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Shaking the trees and making some noise on Friday.

Dive Into the Sound: The Silkies Celebrate Their New Album with a Massive Release Show at Radio Artifact Don't miss The Silkies' album release show for There You Have It, Lasting Peace at Radio Artifact on August 14th, with Rodeo Boys and Rachel’s Papers!

Tonight! 7pm. You are invited. Bring a friend.
Live album recording with The Grove

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We drew a possum busking because that's roughly the economics of
traditional streaming for the artists we book at Radio Artifact. Ratio.fm
is our fix: upload free, and your listeners' subscriptions split by the
minutes they actually spent with your music.
Learn more: https://ratio.fm/for-artists

The possum comic is from our zine, and the math in it is real: on most platforms a band needs roughly 2,500 streams to clear ten dollars.

On Ratio.fm, one subscriber who spends the month with a band sends them nearly the whole $10, split by the minute. Listening is free; the possum just wants the band to afford a beer.
Learn more: https://ratio.fm/for-artists

Ratio.fm -- Music streaming that pays artists directly Stream music free. Subscribe $10/month and every minute you listen pays artists directly. No shared pool. No algorithm.

We run a radio station out of a Cincinnati brewery, and for years the shuffle could play the music we loved but could not pay the people who made it. So we built Ratio.fm, a streaming platform where your subscription goes to the artists you actually played that month, split by the minute you spent with each one.

Listening is free. The $10 is patronage, whenever you're ready.

Ratio.fm · Streaming that pays the artists you play Free to listen, free to upload. If you subscribe, the ten dollars goes to the artists you played that month, split by the minute you spent with each one. The math is public.

Fresh update to Ratio.fm
Follow an artist on Ratio and their new releases now land in your inbox, cover art and a listen link, the morning they go live.

Artists get the other half of the deal: a Fans tab showing who follows them and how many minutes each fan has actually spent with their music, an export they can take with them anywhere, and a direct line to write to their people.

Follow buttons are on every album page now. Find a band you love and press it.
https://ratio.fm/album/bf2dcd24-1f1e-4b8b-8f31-8c94c89bf37b

Cintuckiana by Adam Faler Album by Adam Faler · Rock. Listen free on Ratio.fm, where the minutes you play it pay the artist directly.

Fresh update to Ratio.fm
Links now "unfurl". Drop an album or an artist page into Facebook, Bluesky, or a group text and the preview pops up carrying the actual release, and cover art, with the artist's name and a line about who they are.
Testing below on Left at Orion's new album "Irene's Dream"
https://ratio.fm/album/3e07a18a-57d3-4c4b-a4bd-697c066fc241

Irene's Dream by Left at Orion Album by Left at Orion · Rock (2026). Listen on Ratio.fm -- every minute pays the artist directly.