Homebrewed: An Australian Music Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

If you aren't familiar with these guys yet, you're jumping on the bandwagon at just the right time!

Playlunch are a seven piece band from Melbourne who describe their music as 'bogan funk'.

We're joined by Liam Bell, Austin Richards, Michael D'Emilio from the band to chat about their sophomore album 'Sex Ed', which has plenty of references to Australian culture.

We chat about the rules of schoolyard handball, explain the term 'monkey grab', and get into the weeds of how a band with seven members can effectively create very good music which is funny at its core.

We also play a round of Aussie nostalgia 'this or that'.

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This podcast was recorded in Naarm and on Darkinjung land.

Homebrewed is a podcast dedicated to supporting the Australian Music Industry. Cameron Smith and Eamonn Snow have been presenting Homebrewed since November 2017 and have received excellence awards and the admiration of local bands for their presentation of Homebrewed and their continued support of the Australian music scene. This podcast is designed so you can enjoy conversations with musicians, industry representatives and music media personalities.

As promised, we've got a fortnightly dose of music news ready for your dutiful consumption.

In this episode, we kick off with a brief update on the endlessly entertaining lawsuit unfolding between Drake and Universal Music over Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us'. Next, we get into the weeds as the NSW Government's festival funding is accused of backing the wrong horses. Spotify is also back on our radar (it never leaves) as artists like Aussie legends King Gizz stage yet another exodus over CEO Daniel Ek's investment in AI weapons. While we're on the topic, examine ARIA's cozying up to the streaming giant and the implications of that partnership for artists.

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This podcast was recorded on Darkinjung land at Sonora Studios in Tuggerah.

Homebrewed is a podcast dedicated to supporting the Australian Music Industry. Cameron Smith and Eamonn Snow have been presenting Homebrewed since November 2017 and have received excellence awards and the admiration of local bands for their presentation of Homebrewed and their continued support of the Australian music scene. This podcast is designed so you can enjoy conversations with musicians, industry representatives and music media personalities.

It's another jam-packed music news, and another one full of positive stories!

We start by talking about ARIA's announcement that they are changing the way the top 50 and 20 charts are calculated, an active response to try and make the charts more dynamic. This means songs that have residencies in that charts like Riptide by Vance Joy will make way for newer releases, with the top 50 charts now having a two-year cut-off.

We then turn our attention to Music Australia and their nearly $1m in funding to help export Australian music, and we touch on how the same Government body are trying to tackle climate change through the arts.

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This podcast was recorded on Darkinjung Land

Homebrewed is a podcast dedicated to supporting the Australian Music Industry. Cameron Smith and Eamonn Snow have been presenting Homebrewed since November 2017 and have received excellence awards and the admiration of local bands for their presentation of Homebrewed and their continued support of the Australian music scene. This podcast is designed so you can enjoy conversations with musicians, industry representatives and music media personalities.

Elaskia is one of the hardest working musicians on the NSW Central Coast, and she joined Homebrewed to chat about her new collab EP with New Zealand group Chores, her touring schedule, and more.

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Homebrewed is a radio program and podcast dedicated to supporting the Australian Music Industry. Cameron Smith and Eamonn Snow have been presenting Homebrewed since November 2017 and have received excellence awards and the admiration of local bands for their presentation of Homebrewed and their continued support of the Australian music scene. This podcast is designed so you can enjoy conversations with musicians, industry representatives and music media personalities.

Last weekend, Rolling Sets Festival and Let The Good Times Roll Festival took place at The Entrance Memorial Park.

Molly Millington is a Central Coast musician on the rise. Beginning her music career at 16 years of age, Molly has consistently shown quirkiness, fun, and dedication to her craft. Joining Homebrewed for the second time, Molly chats to Cam and Eamonn about not taking life too seriously, writing an entire EP on a train ride to Sydney the same day she was set to record said EP, and why she feels she was born to be a musician. Molly also talks about the dark experiences that resulted in her brand new EP, ‘5 Stages’.

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Homebrewed is a radio program and podcast dedicated to supporting the Australian Music Industry. Cameron Smith and Eamonn Snow have been presenting Homebrewed since November 2017 and have received excellence awards and the admiration of local bands for their presentation of Homebrewed and their continued support of the Australian music scene. This podcast is designed so you can enjoy conversations with musicians, industry representatives and music media personalities.

American-based music industry trade union United Musicians & Allied Workers has responded to the elaborate marketing campaign that is Spotify Wrapped with a reminder of Spotify’s payment inequity. “One stat you won’t find in your Spotify Wrapped is how much artists are paid for all that listening on the platform,” UMAW said in a post on social media.

The union revealed that, due to a lack of regulation on streaming, the maximum amount artists can hope to earn from Spotify is $US0.003 per stream. This figure is set to drop even further in 2024. “In 2024, Spotify will stop paying anything AT ALL for 2/3 of the tracks on the platform,” wrote UMAW.

Spotify recently announced that a “Spotify htrack would need to hit a minimum threshold of 1000 plays a year before any money would be paid out. Spotify spun this change as a way to prevent payments from getting lost in the system. osts well over 100 million tracks,” they said. “Tens of millions of them have been streamed between 1 and 1,000 times over the past year and, on average, those tracks generated $0.03 per month.”

Spotify continued, “Because labels and distributors require a minimum amount to withdraw (usually $2-$50 per withdrawal), and banks charge a fee for the transaction (usually $1-$20 per withdrawal), this money often doesn’t reach the uploaders. And these small payments are often forgotten about.”

Musical comic “Weird Al” Yankovic is laughing all the way to the bank, where he’ll be depositing the $12 Spotify paid him for racking up 80 million streams in 2023.

To celebrate the streaming service’s annual “wrapped” campaign that kicked off today, Weird Al has taken advantage of the platform’s feature that allows artists to post a personalised video message to their loyal listeners, where he’s shared his gratitude for the big payday.

“I just want you to thank you all for your amazing support,” he told fans in the video, which you can stream above. “It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on Spotify this year.”

He continued: “So if I’m doing the math right, that means I earned $12, so, you know, enough to get myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant. So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support. And, uh, thanks for the sandwich.”

Contrary to popular belief, artists are not paid per stream. Many platforms, Spotify included, use a pro-rata royalty system. Here’s how that works in broad strokes. Imagine that last month, Spotify generated $5,000,000. Imagine that you are an artist and received 100,000 streams on your music in that month. Finally, imagine that there were 8,000,000,0000 streams across the entire platform in that month. Your payout would be (100,000 / 8,000,000,000) * $5,000,000, or $625.

In short, you are paid a share of the total revenue pool based on how many streams you received compared to the entire platform. What this means is that you can receive the same number of streams in two separate months and be paid different amounts.

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Homebrewed is a radio program and podcast dedicated to supporting the Australian Music Industry. Cameron Smith and Eamonn Snow have been presenting Homebrewed since November 2017 and have received excellence awards and the admiration of local bands for their presentation of Homebrewed and their continued support of the Australian music scene. This podcast is designed so you can enjoy conversations with musicians, industry representatives and music media personalities.

Tom Mahler from Central Coast band The Moving Stills joined Cam and Eamonn for the second time to discuss what the band have been up to. In this chat, we cover the new album 'Wabi Sabi', touring with Teenage Dads, doing triple j's Like a Version, and more.

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Homebrewed is a radio program and podcast dedicated to supporting the Australian Music Industry. Cameron Smith and Eamonn Snow have been presenting Homebrewed since November 2017 and have received excellence awards and the admiration of local bands for their presentation of Homebrewed and their continued support of the Australian music scene. This podcast is designed so you can enjoy conversations with musicians, industry representatives and music media personalities.

AI has been building for a long time, but its fair to say it has hit the mainstream over the last couple of years.

Chat GPT - the automated AI assistant thingy - has been a big part of this. But AI’s foray into music, and the moral, financial and legal implications that come with this have also been huge.

AI builds its own knowledge by scouring data - this can be as wide as the entire internet, or as narrow as a specific phrase. The more data AI is exposed to, the more it learns and the more it is capable of. It’s quite staggering what AI can do when it comes to music. We can hear Frank Sinatra 'singing' Get Low, or Linkin Park 'playing' the Pokemon theme song.

The ability and capacity that AI is developing is staggering, and the more data and music it is exposed to, the stronger it will become

We’re pretty much already there, but the opportunities will be endless and basically without limitation

Whether we like it or not, AI is set to become a mainstay in the music industry, we simply cannot ignore it

This is already biggest disrupter to the music industry since MP3s or streaming - once all is said and done, it’ll likely be seen as much bigger

Enter Youtube:

YouTube announced one of this year’s most significant artificial intelligence developments in the music industry this week when it launched its new experimental AI feature that will allow select users to make song clips featuring AI-generated vocals of superstars including Demi Lovato, Sia, John Legend, Troy Sivan, Charli XCX etc.

Dream Track officially launched Thursday as an early beta test available only to about 100 selected creators in the U.S., and YouTube has given no indication if or when the new feature would become widely available. YouTube announced several new AI music tools this week — including one in development that could help turn songwriters’ thoughts into actual music just by humming an idea — though the voice clones were the most noteworthy feature.

Both the labels and YouTube itself have been careful to emphasize that Dream Track is an experiment, and that it isn’t immediately clear how the new feature will develop in subsequent months. But regardless of what happens next, Dream Track marks the first time some of the world’s biggest artists and music companies have granted their music to be used for voice clones — one of the more controversial uses of AI in music creation — a significant step that could pave the way on how the industry handles the technology going forward.

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Homebrewed is a radio program and podcast dedicated to supporting the Australian Music Industry. Cameron Smith and Eamonn Snow have been presenting Homebrewed since November 2017 and have received excellence awards and the admiration of local bands for their presentation of Homebrewed and their continued support of the Australian music scene. This podcast is designed so you can enjoy conversations with musicians, industry representatives and music media personalities.

Cam and Eamonn were joined by Ed Prescott (Double Drummer) and Lou Sawilejskij (Nala Music), two of the masterminds behind TUBULAR Festival and Central Coast Music and Arts to discuss the ongoing commitment to creative projects on the Central Coast.

We will be taking part in a workshop this Wednesday (22nd of November) on helping musicians nail an interview for radio and podcasts! You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/tubular-festival-presents-music-biz-tune-up-tickets-737103435217

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Homebrewed is a radio program and podcast dedicated to supporting the Australian Music Industry. Cameron Smith and Eamonn Snow have been presenting Homebrewed since November 2017 and have received excellence awards and the admiration of local bands for their presentation of Homebrewed and their continued support of the Australian music scene. This podcast is designed so you can enjoy conversations with musicians, industry representatives and music media personalities.