The Independent Musician

Josh Jensen is a Salt Lake City born-and-raised singer/songwriter who creates powerful original music for our times - songs that you will not forget. As an artist, Jensen strives to create an authentic emotionally-charged musical journey -a look into the life of someone who has dealt with severe mental illness, religious-trauma, drug-abuse, accepting his sexuality, and tries to find and share applicable lessons learned from it all.

Sasha Bonn came to the United States from Eastern Europe in August 2007. His goal was to join the music industry in Los Angeles, CA. One of his first projects was 7 Seconds to Heaven even before he took the last name Bonn. The band wrote alternative music with some influence of European rock. He shares his experience and transition from Russia to the United States and the influence on his music

Dr. Aaron Ahuvia is a professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has been ranked by a Stanford University study as among the top 2% of all scientists worldwide and his research includes the love of music. His book, The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are, published by Little, Brown, is an Editor’s Choice for best non-fiction on Amazon. The book explains the psychology of love when people objects, activities, places, brands, and anything else that isn’t a person. Although the book covers a lot of things people love, Aaron has been a music lover all his life so music gets more than its share of attention in the book.

Max Gowan, located in the Triangle area of North Carolina. He records eclectic indie pop music and has released four albums with another one on the way in September! He begin recording in his bedroom while in high school, and has since been performing in venues across the state of North Carolina and in the East Coast. He runs an audio + production business in addition to creating his own music, and is an incredibly interesting person to talk with.

Host Mark Skoda interviews public speaking entrepreneur, Brenden Kumarasamy on his experience in creating his business and the application to the music market and independent artists. A must listen to if you really want to accelerate your career!

We interview Intercept Music Chief Executive Offer, Tod Turner on this weeks podcast. We'll discuss the Intercept technology platform, where technology is taking the artist and label and how those artists and labels benefit.

Host Mark Skoda interviews the newest Iron Gate Records artist, 13 Seconds of Silence. We'll explore the bands origins and members as well as discuss their new EP, "Sonder" which will be released on August 15th.

Steve Bishir, 5x Grammy Award winning producer and engineer joins Mark Skoda to discuss his career, the current state of technology and where he thinks music and music production are going in the future.

Drummer of 3 Doors Down and co-founder of Iron Gate Records, Greg Upchurch joins host Mark Skoda to discuss his career and insights into the music business and advice to budding artists.

The Independent Musician podcast examines the current music market for independent artists and their music. We'll explore the many issues and opportunities for musicians as well as interviews with those artists, music business executives and fans alike. Our shows will be both informative and fun while providing a current perspective on the music business in general!