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The Unstarving Musician294 Athxna – Upcoming Releases & Recording Projects, Signing A New Sync Contract, Working In The Music Business, Moving To Nashville, The Blues Music Dilemma, Style Influences, Social Media StrategyAthxna is a Nashville-based, New Orleans-raised R&B pop singer who started her musical journey on piano at age five. She has a new release coming very soon, recording sessions in her home town of New Orleans, and plans to release more music this year. Athxna has a new sync contract, which she attributes to pursuing a music business education and career. She works for an all female PR firm based in Nashville and has a bachelor's degree in music industry. Athxna is methodically designing a life and career within the music business. We talk about her u...2024-02-0251 min
The Unstarving Musician276 JJ Lovegrove – A New Album with Minus Cube, a Forthcoming Complimentary Film, Identifying as a Performer, Fighting the Spotify Algorithm, and Deep Connections on Twitter JJ Lovegrove refers to herself as the dark dream pop sidekick to Minus Cube. The Nottingham, England-based songwriter has a new collaboration with Minus Cube, which dropped very recently. You can check it out on Bandcamp and other music platforms. The new album is titled "The Lines We Leave Behind" and is Lovegrove's first full-length album. She previously released a series of singles and the EP "things Only THE daRk knows," much of which was in collaboration with Minus Cube. In this conversation, JJ (aka Judi) talks about her new album and...2023-08-251h 07
The Unstarving Musician273 Minus Cube – Capturing Recording Studio Processes, Maintaining the Joy of Making Music, Ongoing Journey of Learning Production, Recording Studio Setup, Collaborating with JJ LovegroveMinus Cube is a songwriter and studio engineer. He's had a busy year in 2023 mixing and producing five singles and an album. Much of that work was in collaboration with friend and fellow music artist JJ Lovegrove. Minus Cube and I had a long and pleasant conversation, covering his busy year, capturing studio processes, maintaining a sense of enjoyment in music, the occasional struggle to stay excited, reinventing his creative output, his production learning journey, collaborating with JJ Lovegrove, playing drums, solo works, his recording setup, and his outlook for the rest of the year. ...2023-08-041h 00
The Unstarving Musician219 Amplifying Female Voices Over 50, Including Her Own – Brooksie Wells Brooksie Wells is amplifying female voices over 50, including her own. She and I met in a thing called Music Marketing Method. I’ve mentioned Music Marketing Method on the podcast before. It’s a program designed to help musicians find our fan base, grow our audience and make a consistent income with our creativity. Learn more about Music Marketing Method Brooksie has had a rich music career. She has a new release called Stops Time, which you can find on all the popular digital platforms. Her first big break came when she was sign...2021-11-0548 min
The Unstarving Musician215 Lynz Crichton's Music Marketing MethodLynz Crichton is the creator of Music Marketing Method, a program that shows musicians how to make money with their music. She is also a friend and mentor to me. I am part of the student body that is her Music Marketing Method program. Lynz believes that generating an income with music doesn’t have to be about just playing live. She first appeared on this podcast in 2017, when she estimates her Twitter following was about 5,000 followers. Lynz’s Twitter following is now at about 32k. She knows how to grow an audience on social media. Her musi...2021-09-1746 min
The Unstarving Musician214 JJ Lovegrove – Cracking the Codes of Cocial Media and PlaylistsJJ Lovegrove is cracking the codes of social media and Spotify playists. We discuss this and much more in our conversation for the podcast. Among the topics we cover are our shared experience within Lynz Crichton‘s Music Marketing Method program and the beautiful connections we can make through conversation on social media. JJ used to view social media as an unpleasant place. We also discuss JJ’s life of performing, events that prompted her to leave music, her return to music, what she learned from her exit and reentry, and the wonders Spotify playlists. JJ h...2021-09-1046 min