Big Brother and the Hodling Company

46 min

Nick Merich | Head of Growth @ Arpeggi Labs

Nick’s love of music began in his headphones while traveling to baseball games, and today he’s rallying people to some of the biggest on-chain music projects.

1 hr 14 min

Cherie Hu | Founder at Water & Music

Hu’s able to balance the expressive and the technical, the ultimate balancing act that music tech so rarely nails.

1 hr 4 min

Garrett Hughes | Dune Analytics + Mint Songs

Hughes, in self-admission, likes to keep the pedal to the metal as he works, but he always returns to nature to rejuvenate.

56 min

Stephen Laddin | Writer + Producer (High Times, Decential Media)

Stephen's interviewed a great many luminaries, from Kevin Smith to Eric Andre to Melissa Ethridge — and he still plays catcher in a baseball league.

42 min

Xcelencia | Music Artist

X shares his journey, from looking at the financial implications of the industry to looking through his two-year-old’s eyes to help him revivify his imagination.

1 hr 8 min

Vaughn McKenzie-Landell | Founder of Butter

The Japanese culture and language has had a huge effect on Vaughn’s development and his entry into web3

50:03

M. Shadows | Avenged Sevenfold

Matthew Sanders, aka M. Shadows, is the lead singer of the band Avenged Sevenfold.

58 min

Simon de la Rouviere | Untitled Frontier

A musical family and a teenage superfandom with Muse helped catalyze Simon's lifelong passion for music and led him to create some of on-chain music's fundamental building blocks.

46 min

Jamie Reddington | Sound of Fractures

Jamie reflects on his journey in the music industry: growing up in a household surrounded by music, defying his parents' advice, burning out and ultimately finding a new path and perspective through on-chain music.

52 min

Benjamin James || Ziggy Ziggy

One of the things Benjamin is most excited about is the collaborative culture in the music scene that’s enabled by web3.

51 min

Dreams Never Die

Hear an inside account of what happened after the decentralized music label Dreams Never Die decided to restructure from three former members of the startup

49 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company With Alec (AL3C) D’Alelio | Music artist, Reveel, Campfire

Hear from Alec about the early beta of Lens Protocol which may come to be the new Twitter (and much more) for the web3 world

56 min

ladidai | Songwriter, artist manager, and Director of Social & Partnerships for Campfire

Hear how the Universe conspired to show ladidai she was meant to be in the music industry after a chance meeting with Frank Ocean and Steve Lacy

49 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company Maarten Walraven | Wild Awake, Music X, Water & Music and Symphony.live

While Maarten didn’t have the patience to learn an instrument he discovered in college that he could write and think about it as he made his way into the music world

1 hr 1 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company I Black Dave

Put your money where your mouth is and buy some Black Dave token ; )

40 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company With Steph Guerrero of Legato

Guerrero started singing as a baby and can match pitch but crippling performance anxiety hampered any thoughts of being on stage.

47 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company With Tyler Bancroft | List3n, Dreams Never Die & Said the Whale

Get an inside view on the recent turmoil at web3 music label Dreams Never Die

53 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company With Austin Robey | Metalabel

If you’re into Smashing Pumpkins in third grade, as Robey was, you’re on the right track

54 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company With Rob Abelow | Where Music's Going

Hear from the author of the indispensable music + web3 newsletter Where Music’s Going

49 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company With LaTecia Johnson | Visionary Rising

LaTecia talks about hiring herself to do what she knew she could do and about always wanting to be in the music industry.

1 hr 10 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company Jon Eades I The Rattle

Eades discovered the tough economic reality of music recording while working at the famous Abbey Road studios and soon found himself exploring web3 alternatives

1:11:00

Big Brother and the Hodling Company | Heno

Heno is a first generation Ethiopian-Eritrean American who has leveraged successful NFT drops into millions of streams on Spotify, and is paying it forward.

42 min

Christian Vivadelli + Nikita Bondarenko | Stems Labs

Stems is building permissionless infrastructure for musicians with a recent $4 million investment

58 min

Jonty Harrison | Night Fund

Of course there’s a Rave DAO! But check out how it recently pivoted.

47:31

Alex Roth | Zyla

The composer, guitarist, and producer Alex Roth recently formed Zyla, a blockchain-supported metalabel for experimental artists. We chatted about growing up a musical household and what it’s like to onboard artists into web3.

44 min

Jay Stolar + David Beiner | Hume

Check in with the co-founders of a web3 record label

1:00:00

Big Brother and the Hodling Company With Kaitlyn Davies of FWB and Refraction

Kaitlyn is at the forefront of music and technology, which she explores through research, facilitation, and community organizing.

47 min

Big Brother and the Hodling Company With Supertight Woody of Noun Sounds

Woody is a producer and artist who’s been making music for over 20 years. We talked about how his involvement in creative commons projects led to the creation of Noun Sounds, a music platform focused on providing free-to-use music for creators that challenges the old music industry.