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@Grimezsz Meaning that in order to pay off 20k of album expenses I would need to generate 133k of income just to break even. My advance was $7k, I had a top ten record and made $0 off 40M+ streams. Literal insanity.

@Grimezsz I was signed to one of the bigger indie labels for years and the deal was: 85% label 15% to me (after recoup) BUT I recouped at 15% - so 15 cents of every dollar went to paying down my accounting, the rest was label profit until I hit green.

Like every artist I've ever met was in some point in a terrible label situation. The labels economic model is based on hits. U sign to a label because of the promise that if a song is going they can throw gasoline on it. No amount of advice seems to be able to convince enough artists to stop signing to labels cuz u rly do need to learn this first hand (even I did). But at this point it's almost like lobbying and super pacs in politics - it reduces the potential and rewards algorithmically safe music. They own huge chunks of like any distribution model - most of which are also algo based and reward sameness and frankly when I hear an artist I like followed by 40 other artists that sound just like them I start to lose interest. we've basically destroyed music journalism. And the abundance has actually sort of make everything feel less special. The main music that can succeed is by theatre kids since they have higher pain tolerance and even exuberant joy about performing and therefore can thrive in environments like tik tok. And it is importsnt to keep space for this type of music But man... I used to listen to so many local bands. There used to be a way more sustained amount of smaller artists. The musical middle class, as it were. This peaked during Napster era when we prob had the most meritocratic least gatekept music industry (you could be ugly too and still succeed. I miss that lol). Now literal VC's are buying catalogues - every economic incentive in the world has lined up to actively dissuade new music and especially innovative music. The artists I currently consider the pantheon of modern innovators would have been a LOT more successful ten years ago. It's interesting to me how undissected the economics of music are and how profoundly and negatively they are impacting music rn

Sometimes a song just comes together perfectly. @Houses "And Maybe God Is Just a Cop That We Can Fast Talk" @altregan youtu.be/OYOjQrR7P4U

@sadlyoddisfying wait, were you there when we played CHBP?

@steveklbnf send em

always been a 70s-focused deadhead, but this week i got opened up to two '81 shows that are melting my heart. grateful dead roots run so deep

“my house 😞”

love you love you love you 💕

@elite_gz Agree 100% but I’m also am sort of excited for artifacts/aesthetics of emerging synth dope culture to start surfacing.

everyone thinks the weeknd is successful because people want to hear 80s production like we aren't in the middle of a silent collective grief spiral about cocaine as we knew it ceasing to exist that primarily manifests as attachment to songs that remind us how it felt

@djbroc untouchable record 💔

You must be a masochist and I’m a modern leper on his last leg

im not an artist and this isnt art i promise

three years ago @lollapalooza 🥲

*listens to fast talk once*

@raihan_ @FerrariJetpack they used to have em at perfect circuit in burbank too

@FerrariJetpack “berlins,” the combination doner kebab and boba shop

how start / how going

📹👑:@shaunlopez

shout out to whoever’s curating the music at the bed bath and beyond in sacramento

@raihan_ @ezzzrrra @_EricHu @channel @_nic_hamilton_ @dhof @lootproject look at how they massacred my boy

ft squads on squads:: @ezzzrrra w the primetime solvency placement @_EricHu @channel @_nic_hamilton_ NUXUI @dhof // @lootproject and a smushy @houses :^)

@Chri55yBaby 💔

Homeboy loved to come up on some wet concrete. #Legends

@bredpress Willamette always hits youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@apollovermouth @bredpress October Language is perfect

@bredpress belong

@sadlyoddisfying 💕