HeyJaredMAKE // BREAK: A Survival Manual for Creatives
MAKE // BREAK is a podcast for independent artists, musicians, and writers navigating the gap between make the work and getting it to the people who need it. Hosted by Lance Marwood of V13. Each episode examines the creative life through two lenses.
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- Sep 22, 2026
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John Penman on Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome and Doing It Anyway (opens the original)
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John Penman, drummer for Detroit hard rock band Armada Lodge, took a pay cut on purpose — leaving restaurant management to stock shelves so every spare thought could go to the band. On MAKE // BREAK, he tells Lance Marwood how the trade works: affirmations on the bathroom mirror, a rolling whiteboard planning Armada Lodge six months out, section-testing songs with ads until the data humbles you, and RuneScape as nervous-system maintenance. It's the most practical systems conversation the show ha
Streaming Can Wait: Jonny Hetherington on How Art of Dying Is Betting On Their Fans (opens the original)
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Jonny Hetherington is keeping Art of Dying's new album off streaming entirely — vinyl, CD, and digital download only. Two decades, eight albums, a Warner deal through Disturbed, and 200 million streams later, the frontman tells Lance Marwood on MAKE // BREAK exactly why: the maths that never recoups, the 1,000-stream rule that pays new artists nothing, the AI clog, and the analog revival pulling fans back to owning music. It's the clearest case this show has captured for going direct-to-fan — pl
Zandrew Sonnemaker and Jacob Riddle: Silent Film, Grindcore and Chaos (opens the original)
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Zandrew Sonnemaker and Jacob Riddle made a silent film in 48 hours — La Salope, The Funk's entry in the Montana 48 Hour Film Project. Filmmaker Zandrew directed, co-wrote, edited, and ran every piece of equipment; Detective Frog frontman Jacob co-wrote, took the lead role, and scored it with his grindcore side project Piss Fist (featuring a rubber chicken on lead vocals). They join Lance Marwood on MAKE // BREAK to talk drawing the one genre that made their $400 of new audio gear useless, castin
How Little Ghosts Books Became a Horror Community Hub (opens the original)
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Chris Krawczyk founded Little Ghosts Books (Canada's first horror bookstore) and grew it into a press, a festival, and a travelling book fair. On MAKE // BREAK, Lance Marwood asks how a COVID-era reading catalogue became a Dundas West shop, why Little Ghosts reads every single submission (including 600-plus stories for a monster erotica anthology), and what it took to publish for three years with no arts funding. It's a conversation about burnout, reading slumps, paying artists, and why the horr
Greg Amici: Sixteen Years Away From Music and the Comeback After (opens the original)
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Greg Amici is a singer-songwriter with one of music's stranger comeback arcs — fronting NYC's Big Honey until a vocal polyp ended it, then sixteen years of screenwriting and acting before his debut solo album Tragicomic arrived on Magic Door in 2025. He joins Lance Marwood on MAKE // BREAK to talk about the 1983 rejection letter that told him he'd make it, the surgery that turned out to be nothing after months of silence, why he hires people for what he can't do, and the freedom of making music
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