Sean Lichtenstein, co-founder of Lansdowne, talks about building the band from a 2006 garage project to nearly 200 million streams. He credits their success to a grassroots, fan-first approach that created lasting loyalty and sold-out U.S. venues.
We played major festivals like Grass, Pop Rock for People.
What's up? Welcome to the Make Our Music podcast. This is episode one. Compass aligned the journey ahead. We got your host, Mark Roberge, Sean Lichtenstein, Jim Foster, and Johnny Robers. What up, guys? Episode one. Excited? It's been a long time coming.
Very excited to get this going.
Little technical difficulties, but we're here, we got it going. So we, our team here is, you know, I would say we're more than veterans of the music industry. We're also veterans of entrepreneurship and ultimately creatives in general. So, you know, we bring a lot of experience and a lot of knowledge from many perspectives, and I think that's what our talent is here at make our music/Reddit 13, which.
Is the derivative of our team.
Sean, you know, I know we can go in detail about everybody, but I think if we just give a little brief overview on everybody.
Quickly. Sean, we'll start with you. Cool. Sean, I am a producer, songwriter. I handle a lot of operations, stuff for the company. But, you know, pretty much my claim to fame here is I started my band Lands down with our singer John back in 2006, and we've been lucky enough to go from touring to just the. The. The bartenders in the room and no and the bands playing to, you know, now we're going on our second headlining tour of Europe coming up here. We've played major festivals like Grass Pop Rock for People. We've, you know, sold out rooms across the United states. We're approaching 200 million streams online. So, you know, we, we have learned how to build a fan base, the grassroots way that sticks around.