Money 4 Nothing Podcast
1) Spotify Culture (Featuring Liz Pelly + David Turner)
This week? Heavy Hitters. As you may (or may not) have heard, journalist/Daniel Ek tormenter/friend-of-the-pod Liz Pelly is making waves with her wonderful new book “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify...Show More
2) Homeboy Need a Subpoena: Drake Sues UMG
Look. Times are dark. So this week, we decided to tackle a somewhat lighter topic and look into Drake’s remarkably tone-deaf lawsuit against Universal Music Group—the label to which both he and (beef ...Show More
3) What Trump Could Mean for AI and Music
The second Trump administration will impact pretty much everything, but we decided to take some time and focus on the specific conjecture of industry + culture + technology that is AI. After all, when...Show More
4) What Trump Could Mean for AI and Music
Well folks—here we are. And while the second Trump administration will impact pretty much everything, we decided to take some time and focus on the specific conjecture of industry + culture + technolo...Show More
5) Financializing Everything (W/ Andrew deWaard)
As you might have noticed, we spend a...fair bit of time talking about the three labels at the heart of modern music—and tracking what their unprecedented centralization has done to the industry. And ...Show More
6) TikTok VS….Music? (W/ Kristin Robinson)
This past January, Universal Music went to war. Or at least, it tried to. Shocking both listeners AND artists, the major label announced that it was cutting ties with TikTok, the short-form giant, ove...Show More
7) Roan Rising: The zoomer soft coup and the future of mass culture
After an eternity of millennial performers with a chokehold on the charts, we’ve finally seen the emergence of a new cohort of gen-z icons. Chappelle Roan and Sabrina Carpenter (building on the founda...Show More
8) Streaming Music, Streaming Capital (W/ Eric Drott)
How did streaming change music? Not like how did it change the music industry (we talk about that plenty, obviously). And not how did it change bitrate. But how did streaming change the nature of the ...Show More
9) NÜ METAL FOREVER (w/ Holiday Kirk)
NÜ metal sucks. Right? It’s what critics have screamed ever since the taste-defying mashup of funk-metal, rap, industrial, and post-hardcore stormed onto the charts in the mid ‘90s. When bands like Sl...Show More
10) Taking on Ticketmaster (W/ Kevin Erickson)
This summer, the other shoe finally dropped on Ticketmaster/Live Nation. After decades of complaints by everybody from Pearl Jam to Zach Bryan (and after several years of increasingly intense Post-Swi...Show More