For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

Having founded Crack in the Road one of the leading independent tastemaking blogs of the 2010s, Josh has spent the past decade working across A&R and management. He's also currently part of the core team at next generation music marketplace Serenade. He's a big believer in supporting artist independence, and fighting for a fairer creative economy for all.

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MUSIC MENTIONS

**Early Days**

- Discovering the internet

- Limewire

- The Beatles

- CD Wow (site)

- Kanye West

- D12

- Dancing Jesus (blog)

- Arctic Monkeys

- Crack In the Road

- HypeMachine era

First Few Artists From Crack in The Road

- Chiddy Bang - Kids

- MGMT Sample

- Pacific Air

- Eddie Front (singer)

- The Neighbourhood

Other Career Developments (13:45)

- RCA

- Everybody’s (MGMT Company) (16:00)

**Change in Music Discovery (16:30)**

- Pigeons & Planes

- Fader

- Distant Naiveties

How to bring back the magic of Music Discovery (19:45)

How are you discovering music today? (21:10)

**Three Important Artists (past year) (23:00)**

- Medium Build

- Future Islands

- Lizzy Esau

- Maisie Peters

**Most under-appreciated group during favorite music decade (26:18)**

- Late 80s-Early 90’s hip hop

- Black Sheep

- Beastie Boys

- Early 90s shoe gaze

- Pale Saints

Music Community You’re Fond of and why? (27:50)

- Dancing Jesus

- Fred Again

**What has inhibited the discovery experience? (31:30)**

- Daphne and Celeste

**Desert Island Discs (37:00)**

- Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

- Influenced work in Serenade

- Touching From a Distance - Story of Ian Curtis (book)

- Fevers and Mirrors by Bright Eyes

- Bob Dylan

- Janis Joplin

- Scott Walker

- 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul

- David Bowie (unrelated general mention)

**Where can people find Josh (42:30)**

- Everybody’s

- Future Kind

- xxx (mix engineer)

- Sam Smith, Liam Payne, Calvin Harris

- Serenade

- Muse

- Noah Gallagher

- Liam Gallagher

- Jungle

- The Hives