I've spent two decades making a living from my art without selling it out. I'm still doing it, the music, the records, the book. And now I help other artists do the same.
I'm not a guru who read some books. I'm a working artist, still shipping music and records, who spent twenty years figuring out how to make a living without letting the money hollow out the art. That hard-won stuff, finding your thing, protecting the process, building an audience that's actually yours, is what I help other makers with now. The work below is the receipts.
The whole approach, why chasing validation quietly wrecks your work, how to make a living without fusing it to your art, and how to build toward a thousand true fans, is in my book. Start there. It's the front door to everything.
Get the book — Don't Go ProMusic, production, press, or a question about the work. I read everything.
richie@dontgopro.art