stream
independent
music. pay artists fairly.

it's $12 a month, and 85% of that goes to the artists you played. no ads, no AI-generated music, no dodgy ethics.

01 · the problem

when you pay $15 to streaming, almost none of it reaches the artists.

when you pay around $15 a month to one of the big streaming platforms, almost none of it reaches the artists you actually listen to. they pay about a third of a cent per stream to rights holders, and by the time labels and distributors have taken their cut, most musicians have stopped counting streaming as income at all.

meanwhile, one of them is funding AI weapons tech with its profits, and hosting AI-generated music trained on artists' work without asking.

as a musician, when i went looking for a better alternative, i came up empty.

02 · wait, what about bandcamp

bandcamp's great. but it's not streaming.

bandcamp pays artists well (around 80–85%), but it's a purchase model, not streaming. great if you can afford to buy every record you want to listen to, not so great if you can't. it's also been through a couple of acquisitions lately and lost a bit of the artist-first feel that made it good to begin with.

03 · so, second press

85%

of every subscription goes to artists

it's a streaming app. you pay $12 a month and listen to as much as you want. 85% of your subscription goes into a pot that gets split between the artists, based on how much you played each one. if you have one band on repeat all month, they get 85% of your $12.

that works out to roughly 5 to 9 times more per stream than the big platforms pay. not a fortune. but not a third of a cent either.

04 · what you'll hear

independent australian music, curated by humans.

independent australian music, starting small and growing from there. the artist roster leans into rock, psych rock, post-punk, punk, australiana, country, folk, new wave, egg-punk, roots, alt-pop, left-field electronica, and plenty of stuff adjacent to that.

every artist here was invited in by a person. the playlists are put together by someone who actually listens.

05 · how much

$12

/ month