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the greatest vision comes from living the experience ✨

Come join EVEN CEO Mag and others on the "New Artist Tools for Building Ecosystems & Scale" panel at Sounds That Move on May 17th in Brooklyn!

Lorde has revealed that she’s now an independent artist after her contract with Universal Music Group expired late last year: “I feel a real hunger for newness and I feel […] like a new leaf is turning or there’s a blank slate that’s been presented, and I feel this way because at the end of last year, my label deal, my record contract with Universal came to an end,” she said. “I have been in that contract for a very, very long time and some form of that contract since I was 12 years old, when I signed my first development deal with Universal.” variety.com/2026/music/new…

James Blake's seventh album 'Trying Times' arrives at one of the most creatively and personally transformative periods of his career. The British artist recently went independent after more than a decade in the major label system, moved back to London from LA, and rebuilt his team from the ground up.⁠ ⁠ We spoke with @jamesblake, and he opened up about all of it: why he pushed the record back by a year, what he's learned from taking control of his career, why making the music itself turned out to be the easy part, and more. Read the full interview here: pigeonsandplanes.com/read/james-bla…

Starting today you can sell your projects on [untitled], make sure to update the app to try it out.

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the surface - the hard part is making it part of your every day working process.

Some days you move a mountain. Some days you move a pebble. Both count. Keep moving.

Silicon Valley overrates vision and underrates tinkering

Today I'm launching @asylumventures, a new venture firm dedicated to the creative act of building companies. Asylum's first $55 million fund is an embodiment of my belief that founders are artists, not assets:

the fear of "looking stupid" paralyzes a lot of people from taking risks or following their dreams — however the pain of regret when you’re older lasts longer than any short-term sting of "looking dumb".

I think once successful founders get liquidity they owe it to society to reinvest some of that capital into building hard, high risk, high potential things. I want to keep building cool new things that will accelerate human progress.

Better to build slowly on truth than quickly on trends.

Dall-E Parton

@raihan_ oh he really wants me back on twitter 🤍

@prettyboyshav it could get better if you made a 4 part thread about how the turnstile guys are artist-founders

vibe coding to turnstile how could life get better 💫

@brennanjp incredible tournament ⛳️✨

That was a ride and a half, and then some. Imagine not being happy for this guy. ☘️

@garrytan love this Garry 🙏🏽✨

Compelled love is not love Alan Watts was right

distribution. distribution. distribution distribution. distribution. distribution distribution. distribution. distribution distribution. distribution. distribution distribution. distribution. distribution distribution. distribution. distribution

@ladidaix @sebontweets certainly not 🙏🏽

@sebontweets ? 😭 Indify isn’t that

James, i love your music. But please stop trying to shill NFT music stuff in 2025

Today, Blake shares an update on where he's landed, including details of how he used @indify to build his team from scratch and the specific partners he's chosen to work with.⁠

@nchirls @asylumventures we’re not here without you and @notationcapital 🤍 thank you for everything and we know there will be so many more artist-founders lives you will change in this next chapter just like you did with ours 💫

Indify’s mission is to enable artists to become the founders that they are. It inspired the @asylumventures mission, where we believe the best founders are artists at their core. @prettyboyshav is quite literally both

Today is a special day for @indify and its founders @prettyboyshav @itsconlaw and Matt, who have been working tirelessly on a vision to help artists own their work (and their business) for more than a decade.