Bushwick Famous
Gender Inequality in the Music Industry: Where Do We Begin?
In this episode, Yan and Steph sit down and discuss some key representative issues of gender inequality in the music industry. Yan starts from a more broad sector, discussing how gender inequality is represented amongst artists by delving into the Billboard Top 100 and the Recording Academy, then moving their way over to the business sector, DSPs, and personal experiences in the New York scene.
Check out some key players working towards creating spaces for women, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC folks in the industry: Women in Music, She Is The Music, BFTA Collective, LARA, HE.SHE.THEY, the Trevor...
I Got Sued By a Punk: The Jamie Nelson vs Amy Taylor Copyright Dispute
On this episode of Bushwick Famous, Steph tells Yan all about the ongoing legal battle between Amy Taylor, lead singer of Australian punk legends Amyl and the Sniffers, and the iconic Los Angeles-based photographer Jamie Nelson. We delve into the legality of copyright between photographer and model, the legal attemps by both parties to claim ownership of the work, and the manager of Amyl and the Sniffers' ill-advised snarky text messages to a journalist.
Our Pod is an Awesome Pod: an Ex-Vangelical's Look at the Christian Music Industry (featuring Emily)
On this episode Yan and Steph welcome Emily, a former evangelical, to tell us all about the Christian music industry - what it sounds like, the role it plays in daily life, and of course, why it’s bad. Yan and Steph briefly put aside their Jewish and partly-Jewish upbringings to learn all about hell and how we’re going there.
Chaotic Geese: That's Not What a Psyop Is
On the first episode of Bushwick Famous, Steph and Yan delve into the chaos that Geese, the Brooklyn post-punk band, and their partnership with Chaotic Good, an international artist marketing agency, have instilled internet-wide. Touching on the roots of the band, Chaotic Good's services, the basics of marketing and common strategies for musicians today, they analyze the effects and intentions behind the public outrage. Is it a psyop? No! Listen and hear why.
