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Funding rounds aren't milestones. It shouldn't be your goal to raise a series A. It should be your goal not to need to.
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I saw Phoebe Bridgers last night, in an arena, with no phones allowed.
During the encore, she played Scott Street and they turned the lights all the way up. People swayed side to side, waving their arms.
~15,000 people, and you could see every face, unobstructed, smiling.
It was surreal: an experience unimaginable in the last 10 years, and yet something you would have experienced at any arena show 25 years ago. It made me feel very human.
one of the greatest albums of our generation
I don't usually celebrate album anniversaries. I have a hard time perceiving the past. I like now, and what's to come. But this album, that turns 20 today, changed my life. I'd had success already, but everything clicked into place on this album. I met some of the greatest musicians and engineers in the world and learned so much about making records from them. When I think back on what made the album so special, some thoughts come to mind, and they're worth my remembering: Life came into the room. I rode bikes on the beach. I was goofy - most of the images from these years are of me doing something wacky. The record took time. Months of writing, giving up on lots of songs, writing new ones, moving studios, taking breaks. As I get older l tend to expect results faster. I get frustrated a little easier. But it's always been the same; you work weeks and months on songs. Some don't make it, but it's never a waste of time. You live more life, you write more songs, and the process starts again. You cherish the tight little list of tunes that matter. When just one joins the ranks, it's a blessing. Joy wins out over discouragement. You have fun with your friends, who are all on the journey of exploring the unknown with you. Great albums are built in layers. You have to become different versions of yourself to create a lasting body of work. Nobody cares how long it takes if the music is meaningful. If you want to make something truly special, you have to bring talented people in the room to contribute. Steve and Pino. Chad Franscoviak and Joe Furla engineering along with Don Smith and Dave O'Brien. Martin Pradler editing vocals. René Martinez handing me the guitar. Ricky Peterson on keys, @jamesbvalentine played some guitar on Stop This Train. Larry Goldings played B3 and @aliciakeys sang backgrounds on Gravity. Roy Hargrove played trumpet.
Charlie Hunter played on In Repair. @BenHarper played slide guitar on Belief. Willie Weeks played bass with Pino on I Don't Trust Myself With Loving You. The right music with the right people at the right time in my life. That's all you can ever hope for. And thank YOU, dear reader, for giving life to these songs. Onward...
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prettyboyshav retweeted
That’s a good question. I wanna say @Boomcat @magisformagic @prettyboyshav @brandontory @dgreenstein1
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Lorde has revealed that she’s now an independent artist after her contract with Universal Music Group expired late last year:
“I feel a real hunger for newness and I feel […] like a new leaf is turning or there’s a blank slate that’s been presented, and I feel this way because at the end of last year, my label deal, my record contract with Universal came to an end,” she said. “I have been in that contract for a very, very long time and some form of that contract since I was 12 years old, when I signed my first development deal with Universal.”
variety.com/2026/music/news/…
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James Blake's seventh album 'Trying Times' arrives at one of the most creatively and personally transformative periods of his career. The British artist recently went independent after more than a decade in the major label system, moved back to London from LA, and rebuilt his team from the ground up.
We spoke with @jamesblake, and he opened up about all of it: why he pushed the record back by a year, what he's learned from taking control of his career, why making the music itself turned out to be the easy part, and more.
Read the full interview here: pigeonsandplanes.com/read/ja…
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Starting today you can sell your projects on [untitled], make sure to update the app to try it out.
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One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:
Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.
Sounds simple on the surface - the hard part is making it part of your every day working process.
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Some days you move a mountain.
Some days you move a pebble.
Both count. Keep moving.
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Today I'm launching @asylumventures, a new venture firm dedicated to the creative act of building companies.
Asylum's first $55 million fund is an embodiment of my belief that founders are artists, not assets:
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I think once successful founders get liquidity they owe it to society to reinvest some of that capital into building hard, high risk, high potential things.
I want to keep building cool new things that will accelerate human progress.