When Life Hands You Lennons
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When Life Hands You Lennons
Hosted by Webby Honoree audio producer and music journalist Lennon Cihak, When Life Hands You Lennons spotlights music industry executives, musicians, and tastemakers. Throughout each episode, Lennon takes a deep dive into the guest's speciality, asking the questions that don't yet have answers. Pre...
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How Artists Use Music to Communicate With Fans and Society
Jacob McCloskey is a former dance music journalist and current CEO of Emvoice, a voice synthesis platform that allows users to input notes and lyrics...
Your Biggest Obstacle is Yourself: Don't Let You Get in The Way of Creating With CVBZ
CVBZ is an independent artist and songwriter residing in Los Angeles, California. He's written a number of hit songs and recently sold sound recording...
From 0 to 750k Streams PER DAY: How Free Syncs on TikTok Launched RAYE and Brent Faiyaz
J. Erving III is the CEO and co-founder of Human Re Sources, a music distribution and artist services company. J's company was acquired by Sony Music'...
All in the Pitch: How This Artist Got $15,000 Syncs On Netflix, AMC and Fender
Noah Tauscher is an independent musician based in Los Angeles, CA and originally from Hood River, OR. He makes his living on licensing his music for s...
Stock Market For Music: This Company Enables Artists to Sell Shares in Their Business
Justin Longo is the CEO and founder of MariNation Music, an investment platform that allows artists to sell shares of their business to fans. Artists...
Is TikTok LinkedIn For Artists? How Consumer Evolution Forced Musicians to Adapt
Cassie Petrey is the co-founder and CEO of CrowdSurf, a music management firm that has worked with Britney Spears, Camila Cabello, Backstreet Boys, an...
Artist Innovation and Empowerment are Built Into HIFI Labs' Core
Joe Barham is the CEO and co-founder of HIFI Labs, a creative incubator and artist mentorship collective building an artist-owned, community-powered f...
How Atlantic Records' Sr. Producer Ebonie Smith Finds Clients and Builds Community
Ebonie Smith is a Grammy-certified audio engineer and is Atlantic Records' Senior Producer and Engineer. She's worked on projects like Hamilton on Bro...
How This PR Company Took Black Coffee From Playing Small Gigs to Winning Grammys
James Mack is the co-founder and CEO of Listen Up!, a music and entertainment industry public relations agency. Most notably, Listen Up!'s client Blac...
Ex-Software Engineering Manager Turned Music Tech Startup Founder and CEO
Vu Ho is an entrepreneur and music tech startup founder. He's a former engineering manager at Atlassian, the parent company for programs like Jira, Co...
Winamp CEO Talks Web3 and Outdated Creator Communities
Alexandre Saboundjian is a music technology executive who currently serves as the CEO of Winamp, an audio player that changed the way Windows users li...
Jason Grishkoff Returns! How Content Curators Use SubmitHub For Growth and Profit
Jason Grishkoff is the founder and creator of SubmitHub, an online platform that allows musicians to pitch their music to content creators directly. H...
Bandsintown co-founder Fabrice Sergent on how live events will evolve over the next decade
Fabrice Sergent is a music technology entrepreneur and a co-founder and managing partner of Bandsintown, a live music application where fans can sign...
SG Lewis' Manager and Godmode Founder Talya Elitzer on Building Successful Artists
Talya Elitzer is the co-founder and CEO of Godmode, an artist management and music publisher based in Los Angeles, California.
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Raedio's president Benoni Tagoe understands the importance of a healthy mindset and work-life balance
Benoni Tagoe is a music industry veteran and currently serves as Raedio's president. Raedio is an "audio everywhere" company and is aiming to be every...
Getting your foot in the door for trailer music with music producer Jim Hustwit
Jim Hustwit is a freelance music producer based in London. He is the owner of Larp Music, a bespoke music production and composition company. He got h...
NIVIRO chats Dolby Atmos and how it's changing music production, mixing, mastering and live music
NIVIRO is a dance music producer and DJ based in Belgium. He rose to prominence after his track "The Ghost" saw insurmountable success on TikTok. He h...
Tones & I's attorney Kurt Dahl on finding the best music lawyer and avoiding bad agreements
Kurt Dahl is an entertainment and intellectual property attorney in Canada. A musician himself, he understands the importance of artists protecting th...
Stem's CEO Milana Lewis on female leadership in music tech
Milana Lewis is the founder and CEO of music distribution company Stem. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles and New York and help artists nav...
Quinn Christopherson talks connecting with emotions to tell impactful stories
Quinn Christopherson is a singer-songwriter based in Anchorage, Alaska. He got his start after winning the NPR Tiny Desk competition back in 2019 with...
Facebook and Instagram ads for musicians and value of an effective advertisement on social media
Jenny Powers is the founder of Blue Avenue Music. She is a digital marketing guru and has taken artists' online presences from small to huge, allowing...
How musicians can discovered without a following with UnitedMasters' VP of Music
Michael Weiss is the VP of Music at UnitedMasters, a global music distribution company. He is a third generation music industry executive, so the musi...
Alok's Controversia Records team discusses label deals & marketing
Orlando and Bhaskar are on Alok's Controversia Records team. Orlando is the label manager and Bhaskar is the head of A&R and also an artist in his own...
Earning passive income as a musician by investing in artists' royalties & music publishing
Musicians and artists need to invest their money properly. It's vital for financial longevity and freedom later on in life (or career). Justin Longo o...
Saweetie's A&R/executive producer Adam Small talks McDonald's meal & growing your career
Adam Small is a music executive, producer, and entrepreneur. His journey and list of career accomplishments is a long and impressive one. He has more...
3LAU & Sullivan King's manager Andrew Goldstone on NFTs and King's 7-figure merch sales
Andrew Goldstone is a music business pioneer. As one of the first employees at Astralwerks he saw that label rise to critical acclaim and financial su...
CloudKid's COO Yiannis Karavassilis talks signing artists, Discord, and artist branding
Yiannis is the COO and Head of Label at CloudKid. He has been in the industry for a little over 5 years now. After getting a Bachelors of Arts from SA...
Finding an artist's X-factor with Rephlektor's Justin Kleinfeld
Justin Kleinfeld is the founder of Rephlektor and co-founder of Bampire, a full service marketing and artist services agency. He has worked with artis...
Cascada's Natalie Horler on their evolving sound, touring & being a RuPaul's Drag Race panelist
Since Cascada’s inception in 2004, they have sold more than 30 million records worldwide. In 2013, Cascada represented Germany in the Eurovision Song...
Egzod's "World Electronic" Music Poses Otherworldly Questions
Egzod, meaning “exodus” in French phonetics, is the narrative of a mass departure of people to a new world where technology and nature are perfectly b...
Swedish House Mafia & deadmau5's marketing team on why artist marketing is important
Lawrence Lui is the co-founder of Bampire, an artist marketing agency. He's a former music executive and has worked with artists like deadmau5, Swedis...
Bok Nero on inspiring the youth and writing from feeling
Bok Nero is the creator of the genre "Hood EDM" and a rapper based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is one of the most featured vocalists in the EDM...
TheFatRat Has Mastered Music Marketing
TheFatRat, whose real name is Christian Buettner, is the world's most influential gaming music artist.
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Jóhann Jóhannsson's orchestration assistant talks about striking emotions with musical elements
Thomas Eggensberger is a German Los Angeles-based freelance film composer for film, TV, and video games.
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Tyga & Lil Dicky's former manager explains best ways to grow an artist's career
Anthony Martini is a former artist manager and current label executive. He discovered and managed Tyga and Lil Dicky.
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Discussing the right ways to release your music and giving people reasons to care
Justin Paul is a multi-talented, multi-faceted music professional and entrepreneur.
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'I Think I'm in Love' singer Kat Dahlia wants more women songwriters in Latin music
Kat Dahlia is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter from Miami, Florida. She's now based in Los Angeles, California.
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Ableton, Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, FL Studio: Choosing the right DAW with Pro Tools expert David Franz
David Franz is the founder and producer of the Underground Sun record label. He's also an instructor at Berklee College of Music, author of Producing...
Crafting your true sound with Alexander Seaver of Mako
Alexander Seaver is the songwriter, producer, singer, and creative genius behind the EDM project Mako.
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Xiuhtezcatl discusses cultural mistreatment in the US and his progressive music
Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced shoe-tez-caht) is a world-renowned environmental activist and rapper/lyricist out of Boulder, CO.
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