Appetite for Distraction: Recent Episodes
Yash Bagal & Maarten Walraven
Yash Bagal and Maarten Walraven dissect all things music and tech. They ask each other the hard questions around the trends that everyone talks about.
Steph and Maarten talk to Rae Isla about rocks, of course, middle class creators, a life before Web3 - and how that laid foundations of independence - and how she's circling back to more traditional music industry pathways, but now with a rock solid community behind her.
Steph & Maarten talk to Natalie Crue about crypto, music, non-profit, the metaverse, Web3 tools, and life hacks. It's a crypto music history lesson and an invitation to dream big into the future all at once.
What's the impact on crypto music of a major crypto exchange failing? Why does it matter that NFT marketplaces are changing the way they effect creator royalties on secondary sales? Yash and Maarten try to make sense of some major issues that have crept up on the crypto music ecosystem.
Yash and Maarten talk about community. Something everyone seems to agree on is one of the most necessary things for any artist. However, there doesn't seem to be a one-playbook-for-all framework that everyone can just use to create a community. It's hard to create the kind of artist-to-fan relationships that work for both sides. Moreover, for a community to really work communication should become multidirectional. And then there's the financial aspect. Should fans become investors? Yash and Maarten dig into the common critiques heard around community-thinking and expose their truths and fallacies.
Yash and Maarten talk about Music NFTs. Are they just cryptographic records that basically have nothing to do with music? They talk about this and more as they discuss the pros and cons of operating in Web3 as a musician, manager, or label.