My team and I run an indie music blog that we’re turning into a streaming service & indie zine — sort of a digital love-child of MTV and Rolling Stone magazine. We’re doing everything radically different, starting with a financial model that makes digital work for artists (instead of the other way around).
We specialize in discovery: helping our viewers discover rad new bands who are making incredible music.
We posted the most-loved jams that our viewing community voted on last year to SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/vishnus-trumpet/sets/the-vt-guide-spring-2015-promotional-playlist
The music is very, very good.
Our next step is to pull together some of our top artists into a creative collective with a new financial model (think: communism for artists). At scale we blossom into a creative renaissance that we hope will shift the global zeitgeist towards peace and harmony for all beings across the universe.
Later this year we’re launching a new app and a monthly indie zine to accompany it.
We’re on the hunt for our core subscribers to join our exclusive subscription club. We want music loving die-hards who are addicted to discovering new music. People who go to shows frequently and spend a bit too much time on Spotify making playlists. People who are tired of big business monopolies and corruption and living in a world that says YES to money and NO to dignity and basic humanity.
We have some paying pre-orders already. We’d like to find a few more.
More information about us:
Our beta-channel & blog: www.vishnustrumpet.com
Our subscription club: www.thevtblog.com/subscribe
Reach out anytime with questions, or just to say hi. If you’d like to get your music in rotation, that’s cool too.
best
Nick & the vt team
nick@vishnustrumpet.com