Nabil Ayers: Music , Writing, and A Time for Change

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

I'm excited to share my conversation with my dear friend Nabil Ayers. He's a multi-talented hyphenate who opened one of Seattle's iconic record stores, Sonic Boom at age 25.

As both an executive and an artist who began his career as a musician Ayers has performed on several albums on both independent and major labels.

Today, Nabil is the US General Manager of Beggars Group label 4AD where he has run campaigns for The National (GRAMMY award winner in 2018), Big Thief (GRAMMY award nominee in 2020), Grimes, Future Islands and St. Vincent as well as reissue campaigns including Pixies’ album Doolittle which was certified Platinum in 2019. In both 2019 and 2020, Ayers was named one of Billboard magazine's "Indie Power Players."

In this episode, we explore Nabil's interesting career from musician, to entrepreneur and music executive, and now writer. Nabil's recent writing about race and music has been published in The New York Times, NPR and GQ and he will publish his memoir with Viking Books in 2021.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? It's Chase. Welcome to the show. It is not a secret that 10 years ago,
0:12.5	more than 10 years ago now when I started this podcast, I started it for very personal,
0:19.6	almost even selfish reasons. I was hungry for knowledge that was beyond just the
0:25.0	knowledge that I was seeing in other photographers and other creators. And what if I could expand
0:30.5	the swath, the net of ideas, information, inspiration, you know, from all kinds of different corners of the globe,
0:38.3	from all kinds of different people.
0:40.5	And so at first, naturally, I reached out to friends who were in other industries.
0:46.9	And then as the show expanded, I reached out to people who were not necessarily my friends,
0:52.7	people that I look up to or that I
0:54.2	wanted to connect with. And it was a nice mutual trade. Like, hey, I'm bringing you on this popular
1:00.5	show. You're moving a book or putting forward an idea into pop culture that really deserves to be
1:07.7	heard. And everyone, and all these things are still true. But every once in
1:13.6	a while, I just get to have a buddy on. And in many of the cases looking backwards, like a lot of
1:18.9	the folks that I have had on the show either turned into incredible friends or were really
1:24.4	incredible friends from other disciplines.
1:31.9	So short story too long, I've had all kinds of guests from lots of different industries, but every once in a while, I get to have an actual homie that I've been buddies with for like 15 years.
1:37.3	And that is today's episode with my dear friend, Nabil Ayers.
1:41.5	Now, Nabil, it's not going to surprise you because so many of my
1:45.7	close friends are multi-hyphenates there. They've mastered so many different areas of
1:50.7	creativity and entrepreneurship. And that's one of my favorite things about Nabil, despite just
1:55.4	being a badass, awesome human. And you'll get this like two minutes in, you'll understand what
2:00.2	a sweet, kind, super two minutes in, you'll understand what a sweet,
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