Actionable insights on how artists, managers, and music entrepreneurs can make more money, own their audience, and thrive in the next decade of the music industry.
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The Architecture of a Comeback
Two years ago, Drake lost the biggest rap battle of the modern era. Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" dropped in May of 2024 and refused to leave the cultural conversation—it won multiple Grammys, dominated radio through the back half of that...
6 Rules for the Modern Fan Club
What building a 11,000 subscriber newsletter in six months taught me about music fandom and how to apply it to your career as an artist
I only started writing consistently on Substack at the beginning of this year. I’m relatively new to th...
If I Ran Spotify
I swear I’m not trying to burn Spotify to the ground.
I look at Spotify as a representation of what’s going on in the music industry because it’s the biggest music company in the world. Ipso facto — the problems with Spotify are the probl...
Because Rolling Stone Told Me To
Every Christmas, without fail, I’d find a copy of Rolling Stone magazine rolled up in my stocking.
I was just a kid in the 2000s, and my musical diet consisted almost entirely of hip-hop and whatever was left over from my pop-punk phase fr...
The Music Industry is Dying. So Why Is Wall Street Buying?
If you spend ten minutes talking to anyone in the music industry, you’d assume the whole business is in hospice care. For the entirety of my adult life, the narrative has been a continuous funeral dirge: artists are broke, streaming pays fr...
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