The Independent Musician: Recent Episodes
Mark A. Skoda
The Independent Musician podcast examines the current music market for independent artists and their music. We'll explore the many issues and opportunities for musicians as well as interviews with those artists, music business executives and fans alike. Our shows will be both informative and fun while providing a current perspective on the music business in general!
Sean Gill has been playing and creating music for over 30 years. He went to the traditional college route for education in music, and has had a very non-traditional career path. He has spent most of his working life as a self-employed freelancer and has done everything from playing in a jazz trio at wine bars to editing audiobooks, creating websites and playing electric guitar with an orchestra.
He has also produced and hosted a science podcast and written extensively about his life philosophy as he constantly seeks a better understanding of what contentment means to him.
Robbie Phoenixx is an industry recognized competitive intelligence expert working with Fortune 1000 titans Live Nation, Verizon, and AT&T contributing $254 million+ and earning 30 million+ song plays and a Daytime Emmy submission in his debut release.
As a keynote speaker and strategic marketing advisor, Robbie shares with entrepreneurs and top business leaders how to leverage one's creative advantage to become your competitive advantage.
In just his first three weeks, Robbie has soared to Rank #21 Globally as Top 0.1% on Podmatch.com's Global Leaderboard, interviewing to over 300,000+ hitting 32,000 downloads on iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, Spotify, Castbox, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic and more.
Robbie's interviewed at the Global Legal Business Development Summit to over 40,000 attendees, led as a Subject Matter Expert at the Global Innovation Leadership Summit, and The Future of Cable Business Services global conference.
Bringing influences from rock, country, pop and having them marinate in the Rocky Mountains. and you get Aaron Ball and his crew making unique, versatile, and fun American/Roots Rock music one needs to experience to understand. Aaron’s music is full of passion, personal reflection and storytelling, combined with engaging live shows that have gained credibility with audiences around the world.
Lipsia premiers early access to Behind the Scenes of the music video for her new single, “Ulinguela" which means Open The Gates.
Lipsia sings Ulinguela in Light Language, a gorgeously expressive language that glows with the ability to let go of the logical mind and allows Divine expression. The thumping beat creates an irresistible confection of urgent dynamism and sensuality.
"Ulinguela" combines pop and flavors from Amapiano resulting in a vibrantly stylish sound and contagious South Afrikan rhythms. The Afrikan pop song reverberates with sensuous and alluring euphony that was created with the purpose to symbolize the self-expression of human nature.
Rosie Nguyen is a Wharton School graduate and content creator. She co-founded Fanhouse.app to assist other content creators to monetize their work and create their fan communities. As a creator herself, Rosie is keenly aware of what it takes to build a fan base, monetize your work and build your career. https://pod.co/independentmusician
Classically trained musician, intuitive composer, and storyteller Charleene Closshey conducts music from beyond, using specific hertz frequencies to evoke energy shifts for listeners, weaving classic western harmonic structures with esoteric principles.
Logan Crowell is the founder of HOME - Helping Our Music Evolve - one of the world's first ever non-profit music industry incubators and Nashville's ONLY 24/7 production community.
Josh Jensen is a Salt Lake City born-and-raised singer/songwriter who creates powerful original music for our times - songs that you will not forget. As an artist, Jensen strives to create an authentic emotionally-charged musical journey -a look into the life of someone who has dealt with severe mental illness, religious-trauma, drug-abuse, accepting his sexuality, and tries to find and share applicable lessons learned from it all.
Sasha Bonn came to the United States from Eastern Europe in August 2007. His goal was to join the music industry in Los Angeles, CA.
One of his first projects was 7 Seconds to Heaven even before he took the last name Bonn. The band wrote alternative music with some influence of European rock.
He shares his experience and transition from Russia to the United States and the influence on his music
Dr. Aaron Ahuvia is a professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has been ranked by a Stanford University study as among the top 2% of all scientists worldwide and his research includes the love of music. His book, The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are, published by Little, Brown, is an Editor’s Choice for best non-fiction on Amazon. The book explains the psychology of love when people objects, activities, places, brands, and anything else that isn’t a person. Although the book covers a lot of things people love, Aaron has been a music lover all his life so music gets more than its share of attention in the book.
Max Gowan, located in the Triangle area of North Carolina. He records eclectic indie pop music and has released four albums with another one on the way in September!
He begin recording in his bedroom while in high school, and has since been performing in venues across the state of North Carolina and in the East Coast. He runs an audio + production business in addition to creating his own music, and is an incredibly interesting person to talk with.
Host Mark Skoda interviews public speaking entrepreneur, Brenden Kumarasamy on his experience in creating his business and the application to the music market and independent artists. A must listen to if you really want to accelerate your career!
We interview Intercept Music Chief Executive Offer, Tod Turner on this weeks podcast. We'll discuss the Intercept technology platform, where technology is taking the artist and label and how those artists and labels benefit.
Host Mark Skoda interviews the newest Iron Gate Records artist, 13 Seconds of Silence. We'll explore the bands origins and members as well as discuss their new EP, "Sonder" which will be released on August 15th.
Steve Bishir, 5x Grammy Award winning producer and engineer joins Mark Skoda to discuss his career, the current state of technology and where he thinks music and music production are going in the future.
Drummer of 3 Doors Down and co-founder of Iron Gate Records, Greg Upchurch joins host Mark Skoda to discuss his career and insights into the music business and advice to budding artists.
The Independent Musician podcast will launch on August 1, 2022. We'll provide a weekly episode exploring issues and thoughts from artists, music executives and others in the independent music industry.