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Eat The Beatles (Influences and Growing Creatively) My Mixing Workflow (How to structure creativity) Oblique Strategies (Breaking Through Creative Walls) Producing Maya Hawke, West African Music, and Growing Creatively with Benjamin Lazar Davis Shuffling the Creative Deck The Rhythm of Craft / the Chaos of Creativity What are EPs, LPs and singles? And how do they affect creativity? 10ish Ways to FIGHT Writer's Block A Big Hug To The Year That Was 2025 A Symphony in The Taste Gap with Harley Eblen (Billboard #1 String Arranger) Acoustic Treatment for Home Studios (Absorption, Diffusion, Bass Traps, Oh My) AI "Hallucination" and Creating Ordered Meaning Spaces AI and Mastering, or Human vs. LANDR with Riley Knapp (Stemport) AI and Mixing: Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Engineers? AI and the Philosophy of Music (and Everything, really) BBL Drizzy and Burrito Bot (AI Song Generation Tips) Blending and Balancing the Session Layers with Eliott Glinn Boxes Of Inspiration with ABI THE PRODUCER (Safari Pedals) Building a Studio, Analog vs. Digital, and Mixing Rock Guitars with Ryan Haft (Snarky Puppy, OM, Torche) Chains of Influence: David Baron (Noah Kahan, Lana Del Rey, Lenny Kravitz) & Ginger Winn Chains of Influence: David Baron (Noah Kahan, Lana Del Rey, Lenny Kravitz) & Ginger Winn David Bowie and Queen's Impact on Collaboration - The History of Rock Music (Part 9) DIY Music Production with Garvie Doing More with Less (Art and Grit) Epic Fail (How Failure Can Lead to Success) Filtering The Final Brick with Sam Moses (Kesha, Dolly Parton, Morgan Wade) Generative AI Ain't Got Nothing on This Get in the Flow (A TikTok State of Mind) Going To Air with Mike Ladman (Droga5, McCann) Growing as an Artist How Mixing Is Like Baking How to become a prolific music maker How to Create More Art How was music made 100 years ago vs. how is it made now? Ideas For Unlocking Upsides To AI Through Augmentation And Automation Imposter Syndrome and Your Musical Purpose Just. Keep. Going. JW Francis on Unconventional Touring, Spotify Playlists and How He’s More than His Pants Keeping It Tight with Noam Wallenberg (Vulfpeck, Anderson .Paak, Mac Miller) Keeping The Inner Musician Alive Leaving an Impression Next to Legends with Fernando Perdomo (Jackson Browne, Beck, Fiona Apple) Making Music for Movies with Shawn Sutta and Adam Robl Making Music for Movies with Shawn Sutta and Adam Robl Memories In The Gear with Travis Ference (St. Vincent, Aloe Blacc, Skylar Grey) Mixing, Production, and an AI Gut-Check with Harper James (Marshmello, James Bay, Frawley) Music-Podcast Overlaps and The Fun of Surprise with Bryson Barnes (Head of Audio Production at NBC News) Musical Experimentation and Genre Exploration with Dion Kerr Orchestration and Ostinato (Conversations in Audio) Perpetually Propelled to Create with Russ Flynn (X Ambassadors, Sean Lennon, Rubblebucket) Providing Questions Instead Of Providing Answers Selling Samples on the Splice Charts with Dylan Kidd Sister Songs (Writing Two Songs Back-to-Back) Sometimes It's Best to Slow Down Son Lux, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and How Sound Design and Production Connect Songwriting, TikTok and Determinism with Slow Leaves (Grant Davidson) Studios in Compulsory School, Winning Swedish Grammys, and Filling the Vessel with Gustav Brunn Teach Me Guitar in 60 Seconds with Lindy Day The Circle of Fifths Depicts the Blueprint The Fear of Recording Yourself (and How to Overcome It) The Found Palette with Tristan Clopet (Crown Heights, The Infiltrator, This American Life) The Future of Music is Closer Than You Think The Last 5% Is the Hardest The Modern Composer (Video Games and Immersive Art with Patrick Hart) The Permutation Plus The Personality The Song Takes Shape with Mo Lowda & the Humble The Soul of an Artist (with Human Barbie and veronicavon — Chris Hackman and Xuan Nguyen) The Speakers Are A Lens with Ben Rice (The National, Norah Jones, Joan Osborne) The Value of Music Education Those Foley Steps with Ashlee Chanelle (Epidemic Sound) Through A Song with Ron Jackson (Musora, Drumeo) Tips for Lyrics Writing, Writers' Block and Not Giving Up To The Feeling Of Flow State with Rani Adi (PinkPantheress, Dove Cameron, postergirl) Unconventional Mind States and Slow, Slow Progress Vintage King, Tons of Gear and Getting Ears On with Matt Meyer Viral Mashups, Drumming, and Life on the Road with Danny Wolf Visualizing Sound What is Dolby Atmos / Spatial Audio? What is sample rate and bit depth? And why does it matter? What Makes a Song Worth Making When to Mix in Mono (Dogma in Music) Where Do Ideas Come From? Why should I practice? Why You Don't NEED Expensive Gear Writing Great Songs with Alex Delicata (Beyoncé, Rihanna, Machine Gun Kelly, Kygo & OneRepublic) 5 Things I Wish I Knew About Mixing A Mixed Basket of Talents with Hendrick Valera (Braxton Cook, Equiknoxx, Karma Rivera) Becoming a Multi-Instrumentalist Bending The Fabric Of Scales with Levi McClain (31-Note Microtonalist) Cooking Up What It Is with Qu1tter (Future, Wale, London on Da Track) Guitar, Joy, and Spreading the Love of Music with Patrick Dean How Notes Take Shape: Inversions and Harmony Just Back from Playing Solo (plus Tracks) in Japan Lyric Writing Techniques To Reach Peak Levity Making a Song with GrimesAI (AI Vocals) Making the workflows work for you Max Martin, Elmo, and Broadway with Dominic Fallacaro (& Juliet) Multi-Instrumentalism & Touring with Clairo (with Steve Brickman) Music Theory is Just a Useful Tool Nourishing a Music Career While Savoring the Journey with Jon Sandler (Great Good Fine Ok) Odd Time Signatures, Social Media and Musical Surprise with Josh Zimmer Pitchy in a Perfect World (the Art of Vocal Comping) Touring in Peter Gabriel's Band & Landing Apple Commercials with Joshoo Virtual Reality (VR) and the Metaverse With Max Horwich (Live from the Void, Pt. 1) Why Music Has Worth