Uncle Zed (Jesse) is a full-time Content Creator, Twitch Streamer, and YouTuber. Before Uncle Zed became a twitch streamer he was working full-time as an EMT in New York City. We talked about how 4 years ago he entered the world of twitch streaming and we talked about what inspired that new career path. We discussed the business of twitch and how he sticks to a consistent weekly schedule which has resulted in him gaining 2,300 subscribers on Twitch as of March of 2022. We learned how a creator makes money on Twitch and what's most important when building an online community as a streamer. We touched on key points like how building a positive and welcoming community is what matters most and the importance of diversifying your content on social media in order to reach new people as a content creator. Social media marketing, entrepreneurship and his YouTube videos were discussed later on in the episode. Besides streaming he also creates unboxing videos of numerous collectors editions of video games. Last but not least we discussed the culture of twitch, how to create a successful career on the platform, and his new career as a frontman. Zed recently became the lead singer of NYC Glam Rock band Va Va Boom. We talked about his biggest musical influences which include numerous classic rock and hard rock bands. 

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Jeff Enrage is a Singer, Promoter, and Bartender from Staten Island, New York. He is most well known as the Frontman of New York City Hardcore/Crossover-Trash band Enrage. His career in the music industry dates back nearly 30 years when Enrage first formed in the late 80’s. Being inspired by Sunday hardcore matinees at the legendary CBGB’s and Brooklyn’s L’Amours the band was formed by childhood friends with Jeff and his brother Marco being the nucleus. They subsequently went on to release their first proper demo “Burning Within” with Josh Silver from Type-O Negative being the producer. Completely independent and through word of mouth, the bands first demo sold over 3,000 copies. Throughout the 90s the band played numerous iconic venues around NYC while championing Staten Island and DIY ethics. Throughout their career they were able to share the stage with bands such as Biohazard, Gwar, Hatebreed, Bad Brains, Life of Agony, Sick Of It All, and Type-O Negative. After the local success of “Burning Within” the band went on to record their Debut CD “Empty” which was produced by Noah Evans, who had previously worked with The Beastie Boys. In this episode Jeff and I talked about the full history of the band including when they started out booking their own shows and playing across Bay Street on Staten Island. We later discussed when the band got to play in Belgium and France and what that was like traveling to Europe to play music. We then talked about the history of the Staten Island and NYC music scenes, hardcore music, and the various shows Jeff hosts and promotes on Staten Island. Jeff currently hosts shows and bartends at Mother Pugs and Juicy Lucy, two venues on Staten Island.

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Scott Magnus is a pop artist from Oldham, Manchester, United Kingdom. He creates indie, pop/rock, trap, and hyper-pop songs with powerful, introspective lyrics. Fresh off of the release of his new single “Don’t Take Away My Purpose” we talked about his life, upbringing, and the beginnings of his music career. March of 2020 is when he went full steam ahead with his music career and in 2021 he released singles “Diamond In The Rough,”

Young Dutt is a rapper from Brooklyn, New York. He began writing music and rapping in 2018 when he was in college and in the Summer of 2020 released his first record "On Lock." Since then, he has released 8 other singles with a sound inspired by Brooklyn hip-hop and drill including the 2020 record “Back to Back” featuring Squidnice. We discussed how he first starting rapping after freestyling with friends on PS4. From there he went on to write and record songs at home before working with different studios and engineers. Heavily inspired by video games and movies such as Spider-Man and Star Wars, Young Dutt talked about how he implements  those influences into his music, lyrics, and imagery. In 2021 after releasing “Jonas Quellington” Young Dutt experienced a substantial bump in streams and listens after his music began being featured on numerous twitch streams. His music has amassed over 55,000 streams on Spotify alone. Later on in the episode, we talked about his biggest influences which include artists like NLE Choppa and we talked about DIY recording and production. We went over the Beatstars App and marketplace and how he researches, finds, and licenses beats for his music. We talked about Beatstars contracts, finding beats on YouTube, and how Young Dutt hopes to interact with numerous twitch streamers throughout 2022 to help promote his music. We also talked about using Instagram as an A&R tool to try and solidify collaborations and how social media marketing for independent artists has evolved over time. Last but not least, we talked about what Young Dutt has planned for 2022 and what he hopes to accomplish with his music career moving forward.   

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Plant Dad is a Singer-Songwriter from Baltimore, Maryland. Fresh off of the release of his brand new single “Del-Mar” he traveled up to NYC to participate in a couple of writing sessions with songwriters and producers. In this episode, we talked about his career beginnings and what made him want to pursue creating music. He reveals the inspirations for the name “Plant Dad” and how in 2021 he finally decided to venture out with a solo career and that’s where Plant Dad was born. We discussed his biggest influences and what he considers his genre to be. Plant Dad’s music is a combination of indie rock and indie pop. We talked about how we discovered each others pages through an independent music blog and different ways independent musicians can market themselves in the current music industry. We later talked about different genres in the industry and how to find an audience to market your music online. Pursuing a music career in 2022 means you need to wear numerous hats and we talked about playlist submissions, submitting songs to radio, music promotion, and live shows. Plant Dad went over what it was like to grow up near Baltimore, Maryland and what that city and state are like. We also talked about the inspiration for his debut single “She Got Me High.” 

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Rayna Pajares-Held is a social media content creator. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Rayna has amassed nearly 200,000 followers on Tik-Tok channel @vintagequeen_1 through her various categories of short-form content. Makeup processes, transformations, singing videos, vlogs, and day in the life videos are among the many pieces of content she creates. After going viral in 2019 with a Billie Eilish inspired trend video Rayna’s account started to steadily grow. We talked about growing and creating content on Tik-Tok and social media in general. Rayna shared some of her process for creating content and marketing her channel.

Rayna wanted to start creating content after being inspired by watching editing and lip-syncing videos on YouTube when she was younger. She was drawn to this career by watching positive feedback on videos and this is when she realized she wanted to pursue content creation. We went back and forth about our first YouTube channels when we were younger and Rayna described the different types of niches she has explored over the years.

Later on Rayna talked about attending film school, and wanting to get involved in the film industry and having a passion for film production. We talked the importance of networking in the entertainment industry, creating schedules for posting content and how Rayna is gravitating toward creating more make-up content.

Rayna discussed possibly getting involved with more songwriting and how she has a couple of original songs in the works.

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In this weeks episode of Miltrick Media, I sat down with Staten Island Comedian Jon Elias. Jon first got started with improv in 2007 while still in high school. They had an improv team that put on two shows a year. After graduation he started attending college in Philadelphia. During his time in school he got involved with improv around the city and later stand-up comedy. We discussed how Robin Williams is a huge influence to Jon and how after watching Robin Williams: Live in Broadway in 2007 he wrote his first batch of original material for a comedy set. He had three days to write three minutes. We talked about writing original material which he does both alone and with frequent writing partner Comedian Joe Naimoli. In November 2021, he performed at the NYC Arab American Comedy Festival at Gotham Comedy Club and we talked about performing after Ramy Youssef and what was going on through his head leading up to that performance. Later on in the episode, we talked about different styles of comedy, crowd work, how comedy has changed over time, and Jon’s biggest aspirations for his career in comedy.

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Josh Rabin is a comedian from Staten Island, New York. Fresh off of recent performances at The Broadway Comedy Club in Manhattan and The Hop Shoppe in Staten Island, Josh sat down with me to talk about his biggest comedic influences. John Mulaney and Norm Macdonald are two comedians that greatly inspired his decision to pursue stand-up. We talked about his very first performance which happened to be at an open mic at Beans & Leaves Cafe on Forest Avenue in Staten Island. Josh was only 16 at the time. Comedians now more than ever need to create engaging content in order to stand out from the crowd and Josh and I discussed content creation, Tik-Tok, and how he's currently focusing on creating engaging short-form video content. We later talked about our favorite tv shows, movies, and music artists growing up. Josh revealed that he’s becoming more interested in collecting vinyl records. I got to ask Josh questions about how we creates material, how he prepares for performances, and ultimately what he hopes to accomplish with his comedic career throughout 2022 and beyond...

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Matthew Barouch is a Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist from Staten Island New York. In Episode 12 of my weekly podcast Miltrick Media, we discussed his biggest influences and what made him want to become a songwriter. Matthew talked about his childhood and how his parents classic rock influences struck a chord with him when he was young and how he fell in love with numerous bands his parents enjoyed. Some artists that were impactful included Paul Simon, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Carole King, Van Morrison, and Oasis. When he was 19, Matthew took a songwriting course in college that really flipped a switch and made him want to pursue songwriting. This class made him realize he can pursue songwriting and it all felt natural and organic. Later on in the episode we talked about his band Above The Sun, a rock band from NYC which perform in the tradition of the great rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s, combined with pop-punk influences of the 1990s. We talked about their debut album "Excitation" as well as the music videos for "Empty Words" and "Dumb. We discussed how in late 2020 after months of working with industry relations company Big Noise, the band’s single “Empty Words” ended up on the ballot for “Best Rock Performance” and “Record of the Year" Grammy nominations.

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Joe Naimoli is a Stand-Up Comedian from Staten Island, New York. He got his start in comedy in 2012 and has had experiences as an actor and a writer as well. He talked about how his career as a comic got started from a spontaneous trip to an Open Mic in Manhattan one night after work. It was always a dream and on impulse after one shift performed at his first open mic. Blending his comedy with his unique style of cooking, Joe has a second page called @joemakemecook which highlights his cooking and recipes. In early 2020, Joe got to be a contestant on Quibi/Roku show Dishmantled, a competitive/live action cooking show. We talked about his biggest comedic influences which include George Carlin, Robin Williams, and Patrice O'Neal. Content creation as a comedian and performance were discussed later on in the episode as well as comedic impressions. Joe talked about his recent performance at Uncle Vinnie’s Comedy Club in Point Pleasant, NJ as part of a Laugh Button Records live comedy album performance…

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