#087 - AI Tunes (Lost Tapes of the 27 Club) / Music & Baseball / UnitedMasters

A headline caught Greg’s eye this week. “In Computero: Hear How AI Software Wrote a ‘New’ Nirvana Song” is the work of Over The Bridge, a Toronto based organization that deals with mental health and recovery in the music community. Taking songs from musicians that were lost at the age of 27 and feeding it into an AI art engine, they’ve assembled news songs that they imagine could have been made by artists such as Nirvana, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix & more. We listen to a few and work through a handful of our concerns with computer generated music, all while praising the message behind the project of course ;-)Song: Garage A Trois - “The Epic”Jay is delighted that baseball has returned and was inspired by a recent trolling of the Astro’s when the Oakland Athletics played “Before He Cheats” prior to the Astro’s lineup announcement (deserved). So Jay’s sorted segment into three groups: original songs about baseball, popular songs now associated with baseball, & songs written about specific teams. It’s a celebration of America’s past time & then Scott Stapp steps in…Songs: The Baseball Project - “They are the Oakland A’s”The Treniers - Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)Eddie Veddar - All the WayOrioles MagicScott Stapp - “Marlins Will Soar” (this is awful)Apple (along with Alphabet & Andreessen Horowitz) invested $50 million into the music distribution service UnitedMasters. Nick found the company’s “a record label in your pocket” value proposition interesting, especially alongside UnitedMaster’s push to help artists maintain ownership of their music. Is it all just marketing copy? What does a label bring to the table these days?Song: Ryley Walker - “Striking Down Your Big Premiere”