Rebel Radio

By Rebel Industries & EDM.com

Rebel Radio is brought to you in partnership with EDM.com The Art of Selling Without Selling Out. Rebel Radio shines a light on cultural pioneers and their influences, reflecting on the roots and futu... more

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February 17, 2016 The Professor: How to be your best? It's simple: Work really hard
The Professor is an unlikely basketball star. He's 5'10" and white. He grew up on the mean streets of suburban Oregon.
He's also one of the best-known streetballers in the world. He was a star of the And1 Mixtape tour for seven years, and is now one of the franchise players for the new BallUp league.
His YouTube channel has close to a million subscribers and almost 100 milliion plays, partly due to the extremely popular Spiderman series, in which he challenges strangers to one-on-one basketball while wearing a Spidey suit.
We get the inside scoop on what it takes to reach this level of success: dedication, resilience, and creativity. Listen to the episode here to learn how he does it.

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1h 13min
February 10, 2016 Franki Chan: Why your marketing doesn’t work and how to be authentic
Franki Chan is a punk. No, not like that.
He got his start by responding to a flyer that said "if you’re antiracist, antigovernment, vegan, we’re trying to find a drummer.” From that day on, the DIY punk scene in Indiana became his life.
Years later, he would move to LA, realize the seriousness of punk rock was missing one thing: fun, and launch a club called Fucking Awesome with his new friend and fellow unheard-of DJ, Steve Aoki.
Though they didn’t know it at the time, the two were at the forefront of a movement that would not only change music, but even impact the way culture spreads around the world by bringing fun back into nightlife and creating an environment that’s more inclusive than exclusive.
Nowadays, Franki runs his label / agency, IHEARTCOMIX —where he also illustrates all of the releases — and until recently, the event series Check Yo Ponytail. All of this places Franki at the intersection of music and geek culture, maybe like a cool version of The Nerdist.
Franki drops by the studio to tell us about what it took to be able to let go of Check Yo, and how he constantly reinvents his future. Lot of good lessons here for entrepreneurs, not to mention aspiring comic book artists.
Get it! And you better not forget to subscribe and leave us reviews and comments.

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1h 19min
February 03, 2016 What I learned working for Richard Branson, U2, and Chris Blackwell
Phil Quartararo is a music marketing legend. He’s helped break some of the world’s biggest acts, from U2 to the Spice Girls, Linkin Park, Josh Groban. He’s run both independent and major labels — Virgin, Warner Bros., EMI. But listen to our interview and you’ll learn he’s also the definition of a hustler. The story at the beginning about how he got started will take care of that. His career has been a study in refusing to give up, in trying to prove the haters wrong. He’s also an outspoken critic of the old school music industry and towards the end of our talk, he outlines what they should have done differently and what he’s doing now to get it right. The EDM Track of the week is Brick of Ones, feat. Jake Ace by Job Jetson: https://soundcloud.com/hip-hop/job-jetson-brick-of-ones-feat-jae-ace-prod-nar-on-the-track

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1h 21min
January 27, 2016 Roger Gastman: What it takes to build a business out of selling art and defiling your neighborhood
Roger Gastman has worked with Bansky and Shepard Fairey. You have not.
How a punk rock kid became the world’s expert in graffiti and street art.
If you still think graffiti is just kids defiling your neighborhood, you need to get with the times. Graffiti, and its sibling, “street art,” have infiltrated high-end galleries, museums, and private collections, with top artists’ work selling for five-to-six figures.
Roger Gastman is the man behind a lot of that evolution. As a magazine publisher (While You Were Sleeping; Swindle), documentary producer (Exit from the Gift Shop; The Legend of Cool “Disco” Dan), author (Amazon shows 115 results for “Roger Gastman” under books, including The History of American Graffiti and Hello Kitty, Hello Art), and curator (many, many shows, including MOCA’s Art in the Streets — the largest graffiti exhibit in America), Roger has done more than almost anyone alive to raise the profile of graffiti.
In our interview, we get into the ins and outs of what it takes to build a business out of selling art, the ways the art world is changing, and the ways art is changing the world (see what we did there?). He explains why he won’t sell art to some people, and why graffiti is not one of the four elements of hip-hop.
The EDM track of the week is "No TV No Radio by Feuer" by https://soundcloud.com/trapmusic/no-tv-no-radio-feuer

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1h 26min
January 20, 2016 Watch the Duck: What can you learn from Pharrell, T.I., and Steve Aoki?
Alabama—London—Atlanta—Los Angeles duo (trio if you count the duck) WatchTheDuck have become proteges of Pharrell, T.I., and Steve Aoki. Their sound is a unique blend of all of those influences, filtered through their own identity as a couple “weird” kids from Montgomery. Their first single “Poppin Off” blew up on YouTube and attracted the attention of their heroes. They’re in studio telling us their stories, and teaching us all how to battle the fears that keep us in our comfort zones. If you like the music on this track, see below for the links: Aaliyah, One In A Million https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKbWF1jwMhE Usher, U Don't Have To Call https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/u-dont-have-to-call/id268532446?i=268532614 Watch the Duck, Poppin Off https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/poppin-off/id625533494?i=625534333 Pretty Lights, Finally Moving https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/finally-moving/id294600592?i=294600655 Watch the Duck, Making Luv to the Beat (feat. TI) https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-blame-luv-feat.-t.i./id1057348807?i=1057349185

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1h 20min
January 20, 2016 Watch the Duck: What can you learn from Pharrell, T.I., and Steve Aoki?
Alabama—London—Atlanta—Los Angeles duo (trio if you count the duck) WatchTheDuck have become proteges of Pharrell, T.I., and Steve Aoki. Their sound is a unique blend of all of those influences, filtered through their own identity as a couple “weird” kids from Montgomery.
Their first single “Poppin Off” blew up on YouTube and attracted the attention of their heroes. They’re in studio telling us their stories, and teaching us all how to battle the fears that keep us in our comfort zones.
If you like the music on this track, see below for the links:
Aaliyah, One In A Million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKbWF1jwMhE
Usher, U Don't Have To Call
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/u-dont-have-to-call/id268532446?i=268532614
Watch the Duck, Poppin Off
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/poppin-off/id625533494?i=625534333
Pretty Lights, Finally Moving https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/finally-moving/id294600592?i=294600655
Watch the Duck, Making Luv to the Beat (feat. TI)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-blame-luv-feat.-t.i./id1057348807?i=1057349185
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1h 19min
January 13, 2016 Peanut Butter Wolf : How to be a real influencer
If you love J. Dilla, Madlib, MF Doom, Mayer Hawthorne, Aloe Blacc, and Dam Funk then you have Peanut Butter Wolf to thank. We're in studio with the king of the West Coast underground. Through his label, Stones Throw Records, Peanut Butter Wolf has given the world important, and sometimes commercially successful music from J. Dilla, Madlib, MF Doom, Mayer Hawthorne, Aloe Blacc, and Dam Funk, among others. He also crosses genres as if they didn’t exist, taking experimental, or just plain weird explorations into punk, psychedelic and other fringe sounds from folks like James Pants, Vex Ruffin, and Mild High Club. On top of all that, he maintains an active DJ career, a series of Stones Throw events, and was the subject of a 2014 documentary: Our Vinyl Weighs A Ton. And although he has built a successful business — now celebrating its 20th anniversary and revered by music fans for consistently breaking credible and interesting acts — Wolf could hardly be called a businessman (although he is definitely a business, man). He’s much more of a cult leader, gaining (and possibly losing a few) devotees with each new release. How: He simply puts out music that he loves and wants people to hear, flying in the face of the reborn, data-driven music industry. Listen in as we explore how he keeps his creativity sharp and what drives him to keep it moving into his third decade.

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1h 7min
January 06, 2016 Darlene Ortiz: The OG - original girl - of hip hop
Ice-T’s first baby mama spills the beans on what it really means to be down for your man, and for yourself. While he was inventing gangsta rap, she was catching our attention in her white bikini, and inspiring the dude behind the scenes. Years later, her book Definition of Down tells the whole story, and on our show she explains how she managed to keep it real and not get caught up in “that life." If you like the music from this episode, click on the links below: Ice-T, 6 'N the Mornin' https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/6-n-the-mornin/id281619447?i=281619488 Ice-T, New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme) https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-jack-hustler-ninos-theme/id345100584?i=345100674 Kid Ink, Show Me https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/show-me-feat.-chris-brown/id774075180?i=774075428 Parliament, Aqua Boogie https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/aqua-boogie-psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop/id402783?i=402779 Teena Marie, Definition of Down https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/definition-of-down/id591471487?i=591471556

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1h 15min
January 05, 2016 Watch the Duck: What can you learn from Pharrell, T.I., and Steve Aoki?
Alabama—London—Atlanta—Los Angeles duo (trio if you count the duck) WatchTheDuck have become proteges of Pharrell, T.I., and Steve Aoki. Their sound is a unique blend of all of those influences, filtered through their own identity as a couple “weird” kids from Montgomery.
Their first single “Poppin Off” blew up on YouTube and attracted the attention of their heroes. They’re in studio telling us their stories, and teaching us all how to battle the fears that keep us in our comfort zones.
If you like the music on this track, see below for the links:
Aaliyah, One In A Million
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKbWF1jwMhE
Usher, U Don't Have To Call
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/u-dont-have-to-call/id268532446?i=268532614
Watch the Duck, Poppin Off
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/poppin-off/id625533494?i=625534333
Pretty Lights, Finally Moving https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/finally-moving/id294600592?i=294600655
Watch the Duck, Making Luv to the Beat (feat. TI)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-blame-luv-feat.-t.i./id1057348807?i=1057349185
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1h 19min
December 23, 2015 How to get on Forbes’s Cash Kings list, according to Dave Weiner
Dave Weiner is a bit of a paradox in the music business. He comes off as a blue-collar type: unpretentious, straightforward, and honest — all foreign concepts to most of his peers. He runs his business frugally and with an attention to detail that stands in stark contrast to the fanciful way most record companies operate. Instead of just looking for artists with talent, Dave has made his career by finding talent who also know how to do business, often finding regional players who looked like they had what it takes to go nationwide. This distinction has made him integral to building some of hip hop’s biggest powerhouses. First, he discovered Master P and helped him turn No Limit Records into a $200 million-a-year force that seemed unstoppable. Years later, he would join Tech N9ne and help him build his label, Strange Music, into an under-the-radar enterprise that put its founder on the Forbes Magazine Cash Kings list. He’s also been screwed over by “the business” more than most artists — threatened, double-crossed, and overridden. In our interview, he’ll teach us how to bounce back, as well as how to build relationships based on trust and straight talk. On being direct: It’s very hard to look an artist in the eye and say I know you want a $10,000 video to get all the bells and whistles but we’re going to have to cut those bells and whistles. Hopefully you are going to be able to understand it when you get your statement because we sit down and they are able to look at every nickel and dime and how it was spent and that’s when they go, “Man I remember when we were in New York and you said let’s not get that limo, let’s just walk.” All those little things just add up when they’re looking at their statement. That’s when they appreciate it. On having a strong moral compass: For me to do my job I need a boss that has the same goals. We have to see eye to eye because I won’t follow directions if it’s not the right thing to do. If you liked the music snippets in the track, follow the links below: The California Raisins, I Heard it Through the Grapevine https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-heard-it-through-grapevine/id1051492886?i=1051492890 Boogie Down Productions, I'm Still #1 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/im-still-1/id299671267?i=299671289 JT the Bigga Figga, Game Recognize Game https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/game-recognize-game-solo/id319729406?i=319729532 Tech N9ne, Hood Go Crazy https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hood-go-crazy-feat.-2-chainz/id978793524?i=978794726 Jay Rock, All My Life https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/all-my-life-in-ghetto-feat./id1051070499?i=1051072962 A.F.R.O., freestyle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctlo9e5MDOg Master P, Ice Cream Man https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mr.-ice-cream-man-feat.-silkk/id715763634?i=715763638 Hopsin, Ill Mind of Hopsin 5 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ill-mind-of-hopsin-5/id546075343?i=546075345

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1h 40min

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How many episodes does Rebel Radio have?

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