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Naji stops by Girl Ultra's studio to break down who nan is, who Girl Ultra is, her new album, "Nuevos Aires", and why Mexico City's food is stupid delicious.   Follow Girl Ultra: https://instagram.com/girlultra   Listen to Nuevos Aires   Artwork: @_leonardogarza

Our resident future Physician Assistant, Angela Weeks, stops by to tell us about things to wary of when traveling as an artist!

This week, Devin Tracy stops by before work to tell us about his lofty aspirations and creation methods! Fun fact: Naji played bass on one of his songs, in case you didn’t know. That Naji played bass, that is. On his song. Devin’s. Timestamps: Tea and Wegmans (1:20) Devin Tracy (5:37) Florida to NY (14:47) Building Connections (19:49) The Bassist on TakeMee (25:23) Small World (33:16) Follow Devin: https://instagram.com/devintracy https://twitter.com/devintracy https://devintracy.com https://devintracy.tumblr.com Follow Thousand Story: https://instagram.com/thousandstory_ https://twitter.com/thousandstory_ Follow Naji https://instagram.com/mrnajiboy https://twitter.com/mrnajiboy Follow Luis https://instgram.com/elpontillo https://twitter.com/elpontillo Cover Photo: https://instagram.com/mehdi_frantz

We stopped by Quickly, Quickly's house to see what's up with the Boy Wonder, and ended up fangirling about the Beatles + placing bets on Tekashi69's estimated time of death. Yikes. Timestamps: Intro Stuff (0:00-6:10) The Beatles and Other Obsessions (28:37) Tekashi69 Death Bets (44:00) 60s Artists vs. Today's Artists (48:00) Quickly Album Release Dates (69:07) Quickly, The Pop Punk G$wd (73:46) LA ain't it for some (82:00) A Quickly Family (89:00) Follow Quickly, Quickly: https://instagram.com/quicklyquickly Follow Thousand Story: https://instagram.com/thousandstory_ Follow Luis: https://instagram.com/elpontillo Follow Naji: https://instagram.com/mrnajiboy

TImestamps: Luis' Halloween story (0:33) Ethnic people in scary movies (13:00) Mario Kart Tour! (15:47) Luis' Love for Apple (27:27) Follow us: https://instagram.com/thousandstory_ https://instagram.com/mrnajiboy https://instagram.com/elpontillo

This week, In the spirit of absolutely nothing, we decided to have a chat w/ ROMderful (ROM for short), a Birmingham-born producer, unintentional fashion-icon-extraordinaire, and all-around homie. Timestamps: So how did Kehlani happen? (3:45) ROM signs a deal (7:11) Why "ROMderful?" (20:42) Otakus For Life (31:36) The ROMderful Live Experience (40:38) Where did IKEA come from? (48:59) Disney vs. Sony Spiderman Tangent (53:43) ROM Beats The Meat (62:46) Follow ROM: https://instagram.com/romderful Follow Us: https://instagram.com/thousandstory_ https://instagram.com/mrnajiboy https://instagram.com/elpontillo

Naji & Luis:  @mrnajiboy   •   @elpontillo

Well, we're here. Season 2 finale. We almost didn't have anything to talk about. Then Stem Thanos-snapped most of their clientele over the weekend. Oh boy. We thought it'd be important to close out this season with an overview and reflection on the matter.

Zach Farache is back with a short story about Tik-Tok. It's only mildly infuriating. Hardships. Laughter. Friendship. And chairs!! You don’t want to miss this hilarious episode about how people can literally steal your work, call it their own and make money off of it too! Timestamps: Zach's Chair-Cleaning Service (2:28), The Tik-Tok Story (5:10), Canadian Grants that Even Canadians Missed (25:13) •• Zach: @verzachemane (https://instagram.com/verzachemane) Photo credit: https://instagram.com/hannahfarache Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

Find J.Robb: instagram.com/jrobbdaproducer Artwork by evasofire (instagram.com/evasofire)

Delanie Leyden is in the house! It's a no-holds-barred closet cleaning as she takes us through the gritty life of a music engineer! Timestamps: Her story (1:20), Politics, or relationship building? (8:25), What engineers actually do (24:29), Do jobs in art take away your creativity? (40:17), How weed brownies will get you the farthest ahead (52:14) Note: She had an $800 Mic, not an $8 one. You'll know what that means. •• Delanie: https://instagram.com/lussx Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

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DyAnna: https://instagram.com/dymindesign Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

We brought back our secret roommate and beloved podcast co-host, Monty (https://montylov.com) to bring you a fresh dose of updates, industry news and cool stuff for cool people! fires hand guns Timestamps: Coachella (1:29), Thoughts on the Notre Dame Situation (22:10), Game of Thrones and racist sentiments by Luis (27:26), Spotify Audio Ads experiment (39:24), Podcasting is on the rise! (47:23), Bandcamp Does Vinyl Now? (53:07), Amazon creates their own free music service (56:24), We partnered with Epidemic Sounds! (70:12) •• Try Epidemic Sounds (For Free!): http://share.epidemicsound.com/tpFZp

Have you ever taken the internet for granted? Of course you have. You probably never sat down to think about how user-friendly instagram, or Facebook, or Amazon is! They have millions of things in there and you know how to use most of those things. But you don’t realize how hard it is to make an easy site. That's where Angela Estelle comes in. She's here to save the day and spill some tea. •• Timestamps: Angela's Story (1:33), Making simple sites are harder than you'd think (6:45), Buying fans vs. organic growth (22:40), Building your brand (36:34), Setting your threshold for bullshit (58:25), #Metoo? (67:40), Pay Your Artists! (79:25) •• Angela: https://instagram.com/angelaestelle

Class is in session. This is the creative's guide to the industry. Here are some Important things to know when traveling around the music industry: Pick YO BATTLES!! (1:32), Don’t shoot yourself in the foot!! (12:48), Schmoozer School (20:36), It's about the relationship, not the song (26:48), And above all, KNOW YOUR WORTH! (31:17) •• Background music: thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

What is licensing? Can you even do it? Probably, but you gotta be smart about it. We’re gonna teach you how to land a deal with Disney!! OK, not really, but our co-host Matt, aka Insightful, almost did, and the story is wild, so you should listen! Timestamps: Matt's Story (1:23), What companies look for when licensing music (16:17), Work-for-hire woes (36:19), Fast times at III's Co. High (58:53) Insightful: (https://instagram.com/insightful) •• Photo credit: @coliair (instagram.com/coliair) Background music: thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

Streaming services, label deals and Naji quitting music??? Sooo much is happening right now in the streaming game! This episode, we talk Apple shifting focus from hardware to software and puttin’ in $1 billion in original content for their streaming service (1:47), Disney competing with their own streaming service, Disney+ (9:32), Cuco signing a historic major-label deal with Interscope Records, laced with unprecedented terms! (18:57), and Naji quitting music….whaaaaa??? (41:38) •• Photo credit: Mikito Tateisi (https://jukan.co/) Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

This is Jasmine Collier: artist/tour/life manager, and she's stopped by to break down how things work in her domain. We talk finding your people (8:00), Setting goals (19:36), Tour prep 101 (27:12), Crowdfunding your shows (55:37), and more! Jasmine: https://instagram.com/jasminecollier •• Photo credit: https://instagram.com/coliair Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack

The first pancake is always fugly. This time around, Naji and Luis talk about their own test pancakes (1:55), Avoiding getting stuck in the same lane (18:03), Examples of famous test pancakes, FUCK CHRIS BROWN (20:50), and secret aliases (45:53) •• Background music: https://thousandstory.co/podcast/soundtrack