Hello and welcome back to Indie music on Tap season 2 where we cover depression and how it affects indie musicians around the world. We are wrapping up our second season with a book giveaway, and we will announce the winner at the end of this episode. Today's theme is that kindness is the glue.

With music from: Bardo Stars, The Ruralists, and Krister Axel.

Today we are talking about how people get stuck, the importance of finding your own leadership, and how the way we define success for ourselves is everything.

With music from: Brothers Page, The Bergamot, Max McVeety, and EMIAH.

We are talking about depression this season because it is something that I struggled with for a long time. Now that I am out of it, sort of, I feel very much like in a certain way I was asleep for a period of time. Being depressed is like losing someone you love. It is a weight that sits on you.

This is Krister Axel with Indie Music on Tap, S2E3 - all the important messages are the quietest. We are going to continue discussing the issue of depression and how it affects musicians, and today our focus is going to be on the power of messaging.

The fantasy of better parenting - rule #1: start with gratitude. I had an interesting conversation with a friend over the holiday weekend. It made me realize how common it is for someone to be stuck in a negative feedback loop.

We really don't allow each other to have emotions much anymore. We are discussing depression this season.

Hello, and welcome to CHILLFILTR Indie Music on Tap, where we discuss issues that affect the indie music community, and we talk about what it is like to be a musician today. We have listeners all over the world for our podcast at IndieMusicOnTap.com, we publish weekly song reviews to our blog at CHILLFILTR.com, and our video feed is broadcast to Tibo subscribers on Euro Indie Music TV.

Architects and Gardeners, Our Broken Body Politic, & Finding Strength in Solitude. This episode we wrap up the season, announce our topic for season 2, and look at great songs that are all examples of personal transformation, through the power of music.

Discussing: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, The Funnel System, and What Happened to IODA.

With Music From:

Avi Snow & IRO

Ka-Li

rum·gold

M'lynn

Savannah Sgro

Joseph of Mercury

Gina Brooklyn

There's this video going around on the internets, a Rabbi talking about a crab. As the crab grows out of its shell, that's a process by which you have this crab is growing and pushing up against the wall of the existing shell that they're in and then eventually you know that pain is too much to take, so that the crab has to exit and go find another shell. Instead of seeing that as a negative experience, and feeling constricted, turn that sentiment around and have it be about rebirth.

What we're going to be talking about today is what happened to the internet. I'm of a generation that grew up before the internet and then it happened to me. HTTP came around and people started building websites; for a couple years people thought it was a fad; brick-and-mortar businesses took a while to even get the memo, of course. We've been through that process, we are now post-process. We have the internet, it is a thing, it rules our world. And it is basically a Facebook scam.