Straight talk for serious music careers.
Artist Coaching Podcast follows working artists as they argue through the messy middle of building a music career. Ads, demos, labels, bookings, radio support, content, discipline, and burnout all get tested against real examples from the scene.
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Artist Coaching Podcast is a brisk, live-feeling music-industry conversation for DJs, producers, and artists trying to grow without pretending the process is cleaner than it is. The show is at its best when a practical question turns into a bigger career argument. An ad test becomes a debate about what visibility is worth once the spend stops. A producer whose tracks get played in a major festival set becomes the starting point for asking why streams, support, and bookings are not the same thing. A quiet release becomes a chance to talk about the emotional reality of working for weeks and watching nothing happen. The format is casual, but the concerns are serious. Community questions from Discord steer many episodes toward demos, promo services, networking, label expectations, AI tools, radio, release plans, and the pressure to keep making content. The show also has a strong sense of the scene around it. Festivals, ticket prices, safe bookings, nostalgia sets, and live-set rollouts all appear as evidence in larger arguments about career momentum. It does not treat talent as magic. Discipline, consistency, finishing music, and understanding what a visible artist actually signals come up again and again. The chat is part of the texture, not a side channel. So are the interruptions, late joins, tech glitches, quick promos, and jokes about lifestyle, retirement from DJing, or somebody forgetting the time. That messiness gives the advice a grounded feel. The speakers are willing to challenge each other, but the show stays warm rather than harsh. It favors examples over slogans. It also resists the fantasy that one metric will fix a career. Followers, streams, radio plays, support videos, and ad views all get treated as clues, not answers. The result is a scene-insider coaching show for artists who need honest pressure, practical perspective, and a sharper read on what growth in music actually demands.
Made for: For DJs, producers, and emerging artists who are trying to move beyond random releases, passive networking, and hope-based growth. It also suits scene followers who enjoy practical music-business talk with live-room energy.
What sets it apart: The show blends coaching advice with messy, specific scene examples, so career strategy is tested against ads, festivals, Discord questions, demos, bookings, and releases in real time. It feels less like a lesson plan and more like experienced artists arguing toward useful clarity.
For DJs, producers, and creatives who are done guessing and want to actually grow.Every week, Joey, Ralph and Jobke sit down with artists, industry experts, and creators to talk about the stuff that really matters: consistency, branding, mindset, social media, career strategy, and building a life that doesn’t burn you out.Expect honest conversations, practical takeaways, and a good dose of “stop overthinking and just make the damn music.”From rookie producers to touring acts… everyone hits the same walls. This podcast helps you break through them.New episodes weekly.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A candid live Q&A that turns streams, bookings, promotion and unfinished music into practical career questions for DJs and producers.
Joey, Ralph and Jobke turn the uncertain business of a DJ or producer career into a candid live conversation. Community questions give the discussion its shape, while the hosts move between release strategy, networking, visibility and the stubborn gap between streams and…
Eleven tracks make the Ultra set; their producer isn't booked, and you want to know why.
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A 100k-view ad test opens into a candid debate about whether paid momentum can become real career energy.
The episode turns ad-driven growth into a blunt stress test. Jopke buys YouTube promotion for a live set, sees it climb to 100k views with decent watch time, then watches the activity fade once the spend ends.
A candid live Q&A on networking, demo feedback, and the everyday reality of music-community building.
Artist Coaching Podcast shapes a live community Q&A into an easygoing, practical session for producers working out how to network, connect with other artists, and get their music in front of the right people.
A producer's tracks fill an Ultra set while his name stays off the bill.
The episode finds its clearest frame in an Ultra set built around 11 tracks from one producer, with the music carrying the room while the booking never followed.
A candid look at the visibility work and artistic pressure behind a modern music career.
This episode lands on a pressure point many working musicians know well: private practice no longer feels separate from public career maintenance.
A candid, grounded look at post-release silence and the mindset needed to keep building.
A producer can pour weeks into a track, put it out, and still be met by that strange quiet: no algorithm lift, no obvious wave of response. This episode sits with that awkward post-release silence instead of brushing past it, then opens the conversation into the slower, less…
A loose New Year check-in turns production upkeep, community attention, and a Discord giveaway into the everyday work around music.
The new year lands less as a fresh-start slogan than as a production problem: recording after the holiday, wrangling camera light and distance, and enduring the strange little shock of seeing one's own face on screen. That casual opening gives the episode its shape.
A Christmas catch-up grows into a candid discussion of unfinished releases and the pressure to stay musically relevant.
The Christmas episode settles into the space between a loose year-end catch-up and a more serious reflection on musical legacy. Talk of lighting trouble, an almost finished office and holiday dinner plans leads naturally into wild meat, a documentary that landed differently…
Indie music marketing from the scene floor.
Hosts Joey, Ralph, and Jobke kick off the new year discussing how changing habits is key to artistic growth, not just New Year's resolutions.
The hosts of the Artist Coaching Podcast discuss discipline and leisure while waiting for a late co-host, with light banter about golf and audience engagement.
Kill The Buzz shares his story of touring with Hardwell and losing himself in the process.
Hosts Joey, Ralph, and Jobke have a casual Christmas Eve conversation covering various music industry topics.
Ustrell says experience and making music for fun helped him stop relying on other people's opinions.
Jopke’s paid YouTube live set hit 100,000 views and then stalled when the ad budget stopped, which is the episode’s starting problem.
Artist Coaching Podcast uses this live Discord Q&A to answer questions about networking, promo services, AI in the studio, and whether music is still a viable career path.
Sarah Landry and Emily Lanz played 11 tracks from the same producer in one Ultra set, but the crowd still did not know Alex Farrell's name.
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Jay Hardway hosts a solo episode of the artist coaching podcast, discussing labels, demos, and release strategies while filling in for absent co-hosts.
Artist Coaching Podcast opens with the premise that producers spend weeks on a track, release it, and then face “silence” with “no algorithm push” or big reaction.
This episode of the Artist Coaching Podcast debates the importance of discipline over talent for a sustainable DJ career, featuring a conversation with Ralph.
Three music producers discuss how to finish more music and what record labels are looking for in 2025.
Two podcast hosts chat casually about being tired and distracted, setting a relaxed tone for an unplanned episode.