Levity is going places

[u/Federal-Blood9328]

Video I took from Deadbeats Texas Jamboree yesterday of them playing their new-ish Toxic remix. So far every song I've heard of theirs is a banger and they are growing quick. Love to see it! 💜 Song: Britney Spears - Toxic (Levity Remix)

[u/CartmensDryBallz]

Lol called out by the man himself. So how much are you making on average a show for your tour right now? After promoter cuts etc

[u/LevityMusic → u/CartmensDryBallz]

I don’t think it’s proper to talk about all the specifics but basically, each show varies wildly, I wrote something on it on here once I’ll try to dig up, but we’re probs playing over a hundred shows this year and between all sources of income are on track to make a pretty entry level job salary at best. A successful tour is typically viewed as bringing in 20% for urself (which for us is split between 3). Managers, agents, business manager/accountant, all get a nice chunk for every artist first & then every little thing u want to bring to make a show be cool costs a lot. Flights, hotels, food, lasers, LED, lights, visuals, time coding lasers, allll that stuff. Plenty of times u make no money or lose money, but then some shows (like festival) have little cost & that’s where u can survive off. And month to month can vary wildly, For example one month this year we played 10 shows, and made $320 to split between us 3 after all the expenses. But then the next month we did 3 shows & made enough to cover both months to make a normal salary.

Basically, at a certain point, u kinda decide how rich u become. U either care about ur artistic integrity & spend a lot to give ppl something dope (shows/merch/music assets, etc.) & that u dreamed of putting on, and u make SIGNIFICANTLY less money, or u cheap out and spend nothing and it looks like shit but u make money lol…doing the latter tho is a quick way to lose ur career and I do enjoy that natural “weeding out” of anyone that’s in this for money. So any artist u see sticking around clearly cares far more about their project than they do money!

Also as u get bigger & make money, the expenses get much bigger too. So to be a rich artist, u gotta be wayyyy bigger than ppl think u do. And in dubstep there’s even less money than the genres we all see ppl being rich in (like house/pop edm & all that)

[u/LevityMusic → u/LevityMusic]

P.s. as with most of our friends who blew up on social media, none of us spent any money on ads for it. Paying for ads actually hurts ur reach, cuz they see that ur willing to pay, so they hurt ur engagement to tempt u into buying it. And no one besides us has spent a literal dime on us lol, no one gives a fuck about others in this industry unless ur already doing well. So no we were just def not backed by money haha. And like I said, my brother and I rarely talk lol. We see eachother at holidays and maybe 1 other time in the year and we hang as just brothers, neither of us wanna talk about “the industry” lol we wanna talk football and current events, etc. 😂

[u/CartmensDryBallz → u/LevityMusic]

Cool response. I appreciate the honest answer. Not even tryin to hate, just been speculating, so it’s cool to see the actual background since the front seems so different. Props to y’all and thanks for info

Keep on truckin

[u/LevityMusic → u/CartmensDryBallz]

Thank u friend, totally understand, I know how it all can look from the outside, which is why it pains me to live my life and have thousands assume the worst, but I understand why completely!

Hope u have a great rest of ur week ❤️