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MAKE // BREAK is a creative industry podcast for artists who want the truth, not the pitch. Hosted by Lance Marwood, presented by his imprint at V13 Press, Lowkey Hellish, a weekly literary newsletter publishing essays and short fiction by him and other writers. Each episode is a long-form conversation with musicians, songwriters, producers, and industry veterans about what actually works in a post-development industry (touring, streaming, content, community) and what it costs (burnout, ego, identity, obscurity). Make art. Break limits.

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May 29, 2026

The Quarantined's Sean Martin on 900K Streams, 40M TikTok Views, and No Label

<p>Episode 020 – Sean Martin | MAKE // BREAK</p><p>Sean Martin is the vocalist, guitarist, and executive producer behind The Quarantined, a grunge/punk/metal project rooted in socially critical songwriting and real lived experience. A U.S. Army Airborne Infantry veteran who deployed to Iraq with the 3/509th, Sean channeled his post-service recovery into music, graduating from Musicians Institute in Hollywood and building The Quarantined from the ground up across LA, Florida, Boston, and Nashville. The band&#39;s latest album, Aversion to Normalcy, was recorded at Blackbird Studios with producer Nathan Yarborough (Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Evanescence) and has surpassed 900,000 Spotify streams and 40 million TikTok views.</p><p>In this episode, Sean gets into what it really takes to make uncompromising art as an independent artist — from surviving the DIY grind to turning trauma into something that resonates worldwide.</p><p>Building a rock career without label support like Sean? THE V1LLAG3 is the room where the work gets shown. ↓ link at the bottom.</p><p>👀 What you&#39;ll hear</p><ul><li>Hear how Sean turned an Iraq deployment and a Musicians Institute degree into a fully independent grunge project</li><li>Unpack how Aversion to Normalcy got cut at Blackbird Studios with producer Nathan Yarborough on a DIY budget</li><li>Break down the TikTok and Spotify run that pushed The Quarantined past 40M views and 900K streams</li><li>Trace the move across LA, Florida, Boston, and Nashville and what that grind actually costs an artist</li><li>Talk veteran mental health, PTSD, and writing songs that double as survival tools instead of branding</li><li>Get tactical on what professionalism, content discipline, and audience-building look like with no label in the room</li></ul><p>🕰️ Chapters</p><p>00:00 Cold open and intro</p><p>01:30 Iraq deployment to Musicians Institute</p><p>06:45 Starting The Quarantined in LA</p><p>13:10 Moving the project to Nashville</p><p>19:20 Tracking Aversion to Normalcy at Blackbird Studios</p><p>25:40 Working with producer Nathan Yarborough</p><p>32:15 The 40 million TikTok view run</p><p>38:50 Hitting 900K Spotify streams independently</p><p>45:30 Veteran mental health and PTSD songwriting</p><p>52:00 DIY systems for music business survival</p><p>58:25 What it costs to keep going</p><p>01:04:10 Recalibration and what&#39;s next</p><p>🔗 Guest Links</p><p><a href="https://www.thequarantined.com">https://www.thequarantined.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/thequarantined">https://www.instagram.com/thequarantined</a></p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thequarantined">https://www.tiktok.com/@thequarantined</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@thequarantined">https://www.youtube.com/@thequarantined</a></p><p>🔗 MAKE // BREAK &amp; Host Links</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5GDOUd909p7ir2W74M9teg?si=cbc7e01e13ba4a20">https://open.spotify.com/show/5GDOUd909p7ir2W74M9teg?si=cbc7e01e13ba4a20</a></p><p><a href="https://instagram.com/lowkeyhellish">https://instagram.com/lowkeyhellish</a></p><p><a href="https://tiktok.com/@lowkeyhellish">https://tiktok.com/@lowkeyhellish</a></p><p><strong>🏡 THE V1LLAG3</strong></p><p><strong>You put the work out. It got crickets.</strong></p><p>Every Wednesday at 2PM EST, get 90 mins live with people who do this for a living — a publicist, a content strategist, a music-business operator, a publishing pro. The same people private clients pay <strong>$1,500–$3,000 a month</strong> to work with.</p><p>Bring one thing you&#39;re stuck on. Leave that same call with a <strong>straight answer you can act on</strong>. Not someday → <strong>this Wednesday.</strong></p><p>Right now it&#39;s <strong>free</strong>. No card, no catch. It&#39;s free because we&#39;re in our founding chapter, building it with the first members — and the day pricing turns on, <strong>founding members keep the founding rate </strong><u><strong>for life</strong></u><strong>.</strong></p><p>Worst case? You spend 90 minutes and walk out with <strong>more insights and professional feedback </strong>than you had going in.</p><p><a href="https://www.skool.com/v13-7161" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>TAKE YOUR SEAT, FREE (for now…)→</strong></a></p><p>🔗 V13 Media Links</p><p><a href="https://v13.net">https://v13.net</a></p><p>Subscribe for new MAKE // BREAK episodes. And if you&#39;re wrestling with building a fanbase without label support like Sean did — bring it to THE V1LLAG3. That&#39;s where these conversations actually go somewhere.</p><p>[Contains explicit language and discussion of combat experience and mental health.]</p><p>#MakeBreak #Martin #TheQuarantined</p>

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April 28, 2026

Mark Winters: From Aerospace Engineer to 107-Date Tour

<p><strong>Episode 019 – Mark Winters | MAKE // BREAK</strong></p><p><strong>Mark Winters</strong> is a Texas-based singer-songwriter, poet, and former aerospace engineer who traded rocket science for rock with a positive vibe. Since his 2019 debut <strong>Slipstream</strong>, he&#39;s released four albums, built a loyal fanbase of over 36K monthly Spotify listeners, and launched his own label, <strong>Bernoulli Records</strong>. Now midway through a 107-date <strong>Good Vibes Highway Tour</strong> across the US and Canada, Mark is doing it all independently: writing, booking, touring, and looking forward to sharing some extra protons while out on the road.</p><p>In this episode of <strong>MAKE // BREAK</strong>, he unpacks what it means to start a music career later in life, the unglamorous systems behind sustainable DIY touring, and why positivity is a strategy, not a cliché.</p><p><strong>Building your own systems like Mark? THE V1LLAG3 is the room where you show the work. ↓ link at the bottom.</strong></p><p>👀 What you&#39;ll hear</p><ul><li>Hear how Mark Winters left aerospace engineering to chase the music business and build Bernoulli Records from scratch</li><li>Learn the Instagram discipline host Lance Marwood and Mark dissect for organic growth without follow-for-follow gimmicks</li><li>Unpack the booking timeline, venue myths, and community-first systems behind a 107-date Good Vibes Highway run</li><li>Steal the two-week sprint method Mark uses to A/B test reels and find his highest converting content</li><li>Wrestle with AI, AGI, and what it means to be human alongside a former rocket scientist turned songwriter</li><li>Decide when ambition becomes hobby and how to know whether to push, pivot, or step away</li></ul><p>🕰️ Chapters</p><p>00:00 Meet Mark Winters and Bernoulli Records</p><p>01:24 Booking a 107-date DIY tour</p><p>02:42 Industry illusions vs the reality of artist development</p><p>06:43 Why venues don&#39;t deliver community</p><p>08:13 Email capture and converting cover gigs to fans</p><p>10:24 Picking Instagram as the home base</p><p>14:45 The brutal discipline of judging your own content</p><p>16:15 Two-week sprint method for testing reels</p><p>25:39 The physics of positivity</p><p>30:00 AI, AGI, and what it means to be human</p><p>39:23 When to push, pivot, or quit</p><p>49:05 Good Vibes Highway Tour close</p><p>🔗 Guest Links</p><p><a href="https://markwintersmusic.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://markwintersmusic.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/markwintersmusic/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/markwintersmusic/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@markwintersmusic" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.tiktok.com/@markwintersmusic</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/markwintersmusic" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/c/markwintersmusic</a></p><p>🔗 MAKE // BREAK &amp; Host Links</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5GDOUd909p7ir2W74M9teg?si=cbc7e01e13ba4a20" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://open.spotify.com/show/5GDOUd909p7ir2W74M9teg?si=cbc7e01e13ba4a20</a></p><p><a href="https://instagram.com/lowkeyhellish" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://instagram.com/lowkeyhellish</a></p><p><a href="https://tiktok.com/@lowkeyhellish" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tiktok.com/@lowkeyhellish</a></p><p>🏘️ THE V1LLAG3 // the paid community from your host</p><p>The room I built because I couldn&#39;t find it. The first readers your work has been waiting for.</p><p>Wed Live 90min with Lance &amp; Chris. 7 frameworks V13 uses with $1,500–$3,000/mo retainer clients. Bio, EPK, profile &amp; website teardowns.</p><p>Founding 50: $49/mo locked for life · [38 spots left] $79 Standard after. Full refund if your 4th Wednesday hasn&#39;t earned it.</p><p><a href="https://www.skool.com/v13-7161" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>JOIN HERE</strong></a></p><p>🔗 V13 Media Links</p><p><a href="https://v13.net" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://v13.net</a></p><p>Subscribe for new MAKE // BREAK episodes and drop a comment about your own home-base platform versus your discovery channels.</p><p>#MakeBreak #Winters #DIYTouring</p>

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April 14, 2026

Samantha Willman: Truth, Poetry, and the Love It Demands

<p>Episode 018 – Samantha Willman | MAKE // BREAK</p><p><strong>Samantha Willman</strong> is a Canadian writer, designer, and editor based in Montréal. She co-founded and co-edits <strong>Romanticon</strong>, a Substack literary magazine dedicated to neo-romanticism and new sincerity, alongside <strong>Anthony Galluzzo</strong>, <strong>Paul Franz</strong>, and <strong>Matthew Gasda</strong>. She also publishes <strong>Marbl</strong>, a personal newsletter exploring intimacy, symbolism, and the interior life. Her 2016 book <strong>Behind The First One</strong> was published through the Canadian Academy in Rome. In this episode of <strong>MAKE // BREAK</strong>, Samantha unpacks why irony culture has hollowed out creative life, how she built a thriving 60-person poetry reading series from nothing, and why approaching truth with love (not optimization) is the real survival strategy for artists.</p><p><strong>Looking for this kind of insight and care for your own work? THE V1LLAG3 is the room where you show the work. ↓ link at the bottom.</strong></p><p>👀 What you&#39;ll hear</p><ul><li>Why writing poetry in Rome unlocked a felt sense of truth she couldn&#39;t access through logic alone</li><li>How the new sincerity movement pushes back against layers of ironic artifice in online culture</li><li>Building a 60-person poetry reading community from scratch with zero formal plan</li><li>The case for keeping a day job so you can approach your art from love instead of desperation</li><li>How Rilke wrote two masterworks in weeks and what that says about creative production vs. productivity</li><li>Why philosophia means love of truth — and why that changes everything about how artists create</li></ul><p>🕰️ Chapters</p><p>00:00 Introduction and how Lance discovered Samantha</p><p>03:00 Why poetry is hard to recommend and harder to consume</p><p>05:16 Writing poetry in Rome and the birth of creative instinct</p><p>08:59 Charles Taylor, intrinsic rightness, and felt truth</p><p>10:33 Favourite poets: Plath, Octavio Paz, Wallace Stevens</p><p>14:17 Neo-romanticism and new sincerity explained</p><p>19:17 Irony culture, meme politics, and the Vice magazine pipeline</p><p>22:41 Argumentation vs. dialogue — methods of thinking</p><p>30:00 Building Romanticon&#39;s live reading community</p><p>37:34 Why the Enlightenment was top-down and Romanticism is not</p><p>42:22 The starving artist myth and creating from a place of health</p><p>45:16 Rilke, the Sonnets to Orpheus, and creative production in bursts</p><p>🔗 Guest Links</p><p><a href="https://romanticon.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://romanticon.substack.com</a></p><p><a href="https://marbl.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://marbl.substack.com</a></p><p><a href="https://instagram.com/sam.willman" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://instagram.com/sam.willman</a></p><p><a href="https://x.com/samanthawillman" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://x.com/samanthawillman</a></p><p>🔗 MAKE // BREAK &amp; Host Links</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5GDOUd909p7ir2W74M9teg?si=cbc7e01e13ba4a20" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://open.spotify.com/show/5GDOUd909p7ir2W74M9teg?si=cbc7e01e13ba4a20</a></p><p><a href="https://instagram.com/lowkeyhellish" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://instagram.com/lowkeyhellish</a></p><p><a href="https://tiktok.com/@lowkeyhellish" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tiktok.com/@lowkeyhellish</a></p><p><strong>🏘️ THE V1LLAG3 // the paid community from your host</strong>The room I built because I couldn’t find it; the first honest take your work has been waiting for. Wed Live 90min with Lance &amp; Chris. 7 frameworks V13 uses with $1,500–$3,000/mo retainer clients. Bio, EPK, profile &amp; website teardowns.Founding 50: $49/mo locked for life · 38 spots left. $79 Standard after. Full refund if your 4th Wednesday hasn&#39;t earned it.→ <a href="https://www.skool.com/v13-7161" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.skool.com/v13-7161</a></p><p>🔗 V13 Media Links</p><p><a href="https://v13.net" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://v13.net</a></p><p>Subscribe and tell us in the comments: do you think sincerity is the real counterculture right now?</p><p>[Contains occasional explicit language.]</p><p>#MakeBreak #SamanthaWillman #NewSincerity</p>

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MAKE // BREAK is a creative industry podcast for artists who want the truth, not the pitch. Hosted by Lance Marwood, presented by his imprint at V13 Press, Lowkey Hellish, a weekly literary newsletter publishing essays and short fiction by him and other writers.

Each episode is a long-form conversation with musicians, songwriters, producers, and industry veterans about what actually works in a post-development industry (touring, streaming, content, community) and what it costs (burnout, ego, identity, obscurity).

Make art. Break limits.

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