Kat Rodgers is a music journalist and the community lead of Water & Music, a music research decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO.

Hailing from Northern Island and now London-based, Kat has written for everyone from NME to DJ Mag to Stereogum to TechRadar, and she’s shepherded Water & Music from a nascent web2 community to a full-blown 2000-member DAO of music industry experts the whole world round.

We chatted about her music journey – one that started and continues with Bjork – and the evolving or perhaps not yet existent role of music journalists in web3. And we get an inside look at the cogs and inner machinations of Water & Music, whose important research and potent, bleeding edge analysis is creating a more transparent and better informed music industry.