The Earworm Podcast
Earworm is the podcast that gets stuck in your head for all the right reasons.
Hosted by Bryan Clark — artist, producer, engineer, music doctorate, and sonic architect to artists around the world — and Patrick Cloud, a New Orleans native whose career spans global music industry sales, directing sales for festival and event video production, podcast direction and production, and ownership of a creative management company, Earworm is where music industry knowledge meets genuine passion for the craft.
Every episode, Bryan and Patrick dig into the trends shaping the modern music industry, celebrate the albums that matter, geek out over gear and guitars, and sit down with the producers, engineers, and artists who are actually doing the work. Bryan brings the academic chops and worldwide studio perspective. Patrick brings the New Orleans soul, the industry hustle, and the kind of energy that only comes from a city that treats music like oxygen.
Whether you're a working musician trying to find your sound, a music lover who wants to understand what goes on behind the glass, or just someone who wants two guys who actually know what they're talking about to make you laugh and teach you something — Earworm is your show.
Informative. Irreverent. Occasionally ridiculous. Always music.
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The Earworm Podcast
The Earworm Podcast - Episode 1 AI is Stupid, Art is Hard
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In Episode 1, Bryan Clark and Patrick Cloud dive into how AI is changing the music industry—and what that might mean for the value of music itself. With tools like Suno making it possible to generate full songs in seconds, the conversation centers on a simple question: if music becomes effortless to create, does it lose its worth? The episode itself leans into that idea, with both the artwork and music generated using AI, offering a real-time look at how these tools perform and where they fall short.
The discussion moves beyond the tech into the bigger cultural shift—how constant access to music and near-zero cost have already changed the way people consume it. As AI accelerates that trend, the perceived value of music, and the appreciation for the human process behind it, may continue to erode. At the same time, the industry is starting to respond, with AI-generated artists entering the mainstream and raising new questions around ownership, creativity, and what it actually means to be an “artist.”
This episode is a fun entry point into the podcast, but it also sets the tone for what’s ahead. We go video starting with Episode 4, so make sure to follow along and engage on your platform of choice to help build the channel.
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