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It took me two years to generate my first $25 in royalty payments for my licensed music. It was just some boring ambient electronic stuff that I started experimenting with during the pandemic, mostly as a way to calm myself down. I wasn't making a concerted effort to make money, it was more of a "let's see what happens" approach. Nothing really happened. When AI music tools appeared in 2024, I found myself with a brand new way to get my song ideas out there. I already had a huge stash of lyrics stored away in un-posted blogs or on scraps of paper in a box. Song lyrics or concepts I had come up with going back to junior high or early high school. AI tools allowed me to flesh out these song ideas in a way I would have never been able to do on my own. In a far more robust variety of sounds than I would ever be able to do on my own. However, people still weren't super interested in listening to what I had to say. I took a bit of inspiration from a song I saw going vir...

"HUMAN BEING" by MANGANISTA | ALTERNATIVE ROCK | SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

Manganista from San Diego, California recently added their song "Human Being" to the Pop Punk Radio rotation!

From the artist's Spotify channel:

"Not quite Rock, not quite Ska, not quite New Wave, but sort of all of those things at the same time. That’s the kind of noncommittal description you tend to hear after a Manganista show. 91X’s Tim Pyles has described the band as “San Diego’s answer to Oingo Boingo”, while the late great Beat Farmer, Buddy Blue, once said it sounded like the band had taken several blood transfusions from Aston Barrett and the drummer had four arms working at once.

Whatever it is that Manganista does, their chameleon-like approach to making music has kept them going for more than 12 years, playing Ska and Reggae shows with bands like The Aggrolites and The English Beat, 80’s revival shows with Flock of Seagulls and When in Rome, and local Rock shows with The Burning of Rome and Skydiver. When asked in a recent interview about categorizing Manganista’s music, singer Matt Rhea said, “At a micro level, I constantly feel like we don’t really fit in anywhere, but when I take a step back and look at all of the things we’ve done over the years, it seems like not fitting in has actually allowed us to fit in everywhere.”

Manganista is currently playing shows around the southern California area and releasing a new song called “Human Being” on 10/31/23."

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