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For the entire transcript of the interview, please click here. Joining us in our podcast today is Michael Walker, founder of Modern Musician, a successful and highly renowned musician and entrepreneur. He is a husband, father and keyboardist for the band Paradise Fears, who made headlines years ago for a technique he started called “tour hacking.” He spent around 10 years touring full time and during those years, their band released an album that hit number 2 on iTunes as an Alternative Rock Album. They got about 24 million streams on Spotify and toured around the world, playing music full-time, independently without a record label. He also coached thousands of independent musicians and paved the way for them to be successful musicians. What You'll Learn In this episode, Michael shares the importance of stepping out of day-to-day operations to enter visionary and strategic modes. He also shared some insights on how to recognize the value of being intentional about the people you surround yourself with and how carefully curating your network can contribute to your success and bring about positive changes in your mindset and approach. Things We Discussed The Horizon Experience is a concept that likely refers to a transformative and expansive moment in one's personal or professional life. It is about taking a deliberate and focused approach to gain perspective, set long-term goals, and foster growth—whether on an individual or collective level. It encourages looking beyond the immediate horizon to explore new possibilities and shape a more intentional and visionary future. Connect with Michael Walker Website LinkedIn Instagram Twitter Facebook Connect with Jason Tonioli Website Facebook YouTube Instagram Spotify Pandora Amazon Music Apple Music
Michael Walker is leading a revolution in today's music industry. Having personally reached 17 million views on YouTube, working with Grammy Award-winning producers and touring internationally to perform for hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide - Michael is one of those rare mentors who has actually walked the walk of their own methodology. Starting out with pure grass-roots techniques, he and his band Paradise Fears went from living out of their cars to selling 24,000 albums in 6 months and reaching #2 on the iTunes Alternative Charts. Taking his clients through a 3-tier system, Artistic Identity, Passionate Fan Base and Revenue Multiplier; Michael provides artists with the tools necessary to create a lasting career in the music industry. https://www.modern-musician.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joining us in our podcast today is Michael Walker. He is the founder of Modern Musician, a successful and highly renowned musician and entrepreneur. He is a husband, father, and keyboardist for the band Paradise Fears, who made headlines years ago for a technique he started called “tour hacking.” He spent around 10 years touring full time and during those years, their band released an album that hit number 2 on iTunes as an Alternative Rock Album. They got about 24 million streams on Spotify and toured around the world, playing music full-time, independently without a record label. He also coached thousands of independent musicians and paved the way for them to be successful musicians. What You'll Learn In this episode, Michael emphasizes the importance of being intentional with who you choose to surround yourself with. He believes that we become the 5 people we spend most of our time with so we better choose our circle carefully. He also talked about the importance of believing in oneself. If you have anything worthwhile that's worth achieving, it comes with first allowing yourself to believe it's possible and then taking action and becoming the person that deserves to achieve the goal. Things We Discussed Modern Musician - a team made up of highly-talented musicians who understand what it takes to be an independent artist in today's industry. Paradise Fears - his old band Gold Artist Academy™ Modern Musician Podcast Modern Musician Masterclass Connect with Michael Walker Website LinkedIn Instagram Twitter Facebook Connect with Jason Website Facebook YouTube Instagram Spotify Pandora Amazon Music Apple Music
Joining us in our podcast today is Michael Walker, founder of Modern Musician, a successful and highly renowned musician and entrepreneur. He is a husband, father, and keyboardist for the band Paradise Fears, who made headlines years ago for a technique he started called “tour hacking.” He spent around 10 years touring full time and during those years, their band released an album that hit number 2 on iTunes as an Alternative Rock Album. They got about 24 million streams on Spotify and toured around the world, playing music full-time, independently without a record label. He also coached thousands of independent musicians and paved the way for them to be successful musicians. What You'll Learn In this episode, Michael recounts how he was transformed from a socially awkward kid in High School to signing autographs and taking pictures for fans and overcoming the fear of rejection. He also shares how they deferred their full-ride scholarships to college to focus on their music and realizing how huge of an impact working with the right producer can make on the quality of your music. He believes that even if it's a super talented artist, but a horrible production of amateur quality then it's not it's going to sound awful. He also highlights his “tour hacking” technique and how connecting with real people, and having core relationships with them, helps you build a solid fanbase. Things We Discussed Modern Musician - a team made up of highly-talented musicians who understand what it takes to be an independent artist in today's industry. Paradise Fears Gold Artist Academy™ All-Time Low, Mayday Parade, Blink 182 - some bands they looked up to Mastermind Trips Tour hacking - a marketing technique where they walk up to people and introduce themselves, share some of their music and just build a relationship, connect with as many people as possible and if they liked it, they would offer a CD Warped Tour - a festival where there's a ton of pop-punk, pop-rock, kind of emo scene bands who were playing Connect with Michael Walker Website LinkedIn Instagram Twitter Facebook Connect with Jason Website Facebook YouTube Instagram Spotify Pandora Amazon Music Apple Music
Michael Walker, is the founder of Modern Musician and host of the Modern Musician Podcast. He is a successful and highly renowned musician and entrepreneur, a husband, father and member of Paradise Fears. After touring professionally for the last eight years, Michael decided to set up Modern Musician to teach other artists and bands the skills needed to have a profitable music career.In this episode we celebrate reaching 100 episodes of the podcast and Jared Christianson, the co-producer of the Modern Musician Podcast takes this opportunity to ask the questions that no one else can. This is an awesome episode!Here's what you'll learn about: How the Modern Musician has the upper hand in today's music industryUsing our StreetTeam Software to grow your fanbase automaticallySome of the most exciting things the Modern Musician team is developingWant to Fast Track Your Music Career? Try MusicMentor™ Pro For Free: https://link.modernmusician.me/MusicMentorApply for Gold Artist Academy: https://link.modernmusician.me/apply-for-coaching
Thank you for tuning "Starting Small Music". In this episode I am joined by Jordan Merrigan, Guitarist for ERNEST and Dylan Schneider. Jordan is also the former Tour Manager for Mason Ramsey. Hear the story of Jordan's rise in the music industry, his time with the band Paradise Fears, and more! Follow Jordan: @_jmerrigan Follow The Light and the Dark: @thlghtndthdrk Follow Justin: @JustinMcCormickMusic Follow Starting Small Music: @StartingSmallMusic
Harriet is joined by Michael Walker, who gained millions of streams on Spotify as an independent artist with his band Paradise Fears, having gone from living out of their cars to selling 24,000 albums in 6 months. He now runs a 7 figure company, Modern Musician, teaching artists how to do the same using pure grass-roots techniques. Find out more about Modern Musician and hear their own podcast here. If you're enjoying the series, click here to join the GTTF community.
Harriet is joined by Michael Walker, who gained millions of streams on Spotify as an independent artist with his band Paradise Fears, having gone from living out of their cars to selling 24,000 albums in 6 months. He now runs a 7 figure company, Modern Musician, teaching artists how to do the same using pure grass-roots techniques. Find out more about Modern Musician and hear their own podcast here.
Michael Walker is a keyboardist for the band Paradise Fears, who made headlines years ago for a thing they called "tour hacking." What they did was sold 24,000 CDs at around $10 in just a few months to fans standing in line for concerts. Not their concerts. This is the DIY method of DIY'ers.Obviously this tactic doesn't really work anymore, so we talk about the evolution and what that turned into, what his ideas are now, and how you can turn those tour hacking ideas into something that works today. We went deep into marketing concepts, tactics, and human psychology.4:15 - Selling CDs to people in line at other bands' shows and making more than $100k13:12 - Going on tour with All Time Low18:12 - Selling merchandise and building fans through social media33:24 - Making money and just to make money + the super fan concept39:10 - What has Michael learned by working with this grassroots band over the past few years? 47:55 - Facebook Messenger and paid traffic and goals56:40 - Building effective funnels1:07:45 - What it means to Michael Walker to make it in the new music businessConnect with Ari’s Take:Website: https://aristake.comAcademy: https://aristakeacademy.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aristake_/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aris.takeTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArisTakeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/aristake1Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aristake/Connect with Ari Herstand:Website: https://ariherstand.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/ariherstandTwitter: https://twitter.com/ariherstandYouTube: https://youtube.com/ariherstandFacebook: https://facebook.com/ariherstandConnect with Michael Walker:Website: https://www.modern-musician.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themodernmusician/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjwalker0Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelmodernmusician/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Meet musician-turned-entrepreneur Michael Walker, Founder of Modern Musician. His team's mission is to help other musicians supercharge their fan base and career. And Michael doesn't just talk the talk. He's tested the same grassroots techniques and three core principles that Modern Musician teaches. These techniques allow musicians to achieve sustainable success, and also helped Michael's band Paradise Fears make waves on the alternative charts of iTunes. Michael and I discuss his music career, Paradise Fears, why and when artists come to Modern Musician for help, the process of identifying the ideal client profile, details on Modern Musician's core principles and techniques, and much more. Michael also gives an impromptu live performance from his home studio. Find episode transcript, show notes and resources at UnstarvingMusician.com
Meet musician-turned-entrepreneur Michael Walker, Founder of Modern Musician. His team's mission is to help other musicians supercharge their fan base and career. And Michael doesn't just talk the talk. He's tested the same grassroots techniques and three core principles that Modern Musician teaches. These techniques allow musicians to achieve sustainable success, and also helped Michael's band Paradise Fears make waves on the alternative charts of iTunes. Michael and I discuss his music career, Paradise Fears, why and when artists come to Modern Musician for help, the process of identifying the ideal client profile, details on Modern Musician's core principles and techniques, and much more. Michael also gives an impromptu live performance from his home studio. Find episode transcript, show notes and resources at UnstarvingMusician.com
"This Next One's About" is going live to Facebook weekly on Wednesday nights at 8PM EST on our Facebook Page! https://www.facebook.com/Newyorkartistscollective Last week, Michael Walker from Modern Musician talks to us about how to grow your online fanbase in an increasingly saturated market of FacebookLive shows. Michael Walker is leading a revolution in today’s music industry. Having personally reached 17 million views on Youtube, working with Grammy Award-winning producers and touring internationally to perform for hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide - Michael is one of those rare mentors who has actually walked the walk of their own methodology. Starting out with pure grass-roots techniques, he and his band Paradise Fears went from living out of their cars to selling 24,000 albums in 6 months and reaching #2 on the iTunes Alternative Charts. https://www.modern-musician.com/ Join me April 29th as we have a Book Club (bring your own wine) about Amanda Palmer's book 'The Art of Asking'. I am hosting the book club with special guests, singer-songwriters, Megan Leigh, Erica Swindell and Ben Grace from all across the US as we dig deep into how we as musicians treat our art and how we engage other people to support us.
RBF takes a trip to Patchogue! Bluepoint, beer flights, and blackouts OH MY.
Welcome to the 34th episode of Motivational Hits 2019, this podcast is all about playing one motivational song every day. The songs I will play mean something to me and I want to try use music to motivate more people. Today's band is called Paradise Fears and the song name is Battle Scars Enjoy https://open.spotify.com/track/6hNkAbTxNp5VYMZQuWfMxN?si=rnTbyx2LRuaIhcn_9ariyg Find me on Social Media: Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Steemit Dtube Here are the Lyrics "Battle Scars" This is an anthem for the homesick, for the beaten, The lost, the broke, the defeated. A song for the heartsick, for the standbys, Living life in the shadow of a goodbye. Do you remember when we learned how to fly? We'd play make-believe; we were young and had time on our side. You're stuck on the ground, Got lost, can't be found. Just remember that you're still alive. I'll carry you home. No, you're not alone. Keep marching on, This is worth fighting for, You know we've all got battle scars. You've had enough, But just don't give up. Stick to your guns, You are worth fighting for. You know we've all got battle scars. Keep marching on. This is a call to the soldiers, the fighters, The young, the innocent, and righteous. We've got a little room to grow. Better days are near, Hope is so much stronger than fear. So if you jump, kid, don't be scared to fall. We'll be kings and queens in this dream, all for one, one for all. You can light up the dark, There's a fire in your heart, Burning brighter than ever before. I'll carry you home. No, you're not alone. Keep marching on, This is worth fighting for, You know we've all got battle scars. You've had enough, But just don't give up. Stick to your guns, You are worth fighting for. You know we've all got battle scars. Keep marching on. On and on, like we're living on a broken record. Hope is strong, but misery's a little quicker. Sit, and we wait, and we drown there, Thinking, "Why bother playing when it's unfair?" They say life's a waste, I say they lack belief. They tell me luck will travel, I tell 'em that's why I've got feet. Left, right, left, right, Moving along to the pulse of a heartbeat. This could be the last chance you have to fly. Do you like the ground? Want it to pass you by? Man, you had it all when you were just a kid. Do you even remember who you were back then? What do you want in life? Will you be twice as strong? What would you sacrifice? What are you waiting on? Don't stop, march on. I'll carry you home. No, you're not alone. Keep marching on, This is worth fighting for, You know we've all got battle scars. You've had enough, But just don't give up. Stick to your guns, You are worth fighting for. You know we've all got battle scars. Keep marching on. Keep marching on. #podcast #podcasting #motivation #entrepreneur
This time on Awakester we do a very late night, and somehow extremely belated recording talking about "Your Truly" by Paradise Fears. We dig into some of the history of the band, how even professional mixing studios can do a bad job, theatrical musicals, and more tangents than usual! Join some sleepy boys for an interesting episode about an interesting album. We also swear a lot more than what seems to be the norm. Our Patreon is: [https://www.patreon.com/awakester](https://www.patreon.com/awakester) You can find us on Twitter: [https://twitter.com/awakester](https://twitter.com/awakester)
Today Michael Walker from Paradise Fears joins us. He's going to share a “hack” he discovered that allowed his band to go from ZERO to touring worldwide in a few months. Listen in as Michael explains why “tour hacking” is so powerful and how to do it. Let's rock! In this episode you will learn: […] The post MMP032: Tour Hacking: How To Go On Tour Even If You Don't Have An Audience appeared first on Musician Monster.
Bryan Callen is that guy. The Hottest Record in the World is from Paradise Fears. Also, Fake News.DATES:Bryan Callen is in Portland, Oregon at Helium May 7-9.Paradise Fears currently has no tour dates scheduled.LINKS:Head to our SoundCloud page for a selection of dumb bits including the “Uptown Funk/Jungle Love/Living in America” mash-up from Episode 182, as well as Olly Murs vs. Meghan Trainor from Episode 194.Visit HomeShirts.com for great vintage apparel. Check out our new collection of shirts of defunct teams. Use code “PFTR” and save 10%. The code now works BTW, and can be used on all associated sites. But buying from Cleveland is the best way to support the show.Check out some funny stuff over at Ross Rants. Think of it as a print version of PF’s Tape Recorder.Be sure to click over to Fangirl’s blog, CheckCheckHey! and her photo blog.Follow P.F. on Twitter @PF66 and like this podcast on Facebook.PF’s Tape Recorder logo designed by Dan Koabel. Meg and Dan’s The Queen’s Gambit podcast (it’s all about the TV series Arrow) is now available. You can also find it in iTunes.The PF’s Tape Recorder Episode Guide is up.Email our show here.
Sam Miller from Paradise Fears checks in to talk about the group becoming a Top 5 finalist in Macy's iHeartRadio Rising Star contest, why he doesn't care what the music industry says about Spotify, and how the band found a way to make it in South Dakota.
Tommy2 sits down with Brian Cag of Action Item to talk about what's been going on with the band. Find out Brian's favorite song on their new album "Resolution," who fell asleep during their movie, the Warped Tour, and secret codes.
Sam Miller from Paradise Fears checks in just prior to the first night of The Resolution Tour. Listen as he shares his excitement for the tour, playing their new single" Warrior," and two sold out shows.
Sam Miller from the band Paradise Fears joins us. Fangirl reviews Van’s Warped Tour and in Fake News, is Mitt Romney the Bizaroo Obama? DATES: Paradise fears are at The Chameleon Club in Lancaster, PA August 14, The Gramercy Theatre in New York City August 15, Crocodile Rock in Allentown, PA August 16, Brighton Music Hall August 17, Heirloom Arts Theatre in Danbury, CT August 18, and Wildwood Convention Center Wildwood, NJ August 19 LINKS: Paradise Fears in iTunes. Watch Paradise Fears videos on their YouTube channel. PLEASE HELP CALEB MEDLEY! Sorry for the all caps, but Caleb is a stand-up comic, who was severely injured in the movie theater shootings a few weeks back. You can donate to help pay his medical expenses here. Like this podcast on Facebook, follow P.F. on Twitter @PF66 PF’s Tape Recorder logo designed by Dan Koabel. Email the show here. Hey, be a friend and rate the podcast here and/or in iTunes. It’s a big help as far as rankings go on all platforms. Thanks for listening, and be sure to turn your friends, neighbors, and coworkers on to us.