On The Rise: The Thugod Interview

The indie music scene is an ever-shifting entity with new acts dropping in and being cropped out every day. Amongst this ever shifting fray there are a few artists that have managed to be both old and new at the same time, having been around a while but not yet discovered. Thus, enters Thugod.

Thugod is an artist that entered the Greensboro music scene actively around three years ago and is today managing to find relevance. He recently upgraded from eleven thousand followers to over thirty thousand. This in part due to his recently dropped album and his song "I Got The Sauce", a playful anecdote he wrote to promote his Thugolicious BBQ sauce. On top of the sauce, Thugod also released a cookbook as well as an album book.

When asked about the different marketing techniques Thugod's SEO Manager Nicholas Campbell, affectionately dubbed, "NC", says Artist should stop making it all about the music and learn to be more creative when it comes to business and life. When artist learn to be more strategic about their career plans, and marketing everything will fall in place".

Thugod's advice to anyone looking to join the music scene? "Don't stop, keep, going, and do your research!"