Sneaking into your U.S. Thanksgiving week is…Radio Detox Season 2!
Heyyyyyy 👋 been a long time. I think this worked out for the best.
Last December, Kathryn and I recorded the first part of the podcast in Austin, Texas in the Antone’s greenroom backstage at the Boostagram Ball. We were interrupted by both Adam Curry and Ainsley Costello’s mom, and we rolled with it. Ainsley also taps into the podcast for a few minutes.
At that time, Kathryn, a gifted soul singer out of Nashville, had only released on song, Socrates. After that, she released Lemons. Then, nothing until last week, when she released five new tracks you can listen to on Fountain! I figured this was as good a time as any to release the podcast we recorded so that I could include all of her songs.
Kathyn and I also recorded a second interview last month at Bitcoin Park in Nashville. I hadn’t heard the new songs yet at that point. Since our first interview, she and Ainsley launched their own podcast, The Snap, which brings their very vital voices to this space. Both artists traveled abroad for the summer and kept their music careers going in Nashville and beyond.
Why Radio Detox Matters
We’re creating an alternative to the traditional way of “making it” in the music business for independent artists. The tech has led so far, but this really needs to become an artist-led movement. I love that we’re still underground and grassroots. However, for the health of this ecosystem, we need to branch out and get “beyond the purple wall.”
I’m tired of preaching to the choir and I’d like to also be realistic about where we are with changing the earnings and payment rails for indie musicians. This isn’t a cure for Spotify and we won’t take that behemouth down, even though that would be lovely. This movement exists alongside the Bitcoin movement and theese two siblings would get along much better if Bitcoiners would spend their Bitcoin rather than HODL.
We’re all still going to listen to Nirvana and Kendrick; the old music business isn’t going away. It’s also never going to support independent artists. Ticketmaster, Spotify, and mainstream radio are never going to change for you, not even with government intervention. In fact, it was government intervention (the Bill Clinton telecom act of 1996) that got us to this land of homogenized corporate music in the first place. I know; I lived through it. I worked in it. I tried to survive over the past 27 years of my radio and TV career. Now, I’m full-timing it in the Bitcoin/Nostr space. I’m living proof you can detox fully off the old ways.
I’m also proof this takes time. It will take time for the music world to catch up. This is something Kathryn and I cover on the podcast. It’s what I love about this epic, two-hour-long episode. We begin in Austin when this was a new, exciting world for Kathryn. As we caught up in Nashville, she’s got some new experience and the shine has come off the idea. She still loves this space and she’s bringing new ideas to it. Those ideas need to be heard.
I, for one, will be listening to Kathryn, Ainsley, and other artists of all genres from Nashville and beyond. This is already a global network of musicians who are putting their stamp on this space. I hope you’ll isten to this episode of Radio Detox with Kathryn and truly hear her voice, and not just her singing voice.
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