Today, we're announcing our Founder Pass, the official point of entry into Dreams Never Die.

Pass holders can get closer to some of the world’s most exciting new music, as well as the people who make it, find it, fight for it, and love it.

The music industry is in a crisis—join our community of creatives, industry personnel, and music fans who are doing something about it.

1,000 Founder Passes go live on March 15th in partnership with OpenSea.

Here’s what you need to know.

Who is Dreams Never Die?

Founded in 2019, we’re an artist company and music community that believes a sustainable future for great new artists and business talent alike is possible.

As the team behind the music blog Hillydilly, founded by Chad Hillard, we’ve spent over 15 years discovering, sharing, and working alongside some of music’s most influential new artists.

Along the way, we’ve amassed a community that cares about great music as much as we do.

What does Dreams Never Die do?

We discover and develop new artists at the intersection of web3.

Cumulatively, we’ve signed a catalog of over 150 songs (with 60M streams) from a growing roster of 25 artists. We’re breaking the next generation of innovative artists, and web3 is where it will begin.

Last year, we launched the first artist to debut in web3, SLOE JACK, who surpassed 10 ETH in NFT sales and 2 million streams.

As a community we:

• meet for weekly calls

• have an active ecosystem of music scouts

• run a music blog

• throw IRL and virtual events

• have an office in Los Angeles

• imagine the independent artist company of the future

We raised $2.5M in funding from Polychain in June and have since built a team to bring our vision to life.

The Founder Pass is our point of entry.

Whether you want to join our scouts team for a hands-on experience, or just be along for the ride, you can experience what it’s like to scale your favorite new artist from the ground up, from a rough demo to a show near you.

If you want to get really involved, you can join our scouts team, where you can:

• find DND’s next flagship artist

• learn about the signing process

• listen and give feedback on demos

• strategize releases

• help our roster launch and scale

• get compensated

Regardless of a member’s level of involvement, owning a Founder Pass aligns you with a team that’s spent 15 years fighting for great music, and will only continue to do so.

Why a membership pass?

We have one goal with the Founder Pass: to provide more value to the people providing us with value.

Inspired by projects like Friends With Benefits, Poolsuite, PROOF, and omgkirby, we’ve seen how communities can rally around a token and share an aligned mission.

The Founder Pass is our means of uniting our community, placing value on it, and offering functionality.

With our goal of developing new artists in web3, the Founder Pass is your best way to get hands on with a next-generation record label.

Specs

Allowlist minting goes live on March 15 at 10am PT, followed by the public mint at 2pm PT on OpenSea.

• Supply: 1,000

• Price:

  • Allowlist - 0.03 ETH

  • Public - 0.05 ETH

• Schedule:

  • Allowlist - Mar 15 @ 10AM PT

  • Public - Mar 15 @ 2PM PT

Set reminders on the minting page.

Allowlist

On Feb 28 at 12pm PT, we used Bello to snapshot and allowlist all addresses holding the following:

• CPG Pop

• Dreams Never Die Music NFTs (Sound & Catalog)

• FORMS

• Forefront

• FWB (75+ tokens)

• HiFi Community

• Hume Genesis

• Leaving Records

• LNRZ Holders

• Mint Podcast Pin

• Noise DAO

• Nouns

• Nvak Collective Founder Pass

• omgkirby Genesis

• One Big Idea Season 0

• Phlote PV1

• PROOF

• ROHKI Genesis Pass

• Seedclub ($CLUB)

• Songcamp ($BPM, $CHAOS, $ELEKTRA, $PRESENT)

• The Park DAO

• Venice Music

• Water & Music ($STREAM)

• wavWRLD Community

• WVRPS

Follow the rollout

Last week we kicked off our rollout with our NFT NYC showcase announcement, custom community PFPs, and our first promo video. Look out for a three-minute animated video, a satirical comic book series, and more promotional art to come.

Follow along on Twitter.

View more details on our website.