Community Matters + For the Record

On Community Matters, we chat with artists who share their stories on how other people impact their music. A supportive community is one of the things that inspires artists to start making music & then keep making it — this is an ode to those relationships.For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads about their stories + the music that makes them.Both are productions of Grey Matter, a community for sharing and discovering music, together. Our mission is to connect people through music and build enduring value for those who make it.

Community Matters + For the Record is a music podcast hosted by Grey Matter, with 69 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Grey Matter hosts Community Matters + For the Record, a music show with 69 episodes published.

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  061 For the Record || Kane Mayfield

  Mar 11, 20251h 6mS0

  <p>For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.</p><p>Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4</p><p>Kane Mayfield is a visionary artist who has successfully bridged the worlds of hip-hop, digital innovation, and Web3 technology. With roots in Long Island, New York, and a decade-long stint in Baltimore that shaped his musical career, Mayfield has emerged as a multifaceted creator whose work spans trad...

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  060 For the Record || Doug Moore

  Mar 11, 202557 minS0

  <p>For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.</p><p>Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4</p><p>Doug Moore is a prolific extreme metal musician based in Queens. He’s the vocalist of Pyrrhon, Scarcity, Glorious Depravity, & Seputus, and the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist of Weeping Sores.</p><p>In prior years, he worked as a music critic and editor for Stereogum, Invisible Oranges, and Brookl...

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  059 For the Record || Justin Strauss

  Feb 7, 202556 minS0

  <p>For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.</p><p>Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4</p><p>Few DJs could adequately represent the last three decades of New York nightclub history - no less do so with such iconic credentials as Justin Strauss. Since he was 17, when his first band was signed to Island Records, Justin has had a career that reads like a Who’...

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  058 For the Record || Ian Chainey

  Feb 4, 202545 minS0

  <p>For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Ian Chainey has been writing Stereogum's The Black Market since 2014. Former editor and associate editor - respectively - of the Invisible Oranges and Last Rites music blogs, his bylines have also spanned several publications over the years. Moreover, he's produced many a podcast and runs two newsletters: Plague Rages and Wolf's Week...

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  057 For the Record || Heno.

  Jan 24, 20251h 9mS0

  <p>For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.</p> <p>Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4</p> <p>Heno. is an artist and producer who experiments across different mediums, hailed by Fortune as an "early innovator" & praised by COLORS for his "hard-hitting and powerful aesthetic." A first-generation Ethiopian-Eritrean based in Los Angeles, CA by way of Takoma Park, Maryland, Heno. uses his music and love for...

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