Curated audio visual community heds is the manifestation of a meeting of the minds. When Mike Perry, Rob Connelly, Ramtin Khoee, and Cam Greer’s paths crossed their shared hope for the future sparked innovation and creativity. Fed up with a broken system and inspired by the possibilities of web3–they pooled their passion, skills, and relationships to build solutions through their app, heds. The genesis of their connection begins with Mike. Musician, producer and visual artist Mike Perry start...

London-based producer, DJ, and audiovisual artist Niall Dailly, performing under the moniker DAILLY, makes a monumental web3 debut with his genesis drop Metamorphic–a 10-track album presented as a 3D audiovisual experience using analog and digital modular synthesis and point cloud scanning. Metamorphic defined in the album as "pertaining to or characterized by a change of form” aptly titles a project, four years in the making that unfolded one layer at a time, always kept safe by DAILLY’s und...

Brett Shear, aka BlockchainBrett, knew early on that he wasn’t meant for a traditional 9-5 path. While studying accounting in undergrad, he quickly identified discontent with the average business track and began searching for big ideas to spark his imagination. Inspired by his older brother Myles Shear, who manages EDM artist Kygo, Brett searched for a passion of his own eventually leading him to web3. While in the process of building an app during his first year of grad school at Fordham in ...

Curated audio visual community heds is the manifestation of a meeting of the minds. When Mike Perry, Rob Connelly, Ramtin Khoee, and Cam Greer’s paths crossed their shared hope for the future sparked innovation and creativity. Fed up with a broken system and inspired by the possibilities of web3–they pooled their passion, skills, and relationships to build solutions through their app, heds. The genesis of their connection begins with Mike. Musician, producer and visual artist Mike Perry start...

London-based producer, DJ, and audiovisual artist Niall Dailly, performing under the moniker DAILLY, makes a monumental web3 debut with his genesis drop Metamorphic–a 10-track album presented as a 3D audiovisual experience using analog and digital modular synthesis and point cloud scanning. Metamorphic defined in the album as "pertaining to or characterized by a change of form” aptly titles a project, four years in the making that unfolded one layer at a time, always kept safe by DAILLY’s und...

Brett Shear, aka BlockchainBrett, knew early on that he wasn’t meant for a traditional 9-5 path. While studying accounting in undergrad, he quickly identified discontent with the average business track and began searching for big ideas to spark his imagination. Inspired by his older brother Myles Shear, who manages EDM artist Kygo, Brett searched for a passion of his own eventually leading him to web3. While in the process of building an app during his first year of grad school at Fordham in ...

Walking into the Peppermint Club in LA on a Wednesday night for Sound Lounge Live, I don’t know what to expect. I’ve spent the past decade following the music and chasing the buzz, and have been to more shows, showcases, and industry events than I can count. But tonight is different. This is my first web3 music event. Months of online interactions and interviews, I’ve yet to be face-to-face with anyone in this room. Countless conversations around the culture of web3 and its community, I’m fin...

Walking into the Peppermint Club in LA on a Wednesday night for Sound Lounge Live, I don’t know what to expect. I’ve spent the past decade following the music and chasing the buzz, and have been to more shows, showcases, and industry events than I can count. But tonight is different. This is my first web3 music event. Months of online interactions and interviews, I’ve yet to be face-to-face with anyone in this room. Countless conversations around the culture of web3 and its community, I’m fin...

Daniel Allan and Reo Cragun are, once again, leveling up. The web3 trailblazers have both had groundbreaking years with Daniel’s Glasshouse, Reo’s Frameworks, and the LNRZ project all making waves. But they have their sights set higher. They want to put web3 music on the map. And they want to do it with Criteria. Their first full-length project as a collaborative unit–the 8-track EP, as its name implies, seeks to set a new standard. Sporting partnerships with Sound, Bonfire, OnCyber, Spinamp,...

Daniel Allan and Reo Cragun are, once again, leveling up. The web3 trailblazers have both had groundbreaking years with Daniel’s Glasshouse, Reo’s Frameworks, and the LNRZ project all making waves. But they have their sights set higher. They want to put web3 music on the map. And they want to do it with Criteria. Their first full-length project as a collaborative unit–the 8-track EP, as its name implies, seeks to set a new standard. Sporting partnerships with Sound, Bonfire, OnCyber, Spinamp,...

The web3 music ecosystem made leaps and bounds in 2022, but there is still a major pain point for artists and a deterrent to mainstream adoption: the barrier to entry. ASTRO is striving to change that. "People always reach out to me or Pauline (TWERL’s partner and frequent collaborator) about how to enter the space, and there is never an easy answer," says TWERL, an artist, DJ, producer, and founding member of ASTRO. "It is essentially a gatekept industry at the moment. Unless we have easier ...

The web3 music ecosystem made leaps and bounds in 2022, but there is still a major pain point for artists and a deterrent to mainstream adoption: the barrier to entry. ASTRO is striving to change that. "People always reach out to me or Pauline (TWERL’s partner and frequent collaborator) about how to enter the space, and there is never an easy answer," says TWERL, an artist, DJ, producer, and founding member of ASTRO. "It is essentially a gatekept industry at the moment. Unless we have easier ...

It’s a rare, rainy November day in Los Angeles, and Mija and GG Magree of the duo So Tuff So Cute are in their element. “I love this shit,” says GG, referring both to the rain and to the eclipse that occurred that morning. “Our house is so witchy and cozy so we’re literally like …” “Thriving,” Mija interjects. Mija and GG–both in sweats–sit side-by-side in matching upholstered chairs with a floor to ceiling Monstera plant peeking out behind them. “We moved in together a year ago,” says Mija. ...

It’s a rare, rainy November day in Los Angeles, and Mija and GG Magree of the duo So Tuff So Cute are in their element. “I love this shit,” says GG, referring both to the rain and to the eclipse that occurred that morning. “Our house is so witchy and cozy so we’re literally like …” “Thriving,” Mija interjects. Mija and GG–both in sweats–sit side-by-side in matching upholstered chairs with a floor to ceiling Monstera plant peeking out behind them. “We moved in together a year ago,” says Mija. ...

The origins of Chaos—web3’s first headless band.When one songwriter’s desire to rescue writing camp demos from the hard drive graveyard collided with the capabilities of web3, a powerful and inexhaustible force was set in motion: Chaos. 77 artists, one headless band harnessing the chaotic energy set forth by large-scale, multi-layered decentralized creative collaboration. 45 songs, 21,000 NFTs, and a blueprint for the future. This is the lore of the headless band known as Chaos. First came So...

The origins of Chaos—web3’s first headless band.When one songwriter’s desire to rescue writing camp demos from the hard drive graveyard collided with the capabilities of web3, a powerful and inexhaustible force was set in motion: Chaos. 77 artists, one headless band harnessing the chaotic energy set forth by large-scale, multi-layered decentralized creative collaboration. 45 songs, 21,000 NFTs, and a blueprint for the future. This is the lore of the headless band known as Chaos. First came So...

Experimenting at the edge of new technology, multidisciplinary artist and composer Holly Herndon has raised an AI, developed a digital twin Holly+, and is now breaking new ground building tools to help artists protect their IP in the rapidly developing AI landscape. With a doctorate from Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics researching “interplay between machine learning and the voice, and the implications of this technology for IP and vocal sovereignty,” and si...

Experimenting at the edge of new technology, multidisciplinary artist and composer Holly Herndon has raised an AI, developed a digital twin Holly+, and is now breaking new ground building tools to help artists protect their IP in the rapidly developing AI landscape. With a doctorate from Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics researching “interplay between machine learning and the voice, and the implications of this technology for IP and vocal sovereignty,” and si...

“WELCOME TO THE DA BSD FAMILY WHERE IT’S ALL LOVE AND PEACE AND FUNNY AND SAFE,” a fan (aka a Dropout) promptly writes when I join Beauty School Dropout’s Discord–The Dropout House. It’s the morning after the band’s first-ever headliner in San Diego–the second show of their eleven-date run on their first US tour, and they’re riding high. “It was our first time playing San Diego ever and we packed it out,” says the band’s bassist Brent Burdett, better known as Beepus. “There was a mosh pit the...

“WELCOME TO THE DA BSD FAMILY WHERE IT’S ALL LOVE AND PEACE AND FUNNY AND SAFE,” a fan (aka a Dropout) promptly writes when I join Beauty School Dropout’s Discord–The Dropout House. It’s the morning after the band’s first-ever headliner in San Diego–the second show of their eleven-date run on their first US tour, and they’re riding high. “It was our first time playing San Diego ever and we packed it out,” says the band’s bassist Brent Burdett, better known as Beepus. “There was a mosh pit the...

Artist, producer, engineer, community organizer and web3 builder HENO. credits music for saving his life, and now he wants to return the favor. “Music was always the thing that kept me safe and kept me at peace,” says HENO. A first-generation Ethiopian-Eritrean American who grew up in Maryland, a state with one of the country’s highest incarceration rates for Black men from ages 18 to 25, HENO. at age 29 says he didn’t even expect to live this long, much less find himself in a place of abunda...

Artist, producer, engineer, community organizer and web3 builder HENO. credits music for saving his life, and now he wants to return the favor. “Music was always the thing that kept me safe and kept me at peace,” says HENO. A first-generation Ethiopian-Eritrean American who grew up in Maryland, a state with one of the country’s highest incarceration rates for Black men from ages 18 to 25, HENO. at age 29 says he didn’t even expect to live this long, much less find himself in a place of abunda...

In the book Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work, author and sociologist Michael P. Farrell explores how creative work is more often than not a result of collaboration among friends who dare to pose difficult questions to one another as they refine their work. At their best, he believes these circles enable the highest level of genius. In fact, many of these great collaborative movements in music are well documented in stories like Corporate Rock Sucks (80s punk rock),...

In the book Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work, author and sociologist Michael P. Farrell explores how creative work is more often than not a result of collaboration among friends who dare to pose difficult questions to one another as they refine their work. At their best, he believes these circles enable the highest level of genius. In fact, many of these great collaborative movements in music are well documented in stories like Corporate Rock Sucks (80s punk rock),...