lightbulbs dispatch – week of May 23 2025
Hey it’s Brandon. Happy Saturday – hope you’re doing well. Here are some things I published in the past week: Be weird as hell – posted May 23, 2025, 1:45...
A crossposting life hack
The THROW MYSELF story (lightbulbs dispatch 5.10.25)
Hey it's Brandon. Hope your creative journey is going well on this fine Saturday. No creativity or tech explorations this week, but I was feeling inspired to...
lightbulbs dispatch – THREADS ON MY ART 2 & more
Hey it's Brandon. Hope your creative journey is going well. Here are some things I posted this past week: THREADS ON MY ART 2 Once again, the Threads music...
lightbulbs dispatch – April 16, 2025
This week, I shared thoughts on Spotify's outage and exciting updates on my music collaborations.
lightbulbs dispatch – March 15, 2025
lightbulbs dispatch – March 15, 2025 Hey it's Brandon. Hope your creative journey is going well on this fine Saturday. I didn't write much this week, but I...
lightbulbs dispatch – March 8, 2025
lightbulbs dispatch – March 8, 2025 Hey it's Brandon. Hope your creative journey is going well on this fine Saturday. Here are some ideas and explorations I...
Dispatch #3: throw myself into your inbox
Hope your creative journey is going well on this fine Sunday. Before we get to the good stuff: I put out a single last week! It's called "please please...
My bandcamp strategy for 2025
Planning a strategic release schedule for 2025 now that Bandcamp Fridays are a thing again.
on purpose
I'm slowing my music releases in 2025 while launching a biweekly newsletter on surviving as an independent creator online.
How I broke $1000 in Bandcamp sales over 9 months
Yesterday, a music friend & fan of mine bought a Kid Lightbulbs double-single for $2, which put me over $1000 in lifetime Bandcamp sales. This is a very cool...
Playlists are the currency of digital middlemen
I’m not sure playlist curators are the boon to indie artists folks think they are. For the last 4-5 months building up Kid Lightbulbs, I’ve tried various...
Some guiding principles for creative independence
Hi friends: This is my first newsletter in a long time, I believe since I began releasing my music (and increasingly shifted my online brand) to Kid...
Liberal arts and the jobs of 2030
Why artists & curators will win the AI revolution The timing of the AI boom alongside the laying-off of over a million people, mostly in tech companies,...