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.

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Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He’s the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, Cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and Cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. He’s the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World, editor of The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet, creator of the philosophy of Bentoism, and the record label eMusic Selects. Yancey’s career started as a music critic writing for Pitchfork, Spin, and The Village Voice. He grew up on a farm in Clover Hollow, Virginia. He lives in New York City.

Music Mentions

• Metalabel
• Old Fiddler’s Convention
• “Mr. Bojangles” by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Jerry Jeff Walker
• The Beatles
• “Blackbird” by The Beatles
• Nirvana
• “Nevermind” by Nirvana
• The Fall
• Archers of Loaf
• Mark E. Smith
• Squealer Music
• Neutral Milk Hotel
• “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel
• “Holland, 1945” by Neutral Milk Hotel
• All Music Guide
• SPIN Magazine
• eMusic
• Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Girls (band)
• Best Coast
• High Places
• The Rural Alberta Advantage
• Saddle Creek Records
• Subpop Records
• SXSW
• The Kinks
• The Who
• Alice Caltrane
• John Coltrane

Q&A

• Fleetwood Mac
• “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac
• Cotton Jones
• Electrelane
• Blank Forms
• Don Cherry

Discovering music today (39:58):

• Audiopile
• Pitchfork

First album ever purchased (45:10):

• “Mariah Carey” by Mariah Carey

Most recent album purchased (45:33):

• “Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams” by Atrás del Cosmos

Noteworthy artists discovered in the past year (46:17):

• Cindy Lee
• Time Wharp

Desert Island Discs (47:23):

• “Organic Music Theatre” by Don Cherry’s New Researches
• “The White Album” by The Beatles
• “Animal Sounds” by Cozy Cozy