{"id":6729,"date":"2022-08-19T05:37:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T03:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/in-the-streaming-era-substack-helps-indie-rockers-pay-the-bills-can-it-last\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T05:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T03:37:59","slug":"in-the-streaming-era-substack-helps-indie-rockers-pay-the-bills-can-it-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/in-the-streaming-era-substack-helps-indie-rockers-pay-the-bills-can-it-last\/","title":{"rendered":"In the streaming era, Substack helps indie rockers pay the bills. Can it last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The email subscription platform has been a source of inspiration and financial freedom for Pitchfork favourites struggling in the streaming economy<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI jumped from my chair and knelt over my father, cradling his head. As if in a movie, I held his head in one hand and snapped the other in front of his face, yelling for him to wake up,\u201d writes singer-songwriter Kevin Morby in a recent post on his Substack newsletter, recounting a night his father had a medical scare. \u201cThankfully, moments later, his eyes, like cherries in a slot machine, quickly dinged forward and he looked around the room without moving his head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morby loves his Substack. The Kansas City-based musician, who is adored by Pitchfork and recently released his seventh album This Is a Photograph, joined the email newsletter platform in April at his manager\u2019s suggestion. He now sends his several hundred subscribers a series of rambling, poetic vignettes every few weeks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/aug\/18\/in-the-streaming-era-substack-helps-indie-rockers-pay-the-bills-can-it-last\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bbc87926f3bd359480d1b4f265dbd9ff8369148f\/137_0_2989_1795\/master\/2989.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=328db0f683d7448b81c18ae95cfb3a1b\" title=\"In the streaming era, Substack helps indie rockers pay the bills. Can it last?\" \/>The email subscription platform has been a source of inspiration and financial freedom for Pitchfork favourites struggling in the streaming economy<br \/>\n\u201cI jumped from my chair and knelt over my father, cradling his head. As if in a movie, I held his head in one hand and snapped the other in front of his face, yelling for him to wake up,\u201d writes singer-songwriter Kevin Morby in a recent post on his Substack newsletter, recounting a night his father had a medical scare. \u201cThankfully, moments later, his eyes, like cherries in a slot machine, quickly dinged forward and he looked around the room without moving his head.\u201d<br \/>\nMorby loves his Substack. The Kansas City-based musician, who is adored by Pitchfork and recently released his seventh album This Is a Photograph, joined the email newsletter platform in April at his manager\u2019s suggestion. He now sends his several hundred subscribers a series of rambling, poetic vignettes every few weeks. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The email subscription platform has been a source of inspiration and financial freedom for Pitchfork favourites struggling in the streaming economy \u201cI jumped from my chair and knelt over my father, cradling his head. As if in a movie, I held his head in one hand and snapped the other in front of his face, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/19\/in-the-streaming-era-substack-helps-indie-rockers-pay-the-bills-can-it-last\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the streaming era, Substack helps indie rockers pay the bills. Can it last?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}