The Future of Music

Domino is an artist of many forms. He’s a writer, rapper, poet, producer, photographer, visual artist, director, and more, and he’s been a web3 trailblazer for over 2 years. He became a fast friend when I met him at ETH Denver this year, and we had an awesome conversation about his background, music career, upcoming projects, web3 philosophy, and more! I hope you learn something new from today’s episode.

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Super excited to announce the collaborative pay-to-collect release of Episode 26 with Weinbagz on Lens Protocol! All collectors Lenstube or Riff App, will be entered in a raffle for a FREE mint of his upcoming project Playerz Cardz (priced at 0.03 ETH), AND they will be able to access a podcast-collectors-only page on Weinbagz's Bonfire site for access to listen to and download an exclusive song that can't be found anywhere else!

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Ahmed Nihmale is the co-founder of Kyd Labs, a blockchain-integrated ticketing platform. Before starting Kyd, Ahmed spent most of his career in the ticketing and live events industries working for companies like Live Nation, Ticketmaster, and Vivid Seats. With the founding of KYD Labs, which stands for "Keep Your Distribution," Ahmed aims to address the existing challenges and inefficiencies within the ticketing industry. The compa...

Dadabots is the AI Music project of CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski. Quoting their own words from their website, Dadabots is a cross between a band, a hackathon team, and an ephemeral research lab. We're musicians seduced by math. We do the science, we engineer the software, we make the music. All in one project. Don't need nobody else. Except we do, because we're standing on the shoulders of giants, and because the whole point is to col...

Yung Spielburg is a Grammy award-winning music producer, a songwriter, the head of collaborative research at Water and Music, and among other things, a friend. He was a huge reason I got so interested in water and music in the first place and really helped me understand what their membership is all about and where their best resources are. We’ve been trying to find some time for this podcast for literally 9 months so I was super pu...

Stephanie Guerrero is a music industry professional with over 10 years of experience in shaping industry standards and best practices at major record labels and entertainment companies. She is an expert in content development, digital promotion, and campaign strategy for community building and engagement with emerging technologies. With previous experience at Sony and UMG, Steph is now bridging the gap between web2 and web3 and Bui...

Karma and Violetta are artists, partners, world builders, and more. They are both independent musicians who make music together and individually. And they’ve been a core part of the broader web3 music scene for a while. Together, they started the wavWRLD community, a music community focused on creating intimate experiences for artists to connect with the most engaged fans. I met Karma and Violetta at Art Basel in Miami last year an...

Cherie Hu is the founder of Water and Music, a music and tech research organization. Over the last couple years, along with their numerous other weekly and monthly articles and newsletters, they’ve been putting out massive collaborative research projects on the most exciting developments in music and technology, including web3, the metaverse, and AI. I bought a lifetime membership pass to Water and Music about 10 months ago and hav...

This episode is a conversation with Chad Hillard, the founder of Dreams Never Die, and former team member Cole Ryan. Chad started the popular music blog Hilly Dilly that thrived in the blog era, discovering artists like Billie Eilish, Lorde, Tom Misch, and many others very early on in their careers, and the Dreams Never Die record label was formed in 2019 so they could start taking real bets on the artists the team was discovering....

Mavi Taylor is an independent artist based in Richmond who describes her music as soul-pop. She's active in web three and has been minting music NFTs since last year. We met at Art Basel in Miami and became fast friends, and it was a pleasure to host her for her first podcast conversation.We talked about her musical background, how she got into web three, what tools she uses for writing and production, and much more. I hope you lea...

Malcolm Levy is the founder of Refraction DAO, a global community of music, art, and culture enthusiasts who produce festivals and ongoing events, organize NFTs projects, and create written, visual, and audio content around art, culture, and music today. Previously, Malcolm started his own music and tech festival, called New Forms, in the early 2000s after years of growing up in the east coast and midwest United States and Canadian...

Daniel Allan is an independent artist and one of the biggest names in the game. He’s had some historic NFT sales including sell outs of 1000 editions for his Glass House project and 2500 editions for his Criteria EP with Reo Cragun. He is also fresh off his first-of-its-kind $1 million dollar artist seed round capital raise led by Coop Records and Palm Tree Crew Crypto. In this episode we dive into that raise and we talk about his ...

This podcast is sponsored by the NFT ticketing company Neon Ox. You can find them at https://neonox.io/ and you can DM this podcast on social media if you want us to help set up a demo of the platform.

Brian Stollery is the founder of W3BSTOCK, a global entertainment company that puts on events that are doubled in the metaverse and enhanced and powered by web3 technology.

Brian has an extensive professional background in music workin...

This podcast is sponsored by the NFT ticketing company Neon Ox. You can find them at https://neonox.io/ and you can DM this podcast on social media if you want us to help set up a demo of the platform.

TK is an independent musician based in LA who’s been incredibly active in web3 over the last couple years. His most recent music NFT project, Eternal Garden, sold out of 700 editions between 7 songs. He also started Campfire, one of t...

This podcast is sponsored by the NFT ticketing company Neon Ox. You can find them at https://neonox.io/ and you can DM this podcast on social media if you want us to help set up a demo of the platform.

Pete Rango is an independent artist, producer, and entrepreneur. He’s participated and contributed to the online creator community Campfire, the productivity and accountability project BondwithMochi, and the web3 collective BeetsDAO, ...

This podcast is sponsored by the NFT ticketing company Neon Ox. You can find them at https://neonox.io/ and you can DM this podcast on social media if you want us to help set up a demo of the platform.

Tony Lashley is a music industry professional and entrepreneur currently building the curated music streaming platform he co-founded, Marine Snow. Marine Snow signs exclusive licensing deals with artists so that the music you have on ...

This podcast is sponsored by the NFT ticketing company Neon Ox. You can find them at https://neonox.io/ and you can DM this podcast on social media if you want us to help set up a demo of the platform.

Segnon is a rapper, producer, photographer, videographer, entrepreneur, artist, and more. He’s been making music for over 20 years and is very involved with Zoratopia and the other musicians there. He also started his own metaverse co...

Jagwar Twin, whose real name is Roy English, began in 2018, after Roy had participated in several bands as well as released music independently throughout the last decade +. He released his first music NFT in March 2022 and his most recent album 33 came out in September. He also launched his interactive metaverse “The Hall of Mirrors” earlier this month in November 2022.

Josh Hubberman is his manager, as well as a partner as CTHDRL,...

This podcast is sponsored by the NFT ticketing company Neon Ox. You can find them at https://neonox.io/ and you can DM this podcast on social media if you want us to help set up a demo of the platform.

Brenna and Saiko are both independent musicians who are building in web3. Their company YouniDAO is the backbone for UniFest, a traveling music festival that’s centered around empowering local artists and engaging local music scenes. ...