Best Angry Noises Podcasts (2025)

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Episode #256 — Jonathan Azu of Culture Collective Walks Through Recent Projects, the State of the Live Industry & Inclusivity! 12:52

3h ago12:52

12:52

This week we speak with Jonathan Azu, founder of Culture Collective, on the state of the live industry, along with some exciting projects & collaborations he’s working on! Jonathan discusses how important it is for executives to diversify themselves in the same way today’s artists do, highlighting the multi-hyphenate approach he has taken for his b…

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Episode #255 — The Tech and Music Industry Crossover: A Conversation with OpenPlay’s Edward Ginis @ Music Biz 2025! 12:10

7d ago12:10

12:10

Edward Ginis, Founder and CEO of OpenPlay, attended his 15th Music Biz Conference this year. In this episode, he discusses how the Conference continues to evolve with the times, providing true substance and debate over platitudes and hype. In the same vein, Edward touches on just how crucial it is for our industry to nurture entrepreneurs and start…

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Episode #254 — Hear from Lauryn Menard, Creator of the GOB Sustainable Earplug Brand! 15:17

14d ago15:17

15:17

The difficulty common earplugs have conforming to each person’s unique anatomy leads to frequent struggles with actually keeping these devices in our ears – not to mention the poor sound quality they create by blocking out only the top frequencies. Biomaterial professor and industrial designer, Lauryn Menard may very well be revolutionizing the fut…

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Episode #253 — The Music Merchandising Experience with Kerstyn Inouye of Top Drawer Merch 18:55

1M ago18:55

18:55

Top Drawer Merch began their journey through collaborating with artists to create charity bracelets. Today, they service clients both in and out of the music industry, producing apparel & a variety of other merchandise. Implementing a traditional brand approach, they understand that merch is not just a band’s logo on a t-shirt – it’s a story told t…

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Episode #252 — How Friends of Noise is Creating Opportunities for the Youth of Portland 11:02

2M ago11:02

11:02

Friends of Noise, an organization supporting the creative youth of Portland, Oregon since 2016, is expanding their educational programming with the opening of their all-ages venue, “The Off Beat.” The nonprofit hosts professional development workshops and produces all-age concerts where teens can perform on-stage, run sound, accept tickets & create…

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Episode #251 — Music Biz in Atlanta: The Horne Brothers Highlight ATL’s Booming Music Economy 19:57

2M ago19:57

19:57

Building on our series of interviews with Atlanta locals, we spoke with Byron, Ryon & Tyson Horne, better known as The Horne Brothers. To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop, the brothers highlighted Atlanta in their 2024 documentary, “The South Got Something To Say.” Though Hip-Hop’s birthplace is credited as New York, the documentary disc…

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Episode #250 — Angry Mob Music’s Marc Caruso Addresses What Indie Publishers Need 17:15

3M ago17:15

17:15

Independents make up 40% of the publishing industry, and yet, they struggle to leverage deals. Why? It all comes down to industry fracturing that is preventing the emergence of their collective voice. Angry Mob Music CEO, Marc Caruso touched upon this in his Billboard op-ed, “Why It’s Time for Indie Publishers to Get Angry,” where he highlights how…

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Episode #249 — Girlilla Marketing’s Jennie Smythe on the Evolution of Digital Marketing & Female Representation 20:28

3M ago20:28

20:28

Jennie Smythe, CEO of Girlilla Marketing, not only brings on unique & interesting clients, ranging from local businesses to well-known actors, but has proudly ensured her agency remains female-led throughout the 17 years she has been running it. With her tenure as a woman in both the music and digital marketing industries comes a great deal of less…

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Episode #248 — Marketing In The Live Event Sector With Nederlander’s Jamie Loeb 20:29

3M ago20:29

20:29

The financial loss our industry faced when touring came to a halt during COVID-19 has brought attention to the importance of the long glossed over live sector. From here, NIVA (the National Independent Venue Association) was born, where Jamie Loeb, SVP of Marketing for Nederlander, worked tirelessly to help secure the biggest arts grant program in …

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Episode #247 — How The Music Leaders Network Empowers Female, Trans & Non-Binary Music Executives 17:56

4M ago17:56

17:56

The Music Leaders Network exists to establish a network of underrepresented female, trans & non-binary music executives and support their industry careers. In our latest podcast, we speak with Music Leaders Network co-founders Remi Harris & Tamara Gal-On about the organization’s origins, its latest UK cohort & expansion into Nordic countries, the c…

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Episode #246 — Music Biz In Atlanta: Discussing the City’s Thriving Music & Tech Culture with Shachar Oren 15:27

4M ago15:27

15:27

With the Music Biz Conference coming to Atlanta for the first time this year, we’re continuing our series of interviews with local executives to learn more about the city’s thriving music & entertainment business scene. This month, we spoke with Atlanta-based Shachar Oren of a media technologies venture capital firm, Sound Media Ventures, on his ex…

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Episode #245 — New Mental Health Study from MusiCares & Amber Health 25:49

4M ago25:49

25:49

The music industry’s high-stress and ever-changing nature often leads to the development or exacerbation of mental health issues for artists & professionals alike. Particularly since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, music & research organizations have looked to study the effects being in this industry has on its workforce and develop resour…

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Episode #244 — Maintaining Ethics in AI-Generated Music 27:24

5M ago27:24

27:24

Generative AI has taken all creative industries by storm over the last few years, and the technology’s rapid adoption has already led to major headaches for the music industry. AI-developed “songs” have flooded streaming services, being used by bad actors to siphon royalties from hard-working artists and creating problems for music discovery. Jen, …

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Episode #243 — Music Biz in Atlanta: Tobago Benito of DBS Sounds! 8:51

5M ago8:51

8:51

The Annual Music Biz Conference will take place in Atlanta for the FIRST TIME in 2025, gathering more than 2,100 global music professionals in a vital music hub city for four days of educational & networking opportunities to help inform the industry’s trajectory forward. This month, we’re kicking off a special series of interviews with Atlanta-base…

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Episode #242 — The State of Music Publishing in 2025 17:24

6M ago17:24

17:24

The past decade has seen a vast uptick in the importance of the music publishing sector. Publishing rights now account for roughly 30-40% of rightsholder revenue, thanks in part to both the adoption of consistent digital revenue streams and major investments from the financial sector that have bolstered the value of music catalogs. In our first pod…

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Episode #241 — Music & Tech’s Trajectory In The Year To Come 20:29

7M ago20:29

20:29

2024 was yet another transformative year for the music industry, bolstered by the widespread embrace of AI integration, challenges to the cornerstone that DSPs have become, and maturing integrations in gaming & VR. In our final conversation of 2024, we speak with Vickie Nauman of CrossBorderWorks about how as music consumption becomes more passive,…

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Episode #240 — Managing Artists In 2024 & Beyond! 20:26

7M ago20:26

20:26

With the ever-changing landscape of the music industry, as well as new expectations from today’s artists, it’s time for us to check in on how the management field has evolved to meet the needs of today’s music makers. In our latest podcast, we talk to 10 and 8 Management’s Nicholas Mishko about what managers can do to best support their artists in …

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Episode #239 — Ensuring Ethical AI Use With AI:OK’s Dr. Martin Clancy 15:00

8M ago15:00

15:00

The misuse of generative AI tech has already tested the status quo of music distribution & streaming, with DSPs being flooded with thousands of fraudulent tracks meant to siphon royalties away from rightful artists & rightsholders. AI:OK is a new initiative which takes a multi-pronged approach to ensuring that the music industry is ethical in its u…

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Episode #238 — Music Research & AI-Detection Tech With Deezer's Romain Hennequin 20:38

8M ago20:38

20:38

Research divisions within music companies often operate to advance the products & services they offer. In the case of Deezer’s most recent research on identifying & tagging songs, it may improve the ways our business fights against bad actors. This month, we talked to Deezer's Head of Research Romain Hennequin about his team’s origins, its most rec…

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Episode #237 — #iVoted & Leveraging Music To Increase Voter Turnout 15:25

9M ago15:25

15:25

#iVoted is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that hosts concerts on election nights & during early voting periods to help drive voter registration & turnout. After hosting the largest digital concert in history during the 2020 Presidential Election, which data from MIT touts as bolstering voter turnout by an estimated 7%, #iVoted is gearing u…

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Episode #236 — Supporting Women In Music: Interview With Head Bitch Music’s Jessica Vaughn 18:15

9M ago18:15

18:15

Following up on her op-ed for our Keeping Tempo series, we’re thrilled to have Jessica Vaughn of Head Bitch Music on our latest episode of The Future of What! In this interview, Vaughn discusses the ways our industry has evolved (both for better and worse) in its support of women & marginalized communities, how her industry origins as an artist inf…

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Episode #235 — How AI Tech & TikTok Consumption Is Changing Our Industry 14:50

11M ago14:50

14:50

Since the digitization of the music business began, new tech applications and methods of consumption have helped to redefine how our industry operates. In recent years, the highest profile changes have been the implementation of AI algorithms and the rapid adoption of music consumption through short-form video platforms. We spoke with Miquido’s Chi…

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Episode #234 — Modern Music Royalties Processing 19:22

11M ago19:22

19:22

Ray Bush founded The Music Royalty Co. (MRC) in 2014 after identifying opportunities to modernize royalty calculations in the face of music data’s exponential explosion as streaming began to take off. A decade later and the company has remained an expert in complex royalty calculations for labels, publishers and distributors, while also evolving to…

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Episode #233 — Our Employees’ Needs Have Evolved: How Do We Best Support Them? 28:02

12M ago28:02

28:02

The events of the last few years, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic, have had a major effect on how people across the globe view work-life balance and traditional ways of working. In our latest episode, we discuss how to best support today’s workforce with two experts in the avenues of HR and workers’ rights. First off, we speak with WorkFour Dire…

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Episode #232 — Solving Music’s Identity Problem With Switchchord 22:29

1y ago22:29

22:29

The complex web of unique identifiers associated with an artist and their body of work can make it extremely difficult for them to interact with publishers, sync officers, and other parties they work with. Switchchord aims to eliminate this friction by allowing artists to document ownership of their music and map out the legal & business relationsh…

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Episode #231 — DiMA President & CEO, Graham Davies 14:57

1y ago14:57

14:57

The Digital Media Association (DiMA) represents the world’s leading audio streaming companies and streaming innovators, providing community, resources and advocacy for its member companies. This month, we spoke with newly appointed DiMA President and CEO, Graham Davies about DiMA’s mission, his first few months at the helm of the organization, and …

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Episode #230 — Diversifying Music Industry Writing Rooms 16:30

1y ago16:30

16:30

The music industry has proven time and time again that inclusive practices lead to better productivity and a higher quality of work in all business segments. That’s why Ralph Torrefranca of Angry Mob Music has sought for more diversity in high-level songwriting rooms by starting the New Normal Writing Camp in 2023, which featured 70% female artists…

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Episode #229 — Music Fraud Update: Combating Bad Actors From All Angles 27:05

1y ago27:05

27:05

The fight against all forms of music fraud has been a major watershed moment for intra-industry collaboration, as was seen in the Music Business Association’s establishment of its Spin Fraud Task Force and its hosting of the Trust & Safety Symposium in January 2024. Now a few months away from that event, our latest The Future of What podcast explor…

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Episode #228 — Holistic Strategies For Selling Music Merch with Merch Cat’s Vanessa Ferrer 17:22

1y ago17:22

17:22

Merch sales is one of, if not the primary, revenue generator for artists at certain levels of their careers. Tie this into the fact that merch proudly worn or displayed by their fans helps spread the word about their music, and it becomes all too essential for today’s artists to have a strong merch strategy. This important need is what led Vanessa …

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Episode #227 — Cosynd’s New Producer Copyright Registration Initiative 15:01

1y ago15:01

15:01

With almost a decade of experience securing copyrights for artists & rightsholders, Cosynd identified that music producers were being potentially priced out of registering their backlog of work with the U.S. Copyright Office. This led them to develop a new group registration service, allowing producers to save time & money by registering groups of …

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Episode #226 — Creative Intell’s David Fritz & Steven Ship On Educating Today’s Artists 13:06

1y ago13:06

13:06

While looking into higher-ed music business programs, David Fritz and Steven Ship found that the segmented approach to curriculums was helpful for new students, but it did not help artists and songwriters who needed to know the ins-and-outs of how the industry works for their already established careers. This led them to start Creative Intell, whic…

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Episode #225 — Vault & beatBread’s Funding Options For Indie Artists 24:25

1+ y ago24:25

24:25

With more artists creating and releasing more music now than ever, there is a major need for new revenue streams and funding options to help artists take their careers to the next level. This month on The Future of What, we speak with two representatives from companies that do just that: Nick Struzenski of Vault, a bespoke catalog brokerage & artis…

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Episode #224 — RAMPD’s Lachi & Precious Perez on Disability Awareness & Activism 18:27

1+ y ago18:27

18:27

RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities) was founded in 2021 as a collective of artists, performers and music professionals with disabilities seeking to raise awareness of disability culture in the music business. Since then the organization has worked to advocate and create opportunities for disabled music professionals …

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Episode #223 — Trevanna Tracks’ Tools For Improving Sync Licensing 20:46

1+ y ago20:46

20:46

Sync placements have become a highly lucrative revenue stream for artists and rightsholders alike in recent years, as the production teams behind tv shows & movies constantly search for the perfect tracks to set the scene in their latest project. With that expanded attention to this part of the business comes a lot of extra paperwork, something tha…

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Episode #222 — NIVA’s Journey From Survival To Advocacy 16:39

1+ y ago16:39

16:39

The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) was founded at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as a lifeline for small live music houses, pulling together federal grant money to ensure that venues would remain afloat until it was safe for artists to tour again. Since then, the organization has shifted focus to develop a member services suite, …

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Episode #221 — Exceleration Music + Redeye: An Indie Music Powerhouse 35:37

1+ y ago35:37

35:37

Founded in 2020 by five tenured independent music professionals, Exceleration Music set out to invest in music rights, enter strategic partnerships and develop a suite of support services, all backed by authenticity and reverence for everything essential to indie music’s DNA. The company doubled down on that commitment in September 2023 by acquirin…

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Portia’s 2024 New Year’s Message 3:31

1+ y ago3:31

3:31

Tune in to this special message from Music Business Association President, Portia Sabin with some updates regarding our inaugural Trust & Safety In Music Symposium, Music Biz 2024, the Common Ground Webinar Series & our new Music Biz Events app, changes to our website & socials, and more!By Music Business Association

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Episode #220 — Supporting U.S. Indie Venues: An Interview With Live Music Society’s Cat Henry 15:19

1+ y ago15:19

15:19

The early days of the COVID-19 pandemic opened eyes across the world to just how vital touring & live music is to the entire music business ecosystem. As venues of all sizes closed to stop the spread of COVID, a number of organizations and initiatives were founded in the first pandemic year to help local independent music houses financially stay af…

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Episode #219 — LyricFind’s Darryl Ballantyne On New Tools To Enhance Lyric Offerings 13:01

1+ y ago13:01

13:01

In just a few short years, song lyrics have gone from a “nice to have” addition that music fans could seek out in liner notes or on the internet to a hot commodity on streaming platforms, graphics-heavy promotional videos, user-generated content and beyond. This month, we talk with LyricFind Founder & CEO, Darryl Ballantyne about the evolution of l…

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Episode #218 — Dolby’s Christine Thomas Talks Dolby Atmos & Immersive Audio 13:26

1+ y ago13:26

13:26

While some say nothing quite captures the experience of listening to music performed in-person, new technologies are bringing unparalleled levels of immersion to the music listening experience. Enter Dolby Atmos, an immersive audio format which debuted for movies more than a decade ago that is now available across music services on 2.5 billion devi…

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Episode #217 — DAACI Talks AI Tools To Enhance The Creative Process 16:39

1+ y ago16:39

16:39

Bad actors have already learned how to exploit generative AI to either pose as popular artists or misappropriate copyrighted material. However companies like DAACI are working with artists, songwriters & composers to develop tools that are additive to the creative process, helping to eliminate tedious parts of their job and overcome writer’s block.…

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Episode #216 — KYC Compliance To Fight Music Fraud: A Discussion With Too Lost’s Gregory Hirschhorn 15:52

1+ y ago15:52

15:52

After running a record label and finding common issues across several different music distribution platforms, Gregory Hirschhorn decided to enter the distribution space with Too Lost, paying extra attention to technologies and methods for combating fraud. The company uses Know Your Client (KYC) protocol, which has roots in the financial industry, t…

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Episode #215 — Generative AI In Film, TV & Other Entertainment Spaces 15:26

2y ago15:26

15:26

While generative AI can be used to help human creators develop original works, concerns exist as major film & TV studios stand to reap huge financial benefits by using the technology to wholesale develop screenplays or substitute in digital recreations of actors. This is one of the pillars of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, as workers in the…

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Episode #214 — Music Fights Fraud: A Discussion on Streaming Fraud with CD Baby’s Christine Barnum 15:30

2y ago15:30

15:30

Recent months have shown an uptick in the frequency and variety of fraudulent music streaming practices, allowing bad actors to collect undue revenue by criminally inflating the number of streams for tracks they upload to DSPs. In the first of two episodes this Fall covering music streaming fraud, we talk to CD Baby's Chief Revenue Officer, Christi…

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Episode #213 — Building Community In Music With Web3: Interview With Revelator’s Bruno Guez 16:52

2y ago16:52

16:52

Originally hailing from the record label side of the business, Bruno Guez founded Revelator 10 years ago to help jumpstart an evolution in digital payments to help meet the needs of the increasingly digital music industry. Fast-forward to today, and Web3 asset distribution & sales may have a similarly transformative effect on the global music busin…

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Episode #212 — 2023 Music Biz Presidential Award Winner, Gina Miller (MNRK Music Group) 19:37

2y ago19:37

19:37

The Presidential Award for Outstanding Executive Achievement is one of the Music Business Association’s highest and longest-standing honors, presented to individuals or organizations who have contributed greatly to the overall success of the music industry. In our latest podcast interview, Gina Miller of MNRK Music Group — our 2023 Presidential Awa…

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Episode #211 — Generative AI and the Music Industry: Interview with Danielle Aguirre of the NMPA 16:16

2y ago16:16

16:16

AI and machine-learning technologies have been utilized in various capacities in the music industry for decades now. However, the rise of Generative AI — which uses existing human-created art within its algorithms to generate content — presents new legal challenges over who is compensated when the tech is used. This month, we spoke to the NMPA’s Da…

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Episode #210 — Music Industry Mental Health: A Conversation With Amber Health’s Dr. Chayim Newman 23:13

2y ago23:13

23:13

At the outset, Amber Health was founded to analyze the mental health needs of artists & touring professionals and develop resources to support them navigate their incredibly taxing line of work. After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, its mission and scope expanded to create boots-on-the-ground support for the mental health needs of all music industry pro…

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Parenting: Cutting Through the Noise with Lindsay Burke and Candace St. John - Episode 80 1:06:35

2y ago1:06:35

1:06:35

Lindsay interviews Candace St. John, an epidemiologist and public health specialist with additional training in pediatric sleep and lactation support, who helps parents cut through the noise and use science in combination with their own intuition to inform their parenting decisions. In this episode we discuss a lot of the myths and truths around in…

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Overfunctioning Love Seekers with Lindsay Burke and Dalila Jusic-LaBerge - Episode 79 1:05:32

2y ago1:05:32

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Lindsay interviews Dalila Jusic-LaBerge, LMFT and founder of Be Here and Now Relationship Academy and Secure Love Creator Framework, who provides relationship coaching for high achieving women and overfunctioning love seekers who struggle because they often wind up in situationships with partners that want to “see where it’s going” instead of worki…

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