Music Evolves Podcast
Welcome to the Music Evolves Podcast, where we explore the transformative power of music through the lens of technology, creativity, and innovation — by looking both forward and back.
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Giving a Damn: Joe Raiola on 46 Years of John Lennon, MAD Magazine, and Music That Heals | A Music Evolves Conversation with Joe Raiola, President and Artistic Director of Theatre Within (opens the original)
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Joe Raiola has spent 46 years turning a grief-stricken gathering after John Lennon's death into a benefit concert that funds free creative-arts programs for public school kids and cancer patients. He talks with Sean Martin about that work, his 33 years shaping American satire as an editor at MAD Magazine, and why he still believes music and comedy can get people to give a damn.
Who Decides You Are a Real Musician | A Music Evolves Conversation with Josh Gilliland, Founder of JG BeatsLab (opens the original)
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Spotify now weighs touring, merchandise, and social presence when deciding who counts as an artist, and Josh Gilliland fails all three while playing every instrument on his own records himself. He argues the industry's new AI guardrails are moats built to protect incumbents, and the musicians paying for them are independent.
Six Hours, Five Strangers, and a Song the Machine Could Not Write | A Music Evolves Conversation with Gregoire Gensollen, Producer and Chief Operating Officer of Tucker Tooley Entertainment (opens the original)
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A Hollywood producer puts five musicians who have never met in a room with a six-hour clock, then hands a generative AI tool to his host and gives him thirty minutes. What comes out of that comparison says more about creative labor than it does about the technology.
Thirty Gigs a Month Is the Practice | A Music Evolves Conversation with Frankie Raye, Singer-Songwriter (opens the original)
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Frankie Raye plays six or seven shows a week in the Tampa Bay area and has stopped aiming her original music at the charts, because the charts no longer belong to people. This conversation looks at what a working musician builds instead when the target moves out of reach.
The Flood Made Everything Free. So Now We Pay for Proof. | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9 (opens the original)
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On July 15, Tidal stops paying royalties on fully AI-generated music, and the same move is spreading through publishing, film, science, software, and hiring at the same time. When generating anything costs nothing, the proof that a human made it becomes the product, and the only question left is who collects the fee.
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