Water & Music Podcast
1) Episode 14 (ft. Amit Gurbaxani): What India's music industry can teach us about paid YouTube views, musical regionalism and the productive uselessness of charts
Mumbai-based music journalist Amit Gurbaxani joins this episode to discuss the latest trends defining the Indian music business. We start by examining the implications of Amit's early reporting on Bad...Show More
2) Episode 13 (ft. Garrison Snell): Why now is a tough time to start a music marketing agency
Garrison Snell, Founder & CEO of Gyrosity Projects, joins this episode to unpack the opportunities and challenges that independent music marketers face in the modern industry landscape. We discuss the...Show More
3) Episode 12 (ft. Madame Gandhi): What does an artist-centric future for music-tech look like?
Prolific drummer, electronic artist, feminist activist and public speaker Kiran Gandhi (a.k.a. Madame Gandhi) joins this episode to exchange perspectives not just on how technological change has trans...Show More
4) Episode 11 (ft. Wyatt Jenkins): Why music isn't a top-two category on Patreon (yet)
Patreon's SVP Product Wyatt Jenkins joins this episode to dive into the opportunities and challenges around growing membership models in the music industry. We unpack the financial and ideological roa...Show More
Episode 11 (ft. Wyatt Jenkins): Why music isn't a top-two category on Patreon (yet)
58:07 | Aug 14th, 2019
5) Episode 10 (ft. Alex Mitchell): How artificial intelligence will do to music creation what Instagram did to photography
Boomy founder/CEO Alex Mitchell joins this episode — recorded just an hour after Boomy launched out of beta! — to talk about the disruptive impact that artificial intelligence will have on music creat...Show More
6) Episode 9 (ft. Sammy Andrews): The music business needs to break down its own data silos
Deviate Digital CEO Sammy Andrews joins this episode to unpack why there remain so many stubborn data silos among artists, labels, distributors, promoters and streaming platforms in the music industry...Show More
Episode 9 (ft. Sammy Andrews): The music business needs to break down its own data silos
1:05:21 | Jul 21st, 2019
7) Episode 8 (ft. Eugene Kan + Charis Poon): The case for greater creative and algorithmic accountability in the music industry
MAEKAN's Eugene Kan and Charis Poon join this episode to discuss the key ideas in their essay "The Modern Creator's Paradigm," which argues that continuing cultural innovation will require greater cre...Show More
8) Episode 7 (ft. Ben Gross + Laura Kinniburgh): How lyrics are a leading indicator of innovation in music licensing
Genius' Chief Strategy Officer Ben Gross and Head of Music Licensing Laura Ostler Kinniburgh join this episode to discuss the challenges and opportunities in valuing and monetizing lyrics properly in ...Show More
9) Episode 6 (ft. Alex Bonavia): Artists are now launching pads for songs, not the other way around
WAVO's Head of Business Development Alex Bonavia joins this episode to discuss the new marketing paradigm in the music industry that treats artists as de facto brands and media properties, independent...Show More
10) Episode 5 (ft. Kero One): The lowdown on lo-fi hip-hop's past, present and future
DJ-rapper-producer Kero One joins this episode to break down the past, present and future of lo-fi hip-hop—from the perspective of an artist who has been making music for almost two decades, but becam...Show More
Episode 5 (ft. Kero One): The lowdown on lo-fi hip-hop's past, present and future
55:42 | Apr 20th, 2019