Having founded Crack in the Road one of the leading independent tastemaking blogs of the 2010s, Josh has spent the past decade working across A&R and management. He's also currently part of the core team at next generation music marketplace Serenade. He's a big believer in supporting artist independence, and fighting for a fairer creative economy for all.
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Music Mentions
Early Days
- Discovering the internet
- Limewire
- The Beatles
- CD Wow (site)
- Kanye West
- D12
- Dancing Jesus (blog)
- Arctic Monkeys
- Crack In the Road
- HypeMachine era
First Few Artists From Crack in The Road
- Chiddy Bang - Kids
- MGMT Sample
- Pacific Air
- Eddie Front (singer)
- The Neighbourhood
Other Career Developments (13:45)
- RCA
- Everybody’s (MGMT Company) (16:00)
Change in Music Discovery (16:30)
- Pigeons & Planes
- Fader
- Distant Naiveties
How to bring back the magic of Music Discovery (19:45)
Q&A
How are you discovering music today? (21:10)
Three Important Artists (past year) (23:00)
- Medium Build
- Future Islands
- Lizzie Esau
- Maisie Peters
Most under-appreciated group during favorite music decade (26:18)
- Late 80s-Early 90’s hip hop
- Black Sheep
- Beastie Boys
- Early 90s shoe gaze
- Pale Saints
Music Community You’re Fond of and why? (27:50)
- Dancing Jesus
- Fred Again
What has inhibited the discovery experience? (31:30)
- Daphne and Celeste
Desert Island Discs (37:00)
- Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
- Influenced work in Serenade
- Touching From a Distance - Story of Ian Curtis (book)
- Fevers and Mirrors by Bright Eyes
- Bob Dylan
- Janis Joplin
- Scott Walker
- 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul
- David Bowie (unrelated general mention)
Where can people find Josh (42:30)
- Everybody’s
- Future Kind
- xxx (mix engineer)
- Sam Smith, Liam Payne, Calvin Harris
- Serenade
- Muse
- Noah Gallagher
- Liam Gallagher
- Jungle
- The Hives
