Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-2-26 hour 2

0:02 Speaker 1: You're listening to Macconterton unleashed on to MNAH ninety five point three.

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4:35 Speaker 11: There it is from the ground up by the band Blue Light Effect. And we're gonna be talking with one of the guys from the band in just a moment. Welcome everybody. We have entered our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact infos, archives, et cetera, et cetera.

5:03 Speaker 11: Today is Saturday May second, twenty twenty six, and we have joining us via WhatsApp Craig Siegel Bomb from the band Blue Light Effect.

5:13 Speaker 12: Hello Craig, Hey, Matt, how are you? Can you hear me?

5:16 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, you sound great. Thank you for joining us. I really like this project a lot, and thank you absolutely. I like the positivity too of songs like that and Wreckage is another another really great song. You guys got a bunch of great tunes. But so I obviously will we'll cut right to the really interesting thing about this project that that kind of hooked. I know Jenny made a comment to when she saw the email because she she's a former EMT, so she really likes first Responders. This band has made up are all four of you guys first responders.

5:50 Speaker 12: I'm a former first respond I recently retired.

5:52 Speaker 11: Okay.

5:53 Speaker 12: The singer Vinnie is a nurse, and our bass player Justin and our drummer Joe are both teachers.

6:00 Speaker 11: Oh wow, okay, excellent, Yeah, excellent. So how did this band start? Because I was reading something about it it kind of the pandemic sort of sparked this project.

6:12 Speaker 7: Yeah.

6:12 Speaker 12: So Vinnie and I I've been trying to work together on and off for years, and for whatever reason, it just didn't didn't work out. And finally I was working on some music and getting reached out to various singers, and I sent some track to Vinnie and immediately he had he had, you know, lyrics and melodies worked out for the songs, and he connected with them immediately. So we started this project, like like you said, during the pandemic, and we finally we did a record. It came out at the end of twenty twenty two, so it took us a year and a half to two years to do it, between Vinnie and I and Gina Catillo, who was a singer songwriter, she helped us with some writing and producing, okay, And so the three of us wrote the record and we released it in twenty twenty two, and uh yeah, and it's just it's it's been great.

7:09 Speaker 12: We just we haven't stopped since we've We've have so many ideas. We have enough material for another record, but we just wanted to get a song out that it's been so long. We just put from the ground up out back in March and the March okay. So it was a good, It was a good. It was a long while since we released something, so yeah, but we have we have a ton more stuff coming. So we're just gonna probably do some singles, you know, every couple of months and put out.

7:35 Speaker 11: Singles excellent, excellent, and you guys are all Are you guys all from the New York area.

7:40 Speaker 12: Yeah, we're all we're all Long Island based.

7:42 Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, okay, some real New Yorkers here and you've got I was noticing too, So is this uh is this accurate? Your song Wreckage Uh did really well in Australia?

7:54 Speaker 12: Yeah, actually from the ground up is doing well there too.

7:56 Speaker 13: Good.

7:57 Speaker 12: But does it does a show there in Australia that that's really back in the band and I've been playing us Yeah, it was went to number one on one of the shows there.

8:05 Speaker 11: Oh excellent.

8:06 Speaker 12: Yeah, and records just went to number five last week there.

8:09 Speaker 11: So oh congratulations, thank you.

8:11 Speaker 12: Yeah. So it's been going really well, and you know, we're trying to get some shows. But we're playing actually our first show in about two and a half years. We haven't that's how long its been since we played. We're playing out in Montalk on May fifteenth. We're doing the Montalk Music Festival. We're doing two shows and one night, oh no kidding, two different venues, so it's going to be an adventure, but we're looking forward to it.

8:31 Speaker 11: That's great that you're doing a festival though, because something I always tell I say this to everybody. Festivals are such a tremendous opportunity because not only does it get you in front of an audience that might not otherwise see you and might not be familiar with you, and you have a chance to really exponentially and very quickly build that fan base up, but also to just the people you meet, you know, the industry people that you'll you'll meet, and the new connections that you can make and exactly, yeah, there's there's nothing better than a festival.

8:59 Speaker 11: But it sounds like you've already been working with a heavy hitter, like you mentioned Gina Catillo. Am I saying her name correctly? Now she's h how did you come to work with her?

9:09 Speaker 12: Well, she's actually my wife.

9:11 Speaker 11: Oh I'll be okay, Well that's easy then.

9:14 Speaker 7: Yeah.

9:15 Speaker 12: No, she actually she heard Vinnie and I working on the songs when we started the project and she's like, oh, what's going on here? And as we're working in my studio when she heard us, and she's just like, I want to get involved in this, and she did like and it just went from there.

9:31 Speaker 11: Oh fantastic. So so was she also part of what? Well? I guess let me ask the question this way. If she wasn't your wife, do you think you'd be doing this because I get the impression. I mean, she's probably obviously, she's very encouraging, you know, she got involved in the project with writing and producing and so forth. But I mean, if it were it not for her, do you think you would have pursued this.

9:54 Speaker 12: Oh yeah, Vinie and I were definitely going to do this either way, but yeah, but think her involvement brought it to another level.

10:02 Speaker 11: Yeah. Oh that's fantastic.

10:04 Speaker 12: Yeah yeah.

10:06 Speaker 11: And then uh, do you guys, I mean, this is probably this would be a challenging to do, but do you have any plans to travel to Australia to do any touring?

10:17 Speaker 12: It would, like you said, it would be it would take a lot, It be a lot, Yeah, it would, it would it would? I mean we would love to do it obviously, but would it would? You know, if everything worked worked out right, we would definitely definitely want to do it.

10:30 Speaker 11: Yeah. Traveling is a little expensive these days.

10:33 Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean that goes for anywhere, I mean even anywhere, even in the States, anywhere, you know, oh yeah, anywhere, as long as it's worthwhile for us to do it, you know, what I mean.

10:40 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And in terms of the songs I've noticed, I mean, there's definitely I use this word a lot, uh in my you know, I'm hypnotherapist and when I'm working with clients, I use this word a lot. But I also find this, this word applies to your music. There's a sense of empowerment. Whether whether it's a song like from the Ground Up or wreck, there's there's really, uh, a very empowering message. And I mean, is that important to you?

11:06 Speaker 5: Is that?

11:06 Speaker 6: Is that?

11:07 Speaker 5: Uh?

11:08 Speaker 11: I mean obviously not every song is is like that necessarily? Right, Well, none of it's I mean not nothing that I listened to is negative. But you know, but there's a song, actually, I think there's a duet that you do with Gina if I'm not mistaken, where it's kind of.

11:19 Speaker 12: Yeah, there's two on the record, save Us for Another Life and Tempered Yeah.

11:23 Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, But but but the overarching theme seems to be one of positivity and empowerment.

11:30 Speaker 12: Yeah, that's definitely that's I mean that Viny writes all his lyrics, but he's yeah, that's that's definitely a conscious thing. Yeah, Because there's a lot of you know, hard rock and having metal music out there, that's a lot of negative stuff. And I mean we we definitely feel that stuff obviously sometimes sure, we're just trying to go about it a different way. And you know, I think it's it's connecting with people.

11:54 Speaker 11: How do you think, Uh, I mean, did your job I mean obviously you know you mentioned you're retired now, But I mean, how does how does your experience professionally influence your music? Do you think? Because it must in some way, right.

12:09 Speaker 12: Yeah, I guess so, I mean I not consciously, but I guess. Yeah, you know, when I was when I was on the job, I was the police officer. I don't know if I had mentioned that, but I was a police officer. Yeah for uh, but it definitely you know, like I'd have my days and I would and I don't write lyrics anymore. I just write music. So yeah, if I had a rough day, you know, it would take it out of my you know, would write some aggressive music, you know what I mean, or sure or you know, or the other way around.

12:34 Speaker 12: You know, something good happens and I'll write something pretty and and nice. So right, I guess, you know, I guess it's not it's not a conscious thing. But I guess yeah, now that you're saying that it probably did.

12:45 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, because I feel like, you know, what we do professionally, you know, in a quote unquote day job. You know, ultimately it shapes so much of who we are, which then of course shapes the music that we make and and you know, and that's why again I think it's it's great you know that you're the music of the band. Blue light effect is so is so positive. So where does the name come from? I mean, I I assume you know the the but I could be wrong. So you know, my assumption is that blue light has to do with with police, but but maybe not.

13:18 Speaker 12: That's it has a lot of meaning to us. Okay, the first the first responder part of it obviously, Yeah, but also the effects of blue light like on your phones. Yes, that's what it does to your mind. I don't know if you're aware of that, if you've reached research that at all, but do do a search on what blue light effect can do to your your mind just from your electronic devices and that and when I when I was on my previous job, I worked for the I worked for a railroad police department, so they would have they still have longan Road has blue lights on the platforms and the station platform Oh okay, and it's supposed to prevent somebody's thinking about committing suicide from doing it, Like it does something to your mind.

14:10 Speaker 12: Really, Yeah, that's that's I don't know, it's it's just there's a lot of if you look into blue it's it's a very interesting thing. So I we just we just thought that'd be a cool name for the band.

14:19 Speaker 8: Yeah.

14:20 Speaker 12: I like that.

14:20 Speaker 11: No, that's very interesting. I'm gonna have to look that up. I've heard over the years, I've heard things about that about you know, the blue light and the effect that it has on the brain, but I've never really, I've never really read up on it. But you've got me, Uh, I'm gonna have to do that because you've got me very very curious about that now.

14:37 Speaker 12: Very interesting.

14:37 Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely absolutely So you so you're gonna be you think for now you're just gonna release release more singles. What will those eventually coalesce into an album? Perhaps?

14:49 Speaker 7: Or maybe?

14:50 Speaker 11: Yeah?

14:50 Speaker 12: Maybe, because it just it takes us so long to do stuff. If we did a record right now, we'd be looking at another at least another year. Okay before it came out. So we just want to put good stuff out there because it's been so long. Yeah, it seems like the way the businesses these days singles. Unfortunately, I love the album format, but yeah, the business doesn't seem to anymore.

15:12 Speaker 11: Yeah, there's so many different ways to do it now too, you know, a lot of because when I was growing up, it was, you know, a band's released albums, maybe occasionally an EP, but mostly albums, and you know, first single would go to radio six to eight weeks before the album comes out. Then the album comes out, and then if if all goes well, maybe there's a second single. But now there's so many different ways to do it. And I've noticed in the last couple of years to a lot of the guests that we have on the show, you know, they they've kind of inverted it where they'll they'll release a series of singles that eventually become an album, but but they want to you know, feed that algorithm and and you know, stay relevant on social media and all the streaming platforms.

15:51 Speaker 11: And it's it's a challenge, but it is. But the flip side of that is amazing. Things can happen like you could have a lot of success on the Racedo in Australia, you know, so exactly exactly, So it's it's a remarkable times that we live in in that sense. And then is is everything? Is everything that this band has? Are you the you said you don't write lyrics anymore? But you write all the music.

16:16 Speaker 12: I write the music and Vinie writes his lyrics, and then you know, Gino come in and throw her two cents in. Yeah, and then uh, that's pretty much it. You know the other guys that have involved in it too. Yeah, but it's for the most part, it's it's Vinnie and I are the foundation. I'll send him my ideas and then he and then we take it from there.

16:35 Speaker 11: Okay, okay, no, that makes sense. And then what's the live situation, like you guys playing a lot of shows or how's that going on?

16:42 Speaker 12: Like like I said, we haven't played a show. This motook gig is going to be cool because it's we're doing two shows and who knows, it could be our only two shows of the year. Just unfortunately, I don't know how it is by you, but our our original music scene here is not very good.

16:58 Speaker 11: Okay, so this is.

16:59 Speaker 12: Now many places. It's a lot of cover bands, which nothing against those guys. I have a lot of friends in those bands, but yeah, it's just it's just infiltrated with cover bands here. There's not a lot of original bands that are able to to play shows. There's no event. It's not really the bands, it's the venues, honestly.

17:15 Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, of course, Yeah that could be a challenge anywhere. I can tell you that where I am in Manchester, New Hampshire, it seems to uh, there seems to be a cycle. You know, they'll they'll be a period where it seems like there's a lot of great places to play for original music, and then it kind of shifts and you know, the originals kind of get locked out a little bit by all the cover bands, but then it kind of comes around again, and it just it's just kind of this endless cycle. I feel like right now there's a lot of places here that are very friendly to uh hosting original music.

17:46 Speaker 11: But you know, but it can change at any moment as as the business, uh, exactly as the business often does. But yeah, so uh listeners that you know, obviously we have a lot of listeners locally, but a lot of people online who and we do have listeners in New York. So I hope that anyone listening who hears this, I hope they come see you.

18:03 Speaker 12: Now.

18:03 Speaker 11: When when is that again? When is that festival?

18:05 Speaker 12: It's it's a whole. It starts May fourteenth and it goes through the seventeenth. We're gonna be playing on the fifteenth. We're doing two shows. We're playing the mont Talk Project at seven o'clock that the same of the venue, okay, and then and then the other venue is at nine o'clock. It's called Talk t a UK. So we're gonna have to hustle from we're doing the one show at seven, head over to the other place at nine, bring all of stuff. So that's gonna be interesting. But we're looking forward to it.

18:32 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I find situations like that to be exciting, you know, when it's like you've got to, like you said, you're gonna have to hustle, you know, but it's but it's all gonna be worth it. So that's that's fantastic. Good Good for you you guys. Are you guys are gonna be working hard that night? That's great? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely so. Craig Any idea on when the next single will be.

18:53 Speaker 12: Well, we know what it's gonna be, and it's it's almost fully tracked. Okay, a few more things I would say, hopefully hopefully by the summer. Okay, oh great, Yeah, and then we have like we we record, I record everything in my studio and then we have our wonderful mixer, David Cagiano mixes everything, does an amazing job, Okay, and uh, and then we'll get it out as soon as we can. But you know, right, we just we're right now, we've been focusing on this gig, so yeah, rehearsing. So once the once the show is done, we're gonna finish up the song and then hopefully have that ready for early summer release.

19:34 Speaker 11: Oh fantastic. Well, when it's ready to go, you know, we'd love to we'd love to feature it here and it'll give us an excuse to have you back on and talk about it. So yeah, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, Uh Craig. Where should people go online? Where's the best place for people to go online to keep up with everything that you guys are doing? Blue light Effect.

19:51 Speaker 12: Everything, pretty much everything, blue light Effect YouTube, blue light Effects, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, all the usual places app you know, Apple Music, Spotify.

20:05 Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, yeah. You guys have got it covered, which is uh, which is good. That's what you need to do, that's for sure.

20:10 Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly.

20:11 Speaker 11: I'd like to I will close our conversation with another one of your tracks. I want to play Wreckage again. I really love this song. Anything we should know about this about this track.

20:22 Speaker 12: Like you said, it's it has a positive message. I just I like people that just interpret things the way that they want to. Yes, get you know, get what they want out of it and without giving away too much. And I want to say, like from the ground up is to me, is part two of Wreckage. This is it's like a two part song in my opinion, that makes sense.

20:42 Speaker 11: Yeah, no, no, that that that makes a lot of sense to me. And I'll just say that absolutely absolutely well. Craig Siegelbauma of course, Blue Light Effect, thank you so much for joining us this morning. We will do it again in the future when you've got the when you've got the next single. We'd love to have you back on. I'm gonna go ahead and hit this track, so we'll let you go for now. But but again, thank you so much and I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

21:03 Speaker 12: Thanks Matte.

21:04 Speaker 11: All right, you got it man, Bye bye. All right. That was Craig's eagle bomb from of Course a blue light Effect, and we will close out this segment with another great track from the band. I really like these guys a lot, and again I do like the positivity. This is called wreckage. Check this out. This is really good.

21:39 Speaker 3: The wreckage inside my mind is the only piece that's been lappy, and.

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28:47 Speaker 1: You're listening to Matt Connerton Unleashed on w m n H ninety.

28:53 Speaker 11: Five point three right now, the exclusive world radio premiere of the new single from The Deep Out, coming out May eighth.

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33:09 Speaker 11: Another exclusive world radio premiere coming out May eighth. The Azorescens with Dance into the Night.

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37:09 Speaker 11: That is the azeresesins if I'm saying it correctly. Dancing to the light. We also reardew music from of Course Chasing the Devil, their new single, along with The Deep Hour. Some Big World radio premieres this week on Matt Connorton Unleashed and you heard them here first on WMNH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. You can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all of your live streaming options, and of course Matt connorton dot com slash unleashed for all kinds of information about the show.

37:42 Speaker 11: And we have a brand new website that just went live officially last week, Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com, where you can find the archive. It is a searchable database. You can find in the archive every single episode ever of Matt Connorton Unleashed, even the ones that might have given me a little bit of trouble at the time, but it is all there, and you can use the search bar to find any guest who's ever been on the show. Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com. That is the brand new website that just went up, and thank you everybody.

38:13 Speaker 11: I've gotten a lot of very positive feedback about it, so I really appreciate that. Some a quick music news before we get to the rest of the show, because for those of you listening live. Coming up in the third hour, we have Ian Pickering, formerly of the Sneaker Pimps or he might still be with the Sneaker Pimps, a great band from the late nineties early two thousands. But he's got a new project called The Noise Who Runs and it is really good. I cannot wait to talk to Ian Pickering. Am I listened to the whole album and I'm just fascinated by it.

38:45 Speaker 11: It's just really good. So I cannot wait to speak with him. That will be coming up in the third hour. For those of you listening live, it is a Saturday, May second, twenty twenty six here and again, thanks again to Turbocats for joining us in the first hour. Love talk with them, great guys, love their music, really enjoy having them on. And of course in the second hour we had Craig siegal Bomb from the band Blue Light Effect. I'm not sure if it's segal Bomb, She's seagle Baum, how you say it, but I really enjoyed speaking with Craig as well.

39:15 Speaker 11: Right now, a little bit of music news, just a couple of things that caught my attention. This is from Digital musicnews dot Com. One of my favorite music industry websites if you are interested in music industry news. This is one of my go to sites that I recommend Buster Rhymes in the news. And I don't know if Buster Rhymes has released anything in a while. I remember, jeez, when did he use early two thousands, right when he first really broke through. Maybe it was the late nineties early two thousands.

39:40 Speaker 11: Wo ha Remember that song Wooha got You All in Check? That was his first big hit. But anyway, this I had not heard anything about this. I was surprised to see this. Busta Rhymes settles Horrible Boss lawsuit after allegedly punching his assistant. So apparently Buster Rhymes had a person assistant. You know, people think that these music industry jobs they're so glamorous. Uh you know, they're they're you're you're You're just surrounded by by all this uh money and uh notoriety, and it's just so much fun.

40:13 Speaker 12: You know.

40:13 Speaker 11: To be a personal assistant to somebody like Buster Rhymes, that's you know, I'm sure for for many aspiring uh music industry person, that's just uh, you know, growing up, that was just something I want to be. I want to be the personal assistant to bust A Rhymes. That would just be so much fun. But apparently if you upset and me punches you in the face, which is different than most jobs. And again that's why I say it's not everything is as glamorous as it sounds, you know. I mean, you might be working at an Amazon warehouse and you might think it's terrible, and people who work at Amazon warehouses often complain about the conditions.

40:45 Speaker 11: But hey, at least if you uh, at least at least if you make a mistake, Jeff Bezos doesn't show up and punch you in the face. But uh, Jeff uh uh. Buster Rhymes apparently will punch you in the face if he's upset. So I don't know if, like if you go to glassdoor dot com and you look up what's it like working for Buster Rhymes. I don't know if there's any information on there, but just be aware you might get punched in the face. According to alleged by his now former assistant, maybe that's his idea of a performance review.

41:14 Speaker 11: You know, if you get punched in the face, it means, uh, you know, you gotta you gotta tighten your game up a little bit on some things. I don't know. I don't know. Let's see what this says. And again, this is from Digital Musicnews dot com. Busser Rhymes settles a lawsuit filed by his former personal assistant who claimed the rapper attacked and punched him in the face. Buster Rhymes has settled. I wonder if well he's punching you, he says whoa. Buster Rhymes has settled the legal battle with his former personal assistant Dashiel or Dashiel Gable.

41:44 Speaker 11: I'm just gonna call I'm just gonna call him dash. I don't know how to pronounce this. Is it Dashiel? Is it Deshiel? Is it dash Eel? I don't know. I'm just gonna call him dash Dash is a cool name. That's probably what people call him. Okay, So he settled a long legal battle with his former personal listsant, Dash Gables. That sounds kind of cool, Dash Gables, I hope he does use that, who alleged that the rapper attacked and punched him in the face in a work related dispute. Rhymes had denied the allegations, filing a defamation countersuit in response that claimed Gables was extorting him.

42:17 Speaker 11: The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, as the matter was settled via private mediation. Let's see. Attorneys for both parties wrote in a letter to the judge filed this week. Quote, the parties are finalizing the settlement documentation and anticipate that it will be completed within ten days. Unquote. Ah, teamwork, all right, both sides coming together. You know that's good. The judge ordered them to file a formal motion for settlement by June one. According to Gables' original filing, in August, Busta Rhymes became enraged and assaulted him over a delayed meal and a phone call Gables took from his young daughter while on the job.

42:59 Speaker 11: Oh oh, the horror. The fifty three year old rapper, whose real name is Trevor Smith Junior, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor. Gables filed an assault and battery lawsuit in federal court, invoking the Federal Fair Labor Standers Act and claiming that he was subjected to workplace abuses. Yeah, there probably is.

43:19 Speaker 5: Now.

43:19 Speaker 11: I have not, personally, by the way, read the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, but I assume there is something in there about you're not allowed to punch your employees in the face, so let's see it says here. He also claimed that he had been blackballed from the hip hop industry after the alleged incident. Unfortunately, that doesn't surprise me, it says here. Smith vehemently denied Gables's smith being. Buster Rhymes denied Gables's allegations and filed a countersuit for defamation in October.

43:54 Speaker 11: His suit asserted that Gables' claims damaged his reputation, which cost him business opportunities and income. That's a thing. Do you want to do business with someone who might punch you in the face if they're upset with you? Meanwhile, Buster Rhymes was recently announced as a headliner for Hudson Yards Annual Free Outdoor Concert Series live concerts at the Wells Fargo Stage in New York City. Hey, look, whatever damage might have been done to the reputation of Buster Rhymes, it can't be that bad.

44:27 Speaker 11: Clearly, it's not that bad. The man has been announced as a headliner, not an opening act, not a nostalgia act, a headliner for the Hudson Yards Annual Free Outdoor Concert Series Live concerts at the Wells Fargo Stage. I mean, come on, how damaged could he be? The series kicks off on Wednesday, May thirteen, with shows taking place every Wednesday through June third from six to eight pm, with doors opening at five pm. Nah, he's he's doing great. Us are rhymes? All right? So that's it for that story.

45:08 Speaker 11: That's not much to it, but I just thought it was interesting. Let's see another quick thing. This is from This is from Music Business Worldwide dot Com. Again, this is another great website. If you like music industry news as I do. This is uh this involves Spotify and of course AI music. We talk about this a lot on the show. This comes up all the time AI generated music. I'm guilty of it too. I used Souno to make things I haven't recently. But it is interesting. It's a lot of it's really good, shockingly really good stuff.

45:44 Speaker 11: But anyway, but this is an ongoing issue. These AI platforms that are able to create generate very realistic sounding like it was realistic, as in sounds like it was made by humans. Music. So this article is titled sorry AI artists. Spotify is not letting you become verified on its platform. So it says here Spotify is introducing a new verification badge for artist profiles. It goes beyond simply confirming whether a profile is claimed and instead attempts to signal something the streaming platform says has become harder to establish in the age of generative AI, the authenticity of the artists behind the music.

46:24 Speaker 11: The new Verified by Spotify badge, announced on Thursday, April thirtieth, will appear on artist profiles and next to artist names and search marked by a light green check mark icon. Spotify said in a blog post published today that quote at launch, profiles that appear to primarily represent AI generated or AI persona artists are not eligible for verification in today's music landscape. The concept of artist authenticity is complex and quickly evolving, and will continue to develop our approach over time.

46:59 Speaker 11: Unquote. Now, the reason that's interesting to me is it's Spotify has made a big deal recently about getting AI music AI generated music, AI persona artists, because there are you know, it's not just people uploading songs that they make with one of these platforms like Suno or Udeo. It's it's entire artists have been created with entire catalogs of music, and they're not real people. They're all they're just AI generated. Spotify has been trying to get rid of they call it AI slop. They've been trying to get that off of their platform.

47:39 Speaker 11: But now this almost feels like on some level, and this is not meant as a criticism, I have criticisms of Spotify, this isn't one of them. I'm actually somewhat sympathetic to the problem here. This almost seems like giving into that a little bit and saying, we can't possibly filter out all this AI generated music and all these AI generated personas creating this music, sort of however you want to frame that. So what we're going to do now is we're going to have this verification system where an artist who has been verified as being real with real music, they will have an icon next to their name, and artists that don't might be AI generated.

48:20 Speaker 11: So there you go. And I'm assuming that part of that. I mean, maybe I'm making too many assumptions here, but I have to think that some of that is they just can't there's just no way to make sure that they're getting all of the AI generated music off of their platforms. I know some people will tell me the software, the bots that they're using to detect AI generated music is so sophisticated, but it's still going to make mistakes. Some AI music is going to get mixed. I is going to get missed. Other music that is not AI generated is going to get swept up in the net.

48:53 Speaker 11: Because none of this is ever going to be perfect. Let's see, there's a little bit more here, It says. The move follows Spotify's launch last month of the Artist Profile Protection feature in beta, which less lets artists review and approve releases before they go live on their profiles, and arrives just days after the streaming platform reported two hundred and ninety three million premium subscribers, So they're doing really well with subscribers. Why is this important though, If you haven't heard about this, the Artist Profile Protection feature, Why does this matter?

49:27 Speaker 11: What does this do well? There's a problem not just on Spotify. It happens on YouTube. We talked about it on the show. One of the first really major examples of this was somebody pretending to be Selene Deon and releasing a religious song on YouTube where this fake Selene Deon and the lyrics of the song is asking God to help her with her her What does she have a stiff person syndrome, stiff person disease. She's got a terrible, terrible illness. I feel horrible for her. But someone pretending to be her release a song under the name Celene Deon and uh, you know, people believed it because it's this AI generated track sounded like Celene Deon.

50:08 Speaker 11: So this this seems like common sense. The artist's profile protection features, so so somebody can't just say, Okay, I'm going to release a song, but I'm gonna pretend it's Taylor Swift and I'm gonna put it on Spotify as Taylor Swift. Well, someone from the label that Swift is on or management her management is going to get contacted. Is this legitimate? Is this an actual release? Obviously they're going to say no, and then it's never going to make it onto the platform to begin with, which is smart that I fully support.

50:39 Speaker 11: In January, again, this is from Music Business Worldwide dot Com. In January, Spotify had already retired its long standing verified Artist blue check mark, which simply indicated that an artist had claimed their profile and replaced it with a registered artist label. At the time, Spotify said that quote. Over time, the term verified came to suggest more than the check mark was designed to represent unquote. The new verified by Spotify badge now reclaims that language, but applies it to a different, more selective standard.

51:10 Speaker 11: Uh Spotify said in a blog post quote in the AI era, it's more important than ever to be able to trust the authenticity of the music you listen to. Our focus is providing you with more context about artists and their music, so you can build more meaningful connections with them unquote. To receive the badge, artists must demonstrate consistent listener activity and engagement over time, maintain good standing with Spotify's platform policies, and show signals of a real artist's presence both on and off the platform, such as concert dates, merchandise, and linked social accounts.

51:45 Speaker 11: Spotify said it will pair these criteria with quote human review and judgment to identify real artists behaving in good faith, not just filtering out bad actors unquote. In the blog posts, Spotify claimed that at launch, quote, more than ninety nine percent of the artists Spotify listeners actively search for will be verified, representing hundreds of thousands of artists, the majority independent, spanning genres, career stages, and geographies unquote. The blog post added that the company is prioritizing quote artists with active fan interest or who have made important contributions to music culture and history, rather than functional music creators and content farms whose content is primarily designed for passive or background listening.

52:24 Speaker 11: Unquote. Approvals will be rolling, and the absence of a badge on an artist profile does not mean the artists will not receive it in the future. According to Spotify, this goes on in some more detail if you want to read the full article, because we don't have time to get to the whole thing, but it is up at Music Business Worldwide dot com again a great resource for music industry news, and we are going to take a break and show some love to our amazing sponsors. If you are listening live on Saturday, though, please stick around.

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