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  • Cool Kids Doin’ Bot Crimes

    October 14, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

    This past week, the first (although certainly not the last) person was sentenced to US prison for a new form of streaming fraud. Apparently, over the past several years, a man named Michael Smith had been using tens of thousands of AI bots…

  • Mask Off Oligarchy

    September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

    What’s the connection between the Mark Walters sports-teams-insurance-money scandal, the underwhelming GTA6 crypto leak rug-pull, and the Fenix Flexin’ AI hit fallout? It might not seem obvious, but to us it all seems to be a big, neon…

  • Fenix Flexin Gets in Treblo

    August 14, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min

    You knew it was bound to happen—an AI generated song, released by a human, hit the Billboard charts. But who could imagine it would happen like this? A retro-80s jam too embarrassing for Chromeo, “Rubberz” is a piece of icily alienated new…

  • World Cup, Hallelujah

    July 27, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

    We set out to do a music and sports episode but the patchwork, saccharine Chris Martin produced World Cup halftime show was so terrible that we ended up spending half of this episode breaking it down. But it did get us thinking about the…

  • Global Music Streaming with Ryan Blakeley

    June 30, 2026 · 43 min

    Obviously, we talk about streaming a lot on this show. It is, after all, the 3,000-pound gorilla determining the basic political economy of the contemporary music industry. But all too often we—and let’s face it, pretty much everyone else…

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  • Drake Stream Gaming + LiveNation Are AntiTrust LOSERS

    June 3, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Looking at the current state of the Billboard charts, it seems like reports of Drake’s demise at the hands of Kendrick Lamar may have been a bit premature. Storming out of whatever supervillain ice-cave lair he’s been inhabiting, Drake…

  • Wild Geese Chase and a $64 billion offer for UMG

    May 5, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

    Early last month, billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square made an offer to purchase major-label heavyweight Universal Music Group. Ackman, already a major investor in the company, believes that despite consistent…

  • Music and War (w/ David Suisman)

    March 31, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Did you know that the U.S. military is the largest single employer of musicians on earth? But...how did this happen? What does it tell us about war? Or, you know... about music? These questions are at the heart of David Suisman’s new book…

  • Do Bad Times Make Good Punk?

    March 13, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    It’s an attractive silver-lining of an idea—“At least bad times make good punk.” Reagan begets…Reagan Youth, you know? Looking around at our rapidly deteriorating world, we decided it was a good moment to put this theory to the test…

  • Creating College Radio (w/ Katherine Rye Jewell)

    February 18, 2026 · 59 min

    If you live in the United States, you probably know the college radio feel—scrappy vibes, student DJs stumbling over liner notes, great station interstitials, even better music. That music tends to be a very specific mix of bleeding edge…

  • WTF is Tidal + Musk Vs. The Publishers

    January 27, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    A two topic special for you this week. First—we explore the strangely under-reported story that Elon Musk is suing…basically the entirety of music publishing. The reason? They (gasp!) want him to either pay for music on X or, you know…

  • New Year, Same Us

    January 8, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    To ring in the new year, Sam and Saxon pull out both their wayback machine AND their increasingly scuffed-up crystal ball to think through some of the biggest trends from the last year—and to make some predictions about what might be…

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A podcast on music and capitalism. Dropped bi-weekly. money4nothing.substack.com