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Kristina God's avatar

Wonderful seeing this. This is how it all started with Patreon. Musician who were playing, singing and sharing their songs could finally earn a sustainable income.

Now on Substack artists can build a healthy and soulful business without burning out!

Focus on what matters most: their music! Their art. Sharing it with the world without friction, stress, tech headaches.

The best when you can connect with musicians around the world . Wonderful to see this!

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Richard SAUERMAN's avatar

Smart comments @Kristina God

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Austin Kleon's avatar

Looking forward to this — I realized this morning I've been listening to Walter's music for over half my life!

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Walter Martin's avatar

hahaha - yes lots to discuss!

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purity's avatar

Same here

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Adelle Louise Barlow's avatar

We are really looking forward to going Live April 9th 2pm! Lou will show you how to play Soul and Fire 🔥 Thanks for having us ♥️

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Blue Thoughts From a Red State's avatar

If Patti Smith is involved with this, so am I.

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Robert C. Gilbert's avatar

In addition to the many, many wonderful musicians here, let's not forget the amazing roster of music writers here, many of whom are included here: https://www.listeningsessions.ca/recommendations

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Patrick's avatar

A lot of great names -

hopefully keep politics out of it?

Best to all

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Diego Ruiz's avatar

Isn't everything political?

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Ambient Soul Music Club's avatar

This this this! Glad to see Substack’s Music world is taking off and proud to be a part of it. We’ve been releasing music here for a year now and it’s getting better all the time. ✊

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

EVERYONE GO LISTEN TO Olivia Rafferty's album TYPICAL FOREVER - https://open.spotify.com/album/7xWlKNhJ9gKE7ZTD7pQJic?si=1eyM5-LUQTGwUGTecl1rxA

And read her substack here https://oliviarafferty.substack.com/

her music is so damn good and in my eyes, having been a music critic for 35 years, she is THE sound of Substack

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Julie Gabrielli's avatar

Thanks for this!! Listening now. Sooooo good! 😊

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nejmendo's avatar

Thank you for sharing! She has an amazing voice and the album production is inspiring.

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Bethany Cosentino's avatar

Can’t wait !

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Bronwyn Morrissey's avatar

Fantastic! Yes to creating new ways to support musicians!!

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Lindsay Johnstone's avatar

Wow, I LOVE this. Going to go live with my band, WallSunSun on Thursday 24th April 9pm BST.

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Robbie Bent's avatar

Hey Dan, this is really cool! Anyway we could do a listening party or acoustic pop-up at our Othership locations in Flatiron and Brooklyn? We're already working with a number of artists and feel like a Substack collab could be a huge hit

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Robbie Bent's avatar

Robbie@othership.us if interested

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John Shane's avatar

Looking forward to watching and listening to **more music** here on Substack…!!

In the meantime, below you’ll find a link to a song I posted on Substack recently that’s proving pretty relevant to what’s going on right now:

THE BAND PLAYS ON WHILE THE SHIP SINKS

(Trust To The Water, Swim Towards The Light) - John Shane

https://johnshanewayofthepoet.substack.com/p/the-band-plays-on-while-the-ship

I overhead the First Mate

Come to ask the Captain, did he know

That the rats jumped overboard several days ago

The Captain has his telescope to his blind eye

He’s staring at the sky muttering ‘Why, oh why..?’

But that crew of tattooed sailors

They all drink and swear and cuss

Plan another mutiny and discuss

Just who has Jonah’s jinx

And the band plays on

While the ship sinks…

**I’m going to try to do a LIVE performance of this song and a few others on Substack soon…**

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Winsome Kind's avatar

We are fairly new here but we are planning to share our music live very soon!! Tomorrow our brand new album “Mantras for a Magical Life-432hz” drops everywhere! Conscious music to help raise the collective frequency and vibration. Can’t wait for you all to experience it. 🎧♥️🎶🔥✨

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Emma Clarke's avatar

Hey Substack, I'm a presenter on BBC Radio 3 and I'd love to connect with musicians and sound-makers, so these posts are just brilliant! I'd also gently suggest that there are lots of other kinds of sound-making happening on Substack, from sound-art, poetry, voice acting and some pretty awesome podcasts too. Is it possible to have a curated digest of the best picks?

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Cam's avatar

Such an incredible group of musicians! Well done. This is a time where musicians need support more than ever and it’s amazing getting a deeper dive with some world class musicians in a way that doesn’t feel so hallow like social media has become.

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