti-social graph. 😣 


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Hinton is not wrong eh 🥲

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My favorite career next to Warner Brothers / Netflix was Landscaping.   Not as respected as my decade teaching physicians but rewarding in the spirit of art, and nature.    Ears and body just can’t handle that stuff anymore haha

Who wouldn’t want to design outdoor spaces while listening to hip-hop! Sounds therapeutic to me. 

In another life I was a forest ranger, busting shots at anyone trying to mess with the animals + nature

I feel this. I did commercial painting for the summers I was in college, and I still think it was one of my best jobs. 

arrive > smoke a j > put on some music > paint

That sounds like meditation to me. 

The most chill job I had was program manager for my college radio station. It was great until they decided I was too focused on hip-hop shows and wanted more rock music. This was back in 2008-2009, when hip-hop was still called “urban” music

Creating radio commercials sounds mad fun! When I used to record, doing intros, skits, and interludes was always really exciting to me. 

I have a lot of memories playing Vinnie Paz/Jedi Mind Tricks records on full blast in that broadcast studio. This was the blog era, so I’d be playing tracks months before they hit the regular radio. People would always stop by the booth asking, “what record is that?” which was pretty cool but I got tired of answering, so I decided to start my own blog. That’s how the music industry pulled me in

That sounds like fun,  hip hop and rock in 2008 on radio probably wasn’t the greatest.    Can’t remember.  
I had a job writing, arranging and mixing radio commercial ads.      Was super fun,  but I got fired for falling asleep twice in one week.  (Was trying to meet that rawkus deadline every night haha)