In 2014, can musicians still make money? What about royalties, and radio play, and streaming? Is there a future in music, or what? In this hour long special, Kill Rock Stars chief Portia Sabin poses those questions in this special we're calling "The Future of What?!?"

XRAY.fm and Kill Rock Stars Presents: The Future of WHAT?!?

Episode #1: How are artists making money in the new economy? Some artists are fighting the corporations and winning: The Turtles and the pre-1972 copyright debate. What is SoundExchange and why does everyone love them? (Hint: They are not the Nigerian prince!) Why is there no performance royalty for commercial radio play and what are we going to do about it? Plus: featured record label Dualtone Records, home of The Lumineers and others!

Guests include: Hutch Harris (The Thermals), Mike Huppe (SoundExchange), Daryl Friedman (The Recording Academy), Emily Green (The Daily Journal) & Scott Robinson (Dualtone Records)

Featured music: Delta 5 "Mind Your Own Business", Deerhoof "The Perfect Me", Two Ton Boa "Bleeding Heart", Marnie Stern "Patterns of Diamond Ceiling"

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The Thermals / SoundExchange / NARAS / Dualtone Records / The Daily Journal

Episode #2: This episode of the Future of What focuses on sync licensing, which is the process by which music is sync'd to picture, as is the case in advertising, movie trailers, etc. Justin Ringle of the band Horse Feathers sits in the studio with Portia this time around, and they talk about his recent tour(s) and the series of sync/placements that he had with the California Dairy Board. Rounding out the hour, Portia speaks with Matt FX about what its like to secure music for an of-the-moment show like "Broad City", and Carianne Marshall(of SONGS Music Publishing)explains the importance of sync licenses to an artists' career. Sohrab Nafici (Director, Music/legal at Warner Bros.) caps the episode off with his insight into the historical and current trends within the sync business.

This episode features music from: Horse Feathers, Deerhoof, Dos, and The Delta 5.

Matt FX (Broad City) / Warner Bros. / SONGS Music Publishing


Heroes Waking Up, Anna Tivel’s third full-length album, is the result of a year spent living and writing in a friend’s garage and on the road. The eleven song recording winds through a dusky darkness of hopeful strangers, shadowed struggle, quiet love, and flying dreams. Produced by guitar magician Austin Nevins (Josh Ritter, The Mountain Goats, Anais Mitchell, Aoife O’Donovan), Tivel’s faded-photographic songwriting swell above a soundscape carefully crafted by Nevins on guitar, lap steel, banjo, and pump organ. He is joined by Sam Howard (Ruth Moody) on bass, Ian Krist (Blind Pilot) on vibraphone, Robin Macmillan on percussion, Tivel on violin and octave violin, and Jeffrey Martin and Moorea Masa singing harmonies. The final effect is a sweeping, dream-like exploration of Tivel’s raw imagery and powerful storytelling. 

Look Away - Anna TIvel

Written, Produced, and Performed by Skull Diver.

Drums/Synth - Zanny Geffel 
Guitar/Piano/Synth/Harmony Vocals - Ally Payne 
Bass/Synth/Lead Vocal - Mandy Payne

Album Artwork by Greggletron (Greggletron.com)

Recorded by Matt Thomson at Hallowed Halls in Portland Oregon
Mixed by Brandon Eggleston in Portland Oregon 
Mastered by Ed Brookes at Resonant Mastering in Seattle Washington

Chemical Tomb

Bad Star

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The Harmed Brothers

Adopt A Highway

This is overlapping snippets of SONE, but not all, of the guitar solos from this batch of songs (I stopped at 22).

Solo Medley

You Want To Know About Me

My Hometown

Wrong Century (original version)

From the upcoming album "Spare Key" out on Fluff and Gravy Records June 2013

pre-order here: http://www.fluffandgravy.com/store/

Jack Wilson - Cowboy

Front man for Portland, Oregon's Water Tower, Kenny Feinstein will release his debut solo album, Loveless: Hurts To Love, a tribute to My Bloody Valentine, on Fluff & Gravy Records August 6, 2013.  

The record, which contains all eleven tracks from the My Bloody Valentine classic, plus the track "Swallow" from their 1991 Tremolo EP, released nine months prior to Loveless on Creation Records, finds Feinstein paying homage to his favorite record, while not just covering it, but re-creating it with acoustic guitar, mandolin, dobro, fiddle, and dulcimer.  

When You Sleep - Kenny Feinstein

Fluff and Gravy Records

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