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    Thousand Story Podcast

    We're Naji and Luis, two 20-something musicians who thought it’d be cool to share stories about life in the creative industry. Things get crazy, and someone’s gotta talk about it.
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    Episodes (37)

    Devin Tracy Wants Fame & Also Recycles // TSP035

    Devin Tracy Wants Fame & Also Recycles // TSP035
    This week, Devin Tracy stops by before work to tell us about his lofty aspirations and creation methods! Fun fact: Naji played bass on one of his songs, in case you didn’t know. That Naji played bass, that is. On his song. Devin’s. Timestamps: Tea and Wegmans (1:20) Devin Tracy (5:37) Florida to NY (14:47) Building Connections (19:49) The Bassist on TakeMee (25:23) Small World (33:16) Follow Devin: https://instagram.com/devintracy https://twitter.com/devintracy https://devintracy.com https://devintracy.tumblr.com Follow Thousand Story: https://instagram.com/thousandstory_ https://twitter.com/thousandstory_ Follow Naji https://instagram.com/mrnajiboy https://twitter.com/mrnajiboy Follow Luis https://instgram.com/elpontillo https://twitter.com/elpontillo Cover Photo: https://instagram.com/mehdi_frantz

    Quickly, Quickly is Gonna Have Babies to a Beatles Song // TSP034

    Quickly, Quickly is Gonna Have Babies to a Beatles Song // TSP034
    We stopped by Quickly, Quickly's house to see what's up with the Boy Wonder, and ended up fangirling about the Beatles + placing bets on Tekashi69's estimated time of death. Yikes. Timestamps: Intro Stuff (0:00-6:10) The Beatles and Other Obsessions (28:37) Tekashi69 Death Bets (44:00) 60s Artists vs. Today's Artists (48:00) Quickly Album Release Dates (69:07) Quickly, The Pop Punk G$wd (73:46) LA ain't it for some (82:00) A Quickly Family (89:00) Follow Quickly, Quickly: https://instagram.com/quicklyquickly Follow Thousand Story: https://instagram.com/thousandstory_ Follow Luis: https://instagram.com/elpontillo Follow Naji: https://instagram.com/mrnajiboy

    ROMderful Tries To Finesse IKEA // TSP032

    ROMderful Tries To Finesse IKEA // TSP032
    This week, In the spirit of absolutely nothing, we decided to have a chat w/ ROMderful (ROM for short), a Birmingham-born producer, unintentional fashion-icon-extraordinaire, and all-around homie. Timestamps: So how did Kehlani happen? (3:45) ROM signs a deal (7:11) Why "ROMderful?" (20:42) Otakus For Life (31:36) The ROMderful Live Experience (40:38) Where did IKEA come from? (48:59) Disney vs. Sony Spiderman Tangent (53:43) ROM Beats The Meat (62:46) Follow ROM: https://instagram.com/romderful Follow Us: https://instagram.com/thousandstory_ https://instagram.com/mrnajiboy https://instagram.com/elpontillo

    The Metadata Strikes Zach // TSP029

    The Metadata Strikes Zach // TSP029

    Zach Farache is back with a short story about Tik-Tok. It's only mildly infuriating.

    Hardships. Laughter. Friendship. And chairs!! You don’t want to miss this hilarious episode about how people can literally steal your work, call it their own and make money off of it too!

    Timestamps:
    Zach's Chair-Cleaning Service (2:28),
    The Tik-Tok Story (5:10),
    Canadian Grants that Even Canadians Missed (25:13)

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    Zach: @verzachemane (https://instagram.com/verzachemane)

    Photo credit: https://instagram.com/hannahfarache

    Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

    Delanie, The Engineer // TSP027

    Delanie, The Engineer // TSP027

    Delanie Leyden is in the house! It's a no-holds-barred closet cleaning as she takes us through the gritty life of a music engineer!

    Timestamps:
    Her story (1:20),
    Politics, or relationship building? (8:25),
    What engineers actually do (24:29),
    Do jobs in art take away your creativity? (40:17),
    How weed brownies will get you the farthest ahead (52:14)

    Note: She had an $800 Mic, not an $8 one. You'll know what that means.

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    Delanie: https://instagram.com/lussx

    Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

    Coachella, Notre Dame, Game of Thrones, Spotify + More // TSP024

    Coachella, Notre Dame, Game of Thrones, Spotify + More // TSP024

    We brought back our secret roommate and beloved podcast co-host, Monty (https://montylov.com) to bring you a fresh dose of updates, industry news and cool stuff for cool people! fires hand guns

    Timestamps: Coachella (1:29), Thoughts on the Notre Dame Situation (22:10), Game of Thrones and racist sentiments by Luis (27:26), Spotify Audio Ads experiment (39:24), Podcasting is on the rise! (47:23), Bandcamp Does Vinyl Now? (53:07), Amazon creates their own free music service (56:24), We partnered with Epidemic Sounds! (70:12)

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    Try Epidemic Sounds (For Free!): http://share.epidemicsound.com/tpFZp

    Angela Estelle and the Internet // TSP023

    Angela Estelle and the Internet // TSP023

    Have you ever taken the internet for granted? Of course you have. You probably never sat down to think about how user-friendly instagram, or Facebook, or Amazon is! They have millions of things in there and you know how to use most of those things. But you don’t realize how hard it is to make an easy site.

    That's where Angela Estelle comes in. She's here to save the day and spill some tea.

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    Timestamps: Angela's Story (1:33), Making simple sites are harder than you'd think (6:45), Buying fans vs. organic growth (22:40), Building your brand (36:34), Setting your threshold for bullshit (58:25), #Metoo? (67:40), Pay Your Artists! (79:25)

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    Angela: https://instagram.com/angelaestelle

    Creative's Guide to the Industry #1 // TSP022

    Creative's Guide to the Industry #1 // TSP022

    Class is in session. This is the creative's guide to the industry. Here are some Important things to know when traveling around the music industry: Pick YO BATTLES!! (1:32), Don’t shoot yourself in the foot!! (12:48), Schmoozer School (20:36), It's about the relationship, not the song (26:48), And above all, KNOW YOUR WORTH! (31:17)

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    Background music: thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

    Insightful Thoughts // TSP021

    Insightful Thoughts // TSP021

    What is licensing? Can you even do it? Probably, but you gotta be smart about it. We’re gonna teach you how to land a deal with Disney!! OK, not really, but our co-host Matt, aka Insightful, almost did, and the story is wild, so you should listen!

    Timestamps: Matt's Story (1:23), What companies look for when licensing music (16:17), Work-for-hire woes (36:19), Fast times at III's Co. High (58:53)

    Insightful: (https://instagram.com/insightful)

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    Photo credit: @coliair (instagram.com/coliair)
    Background music: thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

    Apple, Disney, Cuco & Naji Quits Music?! // TSP020

    Apple, Disney, Cuco & Naji Quits Music?! // TSP020

    Streaming services, label deals and Naji quitting music??? Sooo much is happening right now in the streaming game!

    This episode, we talk Apple shifting focus from hardware to software and puttin’ in $1 billion in original content for their streaming service (1:47), Disney competing with their own streaming service, Disney+ (9:32), Cuco signing a historic major-label deal with Interscope Records, laced with unprecedented terms! (18:57), and Naji quitting music….whaaaaa??? (41:38)

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    Photo credit: Mikito Tateisi (https://jukan.co/)

    Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

    Jasmine, The Manager // TSP019

    Jasmine, The Manager // TSP019

    This is Jasmine Collier: artist/tour/life manager, and she's stopped by to break down how things work in her domain. We talk finding your people (8:00), Setting goals (19:36), Tour prep 101 (27:12), Crowdfunding your shows (55:37), and more!

    Jasmine: https://instagram.com/jasminecollier

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    Photo credit: https://instagram.com/coliair

    Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

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