EPOCH Music App

Your music. Your money. Finally. ⚡️
Because streaming pennies were never enough.

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Introducing EPOCH Music App 🧡 💜

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This is an interesting take on gatekeepers. I hear the need for curation but it does not address the financial control the music industry has had on independents for close to 100 years. Algo's are tough, curation in ways that allow more self discovery - like walking into an old record store and listening to albums for hours before buying a CD - are needed. We built something a little different, like a dating app for music. Your profile chooses what you want to hear. No mood machines here. 🤘🏻 Rock On! #cancelspotify #musicnotmoods #optout #epochmusicapp #phantompowermusic

[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

Longtime P&P contributor Jon Tanners (who some of you might remember from his “5 On It” column) is back with some thoughts on gatekeepers, tastemakers, and the increasingly compromised algorithms shaping what music breaks through.⁠
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If algorithms can be manipulated by the right budgets and marketing tactics, what does that mean for the idea of democratized music discovery? Was it ever really democratized at all?⁠
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Tanners makes the case that gatekeepers may still be a necessary part of the ecosystem, whether we like it or not.⁠
https://t.co/Ky7I3zytFK

[EPOCH Music App @EpochMusicApp]

This is an interesting take on gatekeepers. I think the issue is less about curation, and more about money control - at least for most indie artists. I agree curation is needed in a world where there are 120,000 new songs a day, and that was before AI started spitting out slop. We are trying to curate in a different way, while bringing financial autonomy to the independents. @ https://t.co/2Fl9hCJ9vg or https://t.co/H0lVYpNoTQ 🤘🏻

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@Uba_ni We built something to help artists with exactly this problem. 80% of indie artists don't understand these complexities. It should never have been so complicated. We built a new way forward. Hope you'll check it out. https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM or learn more at https://t.co/ik20EUVLqD

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Songwriters with songs streamed millions of times... Still working day jobs. Because the math doesn't work, and was never designed to.

Music is how humans process grief, joy, love, and anger. The people who dedicate their lives to making it deserve more than $200/year from Spotify.

That's not a radical position. It's a basic statement of human dignity. No other industry in the world would stand for this. Even a baker doesn't sell it's bread at a loss. It's time to reclaim music for human musicians and their human fans.

We laid it all out here:
👉 https://t.co/sClqqIINN5 #MusicIsHuman #IndependentArtist #CancelSpotify #silencethestream #optout

[EPOCH Music App @EpochMusicApp]

🎤 Drop! We are also building a home for human-made music. You might find some cool new indie artists here: https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM 🤘🏻 Rock-On. Learn more about our fight for #humanmademusic #optout @ https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9

[Uncle Funkbeard @UncleFunkbeard]

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AI slop is a symptom. The disease is platforms optimizing for volume over artists. If 44% of uploads are AI, the royalty pool becomes a landfill. We are building a way for human artists to opt-out. Check it out at https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM or https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9

[United Musicians and Allied Workers @UMAW_]

AI slop-makers are uploading staggering amounts of AI-generated songs to streaming services. This dilutes the royalty pool, increases fraud and impersonation, and harms real human artists. We need REAL protections against AI!

[EPOCH Music App @EpochMusicApp]

Streaming economics are genuinely brutal, and most people don't realize how bad it is. 1 million streams = ~$3,000. One time. Not monthly. Not annually. Once.
To make any real income, an artist needs tens of millions of streams — consistently. 87% of all tracks on Spotify have fewer than 1,000 streams, which means the platform pays them nothing.

Justin Bieber selling his masters for $200M was smart money — but he had the leverage to negotiate that deal. Most artists never will. Streaming economics have collapsed the independent music scene. If you really care about discovering new music or if you actually want your money to reach an artist you love, find platforms where you can pay them directly. DO NOT FUND STREAMING SUBSCRIPTIONS.

LEARN MORE : https://t.co/H0lVYpNoTQ

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Real Music Is Worth Fighting For: https://t.co/PnDdJEvsZH

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@trashpatrolband @kareem_carr We are fighting to protect #humanmademusic #fansupported connections. 🫶🏻 check it out at https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9 or https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM

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@NME @musicvenuetrust @PRSforMusic We are working on a better way - #optout - https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9 or https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM

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@DoreenMorris @Buenozaf We are working on an artist led way to opt-out. Would love to chat with anyone interested in helping disrupt, provoke and speak truth to power in music. 🤘🏻

[Julience 🐑 @JulienceUK]

The algorithm optimises music for retention. Not resonance.

So songs get longer intros stripped out. Hooks moved earlier. Everything engineered for the skip button.

Analog artists are building a counter-culture to all of that — and it’s growing. 🔊

What’s your take — has streaming improved or killed music? #rockmusic #indiemusic

[Bitcoin Essex - Fiat minimalist @btcessex]

Legacy festivals don't know what's coming. Lol

[EPOCH Music App @EpochMusicApp]

@punchdouble 100% That's why we are artists trying to change it ourselves. Check out our project at https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9 or https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM 🫶🏻

[EPOCH Music App @EpochMusicApp]

@mngrsplaybook We agree. We have an instant solution. Would love to chat with you all about it. Check out our artist led project at https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9 or https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM We are dealing with not distribution but publishing and collections.

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@JulienceUK It's time to silence the streaming economy and recover a direct to fan connection. We are working on a way. https://t.co/ik20EUVLqD

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@JulienceUK Couldn't agree with you more! We are working on a way for artists to opt out! check out https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9 or https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM

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@FosterThePrnxtr @TheMindOfHY We are trying to level the playing field. Built by artists for artists. No VC or tech bro's just musicians fighting for a human made music future! Hope you'll check it out. https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM or https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9 🙌🏻

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@TheMindOfHY We are working on a solution! Would love for you to check out https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM or https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9! Let's connect.

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@musicFIRST Would love to collab. Check out https://t.co/HTyBTc5MyM and https://t.co/PnDdJEuVa9 for more info!